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Tara through the campaign. Many polos, my Lord and Savior,
welcome. Hello fucking.
Craig, she is not yet a believer.
My Lord, I apologize. I will get to her.
Oh wait, are we worshipping him now?
Yes. Oh.
That's a thing. So Baltazar Boust for when
wherever you were, whatever you were doing, you blinked and
opened your eyes again, and you stood upon a table.
Or you stand upon a table rather, which has much things on
it, larger than life. And as you look out to the edge,
you see a starry void. And you only know it is for sure
a table only because of the mundane items that are upon it.
That like of candles, a compass, some books, cards, keys, coins
and paper which you stand upon, as well as some dice off to the
side there. But all of which though are
probably at a scale of almost 20 times your size it seems like.
And and you follow the. You'd probably follow this sorry
expands with your eyes to to see that it's above you as well, and
that the only light besides those stars are from the candle
on the table in the void. I do believe that this
constitutes a combination of an arcana check and a religion
check to figure out what the fuck is going.
On. You can do both.
Whichever you do first, I will explain first in.
Go with our Connor first. Man, these dice hate me.
Ten with a + 6. Yeah, I can see that you're kind
of looking around and as a whole, most things seem, like I
said, mundane. They don't really emanate with
any magical sense that you're familiar with, although some of
the books are are arcane in nature.
You can only guess because you can read some of the titles.
Could you actually tell me some of the languages you know?
That is something I failed to select all.
Right, kind of. Rushed on the building side of
things. Oh, no worries.
Yeah, there it. I just know too that.
See you're with what's the rules on getting languages?
Is it? I forget if your intelligence
factors in or not. No, not not this.
Not this. No based on your back or your
class. Your class, your background,
background, race, right. And sometimes race.
Well, usually race, yeah. I was going to say definitely
race. I mean, depending upon your
background, you could be, you know, like an elf born in like
dwarven territory or whatever. And yeah, but normally you get
to like choose an extra one with your background anyway, so.
So yeah. Those are.
I. Don't think wizard really gives
you any and that's what I think. He just knows Common and Orcish.
That doesn't seem right. I feel like Wizard gives you a
few. Well, it's your background, not
your class like. Yeah, background.
Like if you're an urchin I don't think you normally get one, or
if you're like an acolyte you get like to choose another one
or something like that. Oh, maybe at level 1 is what I'm
what I'm forgetting here because I think there are things with
your class that usually gives you stuff later on.
You get spells that allow you to learn languages and.
Stuff, yeah, you can learn like languages.
Yeah, yeah, the spell tongues. Yeah, I chose the.
So with. Guild merchant so.
With. Languages.
Yeah, I think. You can get an extra language
with that. Oh yeah, I'll pull.
I'll pull the book up real quick.
Common Orcish and. Just pick an extra 1.
Yeah, we'll just go along with the name that I chose for them.
It'll be the double language infernal.
Late German is an option. So with those languages, only
one of the books. Kind of stand out perhaps?
In the Infernal, the other books, and even some of the
papers under, you have languages on it that you do not
understand, other than the first piece of paper that you find
yourself standing on, which reads Tara, the Path and folds.
There you go. So that's your Archon to check
all. Right, it is religion time to
see if like the gods have plucked me, like to some
purgatory or if I've died or something.
God 11. Oh damn, 6.
Guys really don't like you. I'm.
Down. You can always use your own
dice. I'm going to go find.
Some, yes. So you you look around and
there's a bit of a sense of what you're actually expecting to
find, which is awe, as if there is a divine sense around you
kind of encompassing the area that you're standing on the on
the table, not just where you stand, but as you kind of move
around, I'm guessing to the different things and looking at
stuff, you are that you're feeling that divine sense.
It's like a presence. It's almost as if somebody's,
you know, not not looking over your shoulder, perhaps, but kind
of standing by you. I always.
Feel like somebody's watching me.
