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Craig the 1st. Strike begins.
The Hand of Fate tosses the dice rolls, spins, turns.
A campaign starts and ends, leaving memories that become
stories. Stories flow out into the
infinite Sea, painting it with legends.
Legends wash up on the shores throughout the Infinite Sea,
fitting to myths, until myths are forgotten and the campaign
that gave it birth comes again and again.
The Hand of fate tosses the dice, rolls, spins, turns.
We've got a bit of an interim session tonight, so we may be
either in Allalopolis or Manipulis.
Fate's willing, but first we're going to start off in Alalopolis
with the dreams that Franklin had sent to two individuals from
Manipulis's campaign. I know this was inside of the
dreamlike world of Ishmael's Infinite Tower towards first of
the taxi driver in sorcrities on the planetarath.
Yep, actually too. Now thinking about it, I need to
look up dream there. You go, I can post it too if you
need once I pull up the Internet, which I still haven't
done like a fucking fool. We locked it at a lower interest
rate. Nice.
It's tiny, but yeah, nice. I'm sorry.
I interrupted. Oh, you're good.
Congratulations. Yeah, congratulations.
Yeah. Thanks.
Something that's I assume that was a congratulations you're
worthy moment. Yeah, thanks.
I'm so sorry. You're good.
OK, you target a creature you know on the same plane of
existence. That one kick off then while I
was there. You target a creature, you know,
on the same planet. Yeah, Yeah.
So you you couldn't have done that, I guess technically until
you got back, but we could still play it out 'cause I'm I'm sure
that's still something you'd. Want to?
I'm going to send it at least to the guy on like on in Socrates.
Right. OK, yeah, I got.
Shit to do. So this technically timeline
wise too would have been happening.
I would I would guess approximately that night you
guys were figuring out the God weapons and not weapons, but you
know, tools that you were playing with after you guys
finally did lay down to sleep that that night.
So. Think that was a good campaign?
Yes, that's what I was explaining.
So I don't remember exactly when the last time you guys went to
sleep. Franklin doesn't sleep.
Yeah, I was going to say, but I don't think you need to to cast
this spell either, so. No, it's just whenever the
target sleeps. Yes.
And that's that's the time frame when I think that they would be
asleep from when you would cast it, even though technically you
know in your frame of reference that was earlier than the other
time. Sure, you know what I mean.
Yeah, OK. So let me know how the dream
presents itself, I guess. All right, so I guess First
things first, trying to see if I have that consume mind dancing
job. So this individual will probably
wake up in a very professional business style location, almost
as as if he is at a bank. He would be alone at a table.
There would be just out of his reach a large sack of gold that
he could very easily see. After a few minutes the door
will open and Franklin will walk in carrying a cup of coffee kind
of blowing out. He says, oh, good morning, or is
it good? Easily, I guess your side of the
world. I sit down and extend my hand
and say, well, I have this Franklin Turtle, I'm here to
offer you a rather unique business opportunity.
It requires very little effort out of your part.
The work individual on the other side of the table very dapperly
dressed as he kind of sees himself in general.
He's was sitting at the table, but as you'd kind of come over,
he stands up and goes to almost shake your hand looks at the
sack of gold looks back at you. How are how are you presenting
yourself currently as as our? Extremely presentable.
He does not look disgusting or evil.
He's dressed very modestly, kind of like I will modestly, but
like very high quality so that the individual knows that like I
have money, I'm going to pull out a letter.
It's not a real letter, but I'm making a letter because it's my
dream and I hand it over. I say I represent 1 Ashland and
I can't remember Ash's last name but we have discussed it in
game. Mobolian.
That's the middle name, though. Roy.
It just took my brain a second. Roy.
Yeah. Kroy Ashland Kroy.
She's AI represent her at a legal sense.
We're reaching out to you lucky individual in hopes that she
could make contact with her parents.
You see, she's been long gone. She's been missing for a number
of years and her parents have quite a high reward out for her.
It was only until recently that we've gained the ability to
reach out and try to return her to her family.
Now, any individual that may help us do such a thing will
make themselves quite wealthy of the process, as well as put
themselves in the good graces of one of the most powerful
families, endure their Socrates or wherever the fuck she's from.
Yeah, I was going to fill that gap in for you because she would
obviously know which is starts with an A, come on brain, think
of things, come on brain. I cannot transfer items here.
Road map. Do you say that too?
He's shaking your hand. Probably through that.
Just like while you continue to speak, he's just continuing to
shake your hand. Athenia.
Yeah.
Have you ever heard of the Kroy family from Athenia?
It's not too far away. I I think I have it.
It believes they're the ruling family in that that city.
There's a lot of a lot of kings and Queens though, So it's hard
to keep track sometimes. But some of my tradings have
been done up north in the past, in the past life.
And he he goes, this sounds like a very reasonable dealings.
And then he's kind of scratches his head and he's like, wait, I
don't remember really getting here.
Where am I? You're not anywhere.
You're still safe at home in your bed.
By Fred. We on the other head are trapped
in a different plate of existence.
That's why we haven't been able to reach out to her family.
And you have such a strong psychic connection to the Earth
that I was able to reach out and find you of all people.
So we're reaching out to you, desperately asking for help.
Save this king and Queen's daughter.
Receive a King's ransom. Save the world.
I don't. I'm, I'm just AI don't know if
you know, but I'm, I'm just just a taxi driver.
I'm not sure how you want me to, to help with this.
I'm, I can't, I, I, I couldn't bring myself to stand against
any what, what? I put my hand on his shoulder
and say, listen, you don't have to stand against anyone.
All we need you to do is get a message to her family just
letting their them know she's alive, that she is hopefully
finding a way to them but will need help getting out of the
situation. Have you seen around what's
happening with the giant crevice and circuities?
Yeah, that's going to be one of the problems I'm going to have
getting to Athenia, especially at my careers as a as a land
taxi driver. I I don't.
OK, you could hire an animal messenger.
What? There are plenty of services, I
assume at the city that will send a like a direct message for
you. Well, the the siege that's on
the city is is completely trapped down all land messaging.
I believe that's why Ferris the the city acolyte or the other a
word. Arch Mage.
No. Artificer.
Artificer, thank you. I always forget that freaking
word Artificer. The head artificer has been
working so hard on making the airports that we have for the
Zephyrs. I heard about the Fisher Fancy.
Yeah. I mean, here's the thing.
If you can't get a message out, I guess the next next thing is
like, is there any way that you could help us procure some sort
of transport or even better, like a safe location?
We like, she's like, she's a valuable target.
And so we need to make sure that we're safe when we arrive.
I really don't know about that second option, but the first
option I haven't really we shot down.
I've just kind of trying to been thinking through it here as you
don't have a way to give me any proof it seems like.
I mean, unless there's something over here that he's pointing to
the SEC of gold with his eyes big.
There will be, yeah. I mean, just so you know, this
is all currently in a dream. You could pick up this sack of
gold, but it won't be there when you wake up.
Here's the thing. The money is with the Crow
family themselves. They're the ones paying the
King's ransom. How do I know this is even real
then? Well that's a great question.
I know this is real because what a sub stupid detail that I know
about him. What do you know?
I guess, yeah. There's, I mean, what do I know?
Nothing. Oh yeah, I could roll for it.
Can I try to roll a persuasion check on this dude?
You can, after you roll, roll the history as the helping to
call stuff like that 'cause I think what's going to be.
History is 2020 out of plus 13. Get fucked.
You know, kind of like you pause for a second as you search
through memories from Rural and his time in Socrates in like the
back of your head and you realize that he has a family
that he has to provide for. He he hasn't given any.
He he may have sputtered off some things while you guys were
driving, but you're not sure if that would be be good enough
because plenty of people know his kids names, you know, just
just from around. But then you hit on a memory of
we're all being distracted by him whistling a specific tune at
a specific date and time on their way to the castle.
And you know that that he would remember Raro being distracted
enough to have all four cats staring at him out the window,
even though they were like Rowling and crowsing all in the
back before then. I'll I'll do the like psych
thing where I pretend to be like mind reading be like.
You recently were singing or barely whistling a jaw titude as
your good friends and allies Raoul and his siblings were
watching you from the back of a car.
This true carriage. Sorry I got mixed up.
Lock all up here. Yes, that that sounds right.
But if this wasn't wasn't wasn't real, that could still be in my
own head and me creating all of this.
That's true. OK, here's what we're gonna do
you. Can tell he's starting to spiral
as he kind of like hunches over and starts scratching his head
and he's like but then how do I know that I'm real or any of
this is real or my life's real? I get a huge fucking smile on my
face and I nod along. Stay there buddy.
Listen, here's how you know this is real.
In the morning, would you wake up, go check the and check your
local or check the the missing purses reported for Athenia.
This individual has been missing for some time and I'll provide
information about her likeness. OK for this guy to verify on his
own. OK, I will message you again
tomorrow night once you verified this, if you accept of course.
Obviously we don't want to any danger or harm to come to you,
but you are one of the few people that I could reach out to
in this terrible void of space that we're in in an attempt to
get home. Will you be a hero?
I can. Try.
Good. Bad.
Tell me, are birds real? You just see him like
concentrating at the moment and then there's as the dreams
fading out like 4 tweety bird type deals like dancing or
fluttering around his head. Fuck yeah.
'Cause he, he, I'm assuming, I know it's your dream, but I'm
assuming that it's kind of like any other dream where it's like
if you put enough thought into something, it kind of just pops
into existence. Yeah, I mean he's he's in there
as well. OK.
Yeah, yeah. Hello, Mommy.
Welcome, Olivia. Welcome.
Well, hello. Thanks.
Or me. Thanks for being here.
We're not real sure yet. True.
Yeah, I don't know what we're doing tonight.
I also likely will not be on very long unfortunately, but
I'll be on for as long as I can be.
OK. A little bit like Willy Wonka
saying that, but. We are trying to determine and I
think Emily's in the middle of a call her herself or might.
Just trying to get the house. Yeah, yeah.
I'm in negotiations for house and send an emails right now.
Get it? Compiling documentation, stuff
like that. So I don't.
You said you were just going to be listening.
You might be able to jump on depending I guess.
Then that leaves just you 2 guys for the most part with the
potential of a. 3rd terrible ever happened.
But. It.
Was yeah. Might I?
I haven't posed this option yet. Might even lend towards a Raul
brothers situation in Sorcrities again with any last requests
that Raul has of him together before their mission.
Or like I was saying before you got here, we could spend some
time in in transit to the lava tower and tell, tell me how that
goes. And there's one more dream that
rural, or rather Franklin had sent out.
And the last one was to Allalopolis.
That one's going to be, I think, a rather disappointing, like I'd
said to before that, but it'll be pretty quick.
I think maybe it's. Fine.
I mean, like Olivia said, she probably won't be here all that
long. I don't have that much stuff to
do. Yeah, in in the good campaign
and prep. We do the dream and then I don't
transfer to the secondary location from Ishmael.
Yeah, how did that end last week?
I thought the tower is usually like a one off.
Should we not all die? Nope, it is a one off.
That's one of the things that you guys could have done too, is
if if you wanted to progress through the tower still as
Franklin and Mommy, but flipped. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Proceed Proceed to the third. Third level because you guys
cleared the first two this run, but you'd be down.
You'd do that fairly quickly. OK.
Yeah, but if we die? We die fairly quickly.
Yeah, but if we die, we just respawn, you know, That's in
life. That's game over, I suppose.
OK, we can do that if you guys want to do it that way.
Continued on from there. In that case, as a little bit of
a recap for for parts of what you missed, you can kind of see
the map now. Should be able to anyways.
Yeah, I know you, you can't particularly Mommy, but you, you
would have went up through the first level and I think that's
right after when you dropped off with Yeah.
That was a tree. That's the second level.
The first level was Faust dispelled.
The magic that was being cast on a giant fire ritual immediately
go pretty quickly anyways, go up to the second level, which has
the suspicious tree that you're talking about and some large
glowing orbs that spoke to the them after they got close
enough. I don't know if either of you
heard any of that portion of it, but once they started speaking
to them, the orbs claimed to be Dragons trapped and the skull at
the end of the room, The giant skull was part of the thing
trapping them here. And Faust got the brilliant idea
again and had Ezra and Agonon help put the gemstones, the
giant floating gemstones that these voices were coming from
apparently into the skull's eyes, which unleashed a giant
skeletal monster that was fairly quickly destroyed and used as a
chew toy for Ezra. And then the the Dragons had
promised that they would help everybody in the future if they
they needed. And one was oh, yeah.
