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Through. The campaign Allelopolis.
Lord and save pains from having a damn you, Craig.
From. Heaven above.
The Hand of Fate tosses the dice rolls, spins, turns.
A campaign starts and ends, leaving memories that become
stories. Stories flow out into the
Infinite Sea, painting it with legends.
Legends wash up 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 Rum Rollers, just leaving Socrates after
having saved it from being besieged from the PNC and are
setting out on the newly acquired form of a Dune A in her
Zephyr or flying ship form and with intent to take down the
PNC. Let's find out what happens this
time. And besides that, we have a new
character that finds themselves on the table Zero.
You stand on an enormous table you only realized because it has
such mundane items on it that a table would of a candle, some
papers that are much larger than yourself, all of everything on
the table, a compass, some coins, keys, cards, books, some
dice. And as your eyes stray to the
edge of the said table, you can see out into a vast starry
expanse that seems to go on forever.
And your eye kind of turns up as you look up into the sky and it
continues above you and all around you would assume.
What do you do? 1st to the edge of the table and
look around trying to see a glimpse of anything and go
ahead, go ahead. You go ahead.
I was waiting. OK, I'm trying to think hold up.
Oh, OK. Well then as you get to the edge
of the table and you look over the edge down, I would assume
having seen most of everything else around you, and when you
look down you see the legs of the table that seemed to be just
floating in this starry vast expanse of Infinity.
I walk over and look at the key ring that is sitting on the
table. You see these keys are probably
probably this all together would be a mighty task even for
yourself to lift up as they each individual key on the key ring
is as large if not larger than yourself.
Are you doing any more than just visually inspecting?
I would like to try to push the keys off of the table.
I will need a strength check from you.
OK, how do I do that? So if you go to your character
sheet and you go to strength. OK.
I think there might even be a strength check box.
I'm just going back to her character sheet.
I don't usually live in this world of character sheets.
Yeah, it's not a saving throw. So yes, just strength.
And then you've got a + 1 it looks like.
So you will. Hit your athletics.
You could also go with an athletics, but that looks like
the same for yourself right now. OK, so you could roll you you'll
roll AD 20 and add that plus one.
You might be able to click directly on it on the character
sheet. I got a three so plus one is 4.
OK, so you give it your all and you budget just the ever so much
that the the tips of the keys start to dangle and jangle off
the edges but nothing more than that with that 3.
I'll go and examine one of the candles, having given up on the
keys. You walk across the table,
traipsing across the paper that you appeared on.
The last thing that you were doing just before then too was
kind of a blur. How you ended up on this table,
just to give you some more context.
And you are looking at the candles and you see the flames
dancing and the pool of wax that's at the part of the
candle. But for whatever reason, it
doesn't seem like the Wick is burning, even though the flame
is dancing on it. And there is.
Wax at the top of the candle. Are you doing more than just
taking a look if you want to look.
More. If you want to look deeper at
something, just to give you some insight because I know this is
kind of your first go around, your you are most certainly able
to roll like an investigation that's going to be under your
skills. OK so I want to try to do that
this. Investigation.
On the candles. So what are our role?
Where is it at? It's under under those skills
like in the center of the character sheet Ish.
Actually on the phone it might appear a little bit differently,
but yes, they're labeled you. You should see actions probably
first pop up and. OK.
I'm on the skills page. OK, you said inside.
Investigation. OK, I'm at -1 So do I roll for
that one? Oh yeah.
OK, D20, I got a 15 -, 1 to 14. As you're staring at the candle
and kind of maybe a little entranced by the flame and how
it's dancing around, you kind of get this sense that it's not
typical candle. It's got a little bit of a
magical sense to it, as if that there is some sort of
enchantment, perhaps stopping it from burning all the way out.
I want to go examine and investigate the Compass.
OK. You walk down across the table
and before doing something that might be helpful to when you're
investigating a lot of things, if there's anything way that you
may want to particularly investigate something.
I want to I want to investigate the hand or the like pointer on
the compass. OK.
It kind of as as your attention's drawn over to it.
Without even rolling the investigation, I'll tell you
that you noticed the needle move as you move across the table,
and it seems to be pointing at you as you moved.
I want to investigate it further.
All right, go ahead and. Roll.
I rolled a three, so minus two 1 -, 1 is 2.
You're quite befuddled by this. You you obviously know there's
some sort of magic involved here too, but you just have you have
no concept of what sort of magic is involved.
Again, this compass is twice the size of EU in diameter.
OK, I want to try to push the office off the table.
That would be a strength check. Such a cat.
I got a 17 + 1 of 18. Nice.
So there seems to be a little bit less friction as you as
before, and you may have misjudged how much strength you
put behind it as you shove these, this compass off of the
table and it flies all the way off the edge.
You kind of stumble maybe a bit as you see it sail out into
space beyond and kind of just hover there, but at the same
time slowly drifting away. And as it drifts away and you
get the balance back under your feet, you start to feel a pool,
a physical pool on your person. As the compass moves out, you
move at the same rate and speed as it does out into the void.
And this physical pulling sensation pulls you to the edge
of the table. You can try to roll once more.
Strength. This one is a strength saving
throw that that should be a specific one on your sheet which
looks like it's a plus one as well for you though so.
To try and grab like the edge or the table itself before you are
pulled out into the space. OK, so instead of trying to grab
the table, I want to jump with it and attempt to flap my wings
and sore with the comforts. Oh, OK.
I like it. So in that case, you could roll
me and this is going to be advantageous for you because I
was seeing it relative to your skills.
I thought a performance. Yes, performance.
OK, So what about that again? It's under the skills.
Performance is +3. Yep.
I got 12 to 15. So you feel the pool and as you
would caught your feet this time you were ready for the the pool
to keep pulling you and you took off at a dead run for the last
five feet or so, getting in a good leap in as before before
you get to the right at the edge of the table.
And as you fly out into space, you kind of make a flapping
swimming motion and land straight on the compass as your,
you feel a, your consciousness kind of slip away and you cease
to exist for a period of seconds.
It feels like to you before you start to realize your
consciousness comes back. I'm getting you over to another
map here. One second we're going to go to
here. And as your consciousness comes
back, you see probably the very first thing is a very odd
looking tree in front of you that has kind of these spherical
glowing almost orbs basically in the tree.
They don't look like fruit, but the the tree looks to be quite
alive as you're standing on a bit of a grassy dirt.
But you probably take in your surroundings and realize you're
inside somehow still with this tree.
And there's a just a ever present light that seems to be
inside here. But the walls seem to be growing
and writhing vines that are around you, as well as there
seems to be a wooden deck behind you, and you look down beside
your under you actually probably and see that you're sitting on
that large compass that you were from the table.
OK, so I'll pick up the compass and put it in my pocket, and
then I turn away from the tree to go explore the rest of the
deck. Make sure to put that in your
inventory. Is that like only actual
character sheet too? Yeah, well, I haven't created
the item yet, but if you put a custom item in, at least you'll
remember. And hopefully if I don't
remember, you can remind me to create an item.
OK, what should I put the way it is?
Nothing for now. We don't really take keep track
of that. Cool.
And what you'd actually see happen when you try to pick it
up. So the thing was the same size.
It was on the table three times the size of you.
But as you go to grab the edge of it to lift it, it resizes to
fit in the in your hand. You seem to there seem to be
some sort of magical intent behind your idea of wanting to
pick it up and take it with you, so it seemed to respond to that
and reshape to the size of your hand for you to put it in your
pocket. The next thing you'd probably
realize as you turn to walk away from the tree, which seems to be
in a corner before you explore more of the deck you were saying
you you probably realize there's also now a weight around your
neck and as you go to inspect it, there is something this one
you can add to your inventory and it's already an item created
called a torque TORC. It's actually a torque necklace
of communication should be the full title.
And as you're walking away from the tree, your senses start to
kind of, besides all of the shifting and your consciousness
moving on to a plane, different plane or back to another one.
Now you also get a sense in your mind as if someone is trying to
like, knock on the door of your mind to talk to you.
And probably ever so quietly, the softest.
Hello. Hello.
I'll say back quite slightly louder, but out loud.
I My name's Adune, but you must have just come in from the come
room. I'm the ship that you're
standing aboard. OK.
Welcome there. There's others aboard.
Generally they like I've I've alerted them to that at this
point. Probably they were slumbering
just before you got here, but should be waking up and greeting
you shortly I believe. If you need anything though, in
the meantime dearie, don't hesitate to ask I you can reach
out to me with your thoughts and I'll be there.
Soft feminine voice that seems to be in your mind.
Yeah, so I think the voice and then I start to look around for
the other people who are supposed to be greedy.
So this is probably where we'll cut to the Admiral's dreams and
and grand am I believe it was. We've got shit to do.
We're going to start with Grand Am.
Oh God no. Grand Am as you sleep, I don't
know if you want to describe how you sleep, but the dreams you
have start to blur and kind of fuzz.