I give you up. Kind of fell out to make a paper
airplane out of the map. Is that not again here or did I
successfully remove it? In that world.
Is a map still there if you were to look under the pages?
Obviously I know harking to the name of the channel.
I know meta gaming is more or less accepted at the table, but
your character technically wouldn't know that story.
But I don't know. No, he would not.
I was not expecting him to. Nose bleed.
Nose more for my. Not yet more.
For my curiosity. Yeah, yeah, it's there if you if
you have a like meta meta thing like that too.
One thing that I tend to tend to do, it was one other character
suggested actually to me. And sometimes I forget and other
people do too, but is the random thing is like kind of helps.
I've in listening back. I realize it helps with the
dialogue and following it not not just for yourself, but for,
you know, our our friends, even on the channel with us to
figuring out like, if you just say hats off you, you're,
you're, you're talking like, oh, hey, just above the table here.
Like is this a thing? Yeah, OK.
I suppose, like the next play that the map is still there is
to investigate that map, see if I recognize it.
I didn't see a background or history on this one yet.
Is there an O being? I know at least the direction
you were taking with it. Is there anything that I should
know pertinently that you would have had, you know, some map
charting or anything like that in your past?
The character is in general a historian and he doesn't know
how to use maps like. It would be a history check to
investigate that. OK, noting that he is a
historian is important. So yes, go ahead and roll me
history check. Even history.
The dice have rolled in your favor this time with a net 20.
You definitely know that this looks like your world, but maybe
a bigger version of it. Maybe some of those maps that
you're seeing partially of other places and you kind of something
clicks in your mind and you are like there was there was talks
about the world being round and that this paper and you can kind
of imagine how it would wrap around to a certain point.
And that those pieces and parts of maps that you studied in the
past and see how they kind of fit together all together, all
on this piece of paper. It's the world's a lot bigger
than you thought maybe and it weren't.
They aren't just some imaginings of other people on some of the
maps that you've never been to, you know?
So here's the hard part that I'm trying to come to What could
compel him to jump? Off the fucking table.
Don't ask. Don't ask Ezra that question.
I think you're making an assumption.
You'd yeah, that's fair. I I mean I mean.
OK, yeah, perhaps you 'cause it was literally jumping off the
table last time and you told me that's basically what needs to
happen, but that is. Still, yeah, that's true.
That's an alliteration of it. Yep, doesn't necessarily have to
be that. So is there anything else that
you're looking to do with the information that you have in
hand? I don't think he would attempt
to take the map or anything like that, so I'm thinking he can
only read one of the books. What was the book titled?
Internal Touch my book. Yeah, that's not what the title
is. That would be funny though.
But it's way too big for me to feasibly get to and read.
Well, it's not infeasible for you to like, you know, maybe
lift a cover or so and like it would just be comically large,
you know, to the point where you would you'd be a bit of a
struggle. He might take a stab at that.
OK, strength check meanwhile. At the wizard's strong point,
let's go. I feel that, don't worry.
That's. A saving through I guess it
would just be an athletics trick, which for him is just a
great strength trick. Yeah, just a strength trick.
Yeah, 16 you're able to kind of wedge, wedge your way, maybe
your shoulder right under the edge of the cover and then start
putting your whole body under it too, and kind of getting both
hands and then pushing, then stepping up onto the page and
walking across it to open the the full book and the title that
you understood on the front were oh, I like this one.
Clavis and Fernie. Key to Hell.
OK, well if assuming that he doesn't seem to be in the under
any like immediate danger and would not, I think he would take
some time trying to read the book.
While you're sitting down and getting past the introductions
on the book and getting into just maybe the you know, you got
to take some time and take It takes a while for you to
actually flip a page, but you're able to do it a lot easier than
the cover you and your but you're doing it slowly too, so
as not to rip it in your in its long, long form as it is.
And you get to probably the table of contents right as you
feel a ever encroaching burning in the center of your being, as
well as then from that as that it kind of it kind of feels like
as that burning grows from that grows coldness and and fine.