So they now they, there's the gemstones are empty.
I believe Faust picked up 1 and Agonon picked up one.
And yeah, Ezra has his pile of bones and.
So wait, So what about the tree? The tree, yes.
So that's something I think I left out even from the last time
that we were playing this description.
The tree at this point in time, after the the pot, the skeleton
turns back into a pile on the ground and the drag there
there's I I wanted to say I'd I was thinking like a green and
gold dragon spectral image passed out of the the gems
floated off through the walls of the the tower.
The tree starts to shake and it looks like it starts to fall
over on its own with almost that cracking sound too of a tree
being breaking its final hinge. Before before you though, you
just see the tree bend backwards almost and and place its leaves
on the ground and then the leaves shed and it grows back
into the the ground on the other side of the staircase so that
it's not no longer in the way. And then the the roots that are
now stuck up in the air start sprouting leaves.
What the fuck? Interesting.
OK, so we won this level while I'm hearing and we are free to
move on. Yep.
Holy shit. It flipped upside down.
Oh, and at that time? Probably that mean.
A soft kind of fairy light floating through the space of
fire. That mean down is up.
Everything just flipped over. I've got a theory about this,
but what this place is? Also, it's good to exist again.
So do you guys. Proceed.
So let's see. Yeah, I suppose we would, right?
Yeah, foul. Things are.
Like an on an Ezra. We've been.
Sitting at that time so. Yeah, we've been going up,
right? I collect some seeds for the
pocket rockets Biodiversity. Of off of the tree that turned
itself upside down. Yeah, but it started sprouting,
right? Yeah, I'm just asking.
I'm clarifying that one. I mean that one specifically and
just anything I see that's not like known to be existing in the
pocket rocket, the biodiverse ecosystem is a strong ecosystem.
OK. So make sure to put questionable
seeds in your inventory from the second ishmo.
There's something it probably turns out looking like acorns to
you, but you're you're unsure exactly because they look a
little bit more elongated and the caps on them it it it seems
to have a cap on both sides instead of just one side.
Oh. Weird.
Chucks out Lego. Lego like a little scroll.
Chuck in my bag. Make note.
Turn to mom. Eh, I think it's just us.
Oh wait, Aganov, you're here. Not but are you in reality?
Sure, I could try to jump in. I'm sorry, what was?
No. You're you're totally good if
you're. Don't feel pressure that you
have to where I just I think it was just I Franklin's seen your
player token and was asking the question.
I guess Agonon's admiring his shiny orb that he has.
You got a shiny orb? That's dice.
Yeah, we got two of them. Oh.
Couple eyes. I took AI recently too.
You have two now. Oh wait, wait, a.
Minute I had to, I had I, I, I took one from someone and I'm
wearing it. Wait, is this Franklin speaking
or Matt speaking? This is Franklin.
OK. Who would you take the eye from
and do they mind what's going on with that?
Paul Kosher above the table signed off on.
Not really, he did it. He deserved it though.
OK, good enough for me. Yeah.
Agonon leans in to take a look at the eye.
What does it look like? It is human looking and blue but
it kind of looks like mad eye Moody's as kind of like sticking
like bulging out of my head, different size head.
Shiny. Yeah.
Good choice. Thanks.
Really fucked up his day. I hope.
All right, we've completed this level.
Let's take on the next one. Yeah, mid while I think.
Maybe a thumbs up. Is actually, and I say this very
quietly to everyone in their ear, think this is a ladder.
I think this goes between Tareth and the realm of the Gods, but
we'll find out if we keep going up.
Mama's just going to give you a thumbs up and walk towards the
doorway to the next level. Skip merrily along.
Oh, you got to like 11 seeds. By the way, I was really
thinking about the good campaign today.
That's why it's stuck in my head.
Oh wait, the goblin that we got here.
Goblin. In the in the previous room, the
Cobalt, I'm going to actually take his head out the last time
and I'm going to cast. Did it to two of them.
Yeah, I did it to two, but this one I'm going to cast a fourth
level consume mind what I will post it.
Does that work if he's dead? Yes, Display In VTT, you consume
the brain of another creature's corpse, gaining its memories and
knowledge. The corpse must have a brain and
cannot be undead. The spell fails that the corpse
has been dead for more than three days until the spill ends.
I can recall any important facts that this creature has.
Building layouts, recent events, passwords, details of his death,
similar information with a intelligence, a wait spell
casting modifier check equalling his intelligence score.
I want to know everything about this fucking tower this guy
knows. Interesting, that is a much more
useful spell than Speak with Dead.
Fuck yeah. Besides cracking his brain open,
I guess. And.
Yeah, that's what I'm going to do.
Slurping it up like linguine noodles, yeah.
I have AI, have a fun straw. Have any other verbal or
semantic that you want to add to it than the slurping noises?
So it's a one ounce fresh or magically preserved portion of
the creature's brain. So my verbal will be yummy yummy
yummy. I got yummy in my tummy while I
pour hot sauce on the brain and then eat it.
Can't actually taste the hot sauce but.
Let's see here I got some other options.
Works for any creature. Oh, I was looking at the next
thing here too. I wanted to, I don't.
Know while they're making use of the spell.
Are loading into your mind. That's not bad.
OK, Ioffer Mommy like a slurp ugly.
Yeah, sure, mom. Mom is not one to turn down
food. Is it cast on the brain or cast
on? It's cast on the it's it's a
self spell. Yeah, I was just making.
I'm just offering her a slurp. This is making sure before I was
off doing something else, because that would that would
have been hilarious. You just like take a slurp and
you get like a few memories of him, like, I don't know.
I was almost hoping to do that with Rick.
Like if I cast it on Rick when he ate the God of a divinity,
what happened? Come on buddy, gain a few IQ,
you can do it. I would say that while you're
experiencing the most recent events first, which is them
having spent seems like many days chanting with only minimal
breaks, the memories seem altered, maybe hazy, and you're
starting to get the sense that some of the lesser creatures
inside of the towers rolls change and kind of maybe the
last image before that's that's pretty hazy.
Is Ishmel standing in front of them?
Are you ready for the new job change?
And the the the the cobalt just answers with a what do I have a
choice? And he goes not really.
And and then the the memories go blank.
That's fine. OK, I relay this information to
Mama fucking trinkets. Sounds like they have a limited
staff. Limited staff that could be good
for us. OK, I actually I'm trying to
make friends with this guy because I've ordered a extra
dimensional room here that we could use.
Hopefully it'll be ready sometime today and I can get our
construction crew started. What?
What an extra dimensional what? So you know how like as we're
like walking up the stairs, you know how this space is
technically not on Taurus? It's not in like the realm of
the gods. It's like floating in space.
I mean, it could be a pocket dimension.
It is, yeah, I think it is. And Ishmael said when we first
met him that it was free of the Gods influence but as part of a
deal with them. Uh huh.
So I made a deal with Ishmael so that we could get our own little
room here that would be free of the influence of good of the
gods, good or bad. And more importantly, if one of
those divinities managed to find their way here somehow wank,
then they would be cut off themselves from the aid of the
other gods. Are they even allowed here if
this place has to be free of their influence?
You would think that, but I want to test something and I pull out
my black book. There's a 10% cumulative chance
that every time I use this it will sub in a divinity or
divinity light to my location. Will that bring them here?
Who knows, it's worth trying. And if we have our own room, I
could crack cast a magic circle so that celestials cannot be
passed through the circle. AKA they'll be trapped here, cut
off from the rest of their helpers.
And then we use one of our the items we got that we know could
kill divinities to kill them there in the room.
Turn this into a House of murder.
A House of liberation? It depends on how you look at
it. Listen, is killing a bunch of,
like I say, 100 gods worth saving trillions of lives in the
future? We could just trap them here.
We could just trap them here, but Ishmael would.
Have to be like all we get off this.
Infinite, yeah. So like there could there could
be a room for each one. Yeah, we could totally see if we
could expand it and like imprison one.
But we have to test it. We have to 1st see if we could
capture one. It'd be really nice to know if
we can kill them, right? And then we capture all the rest
of them, and then eventually the world will be free.
Yeah. That's my plan.
I could openly speak about it more or less here.
Ishmael knows a little bit of it, and I'm whispering this all
too, I guess. Or messaging.
Then. Because I have that.
So then should we not try to get through the levels of hell?
Should we? Do we want to stay here as long
as we can? If you're trying to build rooms.
This is a different plate of existence we can achieve.
We could get to here from here or Taurus.
What I want to do on Tareth is get to the physical location of
the Tower of Babel and climb it to infiltrate the rub of the
Gods started insurgency there. So like.
And or. The gods and like slowly kidnap
them and bring them back to this tower and lock them away.
Yeah, that or start a rebellion or you know, I don't have like a
like a set plan. I'm just kind of reacting and
like that's the point. That's the general direction.
And I feel like we should just take every opportunity that
points us towards something like that.
OK. What do you think?
Well, how many floors do you think there are between this one
and the realm of the gods? I mean, it's the infinite tower.
I think it's, I think it's going to be some sort of trick.
There's going to be some sort of hidden door or secret path that
the gods can take when they come here that's different than the
ones that we take. That one will lead them straight
out. But I don't know enough about
the tower yet. Right.
OK, so then I know we're always trying not to die, but is now
the goal to not die long enough to figure out what the deal is
with the tower? That would be a very good goal
to get to at one point. However, right now in the real
world, we are on a time constraint to get out of hell
before the other team closes the gate.
Mama's just going to look at you.
Like, not, not concerned. Mama's just like this room.
We're in this tower. I'm Franklin here.
What do I smash next? I have an axe.
Mama's just going to look at you and like, pick up their axe and
put it in front of their head or in front of the face.
And can my axe fix? This eventually, yes.
Let's keep going. As you guys walk up the stairs,
there's a certain point when you're walking, you kind of get
disoriented as you're looking back over your shoulder or at
one another, you know, or you know, looking around at each of
each other talking. And you turn your head and the
next thing you know you're walking down the stairs again.
And you walk down a set of stairs into an if you're
starting into a room as the top of the the ceiling of that room
go, you pass under it closes off again.
As you look back around it. There's it doesn't seem any way
back the way you came. And at the bottom of the steps,
they just seem to end in a pool of water, which you're unsure of
how deep it is exactly because but you do see ever every so now
and again, some playful dolphins circling around and some bigger,
bigger, deeper shadows under the water.
Water level Could you breathe underwater?
I feel like Mama can't even swim.
Really. Mama has never seen this much
water before. Well, I investigate the room.
Let's look around the room 1st and then we can stick around
with the water. Yeah, you can roll an
investigation or you can tell and and you can tell me what
you're investigating kind of and how maybe.
So consume mine works for the next hour.
So I am attempting to trigger any latent memories from this
person that I have eaten. There is definitely nothing
triggered by being in this room, I can tell you that.
Let's see, what other items do I even have?
The Wabajack staff of Mile Darkness don't have that much
stuff. OK, I guess I will look for
secret doors or entries outside of the water pool.
Are you ready to go to looking for stuff?
Say to Mommy. Yeah, I'm trying to get D&D
Beyond. Won't load on my phone for some
reason. I'm trying to look in my
inventory to save 5. Anything useful?
But in the meantime, yeah, I will.
So how much of the room is like above the water?
Only the steps that you are on. But the whole room is submerged.
Correct. Oh shit.
I'm going to, I'm going to Crouch down and use my hand,
like scoop up the water and taste it.
I'm not going to drink it. I'm just going to taste it.
OK, so just with that you're you're able to send paste the
salt, saltiness of the water and in general to you, you know,
notice there's a slight breeze in the room with that.
It's not, it's not really a wind, it's just enough to keep
air moving it seems like, and is rather salty as well.
Mom, it feels like like they need a hammock and a corona.
For your investigation, Franklin, were you doing
anything specific? I feel like you were saying
something but I kind of missed it.
Yeah, I was looking for any additional hidden doors.
Right that I'm. Able to use.
So from your vantage point, are you staying on the steps?
Yeah. Investigation.
I like stay. I mean, here I'm like going
around like the walls and like kind of the outer area.
