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Now let's dive right back into Tara through the campaign many
polos. Yes, overlay I've.
Made a mistake. I might have blown up the pocket
rocket the. Hand of Your Fault tosses the
dice rolls, spins, turns. A campaign starts and ends,
leaving memories that becomes stories.
Stories flow out into the infinite Sea, painting it with
legends. Legends wash up on the shores
throughout the Infinite Sea, waiting to myth until myths are
forgotten and the campaign that gave at birth comes again and
again. The Hand of Fate tosses the dice
rolls, spins, turns. Hitherto we left our
adventurers, known as the Shadow Seekers on the 4th level of
Hell. Greed after vanquishing the
fifth level of Hell. Hell, by breaking the mirror
seal on Manny Polis's prison in the center of the Acropolis.
The phallic maze, the Acropolis the Shadow Seekers fell from
fell before the greedy goblin Tavern in sweltering heat
assaulted, assaulting them from the molten magma that filled the
floor of the enormous goblin settlement.
Reluctantly, they pay an entrance fee to quench their
thirst on Green Goblin slushies on the inside, as well as Ash
bargains with the proprietor Bildreth or Bill.
She later becomes better acquainted with as well as
gaining a 50% share in the Greedy Goblin along with
Bildreth who is the other 50% shareholder.
He also explains that the Church of Kaishen is the only other
free time activity for a worshipping of wealth.
More drinking ensued with the successful deal, whereupon
Stephen the bartender explained they had been victims of greed
already from the door goblins, Franklin and Phelan drunkenly
threatened the guards for Ash's green gem back or blue gem.
And Bill lets Ash know too, they are welcome to stay in one of
their rooms and she can drink for free.
And then the Shadow Seekers wake up the next morning inside of
the Pocket Rocket with a pounding in their heads and
resounding around them with a tink tink tink the the let's see
here if I no they find Franklin sitting with two new goblin
skeletons who are being driven by dire crickets inside their
skulls and breakfast prepared. The the the tinking doesn't
stop, but the pounding in their head does as they take a sip of
the calf prepared by the dire cricket driven goblin skeletons.
Refreshed from breakfast, they head out on a on the ramshackled
goblin town, rattling the magma pit and whereupon Ash realizes
that she is rich and they decide to go on a shopping spree,
stopping at several shop stores, vendors and and an Armory shop
with a large list where the Shatter Seekers used Sugar
Mama's Ashes wealth of precious stones for some fancy new items.
During the haggling, the Shadow Seekers learned of the Wealth
Festival coming up soon starting as of last session, as well as
Ezra adopted Regina with Franklin as officiator in the
middle of the shop and plans made to plant a healing mango of
youth in the pocket rocket and explode the Goblin town with its
own stockpile of dynamite. The Ring of mine shield and the
Rhino hide are were on back were on order as they weren't at the
store's location and so the Ash received a stone receipt for
their dealings. The goblin salesman explains how
to get to Kaishen's temple. From there to while they wait,
they traipse through a large door metal door in the Cliff
face in in a hollow metal tube of a hallway on the other side.
They check or just before getting to the other side and
through the tunnel they check the time of the glowing
stalactite clock hanging over the entire town.
It indicates that is later in the day when they opened the
door to the narrow hall on the other side.
The cavern there seems to be a lot cooler and with a devious
looking temple directly in front of them, shadow seekers walk up
its stairs into a church with a flamboyant pimped out preacher
who walks directly up to them in the midst of everyone continuing
a chant all around them of more, always more wealth flows to the
worthy, and I am worthy. And the pimp preacher asks them
to swear the same phrase in front of Kaishen to be sworn to
his fealty. Ash then contacted Manny Polis,
who explained that he would take Kaishen would probably take just
about any swearing. And he then, and then Manny
Polis seizes the opportunity to explain to the Shadow Seekers
Michael Polis was not lying about the world of Tarth
exploding on his release and imploding on his death.
And if he is left in his prison in the center of Tarth, Tarth
would be fine, but the Shadow Seekers would be trapped in hell
forever. Manny Polis rambles in his
drunken slur that it's fine, he can fix the world in their image
once he escapes and it explodes and they can have a seat at his
table. As long as they steal the world
seed from Micropolis, he can help them rebuild.
And Ezra is just confused after this explanation.
And Ash and Franklin's nose are bleeding profusely while Ash
pets bobbed the crocodile soothingly.
They all begin to swear fealty to caution.
All except Franklin goes smoothly.
Franklin learns to the statues out front, squashes anything
that leaves without swearing this fealty.
A voice from below rumbles out that they shall die for
Franklin, not releasing his vow to another God.
The two towering molten figures lurched to their feet out from
under the fiery goblins who were forging them, immediately
blowing the Shadow Seekers apart while they mounted a defence,
Downing one of them. The molten figures with a
necrotic attack from Regina under Ezra's unconscious form.
Under their onslaught, the two giant statues giant clockwork
statues move and one barring the exit and the other inside the
church toward the center where a reflecting pool sits with just
behind a anvil and Franklin had fails to dominate the giant
clockwork statue and he prepares to sacrifice himself for the
group. The clockwork statue hits the
anvil in the center of the church, and the vibrations from
it resonate deep in the shadow Seekers souls, as well as
throughout the church and over the screams of the other goblins
dying as they try to escape in the chaos.
A large disembodied head forms of gold from the center of the
reflecting pool. Kaishen's voice booms through
the place of worship, giving them another form and escape.
The Golden Head offers to trade something of an immense value in
exchange for Franklin's pledge of fealty in trade.
He in trade Franklin offers his newly acquired book of U.S.
Army Guide to Unconventional Warfare.
During the dealings, the pimp preacher suggests meeting for a
drink. After Shatterseeker successfully
exit the House of Kaishen, leaving the book on the steps
blotted out Franklin. Franklin blotted it out, leaving
it there and Kaishen said nothing from in front of the
exterior and the the remaining clockwork statue who picked it
up and as well they leave. Kaishen explains once per day
they have to hold a gold coin over their head and once per
year they get a 10% return. A trust a A frustrated Franklin
drags the corpse of the molten clockwork with Ezra's help into
the pocket rocket as well. While binding the clockwork,
Kashen poses poses another trade.
In exchange for three Astro Diamonds, he'd give them 3 iron
bands of binding, which Franklin immediately captures.
The molten clockwork or the flash flux blacks?
Blast flux blast seeker is what that is.
Kaishen also tells them to the north is where the mines are and
he lets them know to the South are a bunch of feisty elementals
and they probably shouldn't go there as they're get their asses
kicked there too. Ezra, Franklin and Regina
returned to the Greedy Garden where the two guards greeted
them with and they greeted the guards with violence as opposed
to paying another entrance fee. The goblins explode on a fiery
ball and turn to ash. Regina licks their ashes off her
fingers before they all go inside for a drink.
They see they see and are greeted by the pimp preacher on
the inside already. He he starts to tell them how
fortunate enough to make it here for the wealth festival they are
and tells them of a conspiracy that Kai Shen is just an image
and there is actually a metal door to the South seen by other
adventurers near the fire elementals and the shadow
Chatter seekers lure the pimp Preacher into a safer location
of the pocket rocket where they begin torturing him with slow
roasting him over a fire and the pimp preacher where he begins to
scream and beg for his life and his family's life while Ezra
threatens to eat him and Franklin cast Zone of Truth on
on the Pimp Preacher. They learn that the clockwork
statues are weak to bludgeoning and Ezra takes butter proffered
by Regina and takes the pimp preachers hand and Franklin
heads over to pick up a piece of paper and pen for a list of Co
conspirators on these conspiracy against Kaishen.
A tear rolls down the pimp preachers face as the pen and
paper proffered to him and he says you took the hand that I
write with and Franklin offers to dictate the list.
Well in doing so Bildreth's name stood front and centre at the
top. And so they decide to leave
their room with the pimp preacher still inside bound and
head back head back into the greedy goblin.
Ezra and Franklin caught Ketch Vamira up, who had been missing
for a while on their happenings while they cornered Bildrus and
got him to take talk secretively about organizing the elite group
of of off the list that they'd selected to escape from
Kaishen's grasp. He agreed and the Shadow Seekers
left to pick up their ordered magic items from the Armory.
Wandering through the town, Vomayra begins to show signs of
not having a Ring of Fire resistance and sweat pulling in
many unwelcome places while standing over the magma pit that
the goblins called home. She withheld this for a while
until Ezra offered her his Ring of Fire resistance later in the
store. Once in the store, they met with
a clerk who began to negotiate about their pickup, and he asked
for the receipt that they did not have.
So they weaseled their way into the back of the room with a
spell and a wink, and since they didn't have all the magical
items they needed in stock, they proceeded to.
Oh they did have the magical items that were requested.
But they proceed to capture the clerk in a Shard of mirror that
Franklin had stolen from the fifth level of hell and robbed
the place blind. Throwing everything that they
could from the back rooms of the magical weaponry and Armory into
their into the pocket rocket. And they begin to try to waltz
out of the store as if nothing had happened.
His right where we left the Shadow Seekers.
Let's find out what happens less this time.
Dope. It was all Franklin's idea.
Man, I'm glad you guys are busy. My idea I just was.
Hey, hey, hey. We agreed it was everybody's
idea. Yeah, it was.
The ham was delicious, though. The ham was delicious.
Immediately after we step outside, I stop and say, hey, do
you think baby, that was a bad idea?
Like there was some sort of like, I don't know, trap
mechanism or spell out of those items that we should go check
and make sure that we didn't just blow our house up.
Also, Ash, you are just popping back into existence for yourself
there. So you get that.
You get that feeling. I I've described.
If you'd like that, I'll describe it again for you.
But nothingness and then all of a sudden sensation feels rather
heady and high like. A light headed in like I want to
lay down. No, more like you just took a a
shot of espresso and you got you're bursting at the seams.
Oh, like, man, I feel really awake right now.
I'm ready, yeah. One adrenaline shot to the
chest. Frightened we good receipt Oh.
Well, let's check anyway. Hey Kat.
It's been a while, Kat. It's Ash here.
Sorry, Nosebleed. Sorry I whipped that away.
Ash, it's been a while. We were literally needed you
about 40 seconds ago. I kind of stand up puzzled for a
second and I'm like, OK. We did things.