And it as that slowly encompasses you, you start to
see you look probably down at yourself because it's actually
kind of starting to hurt. And you start to see that
they're accurate. They're there's actually
physical physicality to these feelings.
And that seems to be linking to the book with some of your
probably are calm arcane knowledge and it goes up in
flames and starts to freeze at in its ash and form to with you.
And right before you shatter after being turned to ash and
frozen, your your last thought is oh fuck.
And then you're. Nothing.
Else and you stop to exist for a while and.
Exactly what I expected the gods to do.
This is some sort of joke. As you're coming back into being
and sensing the things around you, the the first sense,
besides those of probably some putrid smells
and is that of a book in your hand, and you look down and see
the key to hell in your hand. OK.
I like the literal key to hell, but the book.
Right, it's the book that said that's the title Key to Hell.
Does that make sense? Not like the literal key as well
as around you are a bunch of other figures and a quite a lot
of emotion, including that of a a bunch of what you look to see
and probably have not seen in your life.
Are giant crickets the size of large dogs or small ponies are
probably some of the things that are first catching your eyes.
A couple's goblin skeletons, maybe a goblin or two themselves
milling about, and then some other folks if they wanted to
start induce introducing themselves.
Where are we supposed to be? I'm on like the awkward outside
corner of the pocket rocket. I don't know what happened to my
character. Yeah, Favor.
And I apologize, you're the only one that I didn't get over to
the right spot, the correct spot before my computer.
I'm just like sitting in the corner, sorry.
I stepped away for a second. Oh.
You're all right. I was just saying you guys
popped back into some Some of you all popped back into reality
after a long time there and others, oh, just started being.
So I think only. Yeah, I think only Matt and Rick
are the only ones that Oh, Franklin and Ezra are the only
ones. Oh, and Vomira.
There we go. I've got my screen back up and
now I need to find Phelan. They're over here.
There we go. I didn't mean to, but.
There you are. Well, that everyone's just in a
line at the table, all right. Oh, these are the.
Yeah, you're supposed to be in that line.
You're supposed to be in that line.
I it just, I did it again is all.
But I can. Go in pimp goblin.
I'll. Just be over here.
There we go. I can go into the recap now to,
to get everybody up to and then exactly what's going on at this
exact moment, which is starting with the hand of fake tosses.
The dice roll spins, turns, a campaign starts and ends,
leaving memories that become stories.
Stories flow out into the infinite sea, painting it with
legend. Legend what's up on the shores
throughout the infinite sea, fading to myths until myths are
forgotten. And again the campaign that gave
it birth comes again and again. The hand of fake tosses, the
dice rolls bin turns. Hitherto we left our adventures
known as the Shadow Seeker on the 4th level of Hell.
Greed after leaving the fifth level of Hell by breaking the
mere seal to Manipulus Prison at the center of the Acropolis.
In the Phallic Maze, the Shadow Seekers fell before the Greedy
Goblin Tavern in a sweltering heat on the 4th level of Hell
and were assaulted by the smells of molten magma that filled the
this floor with an of the enormous goblin settlement that
sat upon it. Reluctantly, they pay the
entrance fee to quench their thirst on Green Goblin slushies.
Inside the Greedy Goblin Tavern, Ash bargains with Bildreth, the
proprietor of the Greedy Goblin, for a 50% share of the profits.
He also explains the Church of Kashen is the only other free
time activity, and it's where they worship for wealth.