Just just along the steps though.
Nothing. You're not going to start
swimming along the whole outer edge of the room.
No crawl speed. I'd, I, I'd say that you're
pretty sure that there hasn't been any means to go back to
another room that you, you, you've gone through so far and
these steps that you're standing on now only lead that direction.
So as you're kind of running your hand across the Stonewall,
you're getting the warm sense, although that you don't see any
specific direction from which light is coming.
There seems to be an ever present light that's warming
even the stones that are under your hand, which just has a nice
relaxing warmth to them. But otherwise you're not.
You're not finding anything. Although your logic tells you
that there has to be something in the water, some way to move
forward. That seems to be the only path.
Hey, how big is mommy? Could she ride on my back?
I'm 7 feet tall, like 300 lbs so I I could, I could ride you like
a boogie board. So Mom is gonna on the stairs,
like lay down, like belly to the ground and stick their head into
the water just to see if it's magical somehow, if she can see
if Mama can see anything, if the water's magical, maybe, maybe by
like a stroke of luck, it's breathable water.
Who who knows to say going to try it out.
You're going to shove your head below the water, open your eyes,
and then try to breathe. Yeah, I'm just going to get a
sense of if, if breathing seems like it's something I might be.
Yeah, try to breathe. Sure.
OK, so as as it goes, you stick your head below the water.
It's got this kind of nice slightly little bit of cooler
than the rest of the room, but not so much that it's
uncomfortable. Just enough that the heat of
that non non visible light that seems to be shining everywhere
cools off a little bit and you're eyes open up with a
stinging sensation to the saltiness of the water.
But as they kind of kind of blink a couple times, you start
to see into the water and there are some very large creatures,
I'm not sure if you would know what they are swinging in the
depths of this water. But in and amongst them which
they are swimming at the bottom of this water.
You can kind of see now that you stuck your head below the the
top kind of glitter surface of the water besides some rocks and
such. You you notice some grating that
might be for, you know, water circulation.
You assume you don't probably have that knowledge.
Bad water to go away. Poop water.
On the wall or on the very bottom?
On the very bottom, and you can definitely tell that there are
the large creatures don't or don't move very far from this as
they seem to be waiting for other creatures to come near it
and eat them. So how far can I tell how far
away the bottom is? I It's got to be at at least six
memes. OK.
Or mommy, sorry sorry 6 mommes and the creatures that are
floating around to the bottom. One of them turns their heads to
you at the splashing sound and seeing you move your head around
you can tell it's starting to come.
Your direction is probably when you try to start to breathe, but
but as you as you breathe out is what I'll say just to be kind
about it. Do you you see the bubbles
leaving your mouth and and might also be a silent scream that's
happening underwater. You can tell me, but you pull
your head back out of the water, knowing for sure that you cannot
breathe that water. Yeah, Yeah.
Well, the mom is a little off taken by how much water there is
in this room. That just seems like just
unnecessary. Like who who put all of this
here? Right?
Like this is a perfectly good room and now it's full of water.
I can't breathe it. I can't go down there.
There's I'm not scared of no fish, but does mommy does upon
seeing the fishes approaching like a take the head out of the
water, but then also like stand up and back a few stairs, like
back up a little bit to put some distance between between
themselves and the water and looks over to Franklin.
We got to get rid. Of this water.
Yeah, So I'm going to look at Franklin be like, I don't know,
I know you're a turtle. I don't know what kind of water,
water abilities, what abilities that gives you in the water.
If you're a great swimmer, I don't breathe.
You don't breathe. So yeah, you might want to go do
some, some like reconnaissance under that water and see.
I couldn't see a whole lot. It burned my eyes.
Maybe maybe you want to do like, maybe wait a little bit.
There is like a big fish thing coming towards us.
Maybe you could talk to somebody down there who knows.
I don't have the ability to speak with animals, but I'll do
some of the reconnaissance. I don't mind.
We're not. We're not sure they're animals.
It looked like a fish, but that's not.
I don't know shit about things that live in the water.
That's true. I'll casually just walk off the
edge. As you do.
Shit and I I flare out if if anything comes at me I begin to
flare out my my auras. Unfortunately I don't have
anything spear like or javelin like, but I do have, I do have
copper cable. We want to try to like wrangle
one of those, one of those rascals down there.
I'm like Octyed or something. Does lightning?
As you jump down. You.
Experience the something odd in the sense that the water seems
to open up and be a lot more teethy than you remember when
you looked at it just moments before and you you land
basically in the mouth of a giant shark who bites down what
he heard how? Close is this to me?
I can I can. Let me see here.
It's always easy to kill things from the inside.
You and. Black.
Talking about here, it opened its mouth about here.
You're probably since you backed up though, too.
You're probably like to 20 to 15 feet, depending upon which part
we're talking about of this giant shark, because this thing
is huge. Oh shit.
At least half of it's underwater.
Like 15 feet, OK, I was going to see if I could take a swing at
it with my axe, but I think it's too far away.
And I think that would initiate combat requiring initiative
rules. I mean, I just sat down.
Hey, welcome to the party. I walked into a shark.
I did warn him to be fair. Like you cannonballed into a
shark. That's true.
It's all right. This thing's going to find out
real fast why it didn't want to do that.
Yeah, I mean, you have a shell. I feel like it can't do that
much damage immediately. Yeah, I have a shell, I have
auto healing and I do automatic damage to everything within
range and I'm inside it. This is going to hurt you a lot
more than it's going to hurt me, but.
Oh wait wait wait. If you're saying I would
initiate battle with swinging the axe, didn't the creature
already initiate battle by? No, I was.
Saying on Franklin. Yeah, the the creature initiated
battle by mount launching on Franklin.
That was the. Oh OK, so you need initiative
rules? Yes, yeah, absolutely.
Wait, how does the surprise round work again?
I keep forgetting about. It gets to.
It gets to turn before everyone else's turn.
OK, so that was its turn before everyone else's turn.
Biting. Yeah, I thought it would
respond. Yep, stand.
Well, I did roll a 26 so. Oh nice, that would put you at
the top of the order for sure. With the 26th with Agonon on
deck and Franklin to follow and some other giant looming
creatures below. Oh good.
I don't know if my comment about writing my flared actions
happens or not, but you tell me. So with the aura that's, isn't
that just an ever present thing? No, I've got a few.
So one of them's one's an action, one's a bonus action,
another one's a Ah, OK. So the ready and you readied the
action, you can definitely ready the the one that is an action.
OK, perfect. You figure out which of these
three it is. Well, I'm conscious the aura of
the aura of conquest is automatic and it's within 10
feet. If anything is frightened of me,
it takes damage. Former of dread is a bonus
action Cloak of flies bonus action.
So I will have to use necrotic husk?
No, I don't have to use necrotic shroud.
Nope, that's also bonus action. Jesus fuck.
I guess none of them trigger because they don't.
I can't ready the bonus action. Right.
OK. It is what it is.
Mommy, what you doing? Franklin is inside of a shark's
mouth. Yeah, so I'm just looking for
what my oh, 40 feet, it's right at the top got So I'm going to
walk as close as I can to the shark and I am going to.
Reckless attack says you can throw aside all concerned for
defense to attack with fierce desperation.
You make your first attack. On your turn, you can decide to
attack recklessly. Doing so gives you advantage on
melee weapon attack roles using strength during this turn the
next roll, but the the attack rolls against you have a
disadvantage until your next turn so or had advantage so.
For you is I know you're not seeing the scene set before you.
You said walk towards the monster.
You're currently on the second lowest stair on the overall set
of stairs. Each of these stairs are about
10 feet wide. So you could easily to well the
like from the wall to the edge out facing.
That way you can know you're standing on something that's
maybe about two foot wide of the tread, like the tread of the
stereosome, 2 foot wide, but the but from the wall towards the
center of the room. They're they're long, like 10
foot. However, where the monster is
positioned, like I told you, is easy 15 to 20 feet away.
And as you go up the stairs, obviously the monster gets
farther away in, in one, one range of action, right.
You're so you're if you're because you said you're trying
to get as close as you can. So you're, you're kind of as
close as you can be already just by walking to the edge of the 10
foot length of tread. Yeah.
Or because otherwise you're going to be walking up 510 feet
up the like the stairs themselves.
They're, they're spaced very sporadically.
So you've got like a foot at least in between each one of
these stair treads. So we're we're talking somewhere
in between this the same distance tend to a little bit
closer actually probably if you're up higher, but you would
have to like hang over the edge to swing down if that's what
you're trying for unless you're. Throwing, yeah.
So I guess that's a question. So do the the stairs just
continue or do they like drop off like a ledge at some point?
They drop off like a ledge where there would be.
That was going to say. Because.
Mommy would be willing to like walk into the water up to like
waist deep, you know, to get closer to to help out Franklin,
but it's not out an option. What was that?
Screenshot in the chat. Oh yeah, I can do that.
Oh, I see. OK.
Oh, you already put one in there.
Smart. Thank you.
So. I Oh, I see.
OK. I can't.
OK, This is not what I was picturing.
My head. That's helpful.
All right, then. Yeah.
I'll use the vicious hand axes. OK, And so instead of doing what
I was going to do, we are going to rage.
That's a bonus action, so I'll do that at the end.
You can do that. All right.
Because you want you generally want to rage before you attack
because it increases your damage.
OK, yes, I'm going to rage again.
Advantage on strength checks and saving thrust, +3 melee damage
with strength weapons. Resistance to bludgeoning,
piercing and slashing. That's going to be helpful, I
feel like. Grapple the fish and take it out
of the water. I.
Can no there is AI got an extra? Where is it?
There's something about grappler.
I have the grappler feet. I have advantage on attack rolls
against a creature I'm grappling.
Yeah, grappling itself is just an attack action, so you could
just use an action to grapple, but.
Then I would have to jump into the water and I don't have any
confidence that that mommy can swim.
So then then you would just have to, yeah, you would have to,
like, rescue me, which might not help.
All right, So I'm going to roll this three separate times.
So I'm raging. So it's a 13 to hit, 27 to hit
at a 26 to hit. Was the first one a 13?
Sorry. Correct.
I believe they all hit then that first one just. 132726 Hell
yeah. All right, let's look at this
damage. Oh no, 66 damage.
Plus. 11. Damage yeah, 6 + 11 + 10.
Oh, don't forget to take your damage previously, by the way,
Franklin of 27. I know we kind of get. 11 + 1006
+ 11 + 10 OK so wait 1727 and +93636 damage?
All, if I remember correct, slashing magical regardless 36
you said. Damage type is slashing.
Yeah, 30. 6. Cool.
You're, I would say. Aiming for it's eyes.
It's eyes. OK, that's.
What it's going to be. I, I like some forethought in
there. The first one doesn't hit the
eyes. It probably kind of misses and
hits the Gillen and you can see it flinch even more than you
expected, maybe from that damage wise.
And then the other two hit really close to its eye, but it
you can tell they're really small targets.
So it's it's was the I have to go back now actually 27. 2726
and 13 are the three hits. And you so you rolled A-17 on
that one. I'd say you hit it with that one
actually hit it hit the eye. So it it cringes away still with
Franklin in it and it's and it's Ma, but it it can't do anything.
It's not it's turn so. Take that fish.
And you can see that it's you've drawn blood and you can tell
there's a stirring in the depths with the blood that's entering
the water. Oh yeah.
Action bonus action and used some of your movement.
Probably they just get to the edge of that stair instead of up
as high as you are now even. Yeah, correct.
So that would be your turn or. Yeah, yeah.
That's my turn. With Agonon up and Franklin on
deck. Sweet, so the stairs you said we
were towards the bottom. I just want to confirm because
it looks like these steps that are longer underwater, am I like
close to the water or high up? You're close to the water right
now. So these ones, these ones are
farther away from the water. They're up higher.
OK, yeah, it's just the graphic looked like they were
underwater. Yeah, it's kind of trying to
force a perspective that the that the ones that are up top
that are bigger are I see closer all.
Right, let's see, I don't want anything and jumping up out of
the water and grabbing me so I will walk up the stairs.
Five 10/15/20 25 and then as my bonus action I'm going to cast
Hunter's Mark on the big fishy and then going to shoot Mambo.
So roll to attack inventory, no actions.
OK. Does it 22 hit?
Will hit. Cool, so and then my Hunter's
mark would be a 1D. 6. Yeah, Oh.
