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Tara through the campaign. Manny Polos.
Oh holy Craig. The Hand of Fate tosses.
The dice rolls, spins, turns. The campaign starts and ends,
leaving memories that become stories.
Stories flew out into the infinite sea, painting with
legends. Legends wash up on the shores
throughout the infinite sea, fading to myth until myths are
forgotten. And again, the Hand of Fate
tosses the dice rolls, spins, turns.
Hitherto we left our adventure as known as the Shadow Seekers
on the second level of Hell Lust, where they found
themselves after solving the next side in the Tri Decahedron
as the fourth level of Hell, while escaping the 4th level of
Hell and Kai Shen's prison, which they'd found was an astral
ship guarded by many. Get Yankee.
They land in the blistering heat of a desert Oasis and appear
before a Tavern called the Crusty Mummy.
The Shadow Seekers enter the Crusty Mummy Tavern, order food
from the barkeep, and Franklin and Faust jumped down the well
in the center of the Tavern. There they meet the Frog King,
who Franklin pays for information and not to be
attacked. They learned about the Frog King
being a fairy man for the different parts of the second
level of hell at a cost via his aqueducts.
While while negotiating with the Frog King, they learned that the
cost is pretty steep though we're at 1000 gold for safe
passage and a favor. The.
The Crusty Mummy confirms all that The Frog King is suggesting
and says that this is normal, par for the course.
While Franklin promises a favor to the Frog King to for some
future larvae of his heat, which he forgot that he didn't have at
the time. They did learn that the location
of the seal for this level is with the Demon Queen at the
Cliff Castle as they bargain for passage there.
The the favor that ends up coming out is for a relic that's
finds itself in the ruins in the desert.
Ash makes a very amicable deal with the Frog King for a safe
passage to the Oasis for a much better price than his original
asking, and they sploosh into a middle of a pyramid after a
short rest in the pocket. Rocket explorations go well,
clearing several rooms of trap doors and killing a small group
of mummies they find, during which they find a mimic hidden
as a coffin that the Shadow Seekers let Bob talking Skull
possessed for a new body. Afterwards, they also find a
Chest of Desire at the center after defeating A Pharaoh Mummy
Lord and abscond with it Back to the Pocket Rocket, where the
first thing they ask for is a helm of teleportation and land
about a day's hard ride to the Demon Queen's fortress that they
can see on Cliff Castle as well as on their trek towards the
Queen's castle, they run into a horde of demons who tried to
abduct the Shadow Seekers. He would try as they find out
shortly that they can dispel the summoning circle and Ash
discovers their weakness of their heart and ripping it out
where the rest of them proceed to do it to themselves to their
for their failed mission of absconding with the Shadow
Seekers. They filter back into the Pocket
Rocket and let Bob continue on as a camel who is taking them to
the Queen's castle. Not but not but half a day now,
and find themselves inside the Pocket Rocket.
Currently in a pretty friend, Baron Pocket Rocket as it stands
right now with only two compatriots, Agonon and Kalimba.
Let's find out what happens this time.
So while it's a beautiful day out there, I'm all for staying
in. Yeah, me too.
I mean, there ain't really a lot of reason to go outside right
now, being that there's only two of us.
And you know, you're, you're, you're still pretty new around
here. So how do you how do you feel
like doing some training? I mean, I'm now.
Oh, there's my token, Thank you. Oh wait, I need it assigned to
me so I can move it. Let me see.
Oh yeah, I have it on the other one.
There it is. Should be able to control it
now. Yep.
All right, come on, kid, I got some place to show you.
Now where'd that Dang rock go? You see some of the crickets
probably fondling with some of them trying to with their
experiments on the table. Give me that.
Thank you. You just telling this to kind of
weary of the crickets, so you just see her kind of stay back a
little. Here, catch and he hucks it at
you. OK, now hats off.
How do we use these things again?
And I'm trying to go to if you're in, basically you have to
put it in your mouth as you're going to sleep.
Oh. Best.
So interesting, but. And I got to remembers how to
actually use these things. Generally picks another one up
and washes it in the sink over here.
Yeah, come in. I'm going to watch first thing
because that's a little. Yeah.
OK. So I I know it's like probably
what time of day is it right now?
Hard to tell because it doesn't seem like there's a night time
in this part of hell if even if you were outside the pocket
rocket. But being inside the pocket
rocket, you guys are all on like artificial light with these like
fairy light looking things that float above the whole center
corridor and we have memories of.
Our side shot characters. Do we know that everyone else
has memory of their side shot characters?
Yeah. So Speaking of which, that's a
good point that I forgot to fill you guys in on.
So besides having just come back from the most recent memory to I
did fill you on where you were mission wise.
But you guys had just finished a conversation with counterparts
of yourself. And in your case, there's
probably as Nosebleed starting on on on you Agonon as you try
to. You kind of vaguely recollect
going into a white void with your lover and the whole
shenanigans of eurythmic veracity, but then.
For context, Agonon and Nimaway are exes and they get together.
Oh OK. I mean they're they're starting
to get back together now. But if if you read the back
story, there's like a huge rift where they kind of hated each
other for a while. They were like each other's evil
acts. Yeah, still ex lovers.
Lovers, Yeah. But they're they're.
Making amends. That's good.
The only character in mine that has an X is 0.
If Josh ever wants to incorporate, incorporate that
somehow. He does have an ex-wife who he
cheated on her with a man and that's how he got put in hell.
So and then he escaped. The OK, so I'm sorry Josh, I
interrupted. You were saying the wave void?
You're good. The Nosebleed seems to abate as
you as you stop thinking about that scenario, and it's almost
as if there is a this one's more of almost like a fading dream
that you recall being another person, Velma.
You think it was for a time in another place, about the place
you've never heard of, called Divgorab, and the same thing is
true for you, Columba for Daf. How would Columba?
How so? She just It's like.
It's like you'd woken up from a dream and you vaguely recollect
all of those things that had happened.
OK, I was just going to ask, how would the mutation like with it?
Would that make her feel a certain kind of way?
Like her being the only one that she remembers being mutated.
I don't know. I mean, you don't know.
You probably don't realize right now at least that agonon in
front of you was Velma from the dream.
But you do realize, you know, that as Colombo was Daphne.
I mean it. You can tell me how you feel
about the mutations and decisions that were made.
I. Mean, I lucky kind of wish I
wouldn't have been purified just a little bit just so I could
cause part of me wants to know how that would have gone.
But overall, I'm pretty pleased with the outcome of that.
I would I would expect Velma's overall pleased nature to
considering the building of a cannon last but.
Oh yeah, Agonon is just remembering A being a chick B
building a sick ass cannon. Yeah, Columbus.
Columbus. Who's the point he's focusing
on? Callie would be more focused on
the fact that she was singled out, being mutated and being
like wow, that's weird that that was just me.
And being pushed in the fire would also be a major plot point
for her. But.
So I know we just woke up from some pretty freaky dreams, at
least I did. But.
Yeah, I mean, I kind of had a very interesting dream, to say
the least. Yeah, I was a girl and I didn't
take advantage of it, so that's a loss, but.
Anyway, I was a girl and I'm muse hated and got thrown in the
fire so. OK, so sorry to do this to you,
but we got to go back to sleep to get where we're going and
that crystal you got there now hear me out, you got.
To in this world. So hear me out.
You have to put that crystal in your mouth.
And for some reason I feel compelled to tell you not to
swallow it. You're not eating it.
Just just hold it in your cheek. And then we're going to go to
sleep and I'll see you there. In my in my dream, there was a
certain experience of me swallowing a crystal.
Huh. OK, yeah, don't do that with
this one. OK, I'll.
I'll see you when we get there. Yeah, Colin is going to go back
in the main. To oh, I can't get through the
door. Why is there no door?
It's like, it's like a wall ish because it's like you got to go
up a ladder. Oh, I can't see my character.
It's just a Blue Square now. There's no token.
I don't know, but Columba is going to go back to where she
was and prop up in the main room and like kick her feet up on the
table and lean back in the chair.
OK, that works. Blue.
We'll go to the corner, OK, Try to fall back asleep.