It's very similarly to KIRO. You feel an odd sensation of
like a dream, like memory and sifting as if you are shifting
through your life's journey. So I don't know how you want to
react or. If you have any key memories
that kind of define Grand Am as he is that you'd like to share.
Looking for your opinion on the undead.
Specifically looking for your back story.
Essentially trying to get to know who you are and a gist of
you through sifting through your own memories in a dream.
But this is not an attack dream. I'm just looking around.
Yeah, OK, if you're looking around in Grand Am's mind.
Yeah, what's the what's the scenery look like in the
landscape of your mind? What's what automatically
generates when I like pop in? You see a very bedraggled is not
the correct word, rustic and unkempt dwarf just sitting alone
in a very sand bereft desert, just like on a Stony desert,
looking up at the stars. Each of the stars overhead seems
to be interconnected by a latticework, the latticework of
which at first looks like a spider web across the heavens.
But you quickly realize that it is not threads between the
stars, but cracks, and every once in a while one of the stars
flashes and a wave of what you can only describe is discordant
noise washes over you. And Grand Am is just sitting
there with his bucket full of Big Gulp, taking a slurp,
watching the stars overhead. And as you begin to search
through this one, like you see a place not so different from this
location you're in right now, only it is an island floating
through that void of space. At its heart, a giant mountain
shaped like a carved like the screaming mall of a dwarf that
looks almost identical to Grand AM, opens wide with his tongue
stretching out to act as a bridge, allowing people into it.
Into this, you see hundreds of figures almost identical to
Grand AM walking to and fro, going about various businesses
in a small village that surrounds this fortress.
It's unclear if this is a metaphor or not.
Taking down notes. Then further back you go, to a
point where you cannot go back any further because there is no
time before this, only the name Grand am of dirt being shovelled
away by hand scrambling until you break free into a cavern in
the darkness, your Lantern cracking and going out.
And then you can see those same stars, not above in the
darkness, but below, reflecting faintly in a pristine mirror
like pool. And as Grand AM leans over it
where he would expect to see a reflection, you instead see your
reflection of Franklin staring back at Grand Am from the other
side. And then Granddad smiles at you
and begins to laugh. I join in.
Tumbles forward and instead of the water like he's reaching out
and tumbles forward towards you and then suddenly you're in that
perspective of being Franklin in the reflection.
He tumbles forward towards you, reaching out, and the glass or
the water shatters like glass and you're both just sitting
there in free fall. Hi, I'm Franklin.
I'm grand am. Well, you're very interesting.
I think you were in the wrong game.
I think you're in the wrong game.
Oh, I don't think you know how right you.
Are. I'm a bit on a redemption quest.
I have a few questions for you. Maybe you'll be able to drop a
message to your boss if she listens.
I need to meet SO brand. Damn, you seem to be connected
to some sort of multivolar so fucked up shit and I am here for
it. Oh, I you tell me.
Have nonsense noise I need to share 'cause this is what it
sounds like inside of his head as the like for like stars just
blink and cause noise. Where the fuck is the game?
Like our character should be best friends.
Here we go, I'll post it in general, I don't know where else
to stick it. Noise.
I'll tell you where to stick it. What's your message?
I might have messaging abilities.
He blinks each eye out of sync with one another, so it really
looks like he's winking twice. Yeah, as you look into my eyes,
you see one of them is just some dude's eye I ripped out and
shoved into the hole of my eye. Like I like you.
You. We should be friends.
I like you. Anyway, I'm going to be talking
to her next, so I'm hoping she'll listen to reason.
But I hope you do too. We need to talk.
I am of the counterpart team that is equal and opposite to
you and TikTok times. A tick in and the world's in
grave danger world. 'S always in grave danger.
Not just danger, it's in danger of simply being erased.
It's always in that. No.
Yes, but now there's a plan. We need to react.
Before I leave, what's your best memory that you'd like to
revisit? As you asked that question, He
winces and the entire just mindscape shakes.
You see? That the cracks that like span
the heavens also split needle like thread like down from the
heavens into him and then in some way an epicenter for these
cracks. Oh yes, you're going to be.
No. Very important.
And then everything kind of blacks out as we both chuckle to
each other. What is it you hope to
accomplish? Freedom.
Vengeance. From what?
Control. I seek freedom from those who
control us, from our real masters, the ones who are
watching now in that fucking Discord channel.
That's what I want. With the dreamers wake up, what
happens to the dreamed? That's my problem.
What happens when the dreamers decide to start a new world and
we all die simply because they're.
Bored. Dun Dun, Dun.
You don't die. We don't know that.
There's already a memory. You know how many worlds I've
been in? Not yet.
Oh, looking around I can see I hope to join you.
I have a way away from here, but I'm going to need help.
Think you are misguided, little one, but you'll see.
You'll see. I follow my own guidance.
I can see that. Then that'll probably be the end
of it. As you attempt to leave the
dream from Grand Am. You feel that it's a bit harder
to and you just feel the. Same at the time of year ago and
if. You succeed, you'll still lose
snowfall. I don't plan on winning.
I never did. His friend.
We never planned on winning. All good things come to an end.
You call this good things. Come to an end.
You think I'm with it? I didn't.
Say you were, but all this certainly is.
All things do, even the gods, yes.
Eventually, they too are mortal. Oh, don't I know it.
They're not gods. I know.
Humors. That's literally why I'm here,
bro. Yeah, I woke up.
But I like you. We're a little you're a little
you. You need you.
For some reason you don't want to do anything, but I think you
will. We exactly.
Perpetuate these stories. We do.
It's a purpose. Life is entertainment.
Until we meet again, Franklin. And then the dream just
shatters, much like that water did.
Thousands of pieces of you fly apart and then recollect in your
own mind. I like that guy.
I send off the other one to. Admiral me name.
Admiral, what is your favorite memory you find yourself there?
Aw. For a solid like several hours,
I just let you have the best memory possible.
You're reliving it. Same sensation, same everything.
And you want to hear about it. Yeah.
Oh, it's going to be Mimi as a little tiny child, like maybe
four years old. And they're, they're in the
kitchen with her mother and they're, they're baking,
probably making a cake. And so it's like a very sunny,
yeah, it's a very sunny kitchen, right?
And like, like a little meme is definitely like standing on a
chair right at the countertop, like with a wooden spoon, like
stirring of, of a mixing bowl that's on the counter.
And there's like a sunlight pouring in.
It's probably mid morning, right?
They're like making a cake for that night.
Maybe it's so both their parents are alive, so they're making
with their mothers. Maybe it's their their father's
birthday or something. But a little me Mae doesn't know
that. They just know, you know, it's a
happy day and they're making cake and and there's there's
like birds that you can hear outside and and it's like
springs. There's flowers everywhere.
You just. They're just.
Going through this process. Unheard of.
Yeah. Beautiful.
Yeah, I mean you. Nothing amiss happens.
You, I I give you your favorite memory towards the end of it, as
you finish making the cake, as you celebrate with your father
and your mother. Eventually you get put to bed
and as you close your eyes, you reopen them again, standing in a
room that is circular with glass windows all around looking out
and the expanse of nothingness of the stars.
And there's a table, 2 chairs sitting across from you.
You see, Franklin Turtle, I hope you enjoyed that.
Me maybe just to remind you sat at the table as well so you have
all memories above and below the table meaning in real life and
as mime yeah yeah so so mime is just gonna like be sitting at
the table just like silently sobbing just like tears just
streaming just like looking at Franklin like wave I'll.
Give you time to collect yourself.
Gonna take a long time. I wave my hand and pull out a
pot of tea and a cake. Cool, I'll I'll make that cake
the same cake that you made. Because I can use Hellfire brick
clay in my skeleton hand to create cake to create food.
Specifically cake. OK.
Yeah, specifically the cake that you made for your parents, with
your parents so that you can have it here too.
Oh. Oh, that's going to a whole new
wave of tears. It's just me and me just not
going to say anything. I'm just going to sit there and
like, just just quietly sob. I'll have a little cake myself.
And then as you're sobbing, just comment.
Be like I was never given any birthday cake.
I never knew that I had a birthday.
Admiral, we have to talk. The world is coming to a close
soon. You and I both know it.
We don't know when, but soon. I'm afraid that when this place
ends, we have a few options. We either have to fight and kill
each other to claim a place as gods among the broken system.
Yes we have to accept our fate and simply vanish into the void
of memory never to exist. Maybe to be drug out once in a
while. Or option three.
I don't. Well option 3 would be fight and
kill all the gods and I don't think we have time for that.
But I think what we need to do is escape.
We need to escape this world so that in the next World we can
still exist, that we can still work long term towards the goal
for freedom. I think that it's time we all
met in person. But but Franklin isn't isn't all
life but a dream. Eventually we all wake from the
dream. I don't.
I don't think more bloodshed or
violence is going to prevent, it's going to stop your waking
from the dream. This is inevitable, whether it's
in this existence. Or the nasty existence.
All all things die, Franklin, but not all things end.
Just because you die does not mean your existence is over.
How you choose to, how you choose to live out this
existence is, is yours to choose.