Yeah, hello. 18 damage welcome. And then I get my bonus, my or
my extra attack. There's a 19 hit.
That'll hit. Sweet rolling for D image.
Oh. 6. Does Hunter's Mark still take
effect? No, it's once per turn.
Oh, OK. Mm hmm.
So it was that 18/19/21, 24 damage total, yes.
I believe so. Yeah.
You see arrows flying from above everyone else, the satisfying
thuds of hitting the center mass of your target Agonon, but you
can tell that they hadn't didn't hit any vital parts as it as it
as it's still holding tightly to Franklin in its mall.
I don't have the words for it, but he shows profanities at the
the fish, something about his friend.
He's not, he's not good with words or affection, but that's
the intent. OK.
Are you popping back into existence by the way, Ezra?
Is that? Yes, for as long as I can.
Yes, I will. Because you, Franklin.
OK. I little fish.
You said Franklin and Mama is just going to like like look at
you, like like look over at you and wink and nod and then look
back at the fish. That's that's currently.
Mommy. Mommy.
Help like a regular vagina. Are you able to roll me an
initiative, Ezra? Yes, I can.
OK. That's the Spirit.
Otherwise it is Franklin, I believe,
if you were done. Of course.
Shark. How big is the shark?
Is that what you just asked? Yeah, on the inside.
Is there enough room for me and my friends?
The teeth might get in the way, but yeah, that's.
Fine, that's not going to be a problem.
Assuming it will be my turn, I'm going to cast a dominate monster
on this thing 24. Rig.
Oh nice. I don't know how you want to
slot him in. You'll come back around on the
next round since you're. That's fine with me.
But you'll be second from the top with mommy just before you
at a 26. Hold a HEFTA.
Hefta, 26. Oh, Mommy.
Kind of sounded like you said mommy.
Oh mommy. Oh mommy.
Oh, Mommy. Oh.
Mommy. Oh Mommy.
Oh my, can't it, George? The key I would do.
Quite, quite needy, but yeah, I'm a barbarian.
That's. What I do at things with axis?
OK, I need a wisdom. Throne Mommy, what are?
You. Doing Yeah, that's right.
That's me from inside this giant shark.
I notice how roomy and spacious it is.
Am I underwater in here or is there breathing face in the
stomach? I, you're, I, I didn't think you
were trying to go for the stomach.
It didn't. It didn't one bite.
Oh, I'm just in the mouth right now.
Yeah, it's currently trying to chew you.
Oh OK, well first I'll I'll cast Dominate monster on this thing.
Yeah, I'm still trying to read through.
So if you or creatures that are friendly to you are fighting it,
it has advantage on this wisdoms on this save.
Yeah, OK. So.
Wisdom save of 19. Come on baby, be my scuba gear.
An 8 and a three. So I guess not that it's not
exceeding. So now the the creature is like,
I'm not, I'm eating the the. The question I have, though, is
like, can sharks conceptualize friends?
What's there? It doesn't need to.
I can simply take control and I can take total and precise
control of the target. 3rd paragraph.
It'll be an action, but. Link with it as long as the two
of you are on the same plane, isn't it?
You can use this telepathic link to issue commands so that yeah,
this is OK. So yeah, I guess what's your
command? All right, I instructed.
Hey, bud, you're not going to attack my friends anymore and
you're going to let all of us get inside of your body and that
you're going to drive us to the exit.
And then I poke my head out and say, hey, I taped this guy,
everyone jump bed. We're going to use him to get
out. And I guess you would just get a
like confused response, but a sent to your 'cause I'm assuming
you're picturing what you want in your head too, not just using
words. Yeah, like a direct mental link.
Yes, yeah. So intent.
Oh, and crap. You can tell that some of it is
a lot of it is very confused, but the other thing that you're
realizing is there is a ever present worry in the back of its
mind that seems to be increasing the longer it stays in in this
position. Yeah, if it takes damage, it
gets to make a new wisdom save. So I'm I tell my allies, don't
hit it or don't hurt it. Everyone pile in.
We're going to use this thing to jet out of this floor.
OK. If you're sure.
I mean, why the fuck not? Hey, well, Bobby can't swim nor
can she breathe underwater, so if we can get her a little scuba
suit. So.
I see, I see. Made out of living shark.
Is that your turn? Oh gosh, at the start of my turn
I heal automatically. 6 points plus three points.
So I get 9 HP back and then I will.
I'll instruct my swarm to with my bonus action to look below us
to identify where the exit is for the shark to take.
OK, I'm assuming you're not sending you're you're talking to
Amos, who is directing forces to to do so.
Yeah. OK.
The first thing that happens is they get into the water and they
start becoming fish food immediately to any smaller fish
that you're seeing. Well look at the others sub may
die but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
Good, that's my turn. OK, you know, for the real.
Fun. Yeah.
So, so Mama is going to follow suit and get in as fast as
possible and just be like we need to move because we are not
the biggest thing in the water. Well, it is not.
It is not your guys's turns. So you don't.
You're hearing Franklin, and you're prepared.
Oh right, we're still in battle. Yes, something.
Else. Yeah, everything else.
This this engaged the you know the six seconds of movement
speed. Yep, exactly.
So what you start to see materializing beneath the shark,
especially from your perspective, Mommy, Ezra and
Agonon. Frankly, you might not notice
that the water is getting darker around you because of the blood
that's already in the water and it's kind of hazy to begin with
with. All of the.
Your your crickets do and and the shark does which.
That's true. Where the most of it's coming
from it seems like right now and.
I used a charge of my Kodaks. I need to roll AD 10 or D100.
Oh, OK. 14 God does not show up it.
Was really close though. Damn Jesus, this is four off
you. Have.
To roll to get God to show up. 10 or under.
Oh, 10 or under out of ADA 100. Interesting.
Yeah. So 10.
Percent chance. You guys see breaching just
below the shark and just before you, you notice this happening.
Franklin A he's doing it again. What you only see see as a
Unicorn fish. I don't I didn't have a really
good token for it. So it's Spears this shark
straight through the center with its horn that's as as almost as
long as its own body. And.
And let's see here. Is this a narwhal?
Yeah, for hats off. It's a, it's a giant narwhal.
And you see for some. Corns or actually?
Teeth. Yeah.
Sorry, go ahead. And for some reason this, this
particular narwhal has a a patch of hair over it, over its eyes
just slightly. And why?
And you, you see it make eye contact with you guys that are
on the step and Franklin, you feel, you know, being lifted out
of the water. OK, I'm just reading through all
of this. As it breaches the water fully
with the shark on its horn, it kind of turns slightly in the
air, slamming back down into the water, dragging the shark and
Franklin under with it and trying to whip out at the group
on the stairs. For with with its entire tail.
It's it's a, it's a tail whip with a 15 reach and it that is
going to be a 23 to hit. So how high up is the top step?
I it is pretty high from the waters surface you mean though?
Or from the the bottom of the water.
Am I in range of the dolphin's tail?
Oh yeah, sorry, the narwhal. The narwhal jumped straight up
into the air, like the 20 feet that you guys are up and went
back into the water. OK.
Yeah, and it's it's body. I mean just by turning its body,
you were easily in range of the attack as it slams back into the
ground. It is.
Let me see here just for some perspective on the matter.
It is easily like 30 feet long. And it was a what the hit?
23 I want to say. Yeah, yeah.
That's with. 26 bludgeoning damage.
I think that's beat beat for mommy Ezra.
And sorry, Rick, you're Robotin. What was that?
Something about asking in range? I caught that much.
Anyone catch anything else? Does that give us a advantage?
I was guessing. I'm next to it.
Oh, buddy. I'm sorry buddy.
Also, if it's moving in range and then out of range, do we get
opportunity attacks? That's, oh, that's what you're
trying to ask, OK, Trying to see if there's anything that would
stop that or if there would be any reason that you wouldn't.
OK, you may try. Yes, I don't see any reason why
not. You may try OK.
You can try certainly. Try.
You may survive do. We get a bonus action with that
or no? I think opportunity attacks are
reactions which can or are limited to actions.
Yeah. 4 reactions and just a normal bow shot for me. 2828
will hit, 11 will not hit I seen from Agonon.
I knew spreads. With this and it was Ezra who's
asking, I think it was the 28 or 24.
I see it actually now in the Chads finally, finally populated
that definitely still hits. Oh.
No, no, that was, that was my damage.
Oh no, that's the damage plus 11 + 11.
So 35. Yes, and if he doesn't like
acid, there's some acid in that. Nice bro.
Yeah, piece of acid. No, it doesn't.
It don't, It don't. It's all the same to him.
So 3035, right? Yep, and can I stay latched onto
it? You would have had to do a
grapple. Do you want to stay latched onto
it? It has Mommy, of course I want
to stay attached to it. Well, I don't.
Know I feel like just the just the shark let go when it's
impaled it's. Just it can't let go.
Oh, you mean a Franklin? Yeah, yeah, 'cause it's, it's
now like fully full on. Vlad the Impaler paled.
Like I feel like it's jaw would go slack.
I would I would say that it may because you're probably not just
sitting there Franklin, I would guess either right.
You're, I mean, you kind of were you kind of were before, but now
you probably as you're being drugged down to drugged down to
the depths might because you could use as your reaction for
this round, because I didn't actually ever give you a
strength check either to to see if you get out of the grapple.
Oh, got. It that it was so if you want to
take that opportunity to roll a strength check.
Sure. Is it still grappling me if it's
under my control? That is also a good question
because I think you could technically give it a command
instead. Spit me out.
And it's more of a cough, but you come out with a stool of
blood. I'm.
Giggling. That was fine.
Were you going to take an opportunity to swing at this
thing, Mommy? It also hit you, just so you're
aware for that. What was it?
Now I have to go back to it 26. And you took 26 damage.
You should be. You should be halved because
you're raging. Yeah, so 13.
Yep. OK, yeah, so if it's close
enough where I can swing at it, you better believe I'm going to
come at it with the bejeweled great acts of justice.
I figured, yeah, that's 27 to. Hit and then 17 + 3, so 2020
slashing damage. You hear as it's going down a a
under the water besides this swirling, splashing water of
blood that is left from its wake, a resonating whale and
your guys's heads, including yours, Franklin, as you're
floating to the surface and it says 2.
To follow. Gosh, if you wanted past you
just have to answer my riddles 3.
Gosh, you swing too hard. Gosh, why didn't you just?
Tell me. I was not posted out the door.
This is an emo narwhal. Napoleon Dynamite with a horn.
I know. Like riddles.
No, I just eat you. He's right.
He will. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
So if he can talk to us that can we talk or like is this a one
way communication? You can tell that it's straight
into your head. So like you can kind.
How does telepathy work in that regard?
I think it is two way, yeah. So you can talk to it because
it's kind of like at a presence in your mind that you're
responding to basically. So yes, you can talk to it is
the consensus. Oh, they didn't see that posted
on the door? I mean no, but if you're
intelligent I figured someone would have asked around.
Wait riddles Wait riddles? Why did why does everything
start attacking if there are riddles to be answered?
Nobody said the shit your. Attacks.
So why are there riddles? So how do riddles get us
through? That doesn't make sense.
I am the one who reigns here for.
OK, why don't you guys tell, should you tell your guys to
stop attacking everyone before you can say there are riddles?
I don't control them. Oh, see don't rule here.
I. Rule with my iron horn.
But you said that you don't control these guys.
Not every second of every day, my Jesus.
What's up with all these questions?
I man the one asking the questions here.
I mean, you haven't asked a question yet, just just.
Going to point that out. Fine.
You want to know our names? I don't know, questions.
I don't. She doesn't even know what
questions are. I don't have eyes, but once I
did see I once had thoughts, now white and empty.
What am I? Oh.
Jesus. Lunch.
Got a good point. So I drop out the eyes and I eat
the eyes and I crack the head and I eat stuff.
Not that none. Josh, can you put that in the
chat? Yeah.
Yeah, I'm really bad at audio information comprehension.
Yeah. Thank you.
I mean, that does kind of look like the remains of something
that Ezra would have eaten once across the street.
What? Let me I.
Think that's too literal though. White and empty, right?
It's like a skull maybe. It seems so simple though.
I don't have eyes but once I did see I once had thoughts, now
white and empty. It's got to be a skull.