More drinking ensued with a successful deal, whereupon
Steven the bartender explained they had been victims of greed
already from the door goblins. Franklin and Phelan took badly
to this and in a drunk drunken, drunken haste, threatened the
guards for Ash's gem back. Bildrus let's Ash know too that
they are welcome to stay in one of their rooms and she can drink
for free. The Shadow Seekers wake up with
a pounding in their heads resonating throughout the pocket
rocket, and sitting at breakfast is Franklin with two new goblin
skeletons with young dire crickets driving them from the
inside of their skulls. Franklin had been also cracked
up craft up a cup of calf where they drank and luckily the tink
tink in their heads from the night rest went away after all
the long nights of drinking. Refreshed from the breakfast
they head out on the ramshack of Goblin town straddling the magma
pit and realize Ash is rich. They realizing Ash is rich they
decide to go on a shopping spree, stopping at several
shops, St. vendors and an Armory shop with a large list where the
Shadow Seekers used Tiger Mama's Ash's wealth of precious stones
for some fancy new items. During the haggling, the Shadow
Seekers learned of the Wealth Festival coming up soon as well
as Ezra adopted Regina with Franklin as an officiate in the
middle of the shop and plans were made to plant a healing
mango of youth in the Pocket Rocket and explode the Goblin
town with the town's own stockpile of dynamite that
they'd learned about from the shopkeeper, the ring of mine
shield, and the Rhinos hide that were ordered at the store.
Were. Had to be shipped in Ash
received the stone receipt for their dealings and they headed
out towards the church. The goblin salesman explained
how they get to Kashan's temple. Three large metal door in the
Cliff base. They check the time from the
glowing as as they walk outside. They check the time on the
glowing Stalag tight clock hanging over the town.
It indicates that it is later in the day when they opened the
door to the narrow metal hallway to another much reduced and deep
Tavern with a devious looking temple directly in front of
them. Shadow seekers walk up it stairs
into a church with a flamboyant pimped out preacher who walks
directly up to them and greets them while there are chanting
revellers around them chanting more, always more.
Wealth flows to the worthy and I am worthy.
Ash then contacted Manny Polis as the pimp preacher asked them
to swear fealty to Kashin, who Manny Polis then explains just
about any swearing will work for this particular God and he then
sees the opportunity to explain to the Shadow Seekers.
Micropolis was not lying about the world of Tariff exploding on
his release and imploding on their on his death and if he.
Manny Polis is left in his prison in the center of the
world of Tariff, everything would be fine, but the Shadow
Seekers story would end and they'd be trapped in hell.
Manny Polis rambles on in his drunken blur that it's fine he
can fix the world if if in their image and he can offer them a
seat at his table as long as they steal the world seed from
Mycopolis and free him destroying Tara which they can
build a world together. And at that point blood is
pouring from Ash and Franklin's nose and Regina's eyes are
bloodshot as this God level talk is deemed to cause some cranial
damage. And they all began to swear
fealty to Kaisheni, all except Franklin who on trying to repeat
the chant activate a lesser statues as well as some larger
statues that they quickly find out that the statue standing
outside will smash anything that tries to leave without swearing
fealty. They begin fighting off this the
two molten figures statues that were being forged and
immediately blowing the shadows. They began immediately blowing
the Shadow Seekers apart while they mounted a while they
mounted their defence on the molten figures with necrotic
attacks from Regina under Ezra's unconscious form.
Under this onslaught, the two giant statues of Clockwork move
again, one on the inside and the other on the outside, barring
the exit. The one on the inside moves
towards the center of the church, where Franklin fails to
dominate it, and he prepares to sacrifice himself in an attempt
to save the the Shadow Seekers. The Clockwork statue hits the
anvil in the center of the church.
The vibrations from it resonate deep in the Shadow Seekers souls
as well as throughout the church over the screams of the other
goblins dying as they try to escape the church that is being
plagued by the molten statues, most of which of the goblins
were burning to death. A large disembodied head forms
of gold from the center of the reflecting pool under the anvil
that was struck, and Kai Shen's voice booms through the place of
worship, giving them another form of escape.
The golden hen head of Caixon offers to trade something of
immense value to Franklin in exchange for him not pleading
his fealty in trade for him for his newly acquired book of U.S.
Army AUS Army Guide to Unconventional Warfare.