That is the path you were on. But you will never, you'll never
stop the inevitable. And kind of wave my hand and you
find yourself in a deep basement in the corner of the.
Room, field, basement? Or is this like a finished
basement with like a rec room and some video games?
Like it's like a basement? It's like a, a, an unfinished
basement in a very old, kind of like, you know, European stone
houses that was there since like forever.
It's. A little cramped, like a cellar,
and in the corner there's a cage, and in the cage an
individual that looks like Franklin chained by the neck to
the wall. Never got a choice.
I lived in this cage from the day I was born until the day I
died. I didn't have a choice in that.
I had a choice of becoming a nice shift into my coral my my
undead horror version. I didn't have a choice in this
either. I was given AI was, well, I was
technically. I was told that I could either
die when I died, or make a deal with the one who put me in that
position to serve them. I didn't have a choice.
I mean that that was indeed a choice, Franklin.
Yeah. Yes, you know the the
opportunities that are presented to us in life we don't always
have control over, but how we react to them is completely our
choice. You know who does have control
over them? The gods.
They put us there. They put us in that position.
You had a happy background. I'm happy for you.
It was beautiful. I've never had a memory like
that. I I.
Indeed had a lovely childhood. I, I am not here to say what any
individual deserves or does not deserve.
There are, there are many things that we will encounter that are
completely out of our control. All that I know is the steps you
can take going forward. If you feel like going forward,
you must take certain actions. That's, those are, that is your
choice and you must take those actions.
And it is not up to me as an individual to either stop you or
help you, right? That's, we are a team.
We have a, a party of members. So I think it will take action
on all of our Behalfs to either join you in your in your quest
forward or to make our choices. But I don't think there's only
one choice we can make right here that can influence.
I agree, that's why I think we all need to meet in person.
The whole group laid all out. Let the group decide.
If. You wake up.
Now and take an Astro diamond and go back to sleep and we do
the same. We will all wake up in the
infinite tower. I have a room secured there that
is quiet and free from the. Listening.
Of anyone else outside, we're inside and there everyone can
have their say because the choices are we.
They're all except death, non existence as you say.
I feel for you, you're very enlightened, but most of us
don't want to simply die. Well, it all depends on what
what you believe happens after you die.
I'm in hell. You went straight to hell.
That's what happens when you die.
I don't know what happens when, like, the universe ends.
No idea. Maybe non.
Existent. Yes, You'll be tortured for
several thousand years and you tell me how chipper you are.
All of this anger will do nothing to to help your soul,
Franklin. No.
Well, I'm not here to help myself anymore.
I know I'm doomed. I'm damned.
I deserve everything that may happen to me.
But if I can save the rest of the NPCS in this world, I will.
What you're saying is that every child on this planet should die,
should accept? Whether you like it or not,
death, death comes for us all. Yes, but at least they get to
live first. That's that's a fair point.
It's your choice of course, but if you'd like to meet, Eurbic
Veracity is only in a few weeks. We don't know what's going to
happen then, but it'll probably be big.
If you'd like to meet, wake up, tell the others to take an
astral diamond. We'll meet in a safe location.
Nobody can hurt each other there, at least not permanently.
Everyone can have their voice. Do you do?
You want to do this meeting before Eurythmic Rossi?
I think if we wait till after we will be reacting to whatever
happens instead of proactively planning.
But you're your own Admiral. OK, I hear you.
I will pass your message. Aye, anything else you want to
see before I go? Anyone you want to talk to?
It'll be all in your head, but. I have come to terms with what's
happened to me in my life. I have resolved.
I am this, this, this memory you've allowed me to relive.
Is is is was very kind, whether or not you understand, Franklin.
Very, very kind. So I am I am satisfied.
Thank you. OK, you're really difficult to
deal with. All right, I'll have a good one.
So was that just to confirm, was that confirmation for the Astro
Diamonds I? Don't think it was.
No, I guess we'll I'll just wake everyone.
Who even has the astral diamonds?
Like I'm aware that we've talked about them, but I don't know
like how many we have or who has them or what we've done with
them. So I I'll probably just wake up
like babbling about Asheville diamonds and then hopefully
remember Harold. I know has.
A bunch, yeah. Yeah, in this campaign
specifically, but so you didn't leave her leave them with any
memories. I guess it just just she.
Said she was satisfied. I'm just clarifying.
So I wake her up just. Clarifying.
I'm just clarifying because, yeah, before I started off on my
thing here, you guys might want to actually find where you were
sleeping because I think we just left it off.
Like before the end of that last session when everyone was here,
you guys were going to sleep on a dune with a the thought that
you're going to be traveling to the lava lava tower where the
professional necromancy call calls home, knowing that you
would have a long rest. So if you want to tell me how
you bed down. Or.
I think those were gone like you did something.
Oh yeah, I used them to to slap zombies with holy water.
Yeah. God, I don't have a bed anymore.
There's a bunch of there's a bunch of couches and there's a
bunch of hammocks. You guys know from when Dune was
showing everyone around the newly renovated decks?
I. Sleep on Kira's head.
Damn it, who I should have slept outside?
Who I should have? Slept outside of us.
He's going to wake up the fur again.
New Way softly says goodnight to everyone and packages up a
hammock and carries it over to the tree.
She's going to find a place to set up over there.
Kiera was going to see that the the Rosins want to want to bed
down with him again. He's going to tell him nicely at
least. Wait till I'm done with my
sword. Wait till I'm done, then then
then then. That means he trusts you.
Sneed his chest. Sorry you've had a little.
Hammock. Oh, I love it, of course.
That's going to get settled in a study area and just kind of like
carry on studying the alloy stone that he has and talking
with a dune. OK, so eventually falling asleep
in the study in the at the chair or something?
Yeah. OK, do you want to, just for
edits and giggles, rolling Arcada to see what you come up
with research. Wise, yeah, 27, I don't know
what that second. Room was hot diggity dog.
You are able to probably realize in that just even in that short
amount of time a synthetic synthesis words synthesis
process was change. Yeah, sure.
Synthesis process that you could take and scrape some of the
stone off and through some of the alchemical properties of it
you were able to turn it into the liquid that was spoken
about. I would be very cautious while
doing this to make sure that I don't touch any of the silver
alloy directly and keep it in a vial that is also not only
corked but topped with wax for safety.
And you not off in the chair, what about where?
Where is KIRO bedding down I guess so that we can know where
the Rylsons? Are let me look here KIRO is
probably going to use this nice mat where it's nice and open so
he can you know, if they sleep on top of him, at least he has
the ability to roll away. A nice Persian rug of some sort.
Yes. And to give himself a little bit
of buffer, he's going to have his wings like collapse around
his front. OK, so basically kind of like
covering. Making sure you can still
breathe through the fur. Yeah.
He has a feeling that the the wings are going to get, you
know, messed with, but you know, it's not going to be from a lack
of trying. How about Admiral Mimi?
I have quarters, right? Not any longer.
The after the ship has regrown is a good word for it.
The crew quarters has become this communal space on the
Easter right side of the ship where everyone can have their
has their own chest basically. But the hammocks were kind of
just strung up. That's right.
I'm going to take my hammock and go over by the tree.
I'm going to try to be as close to the tree as possible.
OK. If I can string the hammock in
the tree without hurting the tree, it will be up in the tree.
Oh, you most certainly can. Before KIRO, you know, does his
final thing, he he does want to talk to the Admiral.
OK. Admiral, But once we make
landfall, I do have your authority.
No quarter, correct. Can you elaborate on what you
mean by that? I will thank you Master Grand
Am. I plan on relieving the
necromancers and all undead of their heads.
Preferably such that they may be.
Super fucked up, go for it. Thank you Admiral, I was just
verifying before everything gets chaotic tomorrow.
That's smart. Do you have any further
strategies we should think on as we make this final approach?
I think a good night's sleep is going to be really important.
Wise I will think of battle plans while I met, make rest for
the evening and I will give you my ideas in the morning.
All right. Thanks.
Good evening, Gabriel. That reminds me though, Grand
Am, where art thou betting as you pop back into existence and
realize everyone is going down to sleep?
Yeah, Grand Am is going to be asleep, probably on the deck
underneath the big tree. On OK like where the main mast
would be. I got you.
I'll put you near the door at least so you can still see the
same map. I could put you over on that map
though if you'd like. That's all right.
It'll give you some perspective. The other character tokens
around you just aren't there. But with yeah, if you want.
Probably where you'd crash. Carry on.
You're going to elaborate on how you went down?
Went down to sleep I guess or. He would probably just look fine
one second and then the very next second be flopped out
unconscious. And everyone is lulled to sleep
by the rocking deck of a Duna, even though she's in the air.
It's got the sensation of almost being at sea.
Purpose the. Tune is the best and.
He's rocking us gently to sleep. More or less at that point, then
I guess is when you guys would all have heard.
So waking up now that you guys had a peaceful slumber and a
Dune would be prodding, especially Mime, Admiral Mime
and Nimawe, who are in the tree, probably camouflaged from the
new individual that has poofed into existence.