We too we got. No, no, the nose.
Out here with basically everything that we just
recapped. Yeah, Yep.
Except none of it seems to be my fault.
And then we just did it, you know, It just happened.
Look around. Kick the dirt.
Anyway, I'm going to take a second while you get
reacquainted and chat with these guys just to just to just real
quick check. In the pocket, rocket, you go.
Yeah. All right.
I don't know if you want to do Jess first though.
OK. Yeah.
So you guys are standing there, Jess, you're probably a little
overwhelmed from the last time you were in the middle of
combat, I think was just starting and now.
Yeah. Like we, I think we had just
like rolled per initiative and then that was the end.
Yeah, pretty much. And now you are just standing
there with Vamira replacing Regina, but Franklin and Ezra,
who you'd been with last there. Yeah, I'm just pondering over
everyone that's here and I'm like, I feel like there are some
people missing and I'm just like, wait, did we sell our
souls? I thought we.
No, no, no, no, no. Maybe you do feel a little bit
of a pressing in your mind and and it's it's seems to seems to
say hold 1 gold coin above your head.
I just look around and I don't do what it's this and I'm like,
man, this, this, this, this, this, like disappearing and
reappearing or losing track of time.
I think I have a brain tumor because now I'm hearing voices,
guys, and it's not coming from my necklace.
You heard the voice too. As for coin?
Yeah, it wants me to hold it above my head.
Is it? Crazy or am I crazy?
No, I had to hold 2. Well, I'm going to ignore it for
now so they don't think that I'm crazy.
And then I'm going to be like, OK, what was Franklin checking?
You guys just stop shopping and. We came to get stuff and they
asked for receipt and we didn't have it.
So Franklin real smart. He let us get in the back with
the goblin and then he showed him the danger mirror and then I
grabbed the racks and then I took a trip to the to the to the
to the pocket rocket, but it didn't carry the stuff with it.
Unfortunately, I, I, I didn't do a good job.
And then, oh, the little goblin. Franklin made him disappear in
in when he looked at the mirror. Oh, so we have a magical
capturing mirror? What kind of capacity that thing
has? How many things can we trap in
it? And then he kind of drifts off.
You're here now. So see, now we're not in
trouble. Yeah.
And I kind of like rummaged through my bag and I'm like,
were you talking about this for CI?
Didn't know what it looks like. I should have probably left it
in the pocket rocket. It's OK.
The one who asked the question? He's gone, so nobody knows.
Perfect. There was nobody else in there,
right? There's no loose ends.
I didn't spell anyone. OK, good.
And we were really sneaky as he kind of like grins and chuckles
at it. But then before we deal with
that, I got to roast a goblin. But Franklin said I couldn't
roast him. I had to let him go.
Oh well, that is less fun. But I got to keep this hand
'cause he hit my pump. Also, while you guys are kind of
chatting, you notice the festivities have been amping up
since the last time you were outside.
Everyone seems to all the all of the street vendors possible seem
to be crowding their way as well as people are dressed in their
less dirty clothes and are just going about happily spending and
and probably getting ripped off. They know but that they're
making a good show out of it. And Ash, you're the only one
that speaks. Goblin too if I remember
correctly. You catch some of the, is that
right? How do you speak Goblin?
As you catch some of the the passer bys saying basically that
the firework should be starting in a few hours and that that
that the that the parade it should be coming through any
minute now. I'm gonna relay that to them.
I'm like, hey, they're talking about fireworks going off and a
parade is about to happen or going to happen very soon.
So are we, are we partaking in these festivities?
Are we gonna go get into a mischief?
There's gonna be really, Franklin says.
There's gonna be really big boom.
It's gonna be a banger. I look around for Franklin.
At this point I'm like, where is he?
I lost. Him away, I poofed.
Yeah, you, you did notice. Oh.
So is the pocket rocket just sitting on the ground?
I'm going to pick it up. All right.
And hold it in my hand 'cause I want to make sure that nobody
tries to pickpocket the pocket rocket, otherwise they're going
to get an angry turtle in their pocket.
Very. Important.
Who are you? Well.
By now. It's for Myra trying to pick
pickpocket any goblins back in revenge.
Yeah. You got a mark in mind?
Just looking for the most dressed.
On the left, whoever's closest to me.
OK. Unless there's like a juicy
looking guy depending on where he's at.
You probably catch one or two other people that kind of look
like pimp preacher that are well and truly lavishly dressed and
handing out. It seems like these flower
necklaces, or lays as they may be called.
OK are like where are where are they in like relation to me, to
everyone else like? There's there's, like I said, a
few of them around so and they, they have ample jewelry about
their person and everything too. Or where the closest one is no
more than like 20 feet away. Yeah, I'm trying to like, choose
like easy targets. So like if there's like a juicy
target, that's like, I don't have to do like a ton to like
get there, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, there, there's,
there's one in in the vicinity, like I said.
OK. Yeah, then I'll just, I'll go
after him. So we're like in the midst of
the festival right now, right? Yeah, yeah.
People are kind of kind of starting to slowly clear a path
in the middle of the road and Ash should relay that there is
going to be probably a parade coming through shortly.
So there's a bit of jostling around of people and such.
OK. Yeah.
Then I'll just kind of like match the energy and like just
like try to get close to pickpocket.
All right, go ahead and roll Sled Hand 27.
Very nice. That's what I was trying to do
while I was talking and thinking, here we go and we're
going to go with wisdom misperception, right?
Yes. OK.
Yeah, definitely did not notice. Well, and are you going for
something in his pocket in his person?
How how are you? How are you doing this?
What you doing? I'm just gonna go for unless he
has like a like a very like open, like a very like easy bag,
like hanging off of him. I'm gonna go for like a like a
pocket or just something that's like on the outside.
I'm just gonna kind of like. Immediately notice his coin bag
on him then. OK.
Yeah. Then I'll go like, I'll go for
the coin bag and I'll just kind of like, does he have like a lot
of people around him? Like is there people jostling
around him? Or yes.
Yes, there's. There's a, There's a.
There's a line in front of him that he's slowly going through
people and there's people kind of crowding him too 'cause they
don't know how to create a line properly.
Yeah. So if there's a people jostling
around him, then I'll just kind of like jostle and act like I'm
a part of the crowd and then try to like pick the coin pocket or
Coinbase. OK.
Let me. How tall is Vamira compared to
the goblins? Fairly because would a jostle
from her just knock them down? Be real gentle.
But instead she just shoves them to the ground and takes their
shit on an actual one I. Was going to say that probably
would have happened if she didn't succeed, but she
succeeded. So I think it was more of just a
regular bump and he didn't even notice her.
And. And let me.
Yeah. So you you get a.
I'm not sure you're counting the the coin pouch now anyways, but
you gotta you can tell there's some jostling of coins inside.
Oh, that was just a was the sleight of the hand to like get
stuff out. No, I figured you.
So that's why I was waiting for it.
But I'm gonna fill in the blank a little bit there too in saying
that because it was like a drawstring pouch in my mind when
I was saying pouch. Yeah, probably just.
You probably just cut the strings is what I was gonna say
is what a normal purse would do unless they were to go and just
cut the purse itself. But I figured since it was
drawstring it was easy enough to cut the strings.
Yeah, I just kind of cut the string and then like kind of
hold the bag and pocket. It for later.
Yeah, like tuck it under like my cloak or something and then kind
of not like dart away, but kind of like move with the crowd
away. And then kind of back to your
friends, I'm guessing while they were catching up.
And when they start talking about where's Franklin, you're,
you're there too. And they're talking about and
you see Ash picking up the pocket rocket in the doorway of
the establishment. Still, you guys haven't.
As far as I know, the other two hadn't really left there.
They're kind of just standing there.
Yep, which? Maybe we should move.
Just a thought. Let's kind of wander with the
crowd and keep an eye out for scoundrels.
Scoundrels. So you guys are just gonna
wander around in the crowd and not check on the go find any
quiet? I mean, now you're good.
I just wanted to set the scene before whatever.
Which way? Before I go over to you,
Franklin? Sure, they blend in.
Yeah, just try to look like everybody else for right now.
So yeah, you, you guys are doing that.
And Franklin, when you poofed into the pocket rocket, the
first thing you noticed is all of the stuff that you guys had
taken is not there in its capacity.
As you step forward, though, you step on what looks like a
magazine. I look at it but don't touch at
it. You step back immediately, kind
of like I would guess a hot coal, and you see the front of
it. Reed first protection scale
spell of of Bildreth's enchantment.
Well, good for that guy, he was smart at least.
I look around Duff and exploded. Nope.
All right. I take a stick and I touch the
magazine and I roll an arcana check to make sure it's not also
magical or dropped. Go for it.
If they ever know with these kind of people, if you're, if
you were smart enough to do this, you might have been smart
enough to do that, you know? Anyway, frankly, didn't trust
anymore. Arcana +79020 for a 27.
Beautiful. Yeah.
So the first thing you'd probably would have done is just
past looking at the piece of paper and it's glossy Sheen.
It's slipped the cover with the stick or something like you're
saying to protect yourself. And besides just looking at it
and seeing if there was any change after you'd stepped on
it, none of none of which activates or changes anything.
But the first page on the inside seems to be a list of all the
things you guys took with numbers next to them and.
What's in this pocket rocket? Just me.
Oh, just you. And you.
You probably would keep going seeing that nothing's happened
after the first page. And after you get through that
index of things, you realize that the numbers are associated
with pages that these items that you guys start, you start to
recognize some of them and are able to make it out the the
actually the very first thing that happens after you flip it
to the page and the receipt that is in the area now as Ash is
kind of standing around there, the your ring re materializes on
your finger. I was going to have you guys
lose them if Ash didn't get. Your time.
Oh, thank you, Ash. And the that was the the pre the
prerequisite it had to have written permission to leave the
premises basically is kind of what you're reading in some of
the small print too, as you're flipping through.
So these items are cursed into being only images inside of this
book unless this with with descriptions on them.
Unless unless the curse is lifted obviously or they go back
into the permit premises. Permit premises.
I mean, we have Belgreth, so this is like not that big of a
deal. Thank God.
I kind of gently walk up to, I think we killed, we killed that
last goblin dude at the front door, right?