Put the crystal also. This is not necessary, but I'm
giving Columba an outfit change and just because.
Yeah, he pops the crystal in his mouth and goes to sleep.
You see where Agonon went up a ladder and you probably would
have poked your head up in there.
You would have seen a big vanity and mirror up there too.
I feel like nobody's giving Colomba a tour of this place
yet, so she just kind of stays in the main room mainly, all
right? You guys pop the crystals in
your mouth and you get not only the after you'd wash them off
the water slightly denigrated water.
At this point it's kind of musty tasting, but besides that,
almost an electric buzz that kind of.
There, I'll put a picture of Columba's new outfit in her
thing. Continue.
Feels like a mix between putting your tongue on a 9 Volt and pop
rocks and but at the same time immediately feel sleepy and fade
into unconsciousness quickly. And this one, right?
Yeah. Here we go.
Come on, work with me. There you go.
Should be as the last popping sensations in your mouth clear,
you feel your eyes flutter open and you're standing fully alert
and awake. It seems like in a very well
furnished room that a figure sits and you vaguely remember
from a more recent ish interaction and he greets you
both by your names and he says welcome back to the Infinite
tower, Kalimba and Agonon. Mind if I do?
Peruse the the stairs. Hats off for a second.
How old is Kalimba? She's like 28 ish cause her was
kind of like the Greek myth of calypso how she was trapped on
an island except hers she got off of the island at when she
was like 20 ish so like she is grown sorry.
For a second I thought she was like like 20 or something.
Thelma's girl Zero's a little younger than she is.
He's like 24 but Thelma is older.
See how we We got a new party member, we got to train him up
and figured this was the place to do it.
You're not wrong, you're not wrong.
And just since you looks like he goes back to the entries you
guys haven't traversed to the tower, just met in that room I'd
negotiated with Franklin, I believe.
Was your compatriot. He's looking at his notes and he
says. I've been in a few a few levels.
Oh, OK, my apologies. I don't, I like you don't even
know what this place is, just a little bit.
I'm a little confused. Give you the rundown then again,
whether you go up up or down, you will end up wherever you
you're intended to be in the tower, but you will face
challenges here and don't worry some most of them will be
deadly, but you will just wake back up where you.
Yeah, I remember that part from the discussion we had.
It. Was made very clear that we
could not kill each other. However many levels you clear
depends upon your reward. Here, reward absolutely.
I don't. I'm not a one of those hosts
that don't provide for my guests.
All about the goodie bags. All about the goodie bags.
Yeah, I know. And at this point where because
I'm going to say Columba would have fallen asleep a little
after him after changing outfits and everything, but you just
noticed Columbus stroll up and I entirely different outfit like
headscarf and everything. I mean, this is kind of like a
dream world. Can we mentally change your
efforts here? You, you get a sense that as
you, you start to think about it, you, you feel like there
almost could be that. And then Ishmel kind of gets a
grin on his face and just winks and says, I don't think you've
unlocked that here yet. Worth a shot.
I'm glad I changed before we came in here.
Any other questions though that you might have?
This is the time before you go on.
So can you tell me a little about the levels?
Like is everyone just different like randomized or is it just
like how does that like you said when we where we were intended
to be and that's very vague. They're more or less randomized,
but I do account for my guests and their abilities as well as
what they have accomplished in the past.
So the more you clear, the more levels and the farther you get,
more challenging things will be. But I have no more questions if
Agonon doesn't so. So how does the challenge level
work if we have different amounts that we've cleared?
So let's see, Agonon has cleared.
There was a lava level of water, a tree, and it Agonon has
cleared at least 4 levels that I can remember.
So how does the? And without dying, I might add.
So you will be seeing some interesting challenges ahead of
you and the best ways that I have to explain them is to face
them, he just says with a twinkle in his eye.
But I is that level going to be? I guess is the difficulty level
averaged between us? Does Columba have to fight at
the difficulty level Max of the party?
How does that work? I mean, it's not like I haven't
done it before. I kind of did join y'all in the
middle of a car battle. So if that is the case I can
hold my own. I'm not worried.
And let's go. Some of it is automated, so I
can't quite tell you exactly, but please proceed up the stairs
or down your choice. Columba, after you I take a
scoop of this fountain. First you got a container.
And you do you bring it to the. That's a fountain.
I thought it was a mat on the floor.
I'm not going to lie. Yep, there is A to describe the
space a little bit more than for your for your sake.
Besides being with a giant globe off to the left and bookshelves
lining the back of the wall, behind the mahogany desk of
Ishmael is a fountain directly behind him that is slowly
trickling out water and it smells super pure, like mountain
spring. I mean, I don't really have a
container. I have a jar of oil, but I don't
even know how to empty that out. So you just see, as she's saying
that, you just see Kalimba like dig through her net bag, but you
don't see the fruit in it move. And it seems like she's just
digging in thin air. I need to create an item for
that I think, but I said in the past that it basically
replenishes you if you're sipping from it as if you just
had like a long rest. No, after not finding a
container Columba would. My roll 20 keeps crashing.
It is irritating me. Hold up, but I.
Actually, don't think Agnon has a oh, he has a water skin, yeah.
Does go so he's I don't know Phillip is why she might have
one. I don't know what a water skin
is. Oh, she does have one, yeah.
Let me reopen roll 20 real quick.
But Kalima would fill her water skin that she finally found out.
But I don't know if you I've ever described the bag to you.
I think I have the Josh, but it was it's this little like net,
like, you know, the net bags that like people would carry
fruit in and stuff and it kind of like molds to whatever it's
that, except it was given to her by her parents and the fruit in
it never rots. And it also like it's
essentially a bag of holding, but it just has a different
appearance. Neat.
So you see like coconuts and like a pineapple in there.
Maybe my Roll 20 is not working at all.
It keeps saying hold up. A problem repeatedly occurred on
and then the website URL. So let me completely close out
Google and try to open it again. The I've never had this issue
before in any campaign that we've done so I have no clue why
it's doing it. I think I got it.
How do you get it fixed? I got it fixed OK but the limit
would like hold. She was digging through our bag
for a minute and she just pulls out a water skin out of
seemingly nowhere, fills it up and then takes a drink of it
before putting it back in her bag.
I. Got your water skin full?
We're ready to go. Would do you want to go?
I was just gonna ask you that so.
Ladies choice. Let's let's go up.
I got a good feeling about up. Guys, onwards and upwards.
Start walking up the stairs and as you Crest what you would
think the peak is to the next room, your perception shifts as
if you were walking down a set of stairs and you are walking
down what appears to be into a room of stone walls and vines
and trees. Really.
Actually no trees, mainly just shrubbery and you see some
creatures floating around in it, some fairy like looking things.
Oh, it's kind of like a magical courtyard 5 like this.
Did you did the camera shift where it needed to be?
Yes. Tomorrow's only second up again
so. Oh no.
Well, I'm getting it fixed on it.
All right, I do a nature check to see if I recognize them. 12
Let me go back over to them. The things that are floating
around you definitely recognize they seem to be of the wooden
variety of ferry. My map My map didn't change, but
I don't know if you've done that yet or not.
I did. How'd that?
How'd that work? It just crashed the thing again.
Oh no. I keep trying to pull your
camera. If you get back in, just Scroll
down and you'll see the next one that's highlighted.
OK, that that might be what's crashing you too, is me trying
to pull your camera because I can do that from my side.
I don't know you. Yep.
Is it roll 20 crashing or DND beyond crashing?
Roll 20 like the map is crashing but I have my character sheets
so I can do stuff if you all describe what I'm looking at so.
Yeah, the first thing you're seeing is at the bottom of the
stairs, a couple different pathways along the stone walls
that seem to go floor to ceiling in the space, sort of maze like.
So the the wood nymphs that I'm seeing, do I recognize them as
like intelligent, typically peaceful creatures or do I
recognize them as combative monsters?
In your experience, as long as you're not harming their plants,
they are relatively peaceful, but usually not as open with
themselves as they are currently appearing to be.