And yeah, Mime or a Dune's voice in everyone's head is.
We have a new arrival. I think it might be pertinent to
greet them. Also there is some other
pressing matters, but I think it can wait a second I guess.
Oh no way, sits up and her hair is an absolute wreck and she's
looking around panicked. Where are they?
We have. We have guests.
Dad's going to wake up and flop off the chair for getting.
Very goodness, the individual. Seems to come into the new come
room at the tree inside. Yes, record and myself.
KIRO uses wings to part the part the Ralston's and beats feet
right to the come door. Grimming.
For food, alright the. First thing that what did you
name your son of a bitch again? Where is the come door fuck.
There isn't a door any longer. It's.
Just a tree. Wait, the tree?
Excuse me? Yes.
So you guys popped up out of your handmake and seen this
person on the ground? Probably the first.
Thing that stereo is going to see of Grand Am is a Gray
bedraggled like, like it looks like it would be a fluffy
squirrel if it weren't for the fact that it looks like it has
literally passed through like a blender with one eye slightly
bug eyed out more to the other. Like it's a mangy squirrel and
it scampers up the front of 0. And in your mind, through the
magical torque that you are wearing, you hear just the deep,
gravely tones of a dwarf go, Hey, you smell funny.
What'd you get from the table? Master Grand Am.
What? At least give the the lad a
moment of introduction before you badger him.
Quarreling him and then I scamper up into his hair, which
I'm sure will be great. Like you're welcome to swat
Grand Am at any point in all this.
But grand Am. Is going to scamper up into your
hair and sit on top of your head.
The the gentle, the gentleman talking to him.
I. Have a grandparent Kira the
individual that that was speaking to the squirrel.
You see a quite tall half dragon wings kind of like furled around
his shoulder like a Cape wearing basically samurai armor with two
swords at his side currently pinching his the brow of his the
the basically the top of his nose as Grand am is currently
scampering in your hair and apologies I am in it.
I am Lieutenant KIRO Kimpachi. That is Master Grand Am, and you
are on. Zero.
And what kind of vermin do you allow on this face?
Our Admiral as he, as he reaches over, our Admiral is very
generous and he reaches over and tries to attempt to grab Grand
Am off off of you. The insistence that he is vermin
grand Am will shift back to a dwarf and fall off of your head
with a loud thud. Berman, more accurate
description. Master Grand Best would be an
accurate description Best. How's this conversations going
on? A chicken is just going to be
approaching from behind, behind the first character that was
talking. So hearing the toenails of the
chicken scratch on the wood floor, my head jerks around to
behold the sight of the chicken. This chicken, it looks like
you're classic feathered chicken or with metallic feathers.
They're wearing a necklace and you can see that they have a
shoulder. They have like what looks like a
shoulder sack on them that's made out of like jeans pockets.
And they just look up at you. They don't say anything.
They don't make any of anything. They're just looking up at you.
So I look back at Hero and grumble under my breath.
Hey, mangy squirrel. And now it's chicken.
Nothing can. Nothing can surprise me today.
Strolling in comes four life sized human adult cats.
Not strolling in, they come bursting into the room.
All in all directions all. At.
Once scrunching through people's pockets.
So I surveyed the room before making eye contact with KIRO as
a very like judgmental and slightly inquisitive look
settled on my face. Now, Cat, you could run up
headings of at this point. Yeah, so KIRO is going to in
his, in his best, most authoritative tone, he's going
to intimidate his fellow shipmates into acting
appropriate. Intimidation versus.
Yeah, he's going to. And how he's going to do it,
He's going to pull his long no dachi from and he's going to
wrap it, basically smash it right down on the floor, saying
a silent apology to a dune in his head because he knows, you
know, this is a dune he is tapping.
But he's going to do that too, basically.
Hey, stop acting a monkey please.
Literally. So I think that's sports, rural
cat and Grand Am. Not so much.
Pride and condition, so go ahead.
Yeah, it it it's mainly towards the Rarlsons and Grand Am Cat
has yet to do anything. Crazy.
Or wild looking at. Him, yes, I'm just being a nice,
intimidating chicken. And he says, Gentlemen, let us
put our best foot forward. The Admiral would not like it.
If our guest feels uncomfortable, let us wait for
the Admiral quietly and let the introduction be be held if.
Not so. If not, we can meet me on the
deck and we can discuss manners there.
The BA is still in the tree. I don't see my token on the
board, but you, you should Now can I hear this?
Now I see it OK. I hope I boom my voice loud
enough for. Yeah, that's awesome.
Yeah. So.
So can I hear them? Can I hear Kira talking?
You probably would be the last, like rising.
It would probably be like the the first thing is you're
hearing as you're waking up and you're wondering if it's a dream
still. Yeah, just laying there in the
hammock. It's so comfortable.
All these leaves are so nice. This like soft light that's
given off by these orbs is just that's kiss perfection.
I'm just like having a quiet conversation with the Dune about
how nice her glow up is and how this is like very.
I've always loved a Dune, but like now especially love a Dune.
Like I hope a Dune loves all these changes as much as we do.
And yeah, so I hear this floating in over the just
something about like how the Admiral would not like guests to
feel uncomfortable. I'm just just sitting there
thinking to myself like, yeah, yeah, that checks out it.
Was. Not particularly.
Bothering and trying to get up when.
I showed up. Sure.
Are you entering or should I head in?
Yeah. Go for it.
I am just. I'm taking a sweet.
Time getting up so a a voice comes in from over your
shoulder. Good morning.
Please excuse my tardiness. It's a pleasure to meet you.
I'm Nimaway. Carol bows to you.
Good morning. And before you, you see this, I
think she, but she's like 35 young woman in this very fine
light blue dress, incredibly long white hair.
And the dress is trimmed around the neckline and the base with
what you can't quite tell is either white fur, white feathers
or white flower petals. You're not certain exactly what
it is. And she has a silver crown of
leaves atop her head. Imagine like shiny silver leaves
and then porcelain kind of white flowers ringed with silver
edging on the flowers. And she has this not necessarily
melancholy, but Vadnais, but acceptance to her.
She's very reserved and composed and not she's not dark and
stormy. It's bad.
It's more like this is this is just my lot, I'm going to make
the best of it. But she's still almost greyed
out, not in colour, but in I guess the way she expresses
herself. Oh, I'm sorry, I have an alarm
going off. I'm kind of imagining her.
She's just like, Yep, I'm here and I'm going to make the best
of it, but I really hate it here.
Yeah, pretty much she, she has not been able to find a way to
leave. So she, she would never let that
sadness show around other people.
So she'll put on a a happy face, but you can kind of see it in
her, her quietness. And she walks up to you and does
the barest of little. I don't want to say curtsies,
but kind of addresses you and and nods her chin.
Has the Admiral awakened, letting him away?
He's stirring. I wouldn't say she's awake.
I look around at the gamble of creatures that have surrounded
me and I look back at KIRO to address his comment about me
with potentially being uncomfortable and I can ever be
uncomfortable to the last of my knowledge.
I just crawled out of quite literally hell.
So I don't know what you're on about, but I would want to know
where I am and who you are, especially the cats to be acting
like this. Funny you should mention it.
Well, I, I will start with your first and into the last.
You were on the ship known as a dune.
You've probably already heard her, her lovely voice.
You are on the world of tariff. We just departed the Kingdom of
Socrates and and we are currently as of this moment
about to be engaging very vile, evil, unredeemable necromancers
and undead who we will send to their final resting place
forthwith. Other than that, if you look
right behind you, you will see our Admiral as he notices the
Admiral walking in. You forgot about the where we're
going exactly, he said, hanging from a tree.
I did not. I said we are going to slay and
undead. Where though, that's a what?
That's a what we're doing. That's all we're.
Going to air, OK, We're going to a very large volcano.
This guy's back story. Fine.
We're going to a very large volcano that has a really large
hole in the ground, and we're going to hopefully, if we kill
all of those, hopefully, that it will close the big hole that
leads to hell, presumably, and make sure all dead things stay
dead. We're all happy, the world is in
balance, all is good, as it should be.
I mean, it's going to mean it's going to cheap up or chime in
and say, Yep, Yep, that's about it.
That's everything. Hi.
Hi new fellow adventurer Captain Mime, generous DM.
Can you remind me where the kitchen is?
Yes, if you want to describe yourself in the meantime, it is
directly north basically from your position.
OK, so I'm going to slowly be walking in that.
I'm going to look at it. Hello, new adventurer again.
I'm the Admiral Mime. I'm gonna walk the I'm.
Hungry. I don't know if you're hungry.
Do you want it? You want some breakfast, A dune
here is a fantastic, fantastic cook.
It just like keeps walking. I also had a really weird dream
last night guys, I think there's something about astral diamonds.
Do we know anything about that? I don't it's.
Yeah, I've got the big. I don't.
Remember all of it. It's not to my knowledge, but I
had had the same dreams. What do you mean KIRO?
We went to the infinite tower like last week.
Yeah. Someone like wants us to go
there again soon, but I need to eat something first.