When he he, he greeted you, that guy.
Yeah. You guys took him to the back
and when he showed you where your items were stored is when
you stuck him in the mirror, so he's in.
You know, like the, the, the second, sorry, the 2nd guards at
the bar that we assaulted. Oh yeah, yeah, they burst into
flames. Got it.
If I have any gristle or bones or anything like that from them.
As Franklin collects that now, he walks over towards the door
with a giant skeleton monster. And throws it in there.
And throws it in there and says, oh, I almost lost you Skelly.
I was so scared we got big Clads.
You would be. And I walk away.
I'll pick up the the book and tuck it under one of the bed
sheets. You you probably had some of the
goblins flesh that has gotten squished somewhere from the
church would have been last and threw that in there and it the
bones move over to that spot and churn over top of it, presumably
consuming it. We're gonna feed you so many
people soon. And then I look up at the sky.
By Lord, just know all these deaths will be for you, their
souls, for for it, for your glory.
And then I whistle and poof myself out of the pocket rocket.
Leaving the magazine there or. I'll have tucked it like under
the I guess I'll bring it with the others can look at it.
You poof back out onto the streets with your friends who
were walking around actually roam me a deck save.
You guys are walking. Whoa, it's like falling out of a
car. A very slow moving car.
No all. Right, I have a roll dex roll.
Why is it not rolling roll dex? I would say once I see Franklin
appear, I would stop moving. Probably not in time, but I
would stop. 18. What's that?
OK. 18 OH. Sorry.
And then you I was doing odds or evens if evens then you you
bumped into somebody 5050 chance being fair.
So you, yeah, you bumped straight into an angrier looking
goblin who, just like shoulder checks you real hard.
Right. Absolutely no ground given he
tries to do that. I physically shove him.
OK, OK, I see. Fuck you dude.
Strength check then is the option I'm gonna go with.
I was gonna say it would because it's not really a grapple.
It's not really a strike. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 13.
You push him back, he stumbles a little bit and he's just angrily
yells up you up up at you and goblin.
You know you're you're a little bit taller than him so he he's
guessing he doesn't have any room to fight about it.
He just curses you and spits at your feet and keeps walking.
My eyes go black for a second. Nobody pushes VR out anymore.
Nobody. When I turned through the
others. Oh hey guys, it's all 5.
Well, not all five. We lost all those items we
stole. Big problem with that.
They can't. They went to this magic
magazine. You know, like kind of hint at
it, but not like openly wave it, which we can look at when we're
not in the middle of a bunch of thieves.
But basically we need it'd be uncursed to get all the items
back, which you can only do if you've got the guy at newsflash,
we do. OK, so that's a linear problem,
so. At this point, yeah, I would
tell Franklin I'm like, hey, they're talking about a parade
about to happen and fireworks in a little while.
Fireworks. That's our cue.
We got to get ready. OK, Ash or yes, Ash, welcome
back. I don't remember if you remember
the plan at all, but real quick download.
We have to go number one. We have to go be a side group of
people. Buildreth and not Mildreth.
He's in the beer. The other guy that you made out
with earlier and a bunch of his friends and other craftspeople
of the town, because they're all getting into a pocket rocket.
They're going to live with us and craft stuff for us until we
get to the surface. Then they're going to go free.
It was a little deal, equal, equal like we did actually screw
them, unfortunately. But so we got to go pick them up
and then we have to go pick up, take the dynamite that we got
and maybe any more that we could very quickly find and then get
to the center of towel at the end of the fire at the at the
sight of the fireworks and then set those up.
And then when everyone goes around and like watch the
fireworks, we go really far away.
And then when they go off, they're going to really go off.
We're going to kill everyone else in the town.
It's going to be a lot of XP. Kiro's going to level up really
fast. We might gain one, maybe two, I
don't know. But then I figure that'll make
the guy who's like the guy behind the curtain at this place
actually come out because we're going to take all of this stuff
away and nobody likes it when they take somebody takes your
toys. And then we're going to fight
him outside of there and kill him and they go to the next
floor and do that one. All right, that sounds good.
They said it's going to happen in an hour, so I say we get
rolling. All right, let's go.
I walk around in a circle three times and then get lost and then
sit down breathing heavily. Let's go to builder's shop.
That's where we just were. We have to go to the the
predefined location to meet the craftspeople.
I did go back and listen. You didn't set one necessarily.
Back to the shop I guess, or the bar, but.
I would I would guess that a predefined location for during
the festivities would probably have been like just just before
like that. That's probably actually would
have been OK. Yeah, Greedy Goblin is is a
good, Yep good location for that.
'Cause it would be like non 'cause it's, it's basically all
the people and then whatever materials they can bring, I
think we had pointed out. So you can't really do like the
middle of the crowd. Right.
And could you roll me a perception check with
disadvantage, Franklin after that Sure is what I was.
I have a Sentinel shield so I get advantage on perception
checks. So it's it's just one to one
then? Hickeys.
Oh, I did both of them. Shit, hold on.
I'll take the first one. OK.
So you notice after the goblin head been checking shoulder
checking each other and you pushed him over.
He, he stood back up and when he when when he stood back up, you
seen a glint of what must have been what looks like a little
silver piece that he took off of you go into one of his pockets.
Before he spits at your feet and walks away?
Absolutely not. Oh, did none of us notice that?
That's what. Was there?
What's there? Notice.
What's that? Would they get A roll against
for their passive perceptions? So is anyone's above a 14
passive? Mine's passive 14, passive 14 on
me my. Passive is also 14.
So meets it beats it on the roll.
Since I beat your your guys's role or your your your standard,
then it would you you as Ezra and Vumaira didn't notice.
You guys were probably scanning the rest of the crowd while
Franklin dealt with this asshole and Ash, though it sounds like
you seen that transpire. Yeah.
Yeah, as I would have saw that transpired, I probably would
have like notified like, hey, that guy took something out of
your pocket, We should go follow him first before we go into
place. Hold on, I'll turn to him and
cast command. Drop it, drop Wisdom, drop it,
you drop it, drop. Bad.
What a dad. Yeah, Wisdom 15 beats it, beats
it. Fucking bastard.
I run after him. Oh yeah, I'm also mounted.
Yeah, I was gonna say you're on top of the man.
I am now partially a paladin and I have fine steed.
So my very first bug Ferdinand, which has Ferdinand who is about
to pass away in the last session of old age.
Yeah, he was getting close. Yeah, I thought he was about to
pass away. He was about to be put down
either way. So.
He was getting slow. I reincarnated him into a giant
dire cricket and now I ride him. You feel the you feel the spell
spell hit him and he stops for a half second before he takes off
running at full Sprint. Dire Cricket has the jump.
Oh, I know. Are you?
Are you jumping him then? Yes.
OK. I don't, I need to find the
creature but nobody takes my shit.
Dude. Hi, this is the lesson we're
learning. Ezra, Ezra and Vimayra would
notice that Franklin is, you know, physically going after
this guy at this point, but. Fuck him up.
How far away are there? How far away are they?
From you guys, they probably only like 10 feet in front of
you, but in my mind what was happening is that like Ash was
walking kind of in front of you guys and then it went Esra
Vomira in my mind. I don't know if that was,
however, how you guys were actually walking because it
wasn't explained to me, but I'm going from there.
I I assumed Franklin poofed right next to Ash and then the
whole pushing incident happened up in front of you guys and then
the guy was actually bolting in the opposite direction of you.
So he's he's headed away probably in and I'm kind of
imagining you guys more southern than him in my mind, and he's
more north playing N you know, and guys are running after.
Well, hold on the the the reason I was trying to figure out how
far away is he long doing a long jump.
Basically, it's straight. It's you can jump a distance.
It's you can jump your distance five.
It's like strength. It's it's we actually had to
have this, we actually had to look this rule up for, you know,
long jumping as an action and. Yeah, but it's also limited by
your movement speed. I know is he further than 30
feet from me? No.
I'm going to long jump in front of the kid.
Fuck yeah. Wherever he is on the.
Map Oh yeah, my map is just. This ring.
Street View. Yeah, I, I see like a think I
see the map that we're on. I'm not sure until like
greystone paths with grades over magma outside of it.
OK. That's how you guys were in my
mind, but. I don't know.
OK, so seeing so seeing Franklin kind of go after this guy, I'm
going to try to like read the crowd and calculate and try to
like, not like follow directly, but like calculate to like
corner him. You know what I mean?
Like if the kid runs straight through the crowd and Franklin's
falling, I want to try to like find a path to the crowd where I
can like pop out and like cut, cut him off.
Or like at least come in from like A at least come in from
like a side angle to like kind of like Franklin and I can like
flank him. Yep, I.
Guess so that would allow me to jump, Yep.
Yep. You stop as I, as I look, as I
look down at the little kid pup, stop now.
OK, so you get there all right. And as you're staying, probably
right there. And Franklin, are you jumping on
top of this this this sucker now?
Yeah, I mean, I want to see how this thing reacts, but because I
assume I'm, I did my first thing, the command spell when
these guys did this. Oh, right.
OK, Falling, you know. So then after that, if he tries
to run, I'm going to jump him with the giant spider and then
he's going to have a very bad day.
Is this another little kid? No, no, no.
They just look like I just like this token.
Oh, so is it? Which are you doing anything,
Ash? I was thinking about casting
mage hand and just getting him to trip, but I don't know if
mage hand would trip him up like if I just cast it right in front
of him. He would have to roll a deck
save for it basically. He would or I would.
He would, and it would be against probably your own.
My spell save or my own? Because it would be a 17.
OK, 20. He's fine.
He does nothing. So he's he kind of sees
something materialize and ducks it.
And I see that where you're at, Ezra.
So you jump in front of him and tell him to not go any farther,
which would obviously. And if and if he doesn't, I'm
going to grab it. Like, yeah, full force.
I was, I was going to say obviously invoke an opportunity
attack because he would get the darty eyes and try to slip off
somewhere. Probably actually considering
the the location and all, he'd probably try to slip through one
of the great holes to go under the walkway you guys are in and
climb like under the streets. What?
You see this grate that these on.
I no, I do it, would I, I I'm not challenging, I'm just like.
Wouldn't have thought that. I'm just my my mind.