Even one as you guys get down to the bottom of the stairs, looks
over their shoulder and kind of huffs and seems to go back to
work. The the more flamboyant 1 is
kind of redressing, the more muscular one that seems to be
working on the plants and they seem to be dealing with some
sort of vines, like I'd said, and some of them are wilting and
withering and they're pruning some of it lightly.
I can, and we'll gingerly continue to walk down the steps.
Sondran over what you got here. Oh, nothing for you to worry
about. It's just some blight we've been
dealing with. Can't figure out why.
Colombo would follow down after I finally got my thing working
so nice. So what is this place?
I moved my character and then it crashed again so.
Oh no, this place you find yourself in, I really don't know
how to describe the vast or expensive, but you find you find
yourself on in, you know, our garden.
So you said they were wood nymphs, right?
Would Columba feel any kind of familiarity towards them, being
that she is a water nymph? Or water arrogant.
Or water Ganassi not not nymph. Ganassi's are like genies.
Agonon is the air Ganassi. Oh, what is was it Linda's a
water noof. We made her a custom lineage.
That's right. That's right.
So not particularly. You might have run across them,
but generally stay away from them considering your different
elements. Yes, exactly.
So you don't, you don't have too much.
Plus the Linda's from like a Beachy kind of coastal.
You said you had some bite going on with your plants you would
like. Does this usually happen for
y'all? Usually nothing.
Nothing about this. As usual, we've got all sorts of
plants withering and dying, and usually we're very good at
keeping them alive. Well sorry to hear about that
and I'm just like walking around looking at shit.
And run into another set of wooden totalling.
Now you've seen a total of seven I.
Think there was another one that I saw, right?
No, that was the same one. OK so the the the fog of war is
returning when I leave a room. OK, I wasn't sure if there if it
was supposed to be like a greyed out version of what I had seen
or no. Not yet it's working properly.
Alright, let me get the app and see if it won't work through
there 'cause it keeps crashing. I don't know but when we would
try to. Because the app originally
wouldn't let you do like the see the map, but but Clint, but go
ahead. Just going to follow Agonon.
Is that what you're going to say or?
I think he he's just, he's just like wandering around in the
area. So when did this blight here
start? Time.
Time's irrelevant here. I don't know.
I don't know how long it's been. It's it's shorter than my
lifespan. How's that?
Yeah, I can't do that. So until until it sorts itself
out, I'm just going to be playing majority by ear and wake
up, describes Jimmy. So.
What's the the screen grab on PC where you grab a portion of the
screen again? What's the hot key?
I don't remember the hot key, it's like windows S maybe?
What is Agonant trying to do right now?
I'm trying to take a screen cap for you for snipping Tool.
There we go. I saw it for a second, so I kind
of know. Key Shift S Windows logo Key
shift SI. Forget the shift.
But Columbo would be hold up. Let me see if she can do even do
that before I there offer. There's a screenshot.
Thank you, because if I take one it's the whole map.
OK cool. So there are, like you said, 7
nymphs in the. So far that you guys have seen?
So have y'all figured out like a reason why it might be
withering? Or is it just is just to figure?
Out a reason it would still be doing it.
Well, you can figure out the reason without enacting a
solution, so I thought you all might be in the middle of that.
Maybe we're. Trying everything we can but
nothing seems to be working. Are you good with plants at all?
Agonon, or. So so he's going to lean in and
investigate the the vines. Yeah, Columbus with A7, you
noticed straight off that the blight seems to be all across
the plant. It's affecting the leaves the
most. You can see visibly with it
falling off of them, but also on the bark.
And what are your parts of the plant going all the way down to
the root? There are some evidence of kind
of dried up portions or dead portions of it, you know.
Yeah, I can't do what I was going to do because I was like,
I was going to see if it was going to be a issue with the
water and try to purify it. But Columbia can't purify the
water. So my mom.
'S going to take out his water skin and drip few drops on the
leaves, bark and soil. And let me just kind of look at
him and be like that smart. I wouldn't have thought of that.
And you see the plant kind of shudder and shake, and those
Deadwood portions fall to the ground as they grow back with a
new woodier portion, and some leaves start to sprout before
those wheat leaves again wither and die and some more Deadwood
appears back. You don't think we've tried
that? I mean, I had to try something.
Well, I appreciate the help nonetheless.
If you could figure it out, I'm sure we can let you in with SO
some of our booty. I I do I do like me some booty.
So column Wood chuckle and kind of like blush out slightly at
your comments. So it seems like the blight
takes over immediately after it grows back.
It's not like a typical fungus or a virus that takes time.
Have you? What?
Oh, go on. I was just saying yes, we we've
determined it's some sort of magic, magic in nature.
Have you angered anyone recently?
Well. We're pretty amicable here.
I mean, we're pretty much in a polyamorous love, love, love
relationship here that everything's great as long as
the plants are good. And then she kind of swats the
guy that's pruning and trying to get away from some of the blight
on the plant that he's working on on on the rear.
And he just looks over his shoulder and says not.
Now I'm working. Well is anyone here outcasted?
Might have a a bone to pick with anyone else.
You sure no one else? No, no one has any grudges.
None that I know of. Perception, seeing if she's.
Yeah, it wasn't. Is or is it insight?
What's what would be to see if she's lying or hold anything
back. Insight would be the one OK.
Here's insight. I'll make a note to my hotspot
and see if it's a problem my Internet.
Maybe you see or notice rather that she's being fully upfront
with you and she's thinking as hard as she can.
However, some of the others you'd picked up on, even though
she mentioned, you know, everybody being much more, more
or less in a working relationship.
Some of the others are kind of staying in their own own
sections of the area. You know they're not all working
together at the same time right now.
What this is a question for you? What class is Agnon?
Ranger. Oh, so he probably wouldn't know
the spell magic or whatever 'cause they said they thought it
was a magical light. Yeah, he doesn't have.
It's Linda doesn't either, so she has no spells at all.
He has. The map now I connected I
connected to my hotspot and that fixed it so.
So Agonon is going to wander on over here, OK?
Kalimba is going to kind of go down the other hallway and just
stop. Probably she'd stop about there,
look around a little bit. You walk in between the other
wood nymphs at the end of your hallway, Columba and you.
They seem to just look up from their work and then shrug and
then go back to it. So is, is there more blight over
here? Is it just kind of centralized
and OK? You can tell that it's pretty.
Much that you're walking and I'm the I don't know what you could
be, but can I do a check to see if it it's worse in one area
than the other? I just from like my perception
or something I don't know. Are you, how are you checking
this? Just just tell me that and I can
always tell you. Tell me what you're trying to
do. I'm on the phone.
Anything but. From what it sounds like you're
trying to do, I would say that being an investigation because
you're probably looking closer, touching some of the blight
maybe, or at least poking at it, seeing what's going on.
I was last everything in, but I was going to say I was just real
like and do a nature check on it or something.
I don't know. I don't know, whatever.
Like nature, maybe perception something.
You could go with nature, but I was asking.
Clean up the bathroom please. I will give me a minute.
I've already cleaned it up once today from one y'all.
Yeah, I was asking how you were doing the check though, like.
Are you OK? I'll do.
Let me see which one's higher. Or are you, are you sniffing it?
Are you licking it like? She will.
She's going to run her hand along it.
She's not going to ingest any of it.
Colombo has taken what happened in that dream and noted it in
her head not to put random stuff in her mouth.
As you go ahead and roll the nature then.
OK, I see Jesus 18. As you run your hand along it
and you parts of it fall away dead behind you, you do see new
growth behind it, but that seems to almost as you run your hand
along it, move the blight in the direction up and towards you.
But it's not like it's following you.
It's just like new growth appears, but then the blight
moves along the the same direction you're travelling
because it just it, it's moving up in that direction, if that
makes any sense. It's like.
It like it's taking. Over the leaves in order of when
they sprouted. No, not when they sprouted.
So when a new one sprouts, an old one would get the blight.
Limbo would immediately dash over to Agonon and explain to
her exactly what she saw. So there was more blight down
that hallway over there, and I kind of ran my hand along it and
it seemed like every time a new leaf would sprout, another older
one would get afflicted by the blight.
And a also noticed behind me there was like a room with a
stump in it. I don't know if that I didn't
look into that, but where is that?