Caixon agreed. During the dealings, the pimp
preacher suggested overtly to meet for a drink.
Afterwards, Shadow Seekers successfully exit the House of
Kaishen, leaving the book on the steps, which Franklin perceived
to blot out all of the words in as quickly as he can, and they
drug one of the molten statues out out front, and with Ezra's
help, Franklin had them go into the pocket rocket.
As they leave. Kashian also explains once per
day they have to hold a gold coin over their head and it will
disappear as tribute to him, and once per year they'll get a 10%
return. A frustrated Franklin drag also
converses with Kashian, who suggests another trade.
In exchange for three Astral Diamonds, he'll give them 3 Iron
Bands of Binding poker ball, kind of like things, which
Franklin immediately captures the fuck Blast Seeker they've
been trying to bring into the pocket rocket.
Sachin also tells them to the north is the mines and he lets
them know to the South are a bunch of feisty elementals and
they'll probably get their asses handed to them if they try to go
that way. Ezra, Franklin and Regina
returned to the Greedy Goblin where two guards are greet them
again and ask for a fee and they immediately turn to violence in
a fiery ball of make those two goblins explode at upon their
deaths. Turning off, Regina licks some
of their ash off of her fingers and they all go inside the
Greedy Goblin for a drink. They see and are greeted by the
preacher who's sitting and waiting for them and had
suggested the meeting in the 1st place.
He starts to tell them how fortunate enough they are to
make it here for the wealth festival and tells them of a
conspiracy that Kai Shen is just an image and there is actually a
metal door to the South by found by other adventurers and
reported to him and some of the other.
Inside the conspiracy, the Shadow Seekers lured the pimp
preacher into the into a safer location IE the pocket rocket
where they begin torturing him with slow roasting him over a
fire at while he screamed for his life and his family's life.
What the? Fuck.
Being eaten. I was hungry.
Well Ezra threatens to eat him and Franklin casts his own of
truths on the Pimp Preacher. They learn of the clockwork
statues weakness if it can be called that which is bludgeoning
and Ezra takes butter proffered by Regina and begins to butter
the Pimp Preacher's hand. Franklin leaves to get a piece
of paper and pen for for the pimp preacher to write down a
list of all his Co conspirators. The tear rolls down the pimp
preacher's cheek as he says through tears and and much blood
that the hand that Ezra took was his dominant hand.
Franklin offers to dictate the list for him and Dildre's name
stood at the forefront. So as they left their room in
the greedy goblin they made their way down the stairs out of
the room to bildress and and got him to talk secretly inside of
one of his store rooms about organizing escape for the rest
of the select goblins that could he could gather by the end of
the night as they were planning had some other plans to deal
with during the festival and wandering through the town.
Bomira began to show signs of having no fire resistance
standing over the magma pit and Ezra offers him her his ring
when they enter into the store to pick up their items that were
on back order and they weaseled their way into the back room
without a receipt from Ash who didn't exist at this time with
where all the magic items that are in the store were stocked.
They proceeded to capture the clerk in a Shard of a mirror
that Franklin had taken from the 5th floor and robbed the place
blind through and they threw everything into the pocket
rocket waltzing out of the front of the store as if nothing had
happened. Franklin nervously waves to hide
Ash who appears back into reality before proofing into the
purple smoke of while entering into the Pocket Rocket and check
on their to check on their newly acquired items.
Ezra updated updates Ash on the goings on of the Shadow Seekers,
and Vamira does a sneak and return some of the pickpocketing
done to her earlier on to another Templi Preacher in the
crowd of the festival festivities.
Franklin rematerializes in the Pocket Rocket and finds their
horde of stolen loot has turned into a cursed magazine called
Cursed Protection. Spell of Bildreth's Enchantments
by Doctor Schnee items. The items have had been said to
require written permission in the smaller script and a permit
to leave the permit premises. Poofing back out of the pock
rocket, Franklin updates Ash, Ezra and Vomira that Bildreth is
waiting for them at the greedy goblin and that the items were
more or less fine. Ash translates what happened.