Is. My I mean, if he's a goblin, it
makes sense. It's they can all right.
So let's say this is going to be a I guess if I want to grapple
him, be athletics to grapple him, right?
And. Let me touch him 26 Will that
touch him? Will I touch him?
Probably. I don't think I can roll that
high. Please say Ezra's.
Not touching, almost a Nat one with a four.
So yeah, you got a hold of him before he could slip down
through the grate. As a reaction, I'll give you
'cause you were right up there and he was as your opportunity.
It back or I eat you. I hear him say this and I kind
of call out eat him. He just looks side to side and
doesn't seem to understand what you're saying but is like
flailing his arms and legs like trying to.
Trying to sleep facial shift my my my actual face to dog mode
and speaks again. Give back or I eat you and I
bite my feet, my jaw down. I'm going to come up behind the
goblin because I'm imagining he's holding the goblin so that
they're face to face and I'm just going to kind of lean up
and whisper in goblin, he says. You look delicious.
Go ahead and roll an intimidation with advantage,
Ezra. All right, let's see where you
at. You can thank Ash for that
advantage. That was amazing.
All right, more time Kamal. Horrible.
The highest I got was a four horrible.
No 666. I was horrible.
I would also like to intimidate. May Ioffer some?
Assistance. Please do.
Yep. Oh, he's.
I want to. I want to hex him.
Fucking hell I'm. 23. No, Rob us.
We've been fucked with what, too many times, kid?
Oh, no, no, he says. Not kid, not a kid, not a kid.
Just like. That's that's why, that's why.
Eating. That's why eating him is on the
table. You get your you can get your
hex off of a but what is happening in the meantime too,
while you're casting your hex on him is he's trying to grab your
your hand that's probably on the back of his shirt, like the
scruff of his neck basically, and he's trying to like break
himself free. And what are you?
I know you assisted. So he kind of pauses a second
when he he, when he hears you say it, I guess, Ash.
Yeah, I would lean up and whisper like right into his ear
and try to do it as saucily as possible just to make it so
discomforting, 'cause there is this now creature in his face
with its shape meta changing into this beastial form.
And I just whisper to him oh so nicely.
He thinks you look delicious. And yeah, he he puts his both of
his hands out to the sides and stops struggling and looks looks
at you and slowly puts his hand into his pocket and slowly pulls
out the silver piece and holds it.
I'm gonna gingerly take the silver piece and, like, hold it
out to Franklin. I will pick it back up.
Look at the kid or the the person, the the adult, the
goblin. You are very lucky, Hyper.
The worst one. Ezra's gonna take him from the
scrub his neck, I'm gonna grab his feet, and I'm gonna turn him
upside down. Also, we're doing this in the
middle of the street. How much of A commotion are we
drawing? Because I'm hoping that this
activity we do right here will deter others from trying to
pickpocket us. Yeah, you do see a bit of a
bubble around you now you know of open space that that the
other goblins aren't getting as close and he when you turn him
upside down and shake him. Shake, shake, shake.
And I mean, I'm going to shake him, not over the grave, but
like right over the concrete. Everything in his pockets.
Kind of fucking amazing with that it then just where do you
at? Just where you are right now you
see a big ass diamond just full right into the Bulava.
So it it actually looks it's a golden ring with some sort of
elvish inscription on it right into the lava.
Well darn, we saved the world. And.
I. You, you shake, you shake, shake
him off to the side of the grate and you see a good goodly amount
of smaller items fall to the street.
But that bubble slowly around you, not actually slowly at all,
very quickly erupts in motion as all the things that fall down to
the street are swiftly tooken up.
Rats. Oh well, what's this little
what's, what's this goblin? Wearing.
He's not wearing anything super fancy in your mind.
He's he's got probably like a a tunic and some pants that have a
lot of pockets, both the tunic and pants.
And there's some some, some some nice embroidery around the
sleeves and legs. His feet.
They don't. They don't wear any shoes.
That's, that's, that's, that's even better.
Don't worry, that's even better. I'm, I'm, I'm biting, I'm biting
his foot off. They're they're the.
Customary one is ahead for thievery, but your prerogative.
Snacky snack. 25 I mean, that definitely hits you're, you're
and you're going to want to roll me.
I don't fucking know. Constitution.
Probably actually, yeah, do that first before you even try to try
to like, try to like bite fully and rip because you're gonna
have. That's where I my mind was at.
It was like, how much force is it gonna take to like just
physically? Oh, is that oh, oh, is that
that? So that'd be strength for force
the strength. Yeah, but we're gonna go with
Constitution first if you haven't rolled it, because the
first thing you're going to do is put the foot in your mouth.
And besides realizing how calloused they are and probably
why they don't need shoes, is the toenails that are scraping
the sides of your cheek and possibly even your Ugila,
depending upon how well this constitution is.
Oh man, yeah. Though he was in defeat, No
judgement. Don't want a yucky or Yum?
Enjoy. So, So that's 13, that's 13 for
Khan. OK, so you get it in your mouth
and you, you, you aren't fully disgusted, but you do feel a
tickle in the back of your throat as one of the Yeah, his
longer toenails are brushing the back of your throat and you're
wondering whether or not you should actually bite it off and
try to try to chew on it. Cause it's I'll.
I'll I will look at Ash and kind of give the the give her, give
her the look up. Do I take his foot?
I kind of look at him and I shrug and I'm like, if you want
to eat it, be my guest. But it'd be really funny if you
bit it off and spit it at him. Is that the look I'm getting?
Yes. I'll just do that then.
Now we rip the foot off 15 to rip his foot to take the foot.
OK, he would probably freak the fuck out with a 15 as a tie
there, so I think you would get it.
He would be a nearly footless goblin.
How's that? You get like most of his.
Most of his tendons are still attached.
Yeah, but the joint is fully severed and he's can't move it,
and you see blood splurt out the corners of your mouth.
It's almost worse. And then and and then and then.
I do exactly what Ash gave me the idea for.
I spit it at him. No more stealing from us.
Perfuse and I'm screaming. Look around, It's OK everyone,
We're the police. Oh, yeah, no.
Oh, is there a definitely ground to Oh yeah, Oh yeah, I
definitely toss them, toss them to the ground.
And I kind of look at Ash for like that, that that nod of
approval. I do not.
I'm like, Yep, that was good. That was good.
And after I hear Franklin say like, yeah, we're the police, I
will just, like, whip out like a piece of paper and flash it
around real fast and then put it back away.
And probably repeat what he said in Goblin.
Yes, we're the police. No worries, Just flip around a
piece of paper and shove it back in my pocket.
And you see a a key with a note that is laying under him as an
on the blood trail as he's crawling away into the crowd
seems to be one thing that was left from his.
I pick up the. Key.
We grab the key. Yeah, grab the key.
That does. What does the note say?
Can I read it? It says in Goblin Master key and
it says to a specific building not far you can you can kind of
look at the number on it and the realize that it's an address
'cause it corresponds with some of the numbers you're seeing
around on the on the street. How close to the center of the
crowd is this the building? Yeah, probably directly.
I'll look at the others first. I thought maybe we'd put
everything like tie it under the building or under the thing like
that could try to get onto there.
But if we just have a building right downtown, let's pack that
full of dynamite get. Ready for a show?
Boom. Oh well, we have.
We have to grab all those guys, remember?
Right, right. Let's go do that and then we'll
check out this building. And if the building won't work
for our purposes, we'll still go to where they're setting off
fireworks. Yeah, all right, we go to the
art or the greedy goblin to go collect our new villagers.
Yeah, a little montage of collecting people, the
villagers. At.
The Villager. Yeah.
Are they at their like shops? OK.
We had instructed the armorer guy to like, get all of his.
Like. Craft and go there, yeah, And
bring. A bunch of stuff.
OK. I wasn't sure where we told him
to go. I think we had like, or if we
had like determined that he was like going to bring him
somewhere to meet us. I don't know, it wasn't actually
determined or anything, but we kind of like just said, we just
kind of just said in this session that it it'd be the
goblins because it makes sense. Yeah.
I, I can help with that one a little bit too, of keep staying
in the imagination land again now rather than jumping back
over to that map, because I I also don't have a bunch of
goblins over there and I think it's going to go fairly
smoothly. We might.
That might change. You know Josh don't count.
Your head I know right I I think things sometimes and then I as
soon as they come out of my mouth I'm not sure about it
anymore we're. Just gonna we're gonna load them
up. Just load.
Load them on up, load them up. But come on.
Up there, let's go. You guys head back to the greedy
goblin just on the other side, just up tight against the cliffs
off of them off of the main magma pit area where the town is
at and are walking in the door. You realize the guards, there
aren't any in the ash piles that were there are swept away and
the lights inside are turned down low.
So you were guessing they they must be in there.
So you guys go in if you want to tell me who goes in first or
whatnot. Stop at the fucking door, the
lights are off. We could guys wait.
Can I? Yeah, Can I try to check to see
if this is like a trap or something?
Yeah. I'll assist.
This seems this seems funky to me.
You. You.
Can use my bugs as A and as. It would be like a in insight or
investigation. Investigation more likely.
OK, good. I prefer investigation.
Nice. Very nice.
You want to tell me how you're investigating?
When I go up and kind of like put my back against the wall
next to the door and I'm just going to kind of like look at
the door. I'm going to try to like look
at, like look at the window, kind of like try to see if I can
get like any sight like in through the window to see what's
happening. Kind of like look through the
door cracks. I don't really want to touch
anything. I just kind of want to like
look. And then if things look OK, then
I might try to like turn the door handle if it doesn't seem
to be like trapped or hexed or anything like just to see if
it's unlocked. You want to roll me a stealth
too? I'm guessing is what you're
trying to do as well. Yeah, yeah.
I forget if I naturally have advantage, if that's a natural
thing I have, or I. Don't think so.
I know that oh, you naturally have advantage.
I think so actually with your class.
I can't remember not or why, but.
Yeah, it's set to advantage and I can't remember why it's set to
advantage. I oh, I want, I think it's, I
think it's the cloak. Oh yeah, that makes sense too.
The cloak of elvenkind. Yeah.
Yes, the cloak of elvenkind gives it gives any perception
checks against me disadvantage and then I have advantage on
like self checks. Hell yeah.