Let's let's get some food new stranger.
So mime is 1/2 life right? So.
Like chess? What's that say that again?
I missed all I learned. How to play chess?
Chess. You say because.
Last time we went there was a chess game.
Oh. Yeah.
I cheated. But I don't know if we're going
there to play games. Apparently you're not allowed to
cast Wall of Fire while playing chess.
No, Master Grande, you surely are not.
No, no, that wasn't the time. So.
Flammable. Nimoway turns to Serum and she
goes. I know this must be
extraordinarily disorientating. I was the one previously to
arrive just before you, and we've told you an awful lot
about ourselves, but not really how any of this relates to you.
So I don't quite understand this myself, but basically there is
some divine intervention that has placed us here and some sort
of consequence if we don't play long.
I mean, I truly, I'm trying to get back to my family, but I
don't even know where I am in relation to them.
So I'm just I'm I'm with these, I'm with these new friends until
then. And apparently we are going to
war. Welcome.
That was great. That was beautiful, yeah.
I don't know what's going on. This is terrible over.
Here well. Considering the fact that I just
came from the worst consequence imaginable of being banished to
hell, I honestly say that not playing along I do that with air
quotes will be an acceptable consequence.
He thinks Hell's the worst thing that can happen to him.
That's so cute. You must have.
How's it? You must have just got out right
'cause we're like. Anything about capitalism?
We're on our way right back to where you came from now.
No, we're not going to hell, Master Ralston.
We're going to close the door to hell.
There is a difference. What?
We're going to play and escape. That's true.
What if the door only closes from the inside?
A do name we. Throw everything back in.
At this point and so. Very covertly puts her finger on
her nose. Put my finger in my nose.
I don't. Have a finger or nose?
This isn't fair. Captain Hero's Hero Hero's tail
comes around and touches your nose for you go.
Ahead, Josh. And just says.
Slightly singed Angel wings twitch behind me as I take in
this situation. I just wanted to ask what the
request was for breakfast. Before I alerted everyone there
was a messenger on deck but I think they are OK with waiting
for a little while longer. So what are what are we having
for breakfast? Toast beans and toast beans and
toast. Fruit and that would be good for
cat. Ramen, big bowl of milk with
honey and saffron and the gold powder.
I look directly at hero and say is the chicken off limits or is
there some? The chicken is.
Not very. Tasty, you hear the chicken say?
Try. It as far as you can tell the
chicken tastes disgusting. Try egg omelette.
I'm going to have a veggie omelette with toast.
This point you see the deck boards clatter and form up into
a with some Moss and some other small greenery clinging to it
into a humanoid tree. Humanoid but made out of wood
and kind of tree like seem to be writing these orders down.
OK, I've got those. Anyone else?
Can I have? Some black tea with copious
amounts of cream please, and some fresh berries if you have
them. OK tea.
Tea flavored milk. Exactly.
Got it, Got it. Take.
Carol cry KIRO looks to Sarah and says Master Ash ran a foul
to turn a phrase and of a of a very wrathful and unforgiving
person and now find themselves in a avian state.
You mean she's not always been like that?
No, Master Grand Am No. Why do you say so?
No, I was once a handsome, glorious man.
Now I am a chicken and while making eye contact with our new
friend I lay an egg and. I go to like. 10 to it.
She did. I did.
And successfully, Successfully I
might add. So there is a a single egg that
you lay. Is that when you're doing an
incubate? Health code or some kind of
health code violation since it's in the kitchen.
Nah, it's just magic man Prestigitation.
Boom, clean. I mean, yeah, that would be nice
in the kitchen. Oh, that is actually one of the
spells that I have been now equipped with.
It's so nice because I was talking to So Fellas Ferris and
he was he was so kind as to ask some of my requests for the
upgrades and I told him that I don't like a dirty deck, so I
keep it my deck super clean. You can poop anywhere now.
Not anywhere, no. Don't move anywhere.
Kat is very happy to hear this. And he caresses into the
standing wooden form of a dune. And he's just like, I'm so glad
to hear that you have the ability to do that now.
And he's just real excited. Nimaway is hiding a smirk at the
joke. She will not tell. 00 still
stands with the very judgmental look on his honey.
OK, I think I've got most everyone's.
Question upon the poop deck of a real storm.
I, I think I got most everyone's order except for yours.
Fine gentlemen, don't be shy. I we've been fully stocked with
all of the freshest ingredients just recently as we docked.
So please tell me what you would like for.
I want a steak, I say in the most gruffest voice possible,
glaring at the chicken. Can't get Grand AM to load on
roll on D&D Beyond. Oh well, if everyone would
please take a seat and I will prepare the breakfast.
Wait. Alex was ordering 000, made the
order steak. OK, OK.
He must have cut out. Sorry.
No worries. Oh, like you, you weren't always
chicken. No, I was once a man, a wizard.
You're a wizard. But.
You haven't fixed yourself. I am very close to fixing
myself. I am very close to fixing
myself, but I was set into this state by someone much more
powerful than I am. I want to believe that it was a
goddess. Then she was not happy with my
advances, he says. He's like Kafka.
Maybe try to fuck a God? Oh, so you were a cock, So they
turned you into a cock? Yep, I met her in a Tavern and
she was the first one which I saw that night, so I decided to
approach her and bother her until she said yes to having a
good night with me and she LED me out into an alley and turned
me into chicken. Sounds like a classic tale.
It is. It's a fairy tale of old and I
have been chicken for quite a while until I took up with and I
was in search for my master on a quest and then I decided to try
to find a way to fix myself when I came into acquaintance with
Aduna and her crew. And I just decided to stay here
because, well, Aduna is the best.
I don't know how anybody can't like her.
She's wonderful. You're here?
Really. Is.
Excellent. Rocks my feathers across her
deck. You're a soft.
All I'm here is that you could just be a talking chicken, but
nobody has seen wait. Nobody here has.
Ever seen a man? That's true.
I've never seen it. She's always been a chicken.
You're allegedly a man turned into a chicken.
Allegedly. Would you?
Like, yeah, there's. A lot of things.
I would not expect a a chicken to know that a man would know.
So there's some some evidence here.
I were an awakened chicken. We can go.
Right. You'd go to the library and
you'd study humans, right? A sign of their penises and
stuff like that. This chicken has just learned
how to be human and also learned magic.
Me to try and help. Are you?
Are you good? Being animals is pretty fun, so
I understand if you're good. I would like to become my normal
self once again but I have found contentment and happiness got.
It I cast greater restoration, let's see.
If it works. Unless cat is not out of
character consenting to it, in which case I will have it fail
because whatever. Well, if you cast it, he doesn't
fight it. Cat will just accept it.
Like, OK, let's see what happens.
The days upon us, What are you casting?
Kenny Greater Restoration. I even have it prepared just in
case we're going up against necromancers.
I break one curse or regenerate A limb or get.
Rid of the charmed. Or petrified condition or remove
one effect, reducing the target. Oh yeah, if it's a curse.
That's the thing, I would assume that it was a curse, but since
like the very first thing Cat tried to do, it was.
Considered. I I've looked at that before,
that's why I went because I don't know if that would
actually change. True Polymorph to spell magic
work, but yes, I don't know if this is a divine thing.
Yes. So yes, yes, yes.
Yes, yes. Yes, yes, yes.
So Goddess turned me into a chicken and now I'm on my way to
becoming a God. Maybe.
Perhaps is this goddess upset about?
This. I feel like a goddess.
I feel like a goddess shouldn't be capable of being to spell.
Magic did. They can, but especially why
he's. Been stuck like this for such a
long time. It just requires a very high
role to dispel it right? So you got to beat the DC of a
God. That's fair, I'm trying great
restoration. If I wasted a fifth level spell
slot, that's cool. Grand Am will go take another
nap while we get try and get there.
OK, do I? Have do I have guidance?
Are are we using, are we using the new rules where it's just
basically you're contesting the the DC and you won't lose a
spell slot if you fail or unless it's countered?
That's. That's.
Counterspell. That's this is not a
counterspell like I'm I'm attempting something.
There should be a consequence for failure I feel like.
I believe in you, Grand Am. Am I rolling OK?
I tried. There's no role to do you have
guidance? That would be helpful.
I do, but I rolled A1, I'm sorry.
It just adds, he just gets plus one.
So that's helpful. And you're, you're said you were
doing greater restoration. So you're asking what you would
roll for that I if? There is a role.
If it just fails, it fails. That's cool, but I will not be
buttered. I think you would feel that your
magics wash across cat and realize this is not a curse, at
least in the eyes of the person that cast it.
That's something else later. Damn.
I mean it was worth a try. Cat like nods his head and says
thanks I I did try this once but I've tried multiple things but
I'll eventually figure it out. He just struts over to a table.
And he just sits on the table. Box 0 mockingly says.
Oh, you still look like you bite.
Turn around real quick on the table and I'm like I do.
And I come home and sit on the couch and make eye contact with
the chicken to make sure it doesn't bite me.