There is more over this way over here.
Yeah, I was right here. Hey, hey, you there?
Gestures to this worker. What's, what's the stump here?
What did this used to be? Oh, that used to be our our
tree. It we, we think the blights
possibly could have started from it because it was the first to
get it and we tried to stop it by chopping it down as he like
makes some sort of gesture you're unfamiliar with that
seems to be a sort of prayer. Finally putting his two fingers
to his lips and raising it to above and he says that we'd
hoped that that stopped it, but unfortunately that seemed to
seemed to not be the case. And I'm praying for my our lost
tree. He tries dribbling some water on
the tree. What are you doing?
And then you you see a sprout come up that off of the stump
that has a few oak leaves it looks like before the whole
thing shrivels and cracks and turns back into a blighted form
and falls off the stump. And he goes, That is a holy
tree. Oh.
My bad, sorry, I thought that if this was the source, maybe
healing this specifically might might do something.
My my my apologies. I will not touch the tree.
Your deepest sincere apologies are, are are are in order.
I. Ask questions before you do
things. He he bows a more withered one
of the other ones. It's hard to tell their age
because all of their skin is very barky in the 1st place, but
this one's bark is seem to be a little bit more weathered.
Yes, my, my, my sincerest apologies.
I had no, no idea for our conversation the the importance
of this tree. And now that I do, I will
conduct myself entirely differently.
You have my word. Thank you.
And he goes back to clearing some of the blight away as best
he can. Now, you mentioned asking
questions. Oh yes.
Did did this blight seem to happen when a lot more plants
were planted in this garden? We did You have a recent
expansion? No, we keep it very prim and
proper in here. We don't expand without first
getting proper authority to do so and making sure that there is
enough nutrition for ivory plant.
And who? Who gives this authority?
You're not going to be able to pronounce his name, but I think
you could go. We could call it Steve.
Steve. OK, Yeah.
Because pardon me if this is speaking out too much, but it
appears like there's not proper nutrition.
That's well above your pay grade.
Definitely Missy so. But look at this May, may I
touch the the vines? Yeah, certainly.
So he demonstrates what Columba had found, where when one new
leaf grows, a different new leaf dies.
It's like a 1 to 1 trade off. Josh, is that what you were
describing? More or less and.
It seems like there is a cap on the amount of healthy vines that
can exist. And he goes.
Yes, we've, we've noticed this too.
But it seems that if we let it continue that it could
completely rot all of the plants here.
So we are just right now just holding it at Bay, more or less
so with the hope that we can get the fruit before it Withers, if
you catch my drift. So how can there be a 1 to 1
trade off of life and death but then the blight is taking over
more live things that it's that are growing that's not a one to
one trade off. Then that's because we're
keeping up with it. If we let it fester no longer
than this, it will. You probably haven't seen it
again young one, but it it takes time.
If you go visit the only other tree that was left in the South
portion, you will see. Don't mind if I do and I won't
touch it. Good.
Steve. Is the one watching over it.
He's more cantankerous than I. That's good to know.
And yeah, as come over, see, I can start walking.
And then, as the workers work, they would just hear a set of
high heels clicking on the wood floor behind him.
Oy, stay away from my booty. I'm not, we're not trying to
steal anything. We were just directed to this
tree. We're trying to assist y'all
with the blight and. That is not the booty I'm
interested in. You see even more withered
looking individual that he just goes.
Well, this is this is where we'd be holding our booty.
What's your business? Well, to backtrack a little bit,
Agonon would have said. That's not the booty I'm
interested in. Kalimba would have just looked
at him a little like, I'm right here, Hello.
Like, you know, I got to look for it like pretty obvious.
Utter confusion, not picking up on it whatsoever Because he
means, you know, his ex. Sequel images means a piece of
yes, that is her interpretation of that.
So, but wait, how did one of the we just came to investigate the
tree a little bit. We're not going to touch it.
We just want to observe it. We're not going to sit and
bother or disturb anything. Be touching it.
Oh, we, we. We won't learn that lesson.
The hard way he. Steps steps back a little bit to
let you into the courtyard area that seems to hold a very
withered tree that the blight has fully taken over, but no
one's caring for it at this time.
It seems like there is one other nymph in the in the little Grove
that holds this large chest off to the side as you guys noticed
when you walk in and the the other nymph is caring for the
vines that are around the little Grove.
Columba, what is you? Go ahead.
You right. Does the blade appear to be
worse here in this Grove? No, just the tree itself seems
to be the worst for the where. Columba would have walked back
over to Steve and sit about there and it's so has like, was
this tree the first spot you have noticed the blight or was
it somewhere else? It was the first tree that was
cut down that we noticed the blight, but this one, and we,
we'd hoped as it spread, we, we, we couldn't cut, we couldn't,
couldn't bring ourselves to cut it down as well.
Makes sense, the first one didn't really help anything.
Was the first one the stump we saw in the corridor above here?
It sounds like the one to the north I'm guessing you mean.
Yes, but about how long ago did this bike start?
Like, yeah, it's hard. Did you give me a little more
insight on that? It's.
Really hard to say. Yeah.
I mean time here is very elusive.
Right, going moving is gonna do a small circle around the tree
and go stand on the other side and just kind of observe it.
What? Is you notice same as around the
other tree that hadn't caught your eye too much before because
you thought maybe they weren't as odd being around a some of
the dead things but some red cat mushrooms that seem to be
sprouting in not a pattern, but I'm not even close to a pattern.
It's very random. At the notice of the mushroom
shoot Columba, what kind of gesture if I cannot come, come
Observes them. Do they appear to have any blade
on them? No.
So he addresses the fairies. Have these always been around
these mushrooms? Oh yes, the mushrooms take care
of the dead things for us. Have you tried any sort of
remedy yourself with these mushrooms?
They don't seem to be impacted by the blight.
Perhaps they're immune? Well, we don't really have too
much experience with them in the in the self department.
I wouldn't know too much, but we do know that we've we've tried
slicing and dicing and mixing them with just some water and
spraying, but that didn't seem to really help and you can't
take too many of them, he says, getting a.
Little his heavy brow, which you've never been able to see
his eyes before, now comes up and he's he's looking at you.
Because if there's too many of them taken, then they won't keep
up with the dead things, you know, mulch and such.
And his brow goes back down as he relaxes.
So it it seems like this Grove of yours has been cursed any.
That's what we've been thinking. Upset anyone lately?
We were told there were no disputes and no grudges.
But what? What do you say?
Well, I, I don't know you, only you, only people, that person,
the only other ones here that everybody's been distraught with
the blight. So it's been hard, hard to say.
But we've we've had our minor disputes in the past that
usually only love her, but nothing, nothing like like this.
We all need the plans to survive.
They do. Don't think anyone here would.
No one else coming and going. Yeah, like yourselves from time
to time. Anything.
Now I'm not asking for anything, but just out of curiosity, could
a cursed object have made it into that booty chest of yours?
No, never. We are very meticulous of what
booty we put in this treasure chest.
And nothing has come into the Grove around the same time as
the blight. No, it's, it's been, it's been
pretty regular. The only thing that we've
noticed out of the ordinary is the blight itself.
Would maybe have a small little like alchemy area where I could
attempt to make a style for you with the mushrooms.
Not really. I mean you could go to the dump.
Where would that be at? No, on the east side of the
Grove. My road 20 crashed again so give
me just a second, but Kalimba would have.
How many mushrooms would you say we're allowed to take so we
don't disturb your little mini ecosystem you have going on
here? And his eyebrows raised again
and he squints at you, though, making sure, making his BDIBDI
is even beadier with the brow raised.
And he just says. To from this Grove are allowed
to go. OK, Kalinda is going to take off
her headscarf and kind of pick two of the smaller mushrooms and
wrap them in the scarf and carry them with her so nothing gets on
her. All right, you said the dump was
this way. Yes, the Far East of the.
Chambers, he says, as you're presumably walking away.
All right. Thank you.
I'll be on my way. I just might come in a bit
straight into the corner of the wall.
First, second, I'm going to peek around this corner.
You see a little sitting area, couple chairs.