And do you remember that? Yeah, that's why I have
advantage. I I, I'd say Ezra's just, you
know, basically sitting there prone to the door.
Anybody tries to kind of rush out, try to like, ambush us,
he's just going to go barrel, barrel into him.
Yeah. I'm just trying to like kind of
situation see like if the door is trapped, try to take a peek
inside to see if there's like anyone waiting to ambush us or
if it's just like they're just trying to be trying to keep the
people that we asked for safe. Oh, that's why it's not rolling.
I rolled it on whatever. Here we go.
Rolled it on a different window is all.
The first one is what I was going to take.
Yeah, so they don't notice you I guess, but you get to the door,
realize that it's it's shut pretty tight.
So you know there's no there's, there's a minimal crack, but
there's no real not that much light on the inside.
So there's not really any good way to see into it that way.
But when you look through the window you see there are are a
couple people standing at the door, not and any aggressive
postures or anything but they are standing at the ready it
looks like. OK.
Do they seem to be like people? There that are against us.
As you get closer to the window, you you realize that they're
they're kind of standing with like leaning over a list in the
dim light. Do they are they marked?
Do they have any like symbols that like mark them?
Like am I able to tell if they're like working for the the
main breed God here or do they seem like they're trying to like
plot something to help us? Am I even am I even able to tell
that at all? Like.
They don't have anything that's distinguishing them much from
the other goblins you've been seeing.
There is though, you notice. Do I, do I recognize, do I, or
do I recognize any of the goblins like that?
Do I recognize like the storekeeper that we talked to,
to like gather people? When you're looking around, you
don't see him. There is a decent crowd of
people though, so maybe he's just kind of lost in the faces.
But you do see in the center of the room a pile of what looks
like the purple arm bands of that everybody else has been
wearing. When I say they were hard to
distinguish from everyone else that this is one thing that does
set them apart is that the these arm bands are in a pile in the
center of the Tavern now and. These were arm bands that people
were wearing. All throughout this all, all of
the goblins had been wearing this up to this point, so it
hadn't been something unique to to note.
OK, sorry. I look back at Ash.
I just kind of give her like a like a nod, like we're good.
I don't say anything. I just kind of like nod, like
coast clear. OK, so I'm going to stroll in,
like, just strap my stuff like I own the place since I kind of
do, yeah. And I'm just going to let it
take the lead and then just kind of like take up the rear and
slink in the back. Yeah, I'm going to be as
flamboyant as possible so that all eyes are on me.
And do you say anything when you walk in besides?
Yeah, I'll just like swing the girl and I'll be like, hello
all. I'm glad you could make it.
And the two goblins on the other side jump almost out of their
skin and look look at you, then look down at the list and then
just like, oh, you must be ash in in goblin still obviously
too. Yeah, I do.
And I say back in Goblin and like that I am, and I give like
a little bow. And they kind of look taken
aback. And yeah, what's performance
based Charisma? Let me give me let me give you a
little shaky bow here, hopefully.
Do I need to roll a performance? No, no, Yeah, yeah, actually you
should. You should for the for the bow.
Not that it's going to be bad with a + 1213, sorry. 16 I know
I rolled a three so I rolled real bad.
Still rolled 1 better than they they rolled it two.
So yeah, flat two though. And in your case, you know,
you're able to kind of compensate for it and make it
still look flashy. And to them they, they still are
very, very like like, oh, stumbling over themselves.
They actually like bow hit each other in the head first and then
they they stumble back and then they like get their balance
again and they look at each other, shake their heads and
turn in opposite directions now and bow like not even facing you
just so they don't hit heads again.
And I'm like, I'm glad you could make it.
I was like, is everybody here? Yes, yes, Bill, Bill dress is
preparing everybody making sure that they got all their their,
their, their shit together and their who they're bringing with
them. He didn't exactly give us
details and everything. He just said that anything that
we can care, we can bring with us and you know our family
members too, who could could make it.
I think we've gotten to and he goes down the list good.
Yeah, some of some of some of them have been UN unreachable
with the current celebrations, but we've got the majority of
them that should be willing and able.
I turned to Franklin and I kind of raised my eyebrows.
Excellent. At this point I'll have slipped
towards the back and then pull out the sack of gold poo
symbols. OK everyone, how this is going
to work is we need groups of about 10 people to be holding
hands and carrying anything that you want to Brig.
I will give the lead person one of these poop symbols.
You'll will yourself into the pocket.
Rocket. I hold up the rock.
Oh, wait, no, you guys don't have it.
Oh yeah, I'll hand it back over to you.
Thank you. Hold up the rock.
This this is our house Inside here is a large space, large
enough for at least all of us to be comfortably or semi
comfortably housed. There will be some some
construction. However, we're going to get
through it and the deal is you're going to help us and
we're going to help you. We're on our way out of this
place. We're going to go up to the
surface and escape hell. You guys welcome to come as as
long as you help us along the way, once we get to the top, you
are free to leave and live your lives on the surface like real
people. And outside of that, yeah,
that's what's going to happen. Does anyone have any information
as well about the guy who runs this place?
Any secret weaknesses, hidden defenses, anything we should
know if we're going to try to kill him?
At that point, Dildreth pushes through the crowd of about 30 of
them that have that have crowded around and that that's how how
much approximately the guard said or the list holder had said
to that I made it and he holds his hand out with his head kind
of bowed only slightly indifference for the poop signal
sigil. All right, I'll hand him an if
there are 30 of them, I'll give him three.
I'll say just so you know, these will be able to take you out if
you wish. I will leave these three with
you builder. I need to make sure that all
these guys are good. Just so if you pop out, you pop
out wherever this thing currently is, could be danger,
could be not. So if you want to leave on the
next floor, if we get to another town and you want to go
exploring, talk to us. We'll arrange like a little like
afternoon outing for you guys to go shopping, resupply, that kind
of stuff. Just please be careful if you
leave, we cannot guarantee your safety.
But if you're inside, we can. Fair warning, just inside so you
don't freak out is a large skeleton monster.
So long as you stay outside of the coordinated area it won't be
able to eat you. Inside also is a very large
amount of insects. They have been instructed to
leave you be. They are quite helpful and they
are here to help you get set up. Do you have any other questions?
Bill just kind of looks around to see a bunch of confused.
I would be repeating like everything that he is saying in
Goblin. Like he would say a, a sentence
and then I would repeat it. And then he would say something
and I would repeat it like just so that we're all on the same
page and we can get through this because I know we are literally
on a ticking clock right now because we're supposed to like,
make the big boom during the fireworks.
And and he's and and and build with.
Let's that all transpire. But it wouldn't when once you're
done talking, he says I in common.
I actually can common, but is not so great.
Understood most probably better than some translation that you
said through that was working bit off but I'll get it the
message through and then he switches back back to goblin
just kind of like to turn to you Ash and quickly quickly says
that yeah I'm I'm gonna hold on to all three of those once we
get inside and they can only be doled out per my authority I am
holding that over the the rest of the group here we've got some
good smart crew on board with me that made it some though not so
much and you never know but I understand good good warnings
and. I need your people to know there
are no first warnings. If they try something they will
die, but if they don't, we'll all be friends and we can live
happily ever after. Don't worry, I think freedom
will keep them all in check, if not my own authority over them.
I've owned most of the town anyways, so.
That's fair and. They they they own the other
last finite detail. I wanted to clarify before all
of this, do we have permission to you said construction was
underway, but and we have obvious latitudes in that.
How? Yes, to a degree there is a
large. So once you go at it, there'll
be three large kind of circular chambers.
OK. The one on the far right hand
side, which is a large basically a biosphere.
Don't fuck that one because that's what lets you breathe the
central. The other two you are generally
free to work with, though we do need a little space for storage
and like training and like dinners and like that kind of
thing. But it's like at least several
like 2-3 floors worth of space for you guys to like kind of
section out and make it like an apartment style.
Maybe you want to do like a big opening down the center with
like balconies. Everyone going to sit there.
I looked out and talk to each other like neighbors.
I don't know, it's your decision.
I'm going to go. Yeah, we'll, we'll, we'll work
it out. I just wanted to make sure that
my my latitudes and permissions weren't going to have to run
everything by you. That was going to take a while
anyways. All right, everyone He turns
back in this in starts organizing everyone into groups
of to to be able to hold on to each other and their stuff and
their families and friends with the the poop symbols and.
Are they bringing like building material?
You see some of them are holding on to like small chests that
they can, you know, physically hold.
So probably. All right, double thumbs up.
Turn to AMS, get inside, let them know if they try anything,
anything funny, isolate the troublemakers, kill them and let
them know that we'll be in shortly.
Thank you. How we would communicate it
other than the, you know, murder, but.
Sounds good. Yeah, well, you need to be
really. You need a fine line as these
people, you want them to love you when they treat you right,
but fear you if they cross you. So, you know, it's really like a
like you're my best friend or I will literally rip your face off
scenario. So OK, well, this is our home.
We have to defend it. Obviously, yes.
We'll make sure to make use of any corpses that we make.
Excellent. Thank you so much.
You're a doll. All.
Right. Oh, we need to assemble the
dynamite that we have in stock and maybe pick up any other
supply caches that we had ordered.
All the. Way to that building.
We didn't. We didn't.
We didn't get any dynamite boss. There was something weird that
happened with all the stuff you brought in.
But the dynamite was part of the receipt.
I thought we had ordered like a certain amount.
No, no. All right, Bill Dress, we did
dynamite a lot of it for stopping the bad stuff.
Oh ash, have the receipt for that.
Yes. So Ash had the receipt, but that
wasn't on the receipt. You guys didn't buy any dynamite
at the time. You guys were just going to go
back and steal it, which you did.
Oh, yeah, that's right. OK All right, well, we got it
really quickly. I.
Didn't buy it or agree to buy it.
I think we ordered but didn't pay or something.
Yeah, it wasn't part of the order for dynamite.
Yeah, but they were ordering it, right?
Well, they had some in stock, like I said, they didn't have
the full 80 some thousand that the town had or something like
that. It was closer to 90,000.
But yeah, there there was some in stock that you guys put in
the pocket rocket that is now turned into the magazine.
Got it. All right.
But let's bond them with magazine and uncurse it.
Well, I don't know how to uncurse it.