Yeah. I take one out of my backpack.
And you just. I mean you guys is.
That your. Answer.
I'll look through the others. Hey, you're here too, but you
guys think? See it lunch.
I mean, this tactically, was Ezra's lunch.
That wasn't wrong. Sure.
Is that what we think? OK, three gas goal. 01 down to
to go is. That a yes.
Come on man, just let me have this.
I got 2. More.
So yeah, so we got that one. Second one is pronounced as one
letter in written look. At the others and I just kind of
shrugged. 22 letters there are and two only in me.
I'm doubled. I'm single.
I'm black, blue and grey. I'm read from both ends and the
same either way. What am?
I the others. So a palindrome with a single
black bling pronounces one letter written with three.
There are no alphabet letters that are palindromes.
No. So there's 3 letters, two only
in me. So that's an M and an E and
something else. I'm double.
I'm single. I'm black, blue and Gray.
Empty pronounces one letter pronounced as one letter in
written with three 2 letters. There are and only two in me.
But it's written with three. I mean, it's got to be a number,
right? Pronounced as Oh no as one
letter. Ezra's going to intimidate you.
Give me hidden character or I poop in your water.
Poop, poop away. My creatures love it.
There's one. Letter.
Oh, there's three characters. Two of them are the same.
I'm double. I'm single, black, blue and
Gray. Are you a rainbow?
Nope. Nope.
I. Is it I?
Oh. Yeah, yeah, BYEI am double.
Yes, I'm single. Yeah.
And I as a single can or double. And.
Two only in me is kidding me yeah, you just black eyes, blue
eyes and Gray eyes and. Two only and me the heat that he
has two eyes. Mm hmm, good thing this dude's
not a spider. That's a good one.
Does he have two eyes? You would have seen from when he
burst from the water. He does have two eyes.
Not wearing glasses right? So it's not technically 4.
No. What color are his eyes?
That would have been very hard to tell from your perspective.
Franklin. Others may know him as as black
eyes mainly. At least that's what it they
looked like. Black beady eyes, I think.
You got some black beady eyes my.
Like a hamster. Be that guy's eyes.
Yeah, well, I technically. Yeah, I is that your final
answer? I are.
We playing pirates? Kind of.
Well Boo to you, only one left and I was having such.
Didn't you be happy for us? Oh, this is, this is, this is
all I got. Once you're gone, what, I won't
have anyone else to play with. I guess all these others in
here, but they're not talking to me.
They're pretty dumb. We have a handy little bottle
that we could offer you a new home in.
Oh no, they're keep saying. The last Riddle would I go with
you? The cost of making only the
maker knows valueless if bought, but sometimes traded, A poor man
may give one as easily as a king.
When one is broken, pain and deceit are assured.
What am I? I'll wait for the text to get
through the read it. I sent them through previous pre
reading this one so you guys could.
I'm reading the Leisure. I'm read from both ends.
What? No, you're reading the wrong
one. No.
Yeah, starting with. The cost of.
It's not creating a good break in between these, I don't know
why. I'm thinking something about a
heart or love, but the first sentence I haven't been able to
fit into that guess. I'm going to assume this is a.
Promise or an oath? The maker knows valueless of
bought. Bought a price.
Yeah, it's valueless to buy someone's products or bought or
to buy someone's promise. But sometimes traded.
You definitely trade promises. Poor man may give one as easily
as a king. Yeah, When one is broken, a
promise is broken. Pain and deceit are assured.
I like that. Yeah, I.
Promise that this don't stop as her head hurting it hurt him.
Well, you get your wish little ones, and there seems to be A at
the bottom of the steps as you're swimming to the surface.
Franklin, I don't know if you want to move your character out
of the massive sun in there, but water seems to trickle off to
the side as a kind of a dam perform forms up at as a next
set of stairs that proceed down from your guys's location.
Congratulations. You coming with us bro?
Only if you have such a thing that you said.
I don't know. There's one condition.
We've got a friend in there already.
You got to play along. We don't have that.
Got to play nice. We don't have it with us.
We're we're we're not a good campaign.
The. The people.
Is in the campaign, has it? He can.
He could live in the pocket rocket in the water there, but
he used to be the biggest thing. It seems like he likes being the
biggest fish in the pocket. Are you going to eat that?
Are there other sentient creatures there that would be a
big boon to me? There's, I mean in the water or
like in the pocket rocket. With with.
Do you just want to talk to someone?
Within at least 60 feet, Yes, exactly.
Yeah. Well.
I only want to talk to some occasionally if they want it.
What solve them? What?
What it What's? What's?
Your name, Big boner 69. You like that stuff?
Fuck, I was trying to think of something serious for a second
60. Nine, that's my handle.
Tell my friends, tell my friends.
My friends call me Jed. Jed.
If you guys are saying that out loud to he would probably go
with we can go with Big Boner 69 for now.
I like the sound of that. CBS 9 OK.
Jesus. Yeah, that, that sounds good for
me as long as. All right, how do we how do we
get BBS 9 into the pocket rocket?
He would have to hold one of the poop tokens and then teleport
in, though he'll teleport into the entry.
So we'll have to work our way. You'll have to trust us to like
get you to the pool. We'll have to get like a little
strap system. Does anybody have a ring of
resizing? Not in this game.
Let me see if I have enlarge, reduce.
How long are you safe out of water?
I can. No, I do not.
I'm looking here, I have to check even.
How? How much?
How much do you? Weigh BBS 9.
That's not a pertinent question. Oh, it is you're.
Going to be a muscle bommy. Do you do you have any squeezes
him a little bit. You look plump.
Do you have any magical powers? Any magic abilities?
He floats, floats up to the top of the water with his horn
sticking out and is just just to get his eyes and his blowhole
up. And he blows some some of the
residual water out of the blowhole and is looking at you
guys not not opening its mouth, still talking telepathically and
says, says to the first question.
I think that I could survive for at least an hour without any
real detriment out of the water. I breathe air, mostly.
OK, wow. How does levitate?
Dry out. Oh, that would be a good.
One I can cast levitate, but I don't know up to 500 lbs.
But I don't know if I can move something laterally.
I can move it up and down. Yeah, you have to.
There's. Nothing about lateral move.
I mean mom is pretty strong. Yeah, if if she's floating
there, you could just like push her.
Along. Yeah, yeah, especially if it's
floating right, that like no friction because mom is £300.
So I don't know how much this this guy weighs.
I weigh significantly more than £500.
Well, but I I do have. To.
The other answering it's just none that I believe would lift
me out of the water. Oh well.
If we. Can't take with us.
Maybe we leave you some friends here, right?
We probably have some friends in the pocket rocket we could leave
behind. I mean.
CBS 9. The the the goblins that are in
there would have to choose if they want to move.
I'm sure at this point they would love to get out of the
pocket rocket. We just have to strategically
word this right. Like would you like to go
somewhere else? We don't have to tell them
where. Well, that that's why they're
they're with us. They that we promised them to
take them out of hell, and I think they would.
Probably wake up at the end of. This.
But will they wake up if they if they just like we do, will they
just wake up? I mean, that's a.
Risk I'm willing to take at the end.
Depends on if they die or not I guess.
Win, win for us. We get them back.
You're not wrong. I mean, you're not wrong.
That's actually we. If we do that, we should get
something more out of this guy. BBS 9 when you're on land, can
you? Roll very ineffectively.
How far? Not very far.
Can you scoot? Can you flop like seals do?
Yes, yeah, that is something I can do.
But. Or Walworth.
You would not be very It would be very demeaning to say the
least. We can not watch.
We can get we've. Got to watch.
Out to the skeleton monster. Yeah, I mean, yeah, what if we,
like, ask all the goblins to help, right?
There's like 500 of us trying to move this guy.
You put like a net. Down on the ground before we put
him in there so we can drag him on the net.
Or a cloth or something. Maybe we find some like butter
or some oil and. We like slick.
The. Yeah, we get a big pot of
boiling water. Yummy.
He blows more of the water out of his blowhole at this.
Just kidding, kidding, kidding. How far in the packet rocket
would we need to move BBS night? He'd have to go through the
entry, through the living space on the left hand side, and then
take a hard right at the main entry to get into the ecosystem.
We've. Noticed any size change changes
when we take things into the pocket rocket?
Does anything change size? That's the guy even going to fit
in the pocket rocket. I.
Know they expand but. Not ultimately, as in scale.
They don't rescale, although you guys all know that you overtly
rescaled to fit inside the pocket rocket in the 1st place.
Besides that, no, the the scale seems to hold from one side to
the other. So if they're like one 1007 and
one, they're going to be the same.
They're going to be the same at that other scale.
It's just like. A Yeah, we might harm this guy
trying to get into the pocket rocket.
Probably. Unfortunately.
Well. It was at least nice that you
offered. Yeah.
Yeah, we're good people. Just.
Trying to help. Not evil or anything.
Right. Yeah, it's entirely perspective.
What is it should? We should we Mosey on.
Yeah, yeah, now that we have the sweet exit.
Before we leave, Ezra Glass, are you going to eat that?
Pointing to what? The shark.
It seems like the narwhal has released the shark back to its
back to the depths, and it is you you see being fed upon
already in a frenzy by many other at least a couple other
sharks. You just ate a goblin like 5
minutes ago. So.
Much you lose, Ezra. And all.
Right, I'm going to jump off, but you guys have fun.
I hope the rest of the session continues swimmingly.
But I'm sure. Good night.
So yeah, you guys cleared that floor and presuming that you
Scroll down the next set of stairs, do you want to keep
going? Yes.
Sure, take a look at what's next.
OK. That's three floors
consecutively and you guys have taken minor damage, but I think
we're going to we're going to have this be the ending of this
there. It was 28 damage, correct?
That's stretching my brain matter.
Eventually. 2626. OK.
Thank you. Yeah, so make sure it was
bludgeoning if that matters to you.
I heal. Well, and you, you had the the
bite, you didn't take the tail whip, which was different.
You take 3333. I think it was from the.
I will see, like if we're not fighting I heal 9 points every
turn. Every turn.
Fuck yeah, that's. Like OP.
Every. It's wildly OP.
What? Ability is that.
So if you look in my inventory, the Vile Book of Evil, I traded
the ability to heal naturally or from a curing wound spell, from
heal potions, that kind of stuff.
And you can. Only heal via that book.
Only this book and if I use like vampiric touch or like
innervation stuff like that. OK but it's the book says it's
1D6 per turn but I have the warlock invocation that says if
my familiar is within 100 feet of me I heal Max and I am a
level one life cleric so every time I heal I get +3 so it's
nine points every turn. And out of combat, a turn is
what? How many seconds?
Like 5 or something? 6 So for six seconds you're
gaining 9 health. Yeah, I'm, I'm very, I'm very
tanky. Just push you in the front lines
from now on. That's what I that's why I'd
walk off the edge. I was like, yeah, all right.
So you guys walk down the set of stairs and then, you know, you
look back over your shoulder to see as you cross the ceiling
space. And now you're walking up a set
of stairs. And as you reach the landing
with another set of stairs that are leading up to a blank
ceiling, you stand in a room that seems to be chugging along
with a conveyor belt in the center and a fountain off to the
left side or the West side. And a few people working on that
conveyor belt with a steam pouring out of a a little
machine that keeps pumping bottles onto the conveyor belt.
And each of the the and the fountain seems to fill up each
of these bottles as they get passed along onto the onto the
onto the line of factory workers, it looks like, who are
eyeing each bottle, adding things as they go.
And then the last person in the row is taking the bottles off
and setting them in crates. Before we go in there, I just
examine them, try to see what the fuck they're doing.
Nobody's like. Like what are these bottles?
Nobody seems to. Negative.
Noticed you or care that you're here it seems like so you're
you're just kind of looking across the room that them and
you want to do an investigation check is what you're going to
ask or. Yeah, I'll look to Agonon too.
I think you're pretty good at this as well, right?
You're already creeping down to the next level.
Oh, that's not the the, that's the way you guys came.
Oh, OK. And like I was saying, the set
of stairs that are leading up lead up straight into a flat
hard side. Ceiling.
Sorry. OK.
No worries. Yes, I will do an investigate.
Would it be investigation and perception?
Perception. Which one's better for you and
then I'll do the other. OK.
I'll do an investigation. If you want to do like a
general, yeah, look, look around. 24.