What's this? And what appears to be a small
beehive coming softly. Nope.
OK. We'll go over there later.
Yeah, Kuma does not like bugs, so she's not gonna go over there
right now at the side of the beast.
She would have turned and like speed walk the other direction a
little. See a table over here to the
east, the southeast. This is the dump maybe?
It doesn't appear to be as it's got a healthy Bush growing in it
looks to be. A column.
Actually. What?
You would have. Actually.
Agonon at this point would have heard Columbus footsteps stop
like walking from behind him and 'cause she had an idea.
Agonon. He turns around.
Do you think that maybe the dump is causing the blight?
Like the pollution from it? Possibly if we can find it we
can investigate, but I can't seem to locate this freaking
thing. Through like not you're robotic.
Oh no, you're a robot. Like my phone?
No. Be boop up.
By front now. I missed all of that.
You were robotic. Sorry, did I fix it?
As you. Yeah.
As you near that portion, Agonon, there is a few creatures
that look like to be nymphs again, but they're under the
stairs and there's a bunch of dead pieces of vine and the like
piled together with mushrooms growing profusely in this area.
OK. And the one says did?
You go northeast or southeast? Northeast.
OK. Did you did you bring some of
the the the blight with you to throw in the trash have have to
ask you to move along. We've got a lot of sorting to
do. These mushrooms are keep coming
back here. Calendar is going to step a
little forward so she can see more, but I was just hoping to
kind of observe the dump. We're trying to help y'all solve
your little blight problem. Little.
I wouldn't call it little. Have have y'all thrown anything
in here that would potentially be the cause of the blight?
No, and that would be my job to make sure that there isn't
anything here that shouldn't be. And are these mushrooms
breaking? Are the mushrooms breaking down
the blight pile? They seem to like it over here.
Slowly but surely, they they're doing their job.
Has anyone? Tried.
Has anyone tried to propagate these mushrooms?
Spread some spores. If you do that, then the whole
Grove would be gone. But they eat.
They only eat dead material, not live material.
Sir, I. That that sort of talk will get
you shysted out of the Grove. But is because it's not true
here. No, because you're talking about
the underminement of the whole ecosystem.
But the ecosystem is already off balance.
You have to put a hand to Agonon's chest and kind of take
over this conversation at this point so they don't get kicked
out. Like just a very gentle open
palm. Just lightly taps him on the
chest and lingers there. I'm we're, we were told to call
him Steve, but he allowed me to take two of the mushrooms and
I'm going to attempt to make a salve.
Is there anything here that I could use to maybe add to the
salve in hopes that it will help remedy the blight, or what?
Should I look somewhere else for anything like these ones seem
to? Be a bit of it on the younger
side and they say that's above our pay grade.
But if Steve said that you could come here and use whatever you
want. It's the dump.
You can take whatever you want, but know that if you start
something that destroys the whole Grove, there will be
consequences. That's.
Good. I'd had a had an arm ripped off
and had to wait months for it to go back.
I, I mean, that's totally understand that I'm a different
element of new, so I can get where you're coming from, but
that is not my intention at all. I'm just trying to help heal
whatever is happening here. So at this point, Columbia would
have stepped up to the black pile you said it was.
The dump was almost exclusively blind.
Yeah, right. I'm going to roll.
Can I roll a? Would it be nature or perception
to see if I touch this blight will it spread again since it's
already been kind of severed? You could just touch it, OK.
Oh, Columba is going to in the same kind of headscarf that she
has the mushrooms wrapped in. She's going to take a couple
pieces, small pieces of the blind to and wrap them with the
mushrooms. OK, they are.
So what even is the sale? Let me ask that.
I kind of know what it is. It's kind of like a paste,
right? Like usually other ones.
Or it could be, it could sometimes it's there's also like
a bandage with a leaf to keep it on if it's on like a human limb
or something. So I would need.
But it's really just paste, yeah.
To make it lit because if I ground these up right now they'd
probably end up a powder realistically, so I would need
something to bond them together. Well, unless you if you drag
them they'd be a powder, but there's still moisture in
mushrooms. If you take a raw mushroom and
grind it up, it'd probably be a very dry paste.
And so, Agonon, what happened when you put the water on the
blight? Oh, and it temporarily grew and
then withered, you know? Do you think that if I'm mixed a
couple drops of the water with the mushrooms and the blight, it
might? Sure, give it a shot.
OK, Columba, Do we have a mortar on pestle somewhere?
Is that something I don't have access to?
I don't think you brought it with you.
It's not in your for. You see, I do not.
Probably makeshift some stuff. I don't have anything that would
be useful here. Yeah, you got like calligraphy.
Calligraphy supplies daggers, a liar, a spear, and then the
basic like starting stuff. Yeah.
Do you have anything we could grind this up with Agon at all?
No? Unfortunately.
OK, so cool. But it's just going to kind of,
she's going to pour a few drops in to her head, wrap as much as
she does not want to, and then mush it up in the head wrap and
use that as kind of like you do have a container.
You're starting like, I guess it's just rations that you put
in your inventory, but usually you have like a kit for like.
I just put the starting equipment.
Oh, I just, OK, well, I just put the starting equipment that it
let me have like yeah, yeah, yeah.
So we automatically put all the stuff I have in here, minus the
fans and the necklace and the torque.
Those are the only things that we added.
So can we say I would have that error now?
Yeah, because you. You wouldn't usually travel
without like I think it's called.
I'm trying to go to look look for it now.
I think it's called just like a kit.
Nope Nope Nope. Load more I guess it's not mess
kit, that's what it's called. I'm going to add that to my
inventory real quick. I just added it to your
inventory as well. OK, but Colonel would have taken
the bowl and probably let me see what else it has in it.
Like, is it just like basic, like eating supplies?
Like, is that like utensils? OK, Colonel would have taken a
bowl and a spoon and have dumped the light and the mushrooms in
there before adding water, a couple like a little bit of the
water from the fountain and use the spoon to counter muddle it
together and. Nothing seems to happen at first
as you're mixing, but you do get some weird looks from the
younger nymphs that are there and kind of a turned up nose
from the like, what do you think they're doing?
And then the bowl in your hand starts to kind of heat up,
almost almost unbearably so, and you start to see vines pouring
out of the bowl, climbing out over the wall.
And all of the nymphs that are at the at the dump yell and
scream and run away. Is that true scale?
Yeah, and as it grows, you can see that it sprouts flowers
almost immediately, and the pollen that seems to drift away
from those as they poof into existence slowly linger in the
air. And you have a hair's breath
before something clicks in your mind of oh, shit.
And the pollen lands on some of the other vines, seemingly
curing the plight and causing an overgrowth of vines throughout
the whole area. And overall the then you just
hear screaming from under the vines and throughout from all of
the nymphs that you presumably met before as it over the space.
So then the her first priority, she would grab one of the
flowers and put it in her hair like that would be the very.
First time, these flowers are like the size of your upper
torso. Never mind, she won't do that.
She would try to. She would traverse my my roles
when he's acting up again, but she would try to traverse the
vines to go find Steve again and she would drag Agon on with her
just in case. Like she has a whole.
She tried not to be seen. She has a hold of agonize
forearm and it's just kind of dragging in behind her but.
Now it's more of a do you guys remember how to get back there?
Yeah, through the vines. I can't.
My map isn't loading so. But no, I said like she would.
She's smart somewhat the best way I can describe her.
She's naive, not stupid. Like, that is the word I would
use and you just kind of hear. Are the vines thorny at all or
are they just like regular like? No, they're a little, you know,
rough on the skin, but not like like if you were if you were
weren't careful, they they could probably do some damage.
But it's not like, yeah, it's not like big thorns or anything
that are ripping and tearing you apart.
It's just. Rough.
So has the blight affected any of these vines that have just
grown? No, and it seems like any plants
that you'd run into before have exploded with growth.
OK, so hopefully they're not going to kill us.
Is can can I see any blade anymore?
No. So there's no.
One see any blade. Oh.
You just, Steve would just kind of all the nymphs would just
kind of see Colin. Colin will walk in with like her
head kind of like down a little 'cause she's trying not to hit
her head on anything. Well, I fixed your black
problem. And I can ask like peeking his
head around the corner. She says, and she would like to.