I don't have a look. At the front of the magazine
again, that has Bill drift. Is there anywhere on front of
it? Yeah, shit.
That. Says how we do it.
God, no. So Bill Drift apparently is
probably the guy that we need. I pull out the Shard of mirror.
No, but I the the it's a leather flap out here is a piece of the
beer that was on the other floor apparently has the ability to
suck people into it if you look at it.
Don't look at it. Don't look at it.
We don't know how to get them out yet.
That's the problem. So we sucked Bill Druth in there
so. No, you've been talking to Bill
Druth, my friend. Yeah, we didn't suck them in
there yet. Yeah, Bill Druth.
Is the one who's the guy that we sucked in?
He didn't give a name, he was just a clerk in the store.
Wait, he was just the clerk in the store?
He was not the store holder. Yeah, he was just a clerk in the
store. Oh, poor guy.
Well, I don't care about help that he could stay for a while.
All right, builder out builder. Yes, Hey, we did you a favor and
we stopped at your store because, you know, you were busy
organizing all of this and I wanted to be a be a friendly
neighbor. So we took all the stuff that
was in the store and we put it in the pocket rocket.
But then it disappeared and came out with this magazine right
here. So I figure if you uncursed
this, you'll get all your items back here, right?
It's it. It'd be a process, so.
OK, First off, foremost, most important, we need dynamite.
That's what we need. Make this whole plan work.
We need lots of dynamite. How could we get some really
quickly? He.
Goes he goes, all right, just the dynamite.
I mean just the dynamite. It could probably the the issue.
I guess it wouldn't be too big of an issue perhaps, but see the
the magazine was a is a way actually to to transport goods
over large amounts of them from one location to another.
Perfect. That's what I was planning.
It's kind of convenient. Yes, it is it, but it also
stopped most thieving, which you can see.
There's a big problem of that in this area.
Yeah, you know what? But to get it out of there right
this instant, without a long ritual, you are possibly just
going to have to take it with its side effects.
See the The thing is that the the magazine holds the item,
curses them and places them in their own flat 2D2D dimension in
on each page. Wow.
But being cursed and taking them off of the page, it's risky
because you never know exactly which curse you're going to get
with this item. Oh, what kind of curses are
there? Do you have a list?
Oh God. It's, it's it, it's.
Now is it? Is it cursing whoever pulls the
item out? It's this some odd algorithm
that one of my enchanters came up with, so it's quite random.
Oh, is he here? He's among us.
But like I said, he would he would spend have to spend a few
hours to remove the curse without the the proper and the
easiest way is always just going back to the store where the
items would then be in the system again.
And then there would have to be a transaction inside of the
system with an exchange. But like I said, that's just the
fastest way. But it might not be what you
want to do right now either, so. Is it?
Who is the person who pulls the
item out cursed? Is that the cursed 1?
It could happen that way. Usually the item itself is the
cursed thing. Yes, correct, but it cursed.
Dynamite that feels like better I look at the others better.
What do you guys think? We first died of it better or
worse than the first dies might. We find someone we know like, we
tell them to pull the page, they get the first second, yes.
Where's that guy? Oh shit, hold on a bass.
Yes. Bass, the guy that we had tied
up, I need him isolated from the rest very quickly before you go
to see them. The one without a hand?
Yeah, let's isolate where, Where's where.
Put them in a rope or somewhere out.
Like put them in the hive up of the up of the ceiling.
We just don't want it interacting with anyone else
right now. OK, OK, can do.
OK, great. close one. Let's see so we just need a
volunteer to pull this so that get possibly cursed or the item
is cursed or we break build earth back with us to the I mean
is his store back on the way downtown?
Yes, and then there could be a transaction that's made with it,
is what he's saying. But there's it's inside the
inside their their system. The the transaction has to be
made. If you don't remember, all the
gems that Ash took out an exchange went into this tablet
that they were holding. Got it.
OK, we could just stop there. On the way back, run in.
And I have. To show you.
I don't know if you have that sort of wealth on you.
I understand you are very very wealthy and no offence meant but
that store I know if you collected it all it's probably
in the hundreds of millions. Well, it's your store, right?
It is. So could you do AIOU and then
transfer it to us? Or why don't you just come?
We're gonna be going there and bringing the pocket rocket with
us. If you're the pocket rocket, you
just come out. It it do it yourself?
If not and then you have your stuff fully mine.
So that's probably where where you might be misleading you.
Again, I am a majority shareholder.
Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. OK Where else?
Is there a dynamite in this town that we could get to quickly?
There's supposed to be a lot that wouldn't be guarded by one
of these pigs. That's a tough one.
This system is kind of designed by some of the worshippers of
Kaishen, and as you can imagine it, not only are they greedy,
but they're conniving. Right, turn to the others.
Any ideas? We need to make a big boob or we
got to do a lot of dirty work ourselves.
And we also don't want to face the things of Kai Shet again.
But we also need dynamite. I say we just take the cursed
dynamite. It's the surest path.
We just need a volunteer to do it.
Amos chimes in. Why don't we make the guy that
I'm trying to make disappear do it?
I mean, he's go or they only got one hand.
That's a. Great idea.
You're so smart, Amos. One problem solves the other.
Thanks, boss. All right, let's go for a wasted
hell light. You guys go back and it's just
the end of the parade. The streets are full of again
with no no spaces and people picking up or stepping on what
looks like form different different forms of handy in the
shape of gems and gold and and such along the streets that have
must have been thrown out with the parade.
Regular looks upon them with hatred.
Look at them, they get to go outside the happy families.
Some of the kids are picking the the dirt covered candies off the
floor and eating it happily. Oh of.
Course. They are all right.
We meet up with the other guy that we have that has one hand
and we give him a deal. We'll release you to your
friends if you do two things, swear you'll never mention what
happened, and withdraw all the dynamite out of this book.
You're a good choice. No, he says.
That's the best part, reeling his stump.
Actually, you do. You could just commit suicide or
let us do it for you. I mean, don't do that.
It's bad. Like if you're gonna do it, let
someone else like anyway. Let someone else enjoy it
instead of you just. Doing it?
No, he means me. You let me enjoy it.
You open the magazine and there's a tear on the dotted
line. Here.
And you hand him the page. And you with his one hand, looks
up at you with a squint and just goes, OK, do I take it out here?
And he kind of like, props it up in his arm and starts to like,
reach into the page almost. No, not yet.
We gotta, we're gonna get to that building and then bring him
out. Yeah, 'cause then otherwise we
gotta unload it and we need to do this fast.
So one of us should stay, Whoever's fastest should get to
the building and then we can all pop out with it.
Also, just all of us pile into the pocket rocket.
One person beeline to the place. I could probably give it to my
familiar because they can fly and they can just fly like a
Raven straight to the building location.
That'd probably be best, unless you think he's going to be
attacked. I don't think so, and I can look
and control it so. That sounds like a good option
all. Right Avis, it's your turd.
Take what you've learned about reality and not being real, then
let me see through your eyes. Gang of A, 5555.
Let's do this. OK, yeah, Amos then goes out of
the pocket rocket, I guess, and you guys all go into it along
with all of the the crew that's gathered in the Greedy Goblin
after making your plans. And he'd probably go right
outside of the Greedy Goblin you'd see and climb up the Cliff
face and then just jump off at a higher spot so that you can kind
of just glide over. And I'm guessing you're
controlling him. So you can kind of not
controlling, but, you know, guiding and kind of suggesting
to him where that building is and you get get him there more
or less. And he's on top of it probably.
And as you're going there, you, you see some goblin script on
the outside that's labeling it besides the numbers that are
associated with the key. He's like, I'm here, boss.
Perfect. I disconnect from the like
viewing through its eyes, turn to the others.
All right, we're all set. Everybody put some ski basks on
so we don't get recognized ski. Masks.
Ski basks or like some sort of like covering?
Do you want me to get down to the bottom of the building
first? He says.
Yeah, that would be great. OK, I'll do that while you're
getting ready. Franklin very quickly puts on
some dark combat clothing, paints his face and puts a mask
on. Put my head, put my hood up,
just kind of like fold into my cloak.
I am too wearing a cloak, so I guess I'm just going to pull
that hood up and draw the cloak coat closer around me and that's
it. I was gonna say I'd wrap a scarf
around my face but I still have a brick of MSG wrapping.
Pull pulls it off. When we get clothing bed.
Sheets doesn't, doesn't quite, doesn't quite brush it off
fully. Proceeds to breathe in MSG
repeats. While trying to be sneaky.
Just man, I'm fucking ready for this guys.
Just real jittery. So how about you, Ezra?
You doing anything? Ezra, what are you doing?
Well, I ain't hot, none of it's over 7 foot and all I can do is
turn into a dog. I not do that.
Everybody in town see me do it already.
Just your face. True dog mode.
Go go go gadget dog. Yep, pretty much dog.
Is it more of a wolf? I would guess is what or what is
there? Do you have a breed in mind or
anything too? Also perfect crocodile.
Basically, basically just big dire wolf.
I that did that does remind me of something actually, too,
because I was going to I was going to recant this so big dire
wolf. I got you.
I can give you control of this just for funsies, But while I'm
doing that, Bob is probably tired of being a crocodile, and
he's going to tell you as such. And he's like, I, I understand,
Mistress, that you're trying to get me another body, but I'm
just going to, you know. And he, you see the crocodile's
eyes glow bright red. It slumped to the ground inside
the pocket rocket and lay flat and go back into the skull
that's in your hip. I'm just gonna spend some time
and rest here for a while. Being mortals?
Exhausting. I just kind of chuckle and I'm
like Yep, I agree. I agree and just pat the skull.
Back, Bob. Right, that should give you
control of that direwolf form. There too I'll put this other
token. Is this the building?
We'll say this is the building. Actually, we haven't really used
that one. This one.
Yeah, this one was, Yeah. Doesn't really particularly too
much matter, but you guys are out front of it currently.
I would guess you guys have left the pocket rocket in your with
the cricket that stood off to the side of the crowd as much as
possible kind of in a in an area where people weren't gathering.
You guys all poof out of the pocket rocket standing right out
front and Ash, you immediately can read the script that is on
the on it above it. And it's a, it's, it's got a,
it's a school. Is this cool?