Noise perception, you're looking kind of around and besides those
things that I explained there, the room itself seems to be
devoid of any insurance or outs than the stairs.
So you're really confused at where these bottles are going
and how they're getting here and even how how these people are
packing them and the crates that they are packing them into.
You're just utterly befuddled by this whole scenario, I would
say. And in general, these people
seem very out of it. They don't, They're not.
You know, you guys walked up the stairs not not stealthily, but
probably not. Probably not super overtly.
But what did the what did the people look like?
Doesn't. Hurt me.
Just Amber, they're all. I have a hand on on Ezra's
collar. Damn it, they're all.
They're all wearing similar outfits except for one
individual who seems to be dressed slightly less or
slightly different. They're all kind of this draped
cloth clothing with hooded cloaks, except for the one or
the main ones are green and the second one's black.
The the one that's the odd man out.
They look to be elves and the room as a whole kind of has a
industrial smell to it. Keebler helps.
My investigation check will be to see if the bottles contain
the same liquid that Agonon grabbed from level 1.
Ezra's going to sniff the air and see if they're tasty or
smell tasty. With a 25, are you walking up to
one of the bottles or you trying to just investigate it from
afar? It's kind of investigate it from
afar right now since these guys don't seem to be taking to note
of us too much note of us from where we are.
How are you investigating from afar is what I'd like to know.
How are you? Just.
Eyeballing it real hard trying to guess.
I will send. From afar, it looks like liquid
in a bottle. Can I send one of my swarm,
which is one individual flying member, up into the air to scope
it out while I look through their face hole?
Sure. Are you Amos comes out and and
just try to do the best that I can.
Bossa, you want one of those small guys so that they don't
get noticed. Yes, Sir, be.
Speedy. And do.
They smell like delicious. Keep laurels.
One of the smallest crickets you've seen float over.
And Ezra, you're getting just no, not, not any delicious
smells because they all smell slightly sour with that stench
of oil and grease, specifically those of machines and the small
cricket that is sent out to land closer to the bottles, maybe on
the edge of the crate looking at one of them and leans over to
kind of get a whiff it at one of the closest seams.
It doesn't. You don't get anything from
that. But visually, it looks like
water in a bottle. Don't see anything different
about it. Look, tagging on.
What do you think if we talk to these guys?
I mean, doesn't really seem to be any other course of action,
so. Could let go of Ezra.
Nah, Nah. I think we should have a little
discussion first. There's.
Another course of action, all right.
They don't smell good. I will step forward if Agonon
doesn't seem interested in leading the discussion.
So that was me clearing my throat to get their attention.
That was in character. Yeah, I didn't realize.
So you, you step forward. Agonon, how tall are you again?
I am. Just a second I'm.
Trying to find that on my character's seat sheet.
Give me a second features and treats.
Not sure where to find this. Does anyone know where to find
this? It would have been something you
entered in and I believe it's actually under background.
Background. I'm 6 feet.
So you're standing twice as tall as most of these individuals as
you step forward and clear your throat, and none of them look at
you. They all seem to be busy about
their work. They don't even hear you clear
your throat. Oh.
Ezra walks up and picks up an elf.
How I get out of here? Maybe.
Maybe you just didn't get anything from it.
Let me there we go. I want to see this.
I was trying to look up from some quick stats because I don't
I don't always have everything prepared.
So the one that you pick up looks dead eyed at you and then
back at the bottles that it's holding.
Because I'm assuming you're going to for the closest one who
was over by. That looks different than the
other ones too, unless you want to tell me otherwise.
Oh no, the the the closest one immediate to to satisfy Ezra's.
I'm impatient. I'm going to get a an elf in my
hand so I can go. Hey, how do I get out of here?
Right. Yeah, it it looks at you, looks
back at the bottles that it's holding into in both of its
hands and takes 1 and continues to pour some of 1 bottle into
the other bottle and then look at them again, sniff it while
you're still holding it and picking him up.
He seems to be basically ignoring the situation.
Ezra takes the bottle from him and pours the bottle on him and
restates the question. Answer question You're smelly,
but I will eat you. Yeah, it kind of shakes under
the under the water that was dropped on its head, flutters
its eyelashes and and eyelids and goes blinking profusely to
trying to get the water out and goes what?
What, what, what, what, what, what, what, what?
Where am I? Who are you?
What's going on? I Ezra, how I get out of here?
All right, all right, douse this other one on your head.
I don't. I don't know.
What do you, what do you, what do you want from me?
I I can't. I don't even know where I'm at.
I cannot picks up another bottle and splashes it at the alpha
cross the counter. One of the other ones.
Yeah, at this elf here, I'm assuming Ezra is standing up, is
holding the self. Yes.
Yep. See, I splash.
How do I this guy? This.
Oh wait, you moved your character over to that one.
This one specifically just clarifying.
Wait. Ezra's holding.
Wait, Ezra's holding this one correct?
Yes, No, Ezra is holding this one.
Move. The character over for you, OK,
because that was the closest one is what I would have I would
have said from that situation. OK, then Agonon will pick up a
bottle and splash this guy. Right.
Right there. OK.
OK, he begins to glow with a a a bright light in a radius of 10
feet, but otherwise kind of shakes his head and then goes
back to work. And picks up the other one.
Potion your roulette splashes it.
Seems to grow a pair of wings and then floating up towards the
ceiling and holding the bottles that it's still holding and
trying to trying, trying to like set it back on the conveyor belt
like autonomously. He's too high up.
Like a like a robot that can can been complete its its last last
command so it just keeps repeating it.
This is great fun. He's going to run over, pick up
one and splash this guy. And OK, go back up to this.
For some reason, he, he, he breaks out of the trance and
then he just starts to, to sweat profusely.
And the sweat for some reason kind of looks more oily than it
should. And he then he's in his shaking
of the sweat, he's like, where the hell?
What the what? Huh?
And then the this amount of sweat that I'm talking about to
starts to pull at his feet. And as he tries to move, he
slips on it and falls back on his ass on the ground.
Well, buddy, you OK? No.
Oh. Again, offers a hand to help him
up. So you walk around to try and
grab for his hand. I'm going to need a Dexterity
saving throw to hold on to it. OK.
Just as he's turning, turned. Into Andrew's going to take the
elf that he's holding and just throw it.
Throw it right over to Franklin. You're useless next.
Catch on. Goodbye.
And you're you're not able to grasp the hand Agonon just
before Franklin starts his his his talks there too, and he
falls. So it's like oily sweat.
Yeah, yeah. It's like greasy, like to the
point where like you would you, you would you're, you're, it's
like kind of a mixture of oil and water where you can't hold
on to it. I was going to put his palm on
the conveyor belt so it like wipes off as the conveyor belt
moves. And the bottle start piling up
at the end of the conveyor belt with no one to work on him, with
the the sky flying and glowing in the air and this one falling
on his ass. And what?
Is going on. So yeah, the the guy that gets
thrown to you, Franklin just goes what?
Hey bud, you know what's happening here?
Not really. You just, you don't know what
are you making. I'm like cradling him.
He looks around as he was thrown at you.
He looks around and he goes. Last thing I knew I was I was
studying the effects of of this magical liquid.
Hey, that's it over there coming.
Out of the fountain. I don't know, I don't know.
But you don't remember anything. No, it's it's all a blank after
after the I was sitting in my research room and making notes
on on the effects of this magical liquid and how combining
it with other little minor magical things, plants, you
know, other other essences creates other varying effects.
Well, where's your office? I don't know.
Is it nearby? Nearby I needed to talk to.
Somehow continues to get higher. You don't know.
Jeez. I guess I'll investigate the
room looking for doorways attendee there later.
We should probably just steal all this.
Yeah, there are no, while you're looking around to and just
looking at stuff, there are no labels on anything, even the
crates or the bottles. You're realizing though, that 4
doorways as doorways go, rather you you look up at some point
and you see where there is a pile of crates off to the
northwest. There seems to be some sort of
hatch in the ceiling, like 30 feet at least up in the air that
seems to be dropping these crates down every now and again.
And on the southwest where the crates are are piled, there
seems to be another hatch below some of the crates that you you
suspect is where the crates go off after they're filled.
I will point that out to the others.
Yeah. Where's the Hatch that the
crates disappear to? I'll.
Disappear to Yeah, I will put something in.
I'm going off of your last investigation too, so I'm not
just pulling off with an error, but I know you have a high
perception anyways, Franklin. Is I have a passive 20
perception, passive 23 investigation.
Yeah, nice.
Ezra's going to look around, see that throwing the water on them.
Ezra's going to go pick up the other elf and start splashing it
with this water. It's all the different bottles.
Just pick one off of the conveyor belt and splash it.
Buddy, you gotta provide it with stuff.
OK, see. Yeah, you, you.
What the fuck was that number? Now I'm just going to throw this
hatch over here for now. It doesn't quite look like this.
And that like that big so they can fit crates through 1st when
you grab off of throw on him an eye appears on the back of his
neck just and he starts to go what the hell I could see so
far. He starts starts to gag from you
can you're guessing from the disorientation as he's turning
his head back and forth too much.
Don't worry, I fixed it. It pours another one on it.
My God. And it seems like one of these
are some of the last bottles that are coming through as the
clean conveyor belts starting to slow down with the pile that's
being crashed down onto the floor on the other side there.
It doesn't seem to do anything this next one that you splash
across him, he still looks very oily too.
If anything it's maybe worsening that effect, but doesn't doesn't
visibly do anything this last one.
Feel any different? Any, you know, tingling
sensation? Feeling lucky?
Bring this to me. He starts to breathe heavily,
and he's like seeing these tall, bigger creatures standing over
him. Just like, did you just leave me
alone? I ask simple question how do I
get out of here? Did he hear?
Oh yeah, sorry, I responded. It was just too high pitch
probably for it to come through. And he said he he doesn't know
again. Thing you remember a little guy.
Ezra gets your table with the one in his hand and and tosses
it at the opening over there. Opening where?
Over here. The the one, yeah, the one.
No, no, the other one, the one in the South East West corner.
Oh, that's not an opening, It's a.
It's a hatch, it. Oh, it's a hatch.
Yeah. I thought it was an opening.
No, it's this is, yeah, this is a hatch that the crates seem to
be delivered through that into the next level.
I didn't have a good representation very quickly.
I was trying to do some other things.
I was trying to find a better one but I haven't found 1 yet.
I look at the look through the other door to see if it happens
to be his office. The other door?
So there were two trap doors, right?
Yeah, trap doors. When you see each other though,
I'm like, are you talking about the one where the crates are
coming from or the crates are going to?
I guess where they're coming from.
That one's. 31st OH oh man, I look at this machine, how big is
it? Quite large.
How heavy I look at mommy. White heavy, we're talking 20 by
20. Oh geez.
And it stands up at least 10 feet, so 10 by 20 to 20.
And then that's, that's just the fountain portion.
You know, there's, there's kind of like a spot that seems to be
filled up every now and again where the bottles are dunk,
we're being dunked into and then the conveyor belt, which is like
45 feet long by 5 feet. I can't take this thing, Dang.
Yeah, another like 5 foot by 5 foot cube of of machine that
seems to be fabricating these bottles that which seems to be
petering out at this point. I mean, I collect the bottles
and all the stuff, I very quickly make a make trips to the
pocket rocket just to drop them off.
The ones that are here the. Ones that are already packaged.
Yeah, all these boxes. OK, I don't know what that does.
But OK, I mean, there's resources.
We take resources. 12345678910111213141516 Let's
say 17 with these other two smaller ones.
OK, that that proceeds to take the next like at least three
hours? Nice time is infinite here.
We're just filling up as many battles as you can in the back
racket. Yeah, I'm just taking as much
stuff, all the stuff. Loot, loot, loot.
Loot, loot. Loot.
Lift the room, Lift the room. Loot.
Loot.
Loot everybody. At this point I I would guess
you guys would be taking on an exhaustion point.
Correct. Worth it.
Oh, Ezra's been just sitting there contemplating.
I am so bored. Oh, so you're also really
hungry? Not really hungry.
So while walking around and like moving stuff, Agonon is asking
one of the conscious elves questions.
This is the oil guy, right? The one that's the end of the
line, yeah. Yeah.