Finally, she would like to smile a little bit.
What was that? What you say?
I just said that and it looks like you finally found Steve,
who seems to be not hacking at the new vines but pushing them
away from his chest and he goes. That was a little bit more
effective than I was hoping. I.
Yeah, that was my first time doing anything alchemy related,
so I guess it it will a little too well, but it succeeded.
Yeah. Well, with that I mean you
should probably be on your way before the side off.
For the what? The rest of them decide to ask
you. You know, string you up.
Got you. I thought.
I thought you, Steve, are the the the law around here.
I'm not the law, I'm just the the elder.
But why? Why would everyone be mad the
the blights gone? I mean, yes.
Once they get themselves out of the vines that that have, and
you look to see some of the other ones that you've passed
now, and you realize that the vines have grown through them,
holding them in place. And like through their bodies.
Yeah. And their bodies themselves have
started to kind of overgrow with what it is.
And he, you've noticed that like the bark on Steve is just long
enough to be covering his nose. So he's like.
I've been able to stay away from it for the most part, but I'm
guessing everybody's going to be pretty peeved at you.
Oh well, hopefully everyone can get a haircut, but the Grove is
cured. Yeah, yeah.
And he, he's like here and he opens his chest and he just like
a crack and reaches his hand down and pulls out an oversized
key. You're going to want this.
Why thank you. And Agonon is like pushing some
vines away some from Steve as he walks around.
A limba so So would would a flower be able to feasibly fit
in her bag? With a bag of Holding Shore.
OK, she's taking one of the flowers as a souvenir, and I
like it. She's not going to take just a
flower. She's going to take like a
little bit of the vines too, so that way she can grow her own
and try to nurture it. But she's going to take one of
the smaller ones and it's so agonon.
Or if we ready to go on to are we ready to traverse the stairs
again? Or do you want to go check on
the bees? Agonon is going to collect a
bunch of the antlers from some of the flowers, being careful
not to touch the the pollen, and put them in a like a folded
cloth in his bag. What's an antler of a flower?
It's the. The little by.
Damons. Yeah, or the Yeah, the, the, the
bits with the the pound. The stamen, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, that's a scientific word, Yeah.
That's the only one I know of how to call it.
Wait, no. The anther and stamen I'm in
I'll take a lot of plant based classes so the stamen is the
little like. The female.
Parts that the parts that come out of the center of the flower
with the little bulbs on the end.
The skinny part is the stamen and then like the center of the
actual flower. Because there are.
I'm pretty sure there are male and female flowers if I'm not
mistaken. Really.
The answer is the male OR. They have both organs.
That's correct, they have both organs.
The answer is OR. The statement is the male organ
and the answer is the female organ.
OK, OK, then get the statements when I take.
Make sure to add them. To your Yeah, I told you I'm
smart about just the most random little, but Are you ready to go
up the stairs? Yeah, let's let's, let's bounce.
Some of us kind of like fighting at this point it.
Started started to die down and there's a whole bunch of cursing
from all around now. Yeah, let's go.
At this point, Columba would have been sick of fighting her
way through the vines and have taken her fans out and just
started slicing through the ones that are in the way we're.
Not the touch stuff. Well, they don't want to have to
traverse with this either, so I'm doing them a favor.
Right, we wait, Wait. We didn't find the way out.
You get right to the the bottom of the stairs where you were
before, and a Stonewall that you'd noticed before in front of
you. At the bottom, a couple bricks
click out of place in the shape of the key that you have.
Again, it shoves the key in there.
I was just going to say Columbus saw other staircase in the dump
that might not be blocked. Oh, it's over.
Here trying to open it, you should be OK.
There you go. OK Columbus.
Columbus was stumble a little bit down the stairs trying to
get down them and away from all the pollen.
Head down the stairs and the as you put the key into it kind of
meld, kind of clacks, clicks, opens the rest of the folds into
the wall as it folds open, letting you past and the stones
behind you clunk into place as you traverse down the stairs.
And a similar sensation from before where you are walking
down. And then gravity seems to turn
on you, but not in a way of like you're floating.
You just keep your perception of it changes.
So then you walk down into where'd it go?
Oh, I didn't Scroll down front of there it is.
You walk, you're walking down and then you're walking up and
then you're walking down again. And as you're walking down the
final time, you see into a room that seems to be a very caged
and prison. Basically the best way to
describe it. Halfway through this, halfway
through the journey through the stairs, Kalimba would have taken
off her heels and just walked barefoot and carried them.
If the new map. Is up.
Oh yeah, I got it. I'll see it yet.
OK, I'll see it hold. On this might be a good place to
posit for the night. Yeah, sure.
Cuz if you guys are OK with that, the the next time we'd
come back you would probably just wake up if everybody's
there. Otherwise, back to the tower and
you're right off where you left off.
I mean, do you want to do one more floor for a reward real
quick or do you want to wait? Because literally all we got
from that last floor was a other than the goodie bag we're going
to get was a flower. So.
So I don't know if we've ever really gotten like tangible
rewards from this. I think it's just experience.
Sometimes we pick up items. But there's all.
That you, but not always right? Because you haven't.
So that was your 5th floor cleared?
I guess it wasn't made evident but once you stop clearing and
you die is when you get the rewards basically and the more
floors you clear. So I would keep track of that
for yourself. Because that's gonna it's tricky
for me with who does what. Yeah, OK, I'll make a notebook,
a whole physical notebook for Kalumba cause.
Or on your character sheet at least.
And because by the time you finish clearing more than you
will, you know the world bigger and.
Already have a DND note? Look, hold up, let me get it out
and I'll write one floor clear. I I, I myself have almost filled
an entire one now from the years that we've been.
Playing well, the one I'm using is like the front half is going
to be for the campaign that I'm planning, and then the back half
is just going to be general D&D stuff.
Yeah, that's how I. Started minds now minds now a
jumbled mess of different notes from various campaigns, but I
can I've I've like tagged different things that I need to
go back and reference in it like the those like stickies so I can
quickly go back and reference stuff.
It's called the Infinite Tower, right?
Yep. So she's cleared one floor OK,
and now, well, so now has just as humorous flower.
How do you add a custom item? Oh, add custom item.
There we go. OK there.
You go. Sorry as I read it, I as I asked
I finally found it. No, that's that's good.
That's generally how I add an item in the first time if I find
it and then I'll go back and add details later.
So yeah, we haven't really. There's a spell that's for
identifying things like It should tell you right away, but
we don't usually use it. And partial part of that is
because because there's an understanding that it takes me a
minute to generate stuff like that.
So with this flower be like an all new kind of flower or would
it be a pre-existing 1:00 somewhere in the world?
Well I mean it's magical in nature, so generally magic items
I create new. I was gonna suggest that Kalimba
and Agonon like mutually name it since they're you guys can.
Name it for sure. So what do you think we should
name this humongous flower Agonon?
Just a second. 'Cause I know just.
Trying to see if something has a name the the the mushroom and
Mario that makes you big. Does that have a name?
I think it's just called the the giant mushroom.
Yeah, that's what I thought too. But some of the biggest flowers
in real life are the hibiscus, that hydrangeas are really big.
Lotuses can get really big. Raflegias.
They stink, but they're really big.
Sunflowers are like big tall dahlias can get really big.
Well, it's called just the Mega Mushroom.
Zinnias can get really big. So can Camilla's camellias and.
According. To so bad at naming.
Things the biggest known flower is the Rafflesia.
Rafflesia, yeah. Rafflesia, OK are are.
An old. RAFFLESIA it or just look up
monster flower. AKA Felicia.
They're native to Malaysia and Indonesia, and they can grow up
to three feet in diameter and weigh up to 15 lbs.
And there is a name is the corpse flower because it stinks.
Yeah, I know that 10. I know by the corpse flower OK.
I mean, I'm all for Felicia. Yeah.
Hey, we're on a moment's notice. How do you want to?
Yeah, let's call this. I mean, it's close enough to the
actual name. Let's just call it.
The point? Yeah.
All right, Felicia, it is. And that's the F.