I am going to relay this everyone.
I'm like, guys, this is, this is an education facility.
Nice. What's that?
Look at the others. It's normally a place you would
go to learn normally. Well, we're going to teach them
a lot. Who goes to learn?
Who goes learn here. I'm gonna guess.
I look and I shake my head. Like over over Ezra's shoulder
at A at a ash. OK.
And I'm like people who just think they need to learn stuff,
not really important. Do pups come and?
Learn here. Does who come to learn here?
Do pups come and learn here? No, probably not any of those.
This building's totally empty, right?
Now, right? Yep.
So you take the key out. I would guess Ezra or whoever
picked it up from the goblin that we're shaking out from.
I did it. Yeah, I definitely.
I'm going to just open up the door and.
OK. Yeah.
You go to the door, you open it up, you see that all of the the
areas are very much, what's the word I'm looking for here?
The uninhabited There's, there's just no one there.
Perfect. At this point.
Nobody here empty. All right.
I am gonna I guess scan around to make sure it is empty and you
like obviously you said it looks obviously empty but like.
Check all the. Corners and stuff.
As in, so yeah, you guys walk in and the the front entry is a
little bit better buildings you've been taking.
Oh, what you cut out there, Josh?
Sorry, sorry, sorry. And you, you, you're walking in
and you see the nicer material and more cared for.
Like I was saying, the ceiling's probably 10 feet, 15 feet.
You know, they're still small creatures.
And the doorway you guys walked through, Ezra, you didn't have
to duck this time because you're on all fours.
And everyone else still didn't really, other than probably
Vomayora just a smidge to get through the door.
But on the other side, you're, you're going around the
passageways and everything. You're you're finding that
there, there, there seems to be no one there.
All right, let's do it perfect. We pull out the guy and the
magazine, kind of pinpoint the corner that will be closest to
the center point of everyone watching fireworks in the
building, and instruct him to empty them here while we stand
130 feet away. Right.
Right now. Yeah, I just need all of the
dynamite out gear right now, right guys?
Yes. This is.
The location, all the people are going to be right next to right.
No, we did we determine that or we just guessing?
I think that's what Josh said. In like, the center of the town,
yeah. That's where like the whole like
the the parade was basically headed to watch fireworks.
All right, let's let's set it up.
So he takes the page that you've given him and holds it and puts
his hand, it looks like, in it to grab an image.
You see his hand, actually. To make sure he's got the right
one. The image or.
Yeah, I don't want him. Like yeah, you need funny shit.
Yeah, you handed it to him. So is the correct one.
Come on. He opens it up or not opens it
up. He just holds it as much as he
can with his stump while he puts his hand in it.
And you see his hand visibly touch the page.
But then it kind of turns flat like the paper is as he's
sticking it in. And you can see him grasp around
some of some of the the crates. And he pulls one crate out and
he pulls the second crate out. He pulls a total of three crates
of dynamite out. Perfect.
And as he's doing so. Watching carefully, carefully.
No funny business. Now you don't want to make the
turtle angry. Yeah, he, he nothing seems to
happen to him right then, although he'd he suddenly gets
like a an afraid look on his face and he he's still holding
the page with his stump and looks over at you is like, I
think that's everything that's in there.
Why do you get afraid? Why do you look like that?
What's with your face? I.
Suddenly gained a fear of running water for some reason.
Just making sure there wasn't any around me.
Thank God you're in hell. Perfect.
All right now casually stay at cobbly stand up approach us.
I will have you side a very strongly worded contract and I
will release you to your friends.
Your cover story of how you lost your head is that you dropped
something in the lava and accidentally put your hand in
the lava to catch it, and then it got burned off and then
that's what happened. And while you're saying that,
he's like, OK, OK, And he takes it and starts signing it very
poorly with his undominant hand. Sorry.
To his dominant head. And while my.
Bad, my bad. While he's standing there
signing, you see another change come over him that he doesn't
seem to take up on at first, but you, you, you evidently do as he
grows breasts. Interesting.
What is the strongly worded contract?
I don't think that was part of the contract.
Look, I have been prepubescent for 1000 years.
I'm not about to start now. Oh.
My God. OK, fair enough.
Gonna make a note to look at those contracts later 96.
Yeah, yeah, Ezra, Ezra's gonna take mental note.
Never sign papers from Franklin. Do not want the utters.
To me guys, he's literally still getting he's probably getting
one curse for every box he pulled out.
And as he as you're saying that you see him flicker like ghostly
formed. And besides saying in like after
signing, he goes, Oh, you can tell his voice is a little bit
higher pitched. She's come from is he like
handles his fondles himself and he's flickering in and out of
being like corporeal as a ghost. Oh bad, we got our own ghost.
I waved my hand through him. Is, oh, that was uncomfortable
and you feel a little bit of coldness wash over your hand
that Oh my God. Oh, shoot, now I got to look
that up real quick. One second here.
Coldness washing over one's hand?
No Covered in ectoplasm. Ramp, I need you to report to
the lab inside. They need to conduct some
spearmints on you. Oh.
OK, I guess, but like, I don't know what I'm supposed to do
about all this. Well, ideally we've got another
guy there who's trying to like remove the curses for like the
for the the book thing. So I assume he'll be able to
undo your curses as well, so you may want to talk to him too.
I was just looking up some stats is what I was trying to do when
in the meantime too, but his head starts spinning around like
he's seeing things that aren't there and he's like, OK,
hopefully these things that are around me aren't there.
Get me back in the pocket, I guess.
Wait, hold on. Describe what you see.
I take off, I take out my mask of Truvision and I put it on.
You see that around you, you know, being that you're in hell,
some of the things that you probably weren't seeing before
or a bunch of ghostly figures and spirits, including what he's
seeing, which you can only tell because he's tapped into it.
You can you can tell that it you're kind of like it's not
like seeing through his eyes, but you're kind of seeing where
his head's snapping and you don't have any way to interact
with it. But it's like in just for hats
off because I don't have any better way to explain this.
It's into the Ethereal plane. That's fine, you see into the
ghost realm around him in like a bubble or something.
Basically, yeah. God, you're so useful.
Look at him. I pull out a vial.
Can you try to get into this vial?
I don't. I don't think I want to do that.
OK. You totally want to do.
That that's fine. I think it'd be better about not
taking people's free will. And then he looks looks
back-to-back to you, realizes that your hand went having
realized you're you didn't touch him.
Finally kind of like, you know, registers on him and he's like
his eyes get real big. And then he just starts to dart
for a wall. And and just as he about gets to
the wall, he turns back to material plane and and falls
flat on his ass. Probably, yeah.
Dag doesn't last. Thought we had a new ghost.
All right, well. He's able to stand back up when
he brushes and self off with the one hand.
Hell no. Pearl Feta stoop feel pretty
stupid, huh? I think it.
I think, I think it's gonna come back, though.
I don't know. Yes.
That hurt my nose though. Temporary ghostification.
Well, that's fun. Do you want to get in the pocket
rocket or do you want to die here?
Please. I didn't catch that.
Yeah, it was just something white.
Yeah, really afraid. Yeah, he's he's he doesn't have
anything left in him to be shitting himself with.
But but you see see him physically trying to withhold
from and he said pocket rocket, please.
Great, off you go. Turn to the others.
They're not here yet. So should we try to spread some
of this dynamite out? Maybe stick it to the underside
of the? I can have my swarm stick it to
the other side of like the this whole thing.
Yes, let's do that. Make a trail.
If there's enough space, I don't want to do it if there's only
like 3 inches between it and like the magma of it.
Oh yeah, that would probably set it off way too soon.
Yeah. I look under, stick my head
under, stick up. I stick my hand down there,
holding one of my swarm guys, and I look through its eyes, see
what's down there like a camera. Yeah, you you notice that the
bottom of the the bottom of the streets are fairly insulated,
and it's probably why you guys aren't just melting.
Well, as you walk across. These grates and everything too
insulated, not like super on your side though.
So like there's the best way to insulate anything is as as those
that just study too much of stupid facts.
But is a vacuum. So you know that you know, you
notice that there is like 2 layers to the streets.
So like this part of the street that you're standing on is the
upper layer, and then there's like this interstitial space of
air before another layer, and that layer seems to be the
insulator is. What I got it?
Going to. OK.
Then pop up, let the others know.
Maybe we take one crate or like a couple of these crates, or
basically as much as we can and just grid pattern the entire
bottom of this between the interstitial layers.
Yeah, if you guys can do that before the parade gets here.
I summon the swarm and then I have them summon their insect,
giant insect things. So we just get a whole bunch of
them. We'll have to have a a lookout
and then we'll have to get away really quickly.
Do we have a means to get away quickly?
Most people can get into the pocket rocket.
And then if we are you, what are you again, Ash?
A changeling. But you're sorry, you're do you
have spell? Are you a caster?
Yeah, Rogue Bard. So I have a couple different
things, but yeah, I'm looking through my spells right now and
I don't really have much that would help.
I have enlarge, reduce. Enlarge the dynamite.
That's a good idea. We should enlarge the dynamite,
cause a bigger explosion. Does enlarge affect items?
Yes. Yes, you can use it on doors
because lots of people like to use reduce on a door that's
locked, so just get past the lock.
You cause a creature or an object.
OK, So if we just tie, if we, if we, if we glue a bun like one
crate of this together and then enlarge it while the other two
crates are being spread, then we'll have area and blast.
So I I am instructing as as we're considering and doing this
I have I'm instructing the the swarm to get to work on laying
out a giant grid network dynamite.
If I am casting the enlarged spell, it is concentration.
This side how long? Only one minute.
So we'll have a minute to get away and most of us could go
into the pocket rocket and my swarm again could fly.
So. See, that was the thing I was
wondering, do I need to remain outside the pocket rocket?
I also know. You got to see.
You got to see the thing, Yeah. Not to not to throw too much of
A wrench. In your head object like.
You have to see it when you cast it.
And it's going to be within 30 feet of you when you cast it,
right? So you just got to see it when
you cast it be within 30 feet, then you have a minute to get
away. That may be, I don't know what
happened here. If we cast a concentration spell
at level one and then go into the pocket rocket, does it
cancel? That's what I was wondering.
Oh, I will cast a visibility and then I will go into the packet
rocket. On yourself.