So she's like a so little guy. What's the last thing you
remember? He goes on to say I think I was,
I was. I don't know if I don't know if
it was a dream or or what. I was happily sitting and on the
Lakeshore by myself. Where do you call home?
Let me tell you, there's no lakes around here.
And he starts to kind of get like this, like really hard,
concentrated look on his face. And then he goes, He raises a
finger and then he goes. I don't know.
What's your name? I don't.
We'll start there. Oh boy.
Well. You seem to have been enslaved.
We woke you up. You're welcome.
You can come with us if you would like, but it's treacherous
out there. Or actually.
Do I have a choice? Did you just live in our house?
Yeah, you could. You like the the idea of a
little pocket universe home I. Don't even know what that means.
OK, just just a second, hold that thought.
It's going to come over here to confer with the fam.
That. So what?
Are we going to rescue these guys or?
Well, that's the. Question in the pocket Rocket.
So there's a question here because we want Ishmael on our
side, but that also means accepting some of his bore
baseless enterprises. Hats off Ishmael is the dude
upstairs. Yeah, so telling.
That this is a part of his. OK, so oh, go on.
So as far as we know he controls this whole tower.
I ate some dudes brain in the while you were gone or listening
and it confirmed that these individuals don't have a choice
and they are essentially mind wiped and given new roles in the
tower. Basically it's the same guys
playing the goblins, playing the sharks playing the everything
and. Their bodies change as well.
Yeah. And they the thing that impacts
us is that we are hoping to utilize this power, which is
outside of the realm of the gods by some ancient agreement with
this guy, to be able to trap into either in prison or start
offing gods here. Oh, OK.
So we don't want to make him too big.
Yeah, we don't want to make him too big of a an enemy.
OK, see, I thought that this really is something to solve and
maybe wasn't it. Is a function.
Of the tower. So I don't know, Ezra.
Kill the elf to make the door open?
Or does Ezra break the machine to make the door open?
I think that's a great question, Ezra.
I'm pretty sure it's probably not killing these guys.
They don't really seem to have any good info.
But if you're hungry, just like I'm not going to stop you.
And they smell funny. Yeah, they they seem a little
bit too sad to eat. No that, no stuff.
They just smell funny. Oh, OK.
When they cry and sad, they sad they make them salty.
Very nice taste. So did the tasty brain tell you
what happens to these minds, these minds when they die?
Do they reincarnate? Or does he lose them and have to
procure more? I think they reincarnate because
this guy, the one that I ate, had the memory of art of
Ishraville talking to him and saying Are you ready for your
next role or your next job? So it's it seems like it's the
same guys. OK.
They get roles, are they? Are they small roles?
Big roles Are they Fluffy 20? Fours.
Or. Cornbread.
Guys. At this point, to the first guy
you picked up, Ezra stands back up and goes.
I think we have to mix this stuff with stuff.
I just had a thought and it's this is after you spent like the
three hours moving everything back into the pocket rocket.
I think in one or or the other of the bottles I'd created a a
potion for moving through walls. You could not say that earlier.
Oh, it just appeared in my, in my, in my mind.
I look up at the ceiling. Thanks bro.
You started going through the bottles.
And he goes, I, I think it was a they all are sort of water look
likes. But if you hold if you hold your
magical vision, you should be able to see a a particular hue
to the waters for their particular magics that are
associated with them. Anyone got to tech magic?
Nope, you are speaking funny words.
I. Franklin, you have magic keys.
You're magical. What?
Do you have magical? I don't have detect magic.
Isn't that the same? If a magical versus being able
to see magic. If you magic, then you see the
magic, right? No, I see what you see.
Magic's stupid. I will cast locate object to
find a potion of wall walking. Describe an object and I poke
that guy and I say describe it. Well, with magical sense it it
would. It would appear to be, I'm just
confirming where all of the other ones look like water.
They should have different hues. This one should be hued blue,
close enough to the water as well.
Everything. Else in magical sense.
Yes. I turned to Ezra.
You could kill him. And you might wait, wait, wait.
It might have. It might have another sense
sense to it. It has, I think.
I think if you sniff it, it kind of has a cinnamon smell.
There you go, clap him on the back and then.
He starts like pulling his hair out.
To ease your mind, little elf. You don't actually die here.
You'll come back if you die. If that were to happen to you,
What do you know? Reincarnate What?
What do you say? How do?
You know. How do I know?
Can you prove it? I mean, there's one way, if
you'd like me to, sure. He just seems really out of it.
I don't think you know what you're asking.
We can prove it to you by killing you, but I think that
would hurt. He just.
Looks a little Ezra make very fast.
Just looks a little confused, he goes.
OK, OK, little guy. There's this tower and there's a
bunch of different jobs. You got put into this job.
If you die, you'll come back doing a different job.
Do you like your job or would you like a lateral transfer?
He. Goes a.
Lateral transfer I guess. I don't know what that OK,
maybe. You could come back and roll
that you have to fight for your life.
You could come back as a shark swimming around in a pool of
water. You could come back as a tree.
I would really like it if you came back as a shark.
This all sounds great in theory, but I again, I don't.
I don't know if I believe you. Hey, you don't have to.
And I'd snap his neck. That was taking far too long and
I tossed him over to Ezra. How are you?
How are you trying to do that? He's not.
I grab him. He's not without some sort of
resistances and shit. Go.
Ahead. I'm gonna I mean, I do so as a
sneak attack, I guess. I don't have that much strength.
Oh, let's see, are we telling him now?
Yeah, I he, he took too long. I I look at Ezra and I just kind
of give him the nod. I jumped on on his head.
Go ahead and roll. Ezra's going to eat somebody
because that's what Ezra likes to do.
How does the 19 feel on him? Oh yeah, that'll do.
And since I have not taking off having anything, so it's going
to be 11 + 3. So could have barbarian 14 all
to just I'm right to right to the dumb piece 14 damage or to
the dumb piece. OK, it's a yeah all all, Ezra
added up. We'll say that that that's a, a,
a Yeah, You, you bit his head off.
He just, his body stands there for a second, kind of wavering
and then to the floor. And the guy that's over here
still sweating an oily substance starts freaking out and try to
run, try to run away, keep slipping and falling on the
ground enough so that he he he starts to catch his feet out out
from under him and gets a good slide going and then like goes
head first into the wall just while screaming the whole time.
Would you? Also like a transfer, Something
in middle management maybe? Let me roll damage to see if
he's alive still after that or lunge into the wall.
You're, you're talking to him and he's just twitching on the
ground like he, he, he, he seems to have broken his neck.
Oh. Check.
Turn to the third guy who's. Floating somewhere 35 feet up in
this in the air, still, still trying to complete his action as
if he's on the on the on the line.
We wake him up, he's going to have a real rough time.
Should we just put him back down and have him continue and then
just keep picking up his bottles?
I'm going to I want to scrape some of the oil off of the dead
guy's arm and mix it with one of the bottles.
It I mean it changes the the the color for a second when you
swish the oil into it, but then it somehow just goes back to
blue like as if it were just water.
I don't know guys, this is a weird one.
Did we look in all of these crates?
I assumed we did as we were moving them.
Yeah, all of those crates are in the pocket rocket and they all
have similarly water looking filled bottles.
Is there like a label on them like Aquafina or?
Nope. Ezra's just going to go there
and kill the last one. She's 35.
He's he is, he is, he is over being here.
He is killing the last guy in the.
Room you can't reach. Him.
Yeah. How are you doing?
So is what I'm. Asking we're we're in the air.
He's just like hovering. He sprouted wings from at one
point when Agonon threw bottle on him and it's just been
floating there 35 feet up in the air and trying to complete the
action that he can't. See how, how, how how high up is
the conveyor belt? The conveyor belt sits probably
3 feet off the ground. OK.
And the thing the the bronze then has the smoke coming out of
it. How high is that off the ground?
5:00-ish to six feet depending upon where you're standing on
it. The the pipe itself is probably
another couple feet above that. Even that the tallest thing in
the room is over here. The fountain which is the top of
the fountain might be like 20 feet near.
Say so Ezra's going to jump on the conveyor belt, jump on the
bronze thing, and then make a leaping snap to try to bite and
drag down the guy in the air. Acrobatics and then of course
you can. We'll see how that goes and.
Oh come on Acrobatics, let's don't fail me now, 12.
You're able to get up in the air, jumped off the conveyor
belt on top of the bronze equipment.
And as you jump up in the air from everyone else's
perspective, you're like, it looks pretty close.
From your perspective, you're probably still another hole,
Ezra away and as you land back to the ground.
Anyone have rope? I mean, this guy might, I'll be
able to offer clues. I know he doesn't really respond
right now, but can we get inside his mind?
Maybe can you do the the control culture thing and try to
communicate with him while he's in his trends?
I can't control monster him but I do let me see if I have
another 4th. I can.
I can cast consume mind on him
which will require his death. Wait the guy who's who broke his
neck, I walk over to him and I just RIP his head open and I eat
his brain. I cast a consume mind.
I don't want to overuse it, but. Sure, you get a.
You memories are very scattered it seems like, one of which most
recent. It seems like of him just being
what looks like reprogrammed as he, he, he.
But you're you're only guessing that because the there is sort
of this swinging pendulum in front of him and Ishmael's
reading off a script to him. It seems like to tell him what
he's supposed to do. And he just keeps nodding with
drool dripping off the side of his mouth.
But then you're you're kind of getting like the image kind of
looks like it starts to melt in his eyes.
And there's this sense of like all of his other senses just
melding together and into this giant Gray glob of, of
nothingness. And then it, it kind of comes
back again with him standing at the line and putting bottles on
it. My.
God. They don't know anything.
And, and some of what you overhear, though, while he's
standing there is that you're supposed to help them figure out
the that there's a challenge here.
And then and it just even sounds like his words start to turn
into. A.
A.
Blur for the For the creature,
you're wondering whether or not their minds have been melted
from too many rewrites. I write that down.
Consider in trade if Ishmael needs more people, turn to the
others. All right, so confirmed with
this guy again. He definitely was rewritten many
times to the point where this dude's brain is just mush.
He's just a factory worker and I slap an Amazon sticker on his
chest. I don't know how much we can get
from this. He's supposed to tell us that
there's some sort of challenge here, but I don't know what the
challenge. To be bored I'm maybe I'm so
bored here there's nothing to. Eat too late for that.
There's water that does weird things.
We took the water to the to the house.
Are we supposed to make more bottles?
He walks over to the the metal thing and started to give more
bottles. Give.
You're you're whacking it and nothing seems to happen very
much at Sir. At first it kind of sputters,
Bottle falls out of it onto the conveyor belt, but the conveyor
belt's not moving at this point and it doesn't do anything.
I didn't break it. OK, so rewind for a second.
The elves were adding random things to the bottles that they
went past. Is that what we first saw when
we came in? They were taking some parts from
1 bottle to the other and mixing them.
Doesn't didn't really look like they were adding anything like
from their person or from anywhere else into the bottles
really. So as the bottles came down the
line, they were mixing some with the others and then putting them
back. Right, correct.
I have a feeling that we need to make a potion that grants us the
ability or some sort of ability that can get us out of here.
To walk through walls, that's what that guy said.
He said the one that we needed was smelling cinnamon.
Oh, I'm sorry. I thought that.
Yeah, I thought that was the. Flying.
I'm sorry. Oh, you're good.
So if you guys want to like dig through these to see if one
smells like cinnamon, I I can't smell things anymore.
Yeah, agonomal, start popping the corks and sniffing away. 19
To smell for cinnamon. Would it be?
What kind of check would this be?
Investigation. Oh, Edward's just sniffing it
out. He's not.
He's not going for that. So I see a 17 and you'd set a
19. You guys both find a couple or a
few? Let me see here you find in
total you guys find about 5 bottles that smell like
cinnamon. There's only three of us, so
bottoms up. Bottoms up.
Again, I was going to check one. Well, he'll sip it first.
OK, I don't think it matters. OK, a little quick here.
A little poison is better than a lot of poison, right?
That's hilarious. You and Ezra are probably
standing there with the bottles, presenting them to Franklin, I
would guess. Yeah, is how I've imagined this
at this point. I got to look something else up
here. You.
Can. Oh yeah.
Starting to you talking to me?
Oh yeah, Ezra's in like a full, like dog point, like a Doberman
going there. Look there.