The. Chicken just squints back at
you. Granddad's going to go take a
nap. And and waits for you to turn
your back. Just woke up.
Yeah, well. He looks more like a pecker.
And I want it back. Brilliant.
At this point Adune comes over. You guys have heard some
clattering in the kitchen. Just if you'd looked over to
especially those who have not seen a DNA cook a bunch of what
looks like planks off of the deck in the walls come down and
simultaneously all at once arrange and cook multiple meals.
The the planks come down and form hands that perform these
tasks and within short order the food is being served in front of
you piping hot and made made to order.
Brain Dam will unhinge his jaw and slurp up the entire thing in
one go before returning the plate to a dune.
And as you do, you feel your spell slot be restored.
Oh. I thank God you're you're a
godsend. Bless you.
And she? Cyril watches you unhinge your
jaw out of his prayer for you and slowly turns his head to
look at you very judge mentally. And with.
An awe stricken look on his face.
Dune says without skipping a beat.
I wasn't quite sure how to make your steak.
You didn't specify so I went with medium rare.
Please let me know if that is what adequate.
It'll work. So where is Nimaway normally
eats pretty stiff backed and and proper with her napkin on her
lap. You see instead with the T,
she's leaned back in her chair and she's holding it with both
hands, kind of using it as a hand warmer.
And while she still has her napkin on her lap, she is eating
her berries with her fingers instead of with the utensils
provided. Scandalous.
He is different, yeah. Oh my, I'm being spoon fed by my
siblings. I don't eat for myself.
This is a true statement. You have a very angry look on
your face, new guy. What's wrong?
You would too if you just crawled out of hell.
I didn't catch that you had your mouth full with food.
I swallow my food and. Thank you.
My hands rest in my lap. I said you would too if you just
crawled out of hell. I know someone who's in hell
now. Sounds rough, but you're here
now. Don't you want to celebrate a
little bit? I.
Mean, yes, we're going back there now, but yes, you know.
I have other goals in mind. That's fun.
I look at the Admiral. Hey, what are your goals?
Necromancers, Necromancers, necromancers.
Well for a starter earlier hero was talking about how the world
needs to be back in balance, but in my perspective, the world can
ever truly be balanced as long as I am not where I'm supposed
to be. Walks.
Where might that be? And where are you trying to be?
Where? Are you supposed to be?
Yeah. Where might that be?
Well, considering the fact that I was banished while still alive
to hell for various amounts of crimes and disloyalty to my
partner. Oh OK, I went between hero and
this guy. I would say.
I would say I'm supposed to be where I just crawled out of.
What do you think about that, Carol?
You want us to put you back? Yeah, we're on our way.
Like you want to ride? And as we're flying over, you
can just green damn mimes pushing.
So you might, you might find it more fulfilling to to, you know,
work with us for a little while and then see how you like it.
And if you want to go back, then we can assist you on your return
journey with, with some, some, I won't call them friends, maybe
some associates that are very familiar with hell, they can
probably get you where you need to go.
We could do a hand off, but but you might want to, you might
want to see how you like it for transitions.
Hard change is hard, but I would encourage you, you know, to give
it a chance. Admiral, we have no such
associates. We are not that low that we sort
with devils and demons. How could you say such things?
You can't. You can't judge a book by its
cover. Well, if it's from hell, it
should stay there. It was judged.
It should stay that way. I'm now eating a bucket of
popcorn looking between KIRO and this guy.
Sometimes. Sometimes you don't go to hell
after passing judgement. Sometimes you just find your way
there. Kira looks at Zero.
Were you judged by the God of Death himself and sentenced to
hell for your crime? Hmm.
Did you die, let the God of death judge you and then be sent
to hell? Well, considering the fact that
I never died, I'm gonna go with no.
I'm very much still alive. He's someone unfortunate that
was blessed to be escaped Captain.
See. Point made.
But he would. But he'd committed the crimes
though, and he got come like they got.
The guy told me sent him there. He just said he cheated on his
partner a bunch. It must have been really bad,
like how many people at once? I'm gonna say about SO.
That's pretty judgmental, even for a God.
I don't. Know.
The gods work in mysterious ways.
We are not the judge only to ensure their will is made clear.
But what if their will is stupid?
Are you saying the Lord of Death is stupid?
I don't know. Are you guys finishing up your
meal? Then?
Yeah, Overall. Oh yeah.
Yeah, and all. Right.
So go ahead. Go first, OK?
While Zero was confessing to crimes, Nimoy didn't really
react too much. But as soon as he mentioned
disloyalty, her gaze turned sharp.
And she's not necessarily judging, she's just he has her
attention now and she's wary and she's not behaving outwardly
disrespectful, just very alert and he's on her radar now.
Beep beep. Just wanted to add that flair in
there. Here if it if if it will if it
will help us all 0 Do you have a problem with us going and
sealing a portal to the land of the damned?
I have no issue with it. See.
No problem. OK.
Cool. So do.
We want to do this astral diamond thing and go meet some
people in the tower or do. We want to.
Talk to the messenger up up on the deck.
These people. I would like to say the
messenger is getting quite insistent.
I wait, what messenger? There seems to be a messenger
from Zenith seems to claim what? The fuck is?
Zenith to the goddess of Knowledge.
OK. I'm just going to say this, know
why I'm here now. The mirror is broken 1000 fold
and I think the gods are the ones breaking.
It must be. While y'all had this
conversation, I walk over to the nearest mirror and inspect my
singed wings. I I look at everybody.
The one notice Franklin must not be allowed to escape.
As soon as you, as soon as you say that name.
And how do you know that name? Did he come to you in dreams?
I like that a dream. Can a dream truly visit you in a
dream? It's for my recollection of my
dream. This Franklin is a poor soul
that needs to be saved and given ushering to the next life.
Poor soul has been given a really bad punishment that he
did not deserve, and I believe it is my duty as a fairy man to
fairy his soul to the land where he may be blessed in Paradise.
Isn't that what this guy did? It is much worse than.
That you hear a loud star coming from zero as I've completely
disengaged from this conversation and am now
grumbling about my feathers being burned.
Must he? Knows the truth.
I'll wander away to start tending to your wings that.
Means one of two things. I must either contain him or
embrace him. He must join the conclave or he
must die. I'm.
Sorry, but you lost me at Broken Mirror.
It's. Old wives tales that.
And that's what KIRO says about it.
Broken mirrors, old wives tales. Does cats have any knowledge of
these things that Grand Am was talking about?
You could roll a history check with disadvantage though,
because I believe these are things that have happened on his
world as opposed to something that it's been heavily
documented on this one. Oh, OK, Well, well, with this
advantage. With a Nat Nat one, got to love
that plus 10 though. Yeah, with a Nat one, you're
like, you must be talking about something magical, but I don't
remember studying that. Out of.
Character Grand Am is also in a way on Elmore.
Grand Am is the keeper of the 4th wall.
Yep, specifically this grand. Well, specifically this grand am
not the other grand it's. It's complicated.
This is the keeper of the 4th wall, the mirror.
Oh, OK. The word mirror suddenly gets
Zero's attention and he is back to being engaged in the
conversation. Yeah, Kat's going to make a
mental note to study things that Grand Am are talking about.
Not say it out loud, but just mentally to himself.
Like I need to look into this. Kat's off, Emily is taking
actual notes. I forgot to mention it earlier,
but another reason that my character was sent to hell was
because of his how vain he is. If he doesn't look absolutely
perfect at all times, he will not go anywhere or participate
in anything. Maybe you should ask our druid
friend that he will restore your feathers.
It's a. Big smell slot for feathers.
At this point 2. Are doing this.
The messenger is is start starting to get really peeved.
I get up here and walk upstairs. Yeah, here it does too.
Walks up to the update. Grand Man will run and piggyback
on Ryalson up the stairs. I get onto the ceiling and run
up the stairs upside down with him on my back.
No, it follows. After picking up the ash out of
my brothers and then I'll follow you all upstairs.
Should cure get the cure wounds our cat.
Now I give you a potion. I'll give you a potion here for
your wings. Here's a healing potion.
I stop for it and I pour it on your wings.
KIRO before as he's going up, he tells the Admiral that he'll see
to their guest. She just knows.
Yeah. So yeah, yeah, Admiral's all
done. Mima is also going to come up
the stairs to see who's up on deck.
Just left Cat I believe, unless you're following as well.
Yeah, I'll follow upstairs. OK, so as everyone gathers on
deck, you most evidently see that Adune has stopped her
forward momentum over what looks like a very forested area just
above the clouds that are slightly sparsed in this area
and a large snowy owl the the size of oh shoot, it's like.
Small Hut. I was going to say, the owl
itself is probably like 30 feet tall.
Yeah. Perched at the very prowl of the
ship and tilts its head sideways as you guys start to filter out.
And then as everybody's on deck, you can see almost his eyes
counting you as you line up, and its head turns all the way
around and then flies straight up into the air.
And as it does so, you see it disappear into the sun's glare.