Translate the happenings of the greed of the goblin crowd around
them as she's the only one that speaks Goblin and gather and
explains. There was a parade coming
through for the for the festival of wealth.
Soon Franklin noticed that he his he's he is pickpocketed and
the Shadow seekers immediately take action.
They heard the pickpocketer towards Ezra who would transform
just his head into a wolf and picks up the goblin biting off
his foot after he refuses to give back anything and took out
all of his goods for most of the crowd around them that were
standing to take except for a single key.
After after the shakedown occurred and the goblin crawls
away with foot nearly detached, the crowd around them disperses
mostly except disperses mostly on their way back to the greedy
goblin. Lights are the lights are out at
the greedy goblin. So if Amyra does a quick
stealthy check of the premises and she affirms that everything
looks as expected, Ash bursts into the greedy goblin or
greeting everyone very flamboyantly and pronounces her
ownership of the place. About 30 goblins had gathered in
the in the time that it took them to go out on the town.
In the center of them stood arm bands that they're realizing now
that all the other goblins had been wearing up to this point in
a pile not on the goblins themselves.
Franklin steps out from behind Ash and explains with Ash's help
translating to the goblins the rules of the poker Rocket and
Hans Bildreth 3 poop tokens and Shadow Seekers discuss how the
they have a magic cursed magazine that with Bildreth and
how they might undo it. As well as Amos the Dire Cricket
in charge of Franklin's cricket clan currently as Franklin had
turned Ferdinand into his mount which he sat upon currently and
Ash. Amos though suggests using the
11 handed pimp preacher to pull out items from the Magic cursed
magazine as builders had no way of uncursing it without being on
the permit premises or them doing a transaction for it or a
very long lengthy ritual and connect.
And then the Shadow Seekers find eventually go back out after
getting all of the goblins into the Pocket Rocket and find the
building connected to the key of the Thieving Goblin from
earlier. It was a school which they used
as the headquarters of a base at the center of their operations.
As the school was empty. They get the PIM preacher out
and he begins pulling dynamite from the magazine.
He acquires 33 crates out of it as well as three new curses. 1
was to turn him into the opposite sex and he became A1.
He also can't consciously cross running water and he loses
corporeal or he only has corporeal form at night.
Franklin also has the pimp preacher to sign a contract to
not tell anyone about the torture they put him through
before sending him back into the Pocket Rocket with the other
goblins. Franklin also sets up a swarm of
dire crickets, who he dubs the Bombards, to distribute the
dynamite across the town and in between the grated floor and the
installation layer of the Magma town, as at the same time Ash
enlarges the main stack of dynamite to be twice its size.
Everyone filters into the Pocket Rocket and Franklin instructs
Akbar, the leader of the Bombards, to run away as soon as
the fireworks start and the fuse is lit.
Akbar lights the fuse only 24 of the 30 crickets back at this
time and he starts taking off to safety it hide amongst the
cliffs. From this position, Franklin
watches through his eyes and projects the vision on the wall
inside the the pocket rocket. And everyone watches as the
explosions erupt along with the fireworks that were set off in
celebration. And magma begins to engulf the
town as screams and cries of all throughout begin drowning in
magma. And then a bellowing voice of
rage in Ezra and Ash's head and all of the goblins it seems as
they grab their head takes place at right as the town is engulfed
and the Franklin tells the goblins in the pocket rocket it
was Kai Shen's fault that they were watching this vision of
their town and that thousands died.
Is now like level 15. Yeah, let's.
Find out what happened this time.
So very first thing besides we. Chose.
We chose violence many times. Yes, we did.
We we did not pick it. Someone else picked it for us.
But I, I gave her I Josh. Many people had had the option
to say no and we all just kept doing it.
Ezra believes Franklin is telling him the best course of
action. Yeah.
Nobody ever let Franklin be in charge.