You're in the pocket, rocket. OK.
I think you would have to have some visibility on something
else to see if you being 0. Yeah, that's.
Right object would yeah, affect the.
Sound. Then I'll cast darkness on a
Pebble. Oh, OK.
Put it down. It does go.
Into the pocket rocket. It does remain and then I come
out. 10 seconds later, how'd it do?
It's it's state in darkness. Perfect.
All right, Plaid's a go. All right, so we're just going
to I'm going to cast enlarge and then we're going to get in the
pocket rocket and then we're going to give the, the, the,
the, the, the pocket rocket to a cricket and it is just going to
fly like a cricket in hell out of this place.
Like a cricket at hell, as far away as possible within one
minute. Yeah, perfect.
Perfect plan. Yes, nothing can go wrong.
Everything will go right. Definitely not.
Maybe while you had the small army of other crickets
distributing one of the other crates, you said.
So you've got, you've still got the third crate that you're
probably taking back into the pocket rocket with you, I'm
guessing. Oh no, we need a big, big boob.
So just like bore, maybe like a secondary?
Yeah, I think so. If the one crate will cover
enough of the area that is like designated for the fireworks
show, then then yes, the the second crate can also go into
school. And then we just hold in the
school waiting for like the crowd to assemble and for the
fireworks to just about go off. But we're not going to do it at
the fireworks. We're going to do it 2 seconds
before the fireworks. So there's no chance that
anything happens. Like there's some sort of secret
plan or something already. Someone's already using it for a
signal, you know, get the drop bottom.
OK, Yeah, yeah. His eyes are black and he's like
rubbing his hands together. Yeah.
I disagree with you. I'm like, yes, this is how we're
gonna do it. Excellent.
Probably get enough time in that you realize while you shoot.
So there's a few other things that you got to coordinate there
I guess, which is that you're looking for the you're listening
to in on the crowd I guess to figure out when this is going to
happen. And you know that some of your
crickets might not be making it back this day because they are
still out placing explosives, but because you've got less than
an hour to set it all up. And some of them, most of them
have, most of them have come back, we'll say.
That's fine. And they all know what the they.
Everybody knows what their part is in life.
We're all worker drones and we all die for a greater purpose.
And the ones that make it back I guess lead a charge all the way
up to this one. I give them each a metal.
They're now the bombards. Thank you for your service.
Thank you for your service.
And while you're timing it out, Ash and you guys are probably
just standing at a cracked door to the school and waiting to
enlarge. And as soon as you cast it, I'm
you, you're going into the pocket rocket, right?
Yeah, so. And everyone else is already in
the pocket rocket. Yeah, so I figured I would
probably be one of the last ones in.
Cast the spell at the last minute, go into the pocket
rocket and then the the cricket flies off.
And like the fuse. Are you are you trying to train
the next recruit or is Amos taking this charge on to?
No, Amos is too precious. He seed the parad reality.
I will go up to one of the bombards that I have recently
meddled, and I say your country to beds the greatest service
from you, a sacrifice. You must light the fuse of
rebellion, and together we shall remember you for all time.
Admiral Akbar as. A crack.
I like it. Your family will be taken care
of and be given an apartment in the new hive.
On the surface I look. Forward to seeing you in.
Hell. Again.
I salute him. Godspeed, Fred.
And as. You, the rest of us witness this
this, this heartwarming speech. I'm guessing, yeah.
I would say I would salute too, but like I would just mirror
Franklin. Those those were about to die,
he salute. You.
He's got a minute and that's sort of the the last thing that
I was trying to figure out here while we were just all talking
and the size of this town and how far he gets and how much of
it goes up. Flight speed.
So I play the familiar as the closet.
It has a speed of 40 feet and it can dash so 80 feet in a turn.
It has a minute, so 80 * 10 is 800 * 10 is 8000 feet if it goes
as fast as it can. OK.
You can definitely get to the edge of town where the Cliff
faces. The question then to follow
would be how trying to figure that out too is.
I mean also like get to a place where like it can take some sort
of shelter. The Cliff face would be able to
do that. I'm thinking of the dynamite now
and how much it's gonna work. Yeah, how much of it's there in
the sense? And you have to paint the scene
of how it explodes in all of. Families and stuff yes, yes.
So because the the other thing to think about here, I, that's
what I need to do is bring this up again too, because they have
a, a a strict radius of Max, we're a 20 feet.
I can light, I'll light it myself too, through the sorry,
through the cricket that I leave there 'cause I can see and do
stuff through its eyes, or through my familiar's eyes.
At least. I'll have a last thing to say
before it goes off. Sorry, I didn't mean to
interrupt you. Oh.
You're all right. OK.
So there's definitely 30 sticks of dynamite which would get the
entire town. All right.
We're going to do it, guys. Because the the question I had
was, is it, is it encompassing the entire town, which it
definitely is. It's only like, yeah.
Just needs to be the center. Under 600 diameter?
Well, you told the crickets to spread them out and they take
they can take up to 20 feet diameter.
Each one individually though I I didn't need to go back and look
at that real. Quick, so it'd be.
It'd be one crate was done that way, so it'd be a 5 by.
Two crates, two crates, two crates.
Done that. So which would be 40 feet in the
center of town already is one blast radius, and I was trying
to supercharge each one in five feet of the port.
OK, so 5 feet is the blast radius of just one stick.
That's what I needed to do. That's the math I needed to do.
'Cause. Math.
The final frontier.
I do not know if in one crate there would been 120 sticks,
which is what would need to be to cover the entire town.
That's that's where I was going. Probably.
Probably though, because yeah, I mean, I'm that was that was the
thing that I was lastly trying to figure out is like how much
is in one of these crates? And if they're just 5 by 5
crates, they still going to be packed pretty tight with padding
so that they didn't get jostle to explode.
But I can imagine if it was a 5 by 5 crate that there were like
individual packages each in tightly packed.
You handed it off to each cricket with a pack of like 20
and they went to went to spacing out 120.
And that's where I was saying maybe some of them are still
placing those last ones on the ends of the charges, but I could
still imagine getting the entire town shoot.
So, yeah, Amos, Amos flies to the edge of the Cliff face,
finds his, finds a little nook that he can kind of wedge
himself just behind, but you can see through his eyes, and you've
probably set up some sort of display with your eyes and, I
don't know, prestiditification or something.
Yeah. Yeah, I'm projecting onto the
wall while I'm like out of it. Yeah, and you see from Amos's
perspective up in this Cliff face, the the the the singular
just before any of the fireworks blast of, of fire from a flame
throwing cannon that actually alights the clock at the top of
the town that I've explained before, which is the stalactites
that they use as a mechanism to determine time.
And you can tell that it it it's later in the evening just as
that as that heats up that part of the to signify the time for
the fireworks to start. As soon as one or two of the
beautiful fireworks start to bloom in the sky, depicting some
of Kaishen's face, some of gold and money that explode when they
explode, they and then then sparks.
These images appear just as that happens.
You start to feel a shutter under more than anything else
just and just slowly building until your name.
My Lord, cry. A final in the center of town
where be. Praised be praised.
Where it seems the the magma from below is erupting almost
out and up to the ceiling, washing most of the chamber and
taking the entire town into its into its death depth of the
magma pool. And you can see some of the
people that did somehow escape some of the blast radiuses
having been stuck on you know the grates that cross
crisscrossed that that getting to the magma or falling and not
and screaming as they melt in the magma.
Some of those. There's a Fireworks Tonight sign
that just goes up in the flames. And a oh, I forgot to mention
earlier, Ash, you took six psychic damage from when you
didn't when you didn't put the gold piece up.
And for everyone else that is in the pocket rocket currently, you
just hear a like, furious bellowing in your minds, and I
think that's a good spot to stop it.
Oh yeah. So angry.
Does the experience chip counter just start going?
I feel so empowered by souls. Yeah, proportionally given to
the Dark Lord Craig. I clap after the explosion.
Because Craig. We did it, guys.
We did it. We learned the lesson of this
level of hell. Greed, Greed.
Destroy it. What's mine is mine is mine is
mine is mine is mine is mine. I'll I'll display.
I mean, I'm if I'm projecting it, I assume the other townsfolk
can kind of see, but we don't say out loud it was us.
But I'll just be like and here watch the demise of this level
of hell as the inevitable death of the town happened.
So no. So glad you came on to the Ark.
Yeah, that was scary, man. We're.
So glad we did not be there for that.
That would be bad. Yeah, Franklin's hiding a huge
erection. He's not interested in boobies.
Just fiery explosions as we start seeing as we start getting
boofer and buffer. We did it, guys.
A plan well accomplished. We stole the town's brains and
we and. We destroyed.
The town. Everyone else.
Congratulations y'all, that feeling good did we kill?
The guy or did we just really make him mad or are we doing
that now you'll. Find out next time.
We're gonna have a Magma E fight next time I think.
Except that we're all inside of a pocket rocket being held by a
cricket. Yeah, taking shelter.
So ideally, we won't just like pop out and I'll like fall 1000
feet. But you know, we'll find out
next time. Yeah.
Perfect.
Everybody else seems excited about this house, with Myra
feeling about the death of thousands.
Great, Pretty. Great, yes.
We did it guys. This is the evil campaign.
This is where we're supposed to embrace this.
Yeah. Exactly.
Anything nice, right? We need to escape.
All right, we need to get out. We need resources to get out
these. People.
Are resources, and so are the other people they were.
Yep, we've saved the important people.
Nice. There's not much we can do about
everyone else, so yeah, let. Me.
Save who you can, you know. Yep, Yep, let's let's just move
on and not think about it. Staring on with our lives.
Exactly. Exactly.
Should I put a put a a counter up and separate the the children
out too from it to let you know how many?
No, no. We're all set with that one.
You leave the buffs alone. There's just like there's just
like a space on the screen that it's being rejected on with.
There's like a piece of tape covering some other counting
numbers bear adults and it generally, Oh yeah, just just
adults. Wow.
The whole town just, Yep, just. Just just adults.
Next time. Nothing to see.
Thanks for playing everyone, I'm going to jump off.
Yeah, Yep, good sessio it. Was good, Sessio good.
Sessio, Good night everybody. Night good.
Night. Good night.
Right.