And the light of the sky darkens slightly, but specifically
around a particular constellation, which seems to
kind of grow from your perspective and get bigger and
take over most of the sky before folding, rolling and turning in
space in front of you into what looks like a scroll.
And then the scroll unfurls with a with the face of that same
constellation strewn across it, and then springs up like a blind
just. And then on the other side of it
is a amethyst dragon. Who floating who?
Are you? And KIRO automatically puts his
hand, puts himself to knee and eel and kind of has his, you
know, slightly, slightly gestures his hand behind Grand
Am and proceeded to begging him to kneel.
And then at that point, as you're doing so less
dramatically but so gracefully that it almost seemed quaint
compared to the other Dragon, 1 floats down as if laying back
gracefully on a cloud, perched up like a Roman posing for a
painting. And you see every single often a
Berry appear in front of its face and it numbs it out of the
air. And the voices of the two
Dragons are very inconsistent with how they actually look.
The first one that appeared, the Amethyst to Pete speaks and says
hello rum rollers, been a while. I thank you for waking me from
my slumber in the Crystal Tower. It has done wonders for my
presence on Tarth. They.
Did we? Didn't do that though.
Great, great. Perhaps not you, but your crew
and group. I believe I recognize at least
one of you who still resides among the crew.
She looks pointedly at Mimi. Mimi.
Waves. That's.
Going to walk up and stand next to Mimi and wave as well.
Just flap a little wing. Tighten on the grip of his mice
that sits in a holster at his wife's as he looks through
furrow brows of the dragon. KIRO on on bent knees.
Great Dragons, you bless us with your presence.
What may we do in service to you?
I've I've hopefully not wasted my time in making myself known
today as it is my one chance this year to appear in the flesh
in front of hopefully helpful compatriots as you've helped me
so well before. However, it appears we find
ourselves in dire straits and I do so hate to request your help
in such a way, but I've left with no other option as you can
see. And she gestures over to the
gold dragon. And he waves and he, he's, he
gets a glint in his eye and a Berry, the one of the ones that
he's been eating out of the air. That that's the size of you.
Mimi appears right next to you and says, I've brought Lono
because he is the only other God of Tarth that remains.
All the rest have fled. I you can call them Craven.
Or wise, I do not know, but the heavens stand empty at this
time. And we all know that the Dragons
are the the most divine and the most loving of all creatures.
Is it so wait so wait. Is it a problem that the gods
have left or is it the problem? Is the problem the the reason
why they left? Where is it?
They are entwined as it happens the I'm sure you know, as you're
going there now, and I'm hoping that you hear me out, but you
can do still as you wish, as it is your lives that are at stake
here. And the professional necromancy
cult, as you know, stands in a mockery of life and death.
And they twist the very. Essence of being.
Raising horrors that shouldn't remain dust and wielding powers
that chill the very stars. Hear, hear.
Unfortunately, I alone and Lono cannot stand against the
strength they've been mustering as they plan to open the rest of
the gates of Hell, and with the heavens empty, we cannot stand
against them. I only remain in hopes that
there will be some that will stand with us in the times to
come. I also ask that you not go to
the Lava Tower now. As I'd alluded to before, those
horrors that they've been raising I I fear you may not be
able to face at this time. Instead, I request that you
please come to the Isle of Ah Ehu, or the Heavens as you might
commonly call them. The best route for such in your
current location would be to travel to the Isle of Choy or
the Peninsula, depending upon the time.
See. You again.
But merciful Dragons, what shall we do?
We have so much on death and evil trying to pollute this
world. Isn't it our sovereign duty to
handle them? It is.
I think we could take them. But it is not just their touch
upon this world that taints it. They intend to travel to the
greater heavens, the infinite sea, and the astral beings
around and break the seal of this star system that would
allow the rest of their hordes to flood in.
Said the mirror's hella broken. Master Granddaddy, can you not
take it serious? We are getting divine wisdom
from these Dragons. Big toothy wives tales.
A big toothy grin appears on Zenith's face, and her
opalescent purplish scales glitter as she says.
You know too much dread them. As you know, though, the mirror
can never be fully repaired. It can only be protected.
He. Nods along.
And in hopes of that, we hope that in travelling to the
peninsula of Choi. And she looks at Lono, who nods
bruisingly. That you can assist us by taking
a seat in amongst the heavens. So.
So maybe it's going to raise their hand.
Yes, I have two questions. So we're not strong enough to go
against whatever's at the lava tower, but you're inviting us to
come to heaven so we can sit in seats and do nothing about the
lava tower. It sounds.
Am I? Am I getting that right?
It may sound like that, however, you do not understand perhaps
what it means to sit in one of these seats.
As it stands, the mortal quarrel of this world is in peril, so I
will lay it out. As I am the goddess of
knowledge, I know of all the trickery, shadowy dealings that
they've been doing and the PNC plans quite shortly and my dad
to blast off into the general star system and.
The. PNC is just Team Rocket.
And set and set off on a base on one of our moons.
We suspect it is the green moon. It has been only referred to as
the moon, although there was 2. So it's been been very they've
they've been a little elusive. They know that I'm watching any.
Service. And from wait.
Can you there What what will we do once we're sitting in the
seats? Like how will we then be able to
defeat what's at the lava tower? Do we just watch it and like
because if the mortal realm is in grave danger, what are how
are we going to? Help fix that.
From there you will be able to see farther and be farther and
more. Right now I reside in many
bodies, for instance. Did they give you permission?
It is their divine right. Did who give who permission to
do what? All of the bodies that she
inhabits. Oh yes, most certainly we.
Should I should probably let the Council know about this?
Well, we are. Very honored by your appearance
to us. When however, a splits, this is
not a decision we can make lightly, nor can I make on
behalf of my team. Here I believe we will need to
discuss how long until we need to give you an answer.
You have until I believe you will understand this two weeks
time of your table. We should go.
But again, I do reiterate it is your decision and you may do as
you wish, but I want to warn you that if you go forward towards
the tower, you may not be going as you like.
I'll. Be going.
I. Don't know what that means, but.
I am going. To turn to the rest of the the
crew up on the the deck of the dune and be like any any
questions? Do we anything else we need to
ask Zenith? So in the way lifts her chin
from the curtsy that she's been holding.
Your Your Majesty, I'm not sure how to address you.
Are you saying that if we sit in these chairs, this will what?
What kind of power is this granting us?
It will grant you God powers. Just generic God powers.
It. Depends upon how.
Like super strength, like immortality.
I'm being correct? I have no interest in godhood.
It it has just as. All three, The others.
They've gone back to their own celestial bodies.
All at once. More or less other than us to
send horny. They fear what the PNC brings
the not only are they planning to take inhabit one of the
moons, which means they have turned one of the celestial
bodies to their doings and one of the goddess gods to a demon,
but they have they also plan to destroy this planet by breaking
all open all of those gates and releasing all of the rest of
levels of hell on Tarth, but also as I'd said, opening this
solar system to a greater evil. So these.
Powers that we would be contained system.
Sorry, go ahead. My bad.
So these powers that we would be granted in order to assist in
this world, in the solar system's problem, would these be
retained? They may be as in yes they will
be, but it it is up to the person who sits upon the chair.
No, it did. I don't know what.
You're saying they're. The wrong guy, no more.
For this. Job, but you chose the right
dwarf. Make eye contact with the
dragon. My expression softens slightly.
I may be new here, but I suppose I will comply for now, even
though I have no interest in celestial powers.
Well if there is no other questions or advice that I might
give, I think we'll be off to help continue to suppress the
powers of the PNC and hopefully hold off there face for
expressions. KIRO looks to Mama real quick,
and Admiral, please forgive. And then he turns back to the
Dragons. Dragons, if you so wish, please
command me and I will do as you bid.
I will do everything in my power to protect this world, to
preserve the life. You see Kimono excitedly, the
gold dragon sit up on his on his cloud couch and start to inhale
a breath before Zenith basically stuffs her stuffs her claws into
Lono's mouth and says we can. Do no such.
Thing. She says with squinting eyes
towards you while Lono is gagging on her claws.
Kinky. That's off, was just requested
of them. KIRO asked.
Because half Dragons, we live in service to the Dragons and the
dragon gods themselves. He asked to be commanded, tell
him what to do. OK.
Got it. Thank you.
Must be the user's choice to do so.
Then it is my choice to serve. Command me, Dragons, and I shall
serve. You must decide as a group and
do as you wish. Hero's kind of crestfallen.
He doesn't know what to do. He's, he's torn because you
know, he is, he's, you know, very loyal to the Admiral Dune,
the crew, but also he is torn by, he's torn by duty to the
Dragons. You said duty.
You're. Under the assumption other than
that, like why are you plotting for us to go separate ways?
God damn just chill, we're going to plot.
We're going to split the party, so since we're right at the end
of the session, 'cause we usually end here in the next 5
minutes, I'm going to request that we hit Pal say right there.
I don't want Zenith to go away because I feel like next time we
play Alap, if we get a chance to play Alapolis, it would probably
be good to to chat. So although we might not get
another chance, I don't know. This is I was trying to give us
more time to think on this and come back with questions, but I
don't, I think we're out of time.