Right. Or is it with APH?
It is spelled with an F. For the how do you spell it
FELCI? Think it's a FAL.
Thomas, you're going to spell it.
How do you spell it? Because.
I just googled it. FALESHA Felicia Flower.
It's kind of pneumatic. You, you have just, you have
just sustaining of it. I have the whole flower stuffed
in my bag. Yeah.
I like the alliteration. The nice we're gonna have
something to show on the next session we do for the these
characters besides. Some besides some XP which you
need. So All in all, good session.
Cleared one floor. That was very eventful.
I mean normally when we do the the tower we clear one or two.
Yeah, OK. I was expecting, like, them to
be a little shorter. I'm not gonna lie 'cause when
you said like there's a bunch of floors of this, I was like, OK,
maybe we'll clear. Like maybe we'll clear like 3.
I mean, you said it was like a mini game.
So my dad, I was like OK, well maybe clear 3 and then get off.
Like you got to remember, you're going to remember what AD and D
sessions like. Yeah.
I mean, we didn't really get too derailed this time, so that's
good. I think I've been playing with
this group for six months, something like that, and I've
only cleared 5 levels. But also I would have seen y'all
only usually do this when there's like two or three.
Yeah. Yeah, it's a good, good XP game
for those that were able to make it without moving the story too
far along. For those that.
Yeah. I have I have one last thing I
would like to do before we end the session, just as like a
general thing for me to know. I just want one of y'all to give
her dragging on to give Kalimba a tour of the Oh yeah, she has
stayed pretty much exclusively in that main room because the
first time she even walked back there, she saw the crickets and
ran back up front screaming. So what was your She's only
been. I get on, I'll I'll move the
cursor over here so you guys can see it and.
I was going to ask him, do we need to remember what level
specifically we cleared for the rewards or just the number of
levels? If you want to put it in a
description, that'll help me, but the number the number is
good. I can definitely, I've cleared
so little but I remember them so.
I started at least two, I think in the XP tracker I'm been
marking it red or something like that.
So that because that's been the way that I've, I was trying to
keep track. There's the floor is lava.
There's the smart Dolphin. I love the descriptions
actually. There's the you.
Guys tried to capture that smart dolphin too.
Dragon orbs and scary and angry statue.
Oh yeah. Yep, Yep.
Rooms and angry statue. Yeah, this one could have gone
one of one of a few ways. That's the other reason, because
I, if you haven't noticed, I'd play a little bit different than
some G Ms. Alex, I know it's probably hard for you to say,
but I, I play loosey goosey. So I, I, I'll build an encounter
in, in stuff so that I have stuff ready, but I'm always like
rolling off of what you guys are feeling at that moment.
So I'm like changing the encounter as it goes, 'cause you
could have had to fight like a blight monster.
But I was like, you guys are seeming to enjoy figuring this
out and finding a solution. So.
I mean, Kalima was just doing what she felt like doing.
She's never done any alchemy, botany, none of that.
So that was her. So and then there was the the
Willy Wonka Elf torture level. I need the description of that.
They're like they were like those ones were.
In particular, you guys found out a little tower you were
playing, you've been, you'd cleared a few more levels that
and other people have been in the tower for a little bit.
So you guys found a level that was like glitching and the
people weren't weren't remembering stuff, right.
If you remember correctly, that's the one you're talking
about. They were making like potions
and they couldn't remember. Why or for what?
Reason. Yeah, and they were.
Basically like for this floor are blight infested nymph
vineyard that and with a little like dash below it in a separate
like row. I said solve primarily by Kelly
with a quote UN quote explosive salve.
I just have the level called Felicia Flower and saved that
list. There we go.
I mean, I feel like Kelly and Agonon got to know each other a
little better because the main one person that Columbus
interacted with has been Franklin so far.
Franklin and Ezra. So I'll.
I'll, I put you guys back in like the common room too,
because I figured this, this scenario was probably played out
before you guys went to, went to sleep to go into the shower
basically. I mean, someone would have still
fallen asleep right in that chair that she was sitting in
when they got back from the meeting in the tower.
So that's kind of like the spot she's going to sleep in.
OK, so if this is before we were in the tower, then you can sleep
here if you want to. But let me show you around this.
This is an excellent space to be right here.
This is the bar. With the chest gives you stuff
if you put money in it. Yes, as I'm sure you frequented
and then over here, that's some hats off, Josh.
What is this again? Is this the the baby?
The the monster baby. No, it was the, IT was the
eyeball floating creature corpse that Franklin stole hopefully as
a body for, for Bob, but Bob wasn't having it because like
inside of this area, it it seems like it was just floating.
It's not really a corpse because it's, it wasn't that he knocked
it unconscious or something and it was like floating in here.
And it's not eyeless, but it's eye is very Milky.
So Bob was pretty sure that if he ever left the pocket rocket,
the mind controlling abilities of the thing that was
controlling this creature would take effect again.
And. Who's Bob?
Bob is the talking. I was just for that.
Oh, OK. Right, that Ash has with her,
and she'd acquired from even before getting into hell.
Right, OK, so Agonet tries to explain all of that with vague
gestures at disgustingness. Tentacles flopping around.
Kalimba wouldn't have taken a like Kalimba has her nails like
very well manicured, so she would have just poked it gently
with a nail just kind of. And it would have wiggled just
like like Jelly almost under your touch.
She would have gagged fully. So.
She's going to very carefully walk, like hugging.
The wall on my. Cockroaches.
OK, see these cones. Do not under any circumstances
cross these cones. What's see?
That that, that pile of bones past there, that's not a pile of
bones that wants to eat you. And as you're saying that to
against what looks like to be a cage or metal bars of a cell,
bones are trying to like push their way out of it.
It looks like it's just a pile of bones and different parts of
dead things that are piled up inside the space fall out of the
cage and then slump to the floor.
Head of the cage. This is frankly.
Pet I was just gonna ask body I have this this this is seems
very. That's an excellent.
Question almost redundant to have cause.
Excellent question. Frankly, falls in there.
Or, you know, we can push our enemies into it.
That seems more of a Ezra solution.
So Josh, hats off. What's this area?
I'm assuming Agon, we know this by now, the area that the
crickets are in. Is this like treasure in the
gambling tables? Alinda's going to stand in that
little hallway, and what it because she isn't.
But now seem to be empty and complete.
You know, completely empty standing there.
And the game tables that were there before are inhabited by
crickets, dire crickets to be exact.
So they're larger than, especially the adult ones are
larger than you guys and are using their little appendages to
do some sorts of experiments that Franklin have has set up
for them as well. And I'm sure you've seen the
crickets. How and why they got here, I
have no clue. What?
These are our crickets. I hate bugs, so that's very fun
for me. So yeah, a lot of this got here
before my time and I've just come to accept it.
I'm not, It's scenery, the crickets.
I will accept the bone file. I'm not accepting the crickets.
If it was up to me I would have already killed them.
But I'm going to be nice to y'all and not touch y'all's
crickets. Here's our garden, Josh.
I don't remember when all the bodies with the XS on them are.
I don't honestly recall either. I was trying to remember that
before you got. There but.
I've got a bit of a description for this room because it's a bit
more than the other ones, because there's there's it's
mainly stragglers now because he's released a bunch of them,
but there are a few, probably a handful of smaller crickets
crawling along the tops or or along the sides of the walls
away from you guys, you know, up into the dark, darker reaches of
that room. But there are there is a mostly
clean pool of water that's seems to have its own little wave
action going on, and some of the plants look newer and struggling
to handle the load of corpses that have been drug into this
room and thrown in seemingly as trash or manure.
It's not been handled well one way or the other.
There are a few other creatures that just seem to inhabit the
space trying to keep also struggling to keep this little
ecosystem alive. But you do know that this is
kind of where all the oxygen is come from for the space to keep
it breathable? Yeah, we should probably do
something about this. Yeah, but 'cause I y'all's
bedroom, I don't know how big it is, but I'm assuming it's
getting kind of cramped up there with how many people there are
now. But.
You you know, Agonon too, that nobody seems to claim a bed for
themselves, they just kind of sleep in whichever one suits
them at the time. Yeah, it's a free for all.