It's that right there. As you as you took a sip,
though, you feel yourself start to kind of mellow out, but then
you feel kind of a burp coming on, even just with that little
bit. And as you belch a, a blue beam
of force comes forward striking Franklin magic, a magic missile
of 1D4 plus. But you, you feel you're without
you, you kind of feel yourself otherwise hazing out and you're
you're 1 foot starts to kind of meld through the floor before it
kind of starts to solidify again.
And you're kind of. Stuck.
You do. Something in the floor.
He he points his face to the. Walls.
He takes yeah, he as he realizes that his foot's thinking and but
it's the facts are fading. He points his face at the wall
and takes another step. I have to clarify because this
is magic missile. It cannot miss left or right and
which where is everyone? Well.
It can't miss if you're aiming at what you're aiming at and
he's aiming at the wall. Each dirt hits a creature and it
does say of your choice, but it says creature.
He points his face at the ceiling.
So. The one employer dude.
Yeah. You as you drink enough that you
can feel and you kind of kind of feel too now as the as it's
sinking in that you can will that your way through an object
of but you feel the burp coming up that is inevitable and you
belch three more things of force there.
So don't forget to take three points of damage, Franklin from
that first Magic Missile. Oh yeah, and with the three
burps as he drifts through the floor, he says the three burps
are accented by goodbye, guys. No, you don't.
You don't. You don't meld through the floor
this time, but you could feel that you could if you wanted to.
You kind of gotten a little bit of a sense of control over that
part part of it, it seems like. But these burps are inevitable.
It seems like as as they come belching out of you or you, you
knock him out of the out of the sky and he lands on the ground
with with a a brutalized core just for a total of 13 damage
that was done to him too. Do I feel the effects fading?
I'll. Shot.
You took a gulp of this time, right?
Yeah. You're, you don't feel them
fading as fast. You're you're noticing though,
that you're diminishing the amount that's in there.
So you're guessing each. With the sip, it lasted about a
second. With the gulp, it lasted about 6
seconds. So you could imagine this whole
thing lasting somewhere of an hour if you had the whole
bottle. And now you've just used a total
of, you know, 7 seconds out of that.
So just so, just so you know. OK.
Well, guys, this effect fades. I think we got to go.
Just take some, go through the floor, belt you away.
We're running out of targets here.
We got to move fast. Is, I mean, he's got, I'm
assuming time has slowed as I wait for you guys to respond,
but he's got a few seconds to either make a decision to face
the floor or not. OK.
So yes, yeah, I I'll take one as well.
And as I do, I say maybe we should just keep running.
Like if this lasts for an hour, just run like straight through
the next floor and the next floor and the next floor.
And as you take yours, Franklin, that's I'm.
Going down. 1st. Three more darts I'm trying to
get, I try, OK, They did all come through towards Ezra, A
force damage. Ezra, you should do.
You should take it, should have taken it first.
I can take that. Look in Ezra.
A total of six of an 8 8 damage the force, Four damage 8.
You're not raging, are you? It's Force.
I should probably rage just to make sure everybody is OK and
everybody just looks at me while they burp.
Oh, you did rage once already today, so you know they got.
One more. One more, yeah, I only got two
more to play with. That's it, as they're going to
start biting themselves just to keep his rage going.
How long does rage last? Actually, I've.
I forget that one. One minute.
Oh no, that would have been gone.
Yeah. You guys, you guys have been
you. It was like 3 hours that you
guys took to get the. Right.
We were deliberating. If we could only have waited 4
because rage comes back at short rest.
So do you take the last potion or there's there were there were
a total of 5, but 22 are in hand and you take another one.
So you take it and you belt your magic missiles off into nothing.
It seems like it they just they just kind of float around the
room looking for a target. It seems like as you sink
through the floor. Fuck yeah we did it guys.
We solved the the the the Riddle somehow, but just killing
everyone in the room first. Tell us the answer.
I don't know. Stab.
Tell us the answer. Stab.
I mean, Ezra's answer to everything is violence.
Same. Now, as you guys are about ready
to drop off, I know the last thing I was going to say is that
Ishmael greets you As you guys meld through the floor, you're
caught. You kind of lose focus for a
second because everything becomes a blur.
And the next thing you know, you're standing in a very small,
cramped cabin with each other. And there's a Ding.
And then the doors open up and you fall out.
Wow. And Ishmael is sitting in a nice
chair. And then you realize as you're
getting up on your feet, you look down.
The floor is glass and it's faced out into what looks like a
very starry galactic nebula expanse that he and he's besides
the chair that he's sitting on, there's only a rug and what
seems to be some sort of feline in the room.
Kitty cat. You don't hate the cat.
Rolling to resist, Eat the cat. Rolling to resist Eat the cat
I'll. Get a big smile on my face.
I thought so. This is not good.
Against the cat. I rolled a nod to resist eating
the cat. Command sit need.
A. Wisdom saving drove from you.
OK, Wisdom saving through 11. Nope.
I sit like a good boy. Good boy.
And Ishmael greets you all and it goes well.
Good evening to you all. Oh, Ishmael.
Sorry about that. Are you going to eat the catchy?
It seems I was a little distracted in my work in setting
that particular floor up. Had to improvise and create a
solution for you to get here. You're good.
I hope you like the chamber that you requested.
Yeah, it's perfect. Looking forward to getting to
work. The walls are all copper lined
with a Faraday cage of magical powers interwoven in between all
of that so that it's a anything that's inside can't get out, and
anything outside can't get in. Here we.
Perfect. Besides that, that elevator you
came down through, and this door over here which leads right out
into the vacuum of the infinite sea.
So if you want to keep your flesh where it is, or don't want
to float around infinitely, I would not suggest going through
there. Noted.
Looking forward to it. Other side notes, I know you all
have come here via Astral diamonds before to get here
otherwise you would have to to get whatever you're bringing
creature wise either to agree to come with you as in join your
party and take an astral diamond with you or take an astral
diamond with the intent of coming here.
Any other ways to really bring people or things things things
are easier, people are harder? What if I have a way would it
work? If you have some way to
incapacitate someone, I don't think that would work
unfortunately. The incapacitate the transfer is
more about think of an astral projection.
It's kind of like that. OK, so are we physically here?
Yes and no. That's why you're able to come
back even if you die, he says. That's kind of like a finger
guns. The same be true of things we
brought in here to kill. That is a a valid question.
I believe for the most part, yes.
It see my realm isn't really connected to all those others
and in my realm I have yet to create any other deities.
That's the way I kind of like it.
And for that reason, I just when things die, I repurpose them.
I like recycling, do. You control what gets to come
back in this room. Very good question.
I can to some degree, but if they were to have other ties to
other realms, I can't control those.
So to answer your question simply, yes.
They would have to die to leave though, right?
No, I can't simply close my eyes and will myself to leave, can I?
In this room, No, not from this, This room perfect.
Unless you were to find your way back into that elevator over
there and take it up to my my, my, my room.
I created a a direct link for my for for your purposes for when
you are summoned here because there is as again I said, no way
in or out besides that elevator. Is that why Ezra's so hungry?
It's because things are not really here.
I don't think so. I think you might have a
parasite. Ezra no have worms.
Quality. That's me I.
Don't think we ever got you shot.
Your cat has worms. It most likely does not, as it
is largely mechanical. I find the mechanical beings are
easier to not only get along with, but continue to operate
over long periods of time. True bangs require a lot.
These are kind of Mumbles. Won't work if I break it.
So as long as we. Was alive in this room and can't
get in that elevator. It's trapped.
Can gods kill themselves? You are acquisitive sort.
To answer answer that question, you have to look a little deeper
into what makes a God a God. And some of that has to do with
belief, some of that has to do with powers they've obtained,
and some of that has to do with powers that they still yet hold.
So to answer your question threefold, most gods have
contingency plans. So if you find some way to
completely remove their life force, as it were in their
current forms, they more than likely have some means to come
back, duplicate, or simply be reborn on the spot in some
cases, as it may be. It's quite complicated, but
essentially they're kind of think of gods, the bit as
energy. They can neither be created nor
destroyed. It's one of the reasons why I
like recycling. Guys, your plan might leak like
a sieve. There is one very, very and very
uncommon way that gods are usually, at least in our minds,
killed, and that is by their own volition.
So they have either. You have to either coerce all of
the force out of them and take their energy for yourself or,
and that includes all of their reincarnations or contingency
plans as I was stating, or they have to willingly give it to you
all. But.
Gods, those are smart like that. I think you, if you guys are on
the path to godhood, I I don't think.
Oh. My God.
I have a knife under the table. No, completely simpler.
I eat all the believers. With my analogy there when I
said that they can't be created or destroyed as you can become a
God from the mortal standing but it requires a lot of energy so
you have to get this God like energy from other places.
You might not have to kill an entire God.
You may simply remove some of their, we'll say godshards.
It's the easy way to understand it.
So you can understand what I'm talking about.
They they're they're they're, they're kind of like your souls.
You guys all have souls as mortals and those.
It. Still exists somewhere and those
those gods usually collect a lot of that sort of energy like what
that is that holds the soul to build a stronger vessel to hold
more of that energy. Hence a God Shard, or God soul
we'll call it. And you probably haven't been
told because they don't want you to know, but I.
Lean forward a very. Fun fact, are there God items
I'm sure you've heard some tell about that are strewn across the
infinite sea? There's lots of those.
Those have to do largely with proliferating their belief in
the gods themselves, so they have to invest them with some of
that power of theirs. It's minute compared to, you
know, the God themselves and usually overlooked.
But as I told you, I like recycling.
And sometimes when I was just starting out, I would take those
items, break them down to their magical components, essentially
destroying them and gaining some level of godhood.
So I'm telling you, there are essences of gods all around you.
And he kind of looks at your neck.
I've noticed you've been missing some jewelry recently.
Yes, we've decided to forgo our conversations with Mannyopoulos.
I can see. What's my being?
Well. Maybe it's straight with you,
Wish Bale. I don't want to be a God.
I don't want to become a God. I don't want to have said to
godhood, I want to recycle all of them.
Oh, that is a hefty ask. I don't.
It's an old boys club. Are you going to at least
compost them? I mean.
I assume they got the the energy from black odds could not be
destroyed, but it can be put into nature.
Yes, redistributed. Yes, I have no desire to ascend
to godhood myself. All I desire is that the unseen
hands that control us all. And I look at this 4th wall stop
and everyone everywhere is free to make their own destiny, not
be influenced by the likes of the gods.
They stole my childhood and by life.
They took Agonod from her home all for their own, he from his
own. Why do they get to choose they?
Don't I didn't have much going for me anyway so.
That's, that's pretty, pretty deep for someone so young.
You must have seen some dark things.
I'm sorry for that friend. If I may call you that, you may.
Well, that's good. I will leave you with a letter
before you go, but hope that you can find these accommodations to
your liking. Maybe we'll talk more later.
I think so. Thank you for all the
information you've been with us. Very helpful.
Badly. I don't quite like the gods
myself. And aren't you God?
In a manner of speaking, and I was at one time, but you, you
kind of. I don't know.
Get bored with it all. Bunch of upper management shit.
Start kidnapping people, forcing them to fight just for fun.
I get it. Yeah, you could call it that.
Everyone is here, usually there at their own free will.
You may have noticed some things.
It seems like though while you're here, those that like to
come to me usually don't have much in their lives, but those
that live in the tower have nothing left in their lives and
wish to forget about their previous lives and endeavours.
You might want to consider that option, Franklin.
It would be a lot of much simpler existence, but to each
their own. Break whatever I'm holding.
Oh, you have new what? What ad non sake in you have new
upper management people. They wanted to move.
I helped them. We had some some transfers
within the tower, but I think you might need a refresh.
You know sponge is getting a little stinky.
Yeah, that last guy didn't even know what was going on.
Yeah. I again, I, I apologize for
that. Sometimes, you know, it's, it's,
it's an infinite tower. I might be myself largely
infinite compared to this space, but infinite is relative, we'll
call it. So sometimes I miss things.
Good to know. All right, I have to go.
Yeah. Hope you guys all have a good
night Ishmael, it has been great.
Looking forward to working with you in the future.
Look forward to our dealings. Bye.
Good night y'all. Bye, that might be a good place
to. Call it.
Oh, yeah, that's what we're doing.
Oh, yeah, yeah. A grand and wonderful.
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