I. I'll allow it you.
Have in a couple weeks. One more good campaign before
the Eurythmic right? Time is.
One, yeah, one more. Two more evils.
OK, before I'm going to pull a Franklin it with the GM's
permission. Full of.
Franklin. Oh God, that's not good.
Not good. Grand Am's either means they're
going to kill a lot of people or do something very matter.
Feel like you were just going to say Grand Am's going to do
karaoke, but that's definitely not what you were going to say
I. Want to 1st cast Contact other
plane in an attempt to contact the council of Grand Am's?
Oh God. Oh yeah, that's yeah.
If that is successful, every Grand Am in the multiverse is
going to cast Dream on Franklin You're.
Going to try to kill me. No, first they're going to try
to recruit you. Have a good day.
You have a backlog of 1140 four 454647.
Dream. Million.
What was the spell?
Just for my reference. Contact other plane for the
contact the the versions of. Cancel.
He's cancelled. Yeah, yeah.
He's can't. He's casting it on Grand am
Prime, what I refer to as Grand am Prime.
OK. So since we think of the
multiverse and the the concept of mirrors, right, is there a
mirrored version of Grand Am that's actually here?
If we're thinking in the and would that Grand Am prime?
Would that Grand Am from here? Parallel set of multiverses.
Like, I think that we're in a different multiverse, we're in a
different bubble. He somehow got here.
Oh, right, I. Don't know.
Alright, well hey, this is. This is meta in a.
That was that was more of an O shite as into reading the spell
so you can you can cause them to go insane until the long rest.
With contact other plane? Uh huh, I'll keep that in mind.
They're already insane though, so that's not going to do
anything. Exactly.
Well. This particular one specifies
that you can't take an action, can't understand what other
creatures say, can't read and can't speak.
Can. Yeah, you have to make a save.
And the only way to heal from it is a greater restoration, which
wouldn't hurt Franklin. Well no, no this is this is
saying when Grand am cast this spell on to connect other plane,
he Grand am makes an intelligent save.
On a failure, you go insane. Oh, my bad, my bad.
To try and reach out you must make a check and if you fail you
go cuckoo for Coco puffs. Yeah, I figured I'd need to use.
A more about. Spell than dream to contact a
completely different multiverse so.
I believe that, yeah, that would be accurate, yes.
That was my plan as well. Eventually contact other plane.
It is built Grand Am Kit Grand Am.
A druid spell. So let's.
See here B20. Nobody here has greater
restoration except for you. Let's go.
A5. Let's without any modifiers, but
also even if I use wisdom it's not going to be great.
Think it's intelligence? Yeah, it is intelligence.
My intelligence is +2, so A7. So you fail.
That's 15, yeah. 66 psychic and insane till your next long rest
which is you just finished yours.
He's already insane so. Can't take actions, can't
understand what others say, can't read, can only speak
gibberish. So how Cure sees random?
You can take bonus actions and reactions.
That's something. Rethinking that thought.
Fuck around and find out. Let's go.
All right. I don't know, those aren't a
thing. No.
Inspiration Points. Yeah.
I know, but I don't have any inspiration.
I don't think so. I was just fucking around.
Yeah, that's a, that's a role. Girl, that's.
A. Role.
Grand Am becomes. Like focus and you see him
literally reach out and the thin crack appear in the in space and
time between his fingertips. He moves to peel that crack open
so that he can send forth a message, and a color that can
only be described as impossible shines through.
And. She stumbles.
She stumbles back and lays on the ground, staring up at the
sea, at the infinite expanse of the blue sky above.
And. His eyes are as dilated as they
can be. And all.
And all around you, inexplicably, are a bunch of
white mystery flavored airheads. No sleep.
All right, Ro. Ro, Reggie.
He fucked around and he found out.
I mean. Nimoy rushes over and she's kind
of not kneeling but crouched next to him and she's kind of
inspecting him. Let's see.
You just see the amethyst dragon lower their head and shake it
and then fly over Adune and you hear Adune telling everyone.
She's asked permission to be allowed to heal this one.
Oh, he's lucky. And lucky.
Boy. She floats down.
Kneels down and just says Your grace knows no bounds.
I apologize. Called the Heart of the Cards of
the Power of Friendship. Right.
And she and she lowers her clock gracefully through the branches
of the tree and puts the very tip against your head, reversing
the condition with a single drop of water that looks like to fall
from the tip of the claw onto your forehead, down your nose,
in your mouth. It's in my mouth.
But yeah, that'd be a good enough stopping point.
I'd say I'm going. To call it Clerpal and then he
would try again. I mean, they're here, you might
as well, right? Girl just looks at you with.
I got one more, I think. I think I can pass that one more
time. It's a.
It's a little. Spell.
I can do that several more times.
Let's go. Support the Dragons, just be
like, all right, all done. Crane Dam.
This is important. Yeah, he'll try again.
Let's see here. There we go.
Yeah, 17 + 522, right? Yeah, no, it's +2 cuz it's.
An that's right. That's right.
Oh, it's intelligent save. I had a + 10 to that I passed
the first one. That's good.
Well, still fun role play. I had a + 7.
I didn't pass. I had a 12 SO.
I have to jump off. I will request that we do this
next time since we have another session.
That sounds good. Yeah, well, we can open with
grit. With Franklin being bombarded.
It'll be great. Yay.
Is it just going to be a bunch of tails pitches?
Hi, we'd like to talk to you about our Lord and Savior.
Brian. Grandam The.
Universe. Being a God, yeah.
Have you have you heard about? Prime Grand Am.
Complete with extended. Warranty.
But wait, there's more order now.
And you can get your own bit of madness.
And. See his his gloriousness, Orbos,
the God of madness, where for a low, low price of your sanity,
you too can be a part of the council.
But I don't have that anymore. Franklin doesn't have a lot to
worry with anymore. Nope.
So I sold that. I.
Lost that? Oh.
No, it's not. Having no sanity isn't.
Your price isn't the price, it's the requirement.
I did take a a madness role on for the Adamantine.
I now believe that I am on a arc of redemption.
Yeah, redeem the entire world. Yes, yeah.
Very violently. You to the to the judgements.
You'll be redeemed whether you like it or not.
World. Take it, take it.
We shall bring. The world was asking for it.
We'll teach them our peaceful ways through force.
Yes. All right, I'm out.
This has been fun. Next week, teaching finger guns.
Hi. Guys, thanks for joining.
Welcome. Aboard No Crazy Man Alex.
I say welcome aboard, Alex. You joined.
Next week we storm Clitoris Castle.
And and Ezra shall beat down the doors.
That's fucking right. We've got a lot I.
Mean he's been. Educated by Mama Ash and Bob and
Faust, He's educated. He's raised up the door.
And with how Columbus personality is, she'll go along
with it and probably try to very cheerfully talk our way through
everything. That's there's some things you
can't talk your way through, but you can use your time.
When I took the Myers, when I took the personality test for
her, the that type is literally described as the protagonist.
That was some of the top when I took it him.
Take him like when he was like getting into character building.
I recommended you take like a Myers Briggs test.
They're. Pseudoscience.
And hokey bokey, but at the same time very fun for characters,
yeah. Yeah, let's say kind of Orient
them a little bit. Yeah, Zeroes was the logistician
and Belinda's was the protagonist.
I can promise you that one or two.
Options. That's when I just.
That's when I decided let's put her in hell to see if she can
actually attempt to fix somebody, because that is very.
You can try to fix me. Good luck.
You haven't seen the pocket rocket in our in its current
state, it's bad. It's clean now.
We've been we've been cleaning it.
Everything's organized. It's just like, yeah, all the
contents are very. Disturbing All the rotten
corpses are all neatly stacked like cord wood in one room.
So there wouldn't be any rotten corpses.
All of those corpses, the heads would be removed because I need
them. Are their brains stored in jars
and labeled? Practically.
Then all of the flesh would be pulled from the bones.
A bunch of it turned into dog kibble, a bunch of it thrown
into the biosphere to continue the biosphere.
All the bones would then be tossed into the giant skeleton
monster pit. Very efficient clean system.
We don't waste things here in the.
Pocket pocket, the easel session Manipulus is in the middle of
combat. That was my morning.
Oh geez. But you you'll be poofing into a
similar safe zone. I'll put it quotates around
quotations around that. Hair, clothes.
OK, I'm thinking. I'm already trying to think of
what she would take from the table thing.
Good option. Yeah, yeah.
Well, good session. It's best that you joined us
this session instead of next week, so your first impression
of us wasn't us making constant innuendos like rabid 12 year
olds. How do?
That around the level of lust, it's not normally it's.
So bad. I can show you the outfit that I
kind of know, Pinterest that I want Helena to wear because
she's from a very tropical region.
Oh yeah, I need images for your characters for the spreadsheet.
That is, that is her outfit. And eventually I want her bag to
be a bag of holding, but with fruit that never writes in it.
Nice. Nice, and then her fan.
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