Yeah, I'm probably just gonna like, lay me down a beach towel
in here and just sleep by the water 'cause if you can't tell
from my appearance, the net bag with coconuts and pineapples in
it, you know? Be like home.
Yeah. Well, let me show you one more
place before you go to sleep. Back down here.
We can take a a wide berth around the crickets.
How do I get up here? You got into the right room, but
you get into there and you call these elevator open card, mine
card things that you can climb into and we'll take you up what
used to be a ladder that they are attached to.
And they click up, up at like an elevator, like I was saying.
And I just, yeah, I can do this with you guys up top.
And you guys go up to what you'd seen before before, but only
loosely through shadows and heard about and seeing some of
the goblins around that seem to be doing some of the minor tasks
around. But they are living up in this
upper region, which has a bunch of hammocks that hang in between
two sets of bridge, one of which is full of raw material that
they've dug out of the side of the cavern up top from the
because each one of these little areas that you've described are
more beehive and cone shaped. So the top was.
Oh what you just hear calling my mother?
Hey, I thought it was only one guy with all of them.
Yeah, you realize there's about 30 of them that have been living
in the pocket rocket and probably what's befouling the
water the most. So these are the mice in the
walls. Me and these guys, me and these
goblins, you're going to have to have some ground rules about the
water. Well, good luck with that.
And this is The Cave in which Franklin transformed.
He wasn't. I gestured to the pool.
Over here. He wasn't originally that.
He used to be your friendly name.
Green neighborhood turtle. But now.
Just early enough for the Turtle Club.
He's covering an out of man scene with.
Bugs happened right here. Yep.
Well, he's always had the bugs, and I guess he didn't always
look friendly. He was little.
The show who didn't always. Have the bugs, but to your
knowledge he didn't. Oh yeah, as far as I've known
him, he's always had the bugs and he's always been a little
bit necrotic, but other than that, a turtle.
So where did the adamantine come from?
Right here and he just. Isn't this pool still filled
with it or no? It doesn't seem to be liquid
currently, but the the pieces of stone that you've been seeing
bind out to are all adamantine. The whole structure of this rock
is adamantine. It's basically one big chunk.
Agonon gestures to this like lowered area over here.
Let. Me this.
At one point was a melted pool. This is where he he went for a
little swim, swim. Is there like a hold up?
I got something I might when I have Kalima do in the future
involving this. Let me look if there's an item.
There's that's weird that there's not.
I was fully expecting there to be.
I was going to see if Columba could pay one of the goblins to
give her a chunk of adamantine and her make it into a ring
since she can't wear armor. But there's only like adamantine
ring mail and. Yeah, yeah, 'cause the benefit
of adamantine really from a magical standpoint is, is that
it stops crits and you need a bunch of it to do that 'cause
like if you were to be hit, basically, it absorbs that
excess damage magically. I was the I'm still gonna let
her do that. Whether make her do that and
whether it has an effect or not, she's gonna have an adamantine,
right? Eventually, she's gonna turn to.
Turn to one of the goblins and it just starts talking to you
and goblin like. She's just going to hold up a
coin and tap on the wall. And then it raises its hands and
like crosses them in like a no and points at the coin and then
points at the wall, and then just hands you a trunk.
She's going to flip like do her thumb and like flip the coin at
it. And it jumps up and bites it out
of the air. Make sure that it's cool, but
whatever. What are you giving it?
Probably. I mean off she she's, she's got
some money. She's just going to flip like a
gold coin at it, I guess. I don't know.
And it pulls back just to make sure that the teeth mark stuck
in that it's actually gold and then shoves it into some spot in
it. And it kind of like, not like,
it looks like it's trying to bow, but it doesn't know how
it's got. It's like arms pulled back and
then it like leans forward, almost falls over and stands
back up and then looks around to make sure no one else had seen
that you gave him a gold coin and goes back to doing whatever
it was doing, really just going about it's day.
OK. We can continue now, but is
there any other like where shelves sleeping quarters at, is
that like the back down there? Columbus just asking where
you're like, could you show her the bedroom?
Like where is that at? Is I think that's the one spot
in here we haven't covered, unless there's more like hidden
in the walls. Hop back in the cart.
In a non suggestive way. Yes, he's kind of looking at her
a little bit nervous and suspicious.
Linda's not going to try anything with anybody yet.
Give it a little bit. The elevator cart clicks back
down the track. And the dormitory is this way.
Mind the cones. And the skeleton fowl.
And right up here, you might have interest in this.
There's a whole like makeup station here, Combs.
And why didn't? Anybody tell me this is here
sooner? I've just been having to like
get ready on my own accord. They are are bad, sorry about
that, but it's at your disposal now so you can do your thing.
I can kind of assume who would choose what bed though just
based off like vibes like. I didn't even think about that
and zoom in to look at them yet. Like I feel like the bottom
right one gives like just the name Ash when I that's the vibe.
Yeah. Like the red one then the one
with the pill on it is probably is or is and the one with the
sigil in the middle gives agonon like I feel like that the yellow
the blue and yellow one in the bottom line ish And then the
green with the orange is Franklin.
The top 1 is it's it's faster Grand am in this one.
Hold up. Foust.
Fouls. Is there anybody else?
I'm listening, so I felt like there is.
That you, that you've played. With I know Faust might be the
sigil 1. So Agonon grew up on the
streets. He did.
Well, OK, he I should say he grew up.
He when he was a baby, he was born on the streets.
Then he was taken into Nimoy's castle as a toddler and I guess
technically grew up as a servant in the castle.
But then when he when he was like a preteen, he wasn't a
captive at the castle, he just would work there.
And so when he was a preteen, he started spending more time out
on the streets while he was still working at the castle and
kind of fell into St. gangs. So like the castle was his main
gig, but then he was like hung out with the urchins and the
gangs in the city and in his spare time.
I feel like him and Kalumba had similar yet very different
uprising. Like the fact that they're like
he was abandoned, pretty much abandoned by his parents right?
That was kind of. Yeah, like or he wandered off
and got lost or he doesn't really know.
He was found in the woods as a kid.
Palumba was from pretty much when she was born like she
doesn't know how she stayed alive during the time but due to
her parents wrongdoings as kind of like punishment for that she
was trapped on an island. Can I get off?
Then when like 20 ish when the curse was lifted she became a
traveling performer almost not like kind of like a bar but she
didn't go full like. It's just a way to make money.
Yeah, and then he was traveling through hell to find her parents
and tell them that she does not blame them for anything and just
kind of give her like she wants to meet her parents if they are
here. Like that's her whole reason for
being where she is. And the only thing left to her
by her parents was her bag. Like that is the only thing she.
I'm surprised she's so forgiving.
I mean she she's not bothered by much really.
She's like very even tempered. Except when it comes to bugs.
Yeah.
Or squishy demons with Santa Claus all.
Right. So Agonon is before he
approaches any of the beds, he kind of waits for her to move
along. Yeah, she would have wandered
back over to the vanity and fixed her appearance.
That would. So actually, Agnada wouldn't
have taken a bed in the middle of the room, he'd want one in
the corner, so he'd go over. Here, yeah, that nothing just
have to hear in his back spray that makes sense like the
placement of the bed makes sense with that.
I was just going based off like design and like, yeah.
But that's a bed for a very trusting soul.
So that would part who's the most nobody's in the most
trusting out of this we're. Confident.
A very or a very confident soul. Frankly.
Yeah. Ezra.
That too. Ezra's got to be the pelt
though. Yeah, I just remember something
about the other campaign though that we have waiting for us next
time. So many things.
You remember Stereo started brewing the moonshine that
somebody got punished with, so we got a whole batch of that
waiting. The the.
I think you may have missed. Spaghetti sauce.
Yep, I think you may have missed though Grand am captured the
spaghetti monster. Yeah, yeah, that happened.
In a master ball. That I'm not surprised.
Bad tracks. I'm guessing that's when, after
Columbus done fixing herself, goes back down to the chair,
yeah. And that's a good place to call
it. Yeah, good session.
Yeah, 10:00 is like my my hard cut off because I wake up at
6:00. Same.
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