That is just not a good way to live your life.
He is, in fact a child. He should not have that.
Responsibility. No, he shouldn't.
Hey, I learned the lesson of this floor, which was greed.
I determined what the most valuable thing on the floor was,
it's people and it's stock of magic items and the experience
points that those people were worth, and then then acquired
them. Then acquired them.
Then why are we still on that level?
Because we need to I we're, we need now need to kill the guy.
Yeah, hands need to be thrown. I'm going to need Ezra.
I'm trying to find it here. I.
Think it's this one one second I wanted.
To say it was a Wisdom saving throw.
Is where you're gonna need like loading my Achilles heel.
I was gonna say, it sounds like it's something that you're not
good at. Woefully not good at.
Pom pom pom pom. Oh, wait, no, wait, no, that
that's intelligence. Never mind.
I'm good, I'm good. Ish.
For now, potentially, maybe. Well, let it be.
Constitution. Please let it be the
Constitution. They said wisdom.
Traffic. Oh, actually, weirdly, it's ADC
eight. It's a it's a Charisma saving
throw. Oh, I'm good at those.
Fuck, sounds like you're not. No 8.
Yeah. Sad puppy noises. 16 points of
psychic damage. Oh, wait.
Yeah, as the voice in your head, you know, you could hear
bellowing. And actually it does seem to
resonate through the chamber now at this point too.
You say you're kind of getting that Franklin from the dire
cricket. You're not able to project it on
the screen, but it is not important for most other people.
Although some of you probably are looking around like why is
Ezra holding his hands and why are most of the goblins holding
their heads in their hands? Also, who is that?
Yeah, you might be one to ring that, yeah.
Oh no, my poor daughter who's at in camp, she's hurting.
So yeah, you, you see before you bolts are a projection on a cave
wall, it looks like of a town or what was probably the remnants
of a town now covered in magma. And I believe there was a
pretend counter on the corner counting the adults.
The current death. What the actual fuck happened?
Oh wait, there's a there's a Death Colt toll count.
Can everyone see? I know I've got Mommy Bamara on
here too. Just making sure everyone's able
to see where you guys are at. Yep, yes I can.
See my character in The Pocket Rocket.
Cool. So Yep, that's where you guys
all find yourselves. I don't I don't know who talking
hers. Probably not Ezra.
What the fuck I'm. Stuck in the wall, stuck in the
place. You guys can't I'm, I can't hear
you guys while you do this. Is this cause like you have
fingers stuck in your ears and you're saying I'm not listening
or? Yeah.
So I'm I'm projecting the image that my familiar sees from
outside and doing so you you enter the like the perspective
of them. So like.
I'm I winded and deafened to things that are happening?
Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that thing,
yeah. So you do see Franklin like
sitting on top of a giant dire cricket now.
Wait, Josh, am I stuck? Outside swarm, kind of like
flying around. Yeah, you were also stuck out.
You were also stuck outside. I've got a token of you inside,
you might have to put that. Well, I see.
OK. There might have been two
tokens, yeah. That's probably I would not want
to be outside right now. More like outside the walls of
the pocket rocket is where we were.
Yeah, I see the pocket rocket. So I'm going to walk up to
Franklin and I'm just going to pick him up and sort of like
cradle him like a baby. Does this seem threatening at
all? If so, the swarm that kind of
flies around him would probably. Why would we be threatening to
you? That's true.
They probably would trust you, so they will allow you.
Vera Malice. Felon's just kind of looking
around like what the actual fuck is happening right now?
When you when you pick him up, you probably very quickly
realize that he has changed. He's no longer a flesh and blood
person. He's now a skeleton covered in
thousands of bugs, taking the facsimile of his skin and flesh
as they kind of like warp around you, as you're like arms, kind
of like cradle his skeleton. Yeah, I think, I think mommy
would be a little distressed at this.
So what is the last thing mommy actually remembers, right?
Because a lot of this, a lot of stuff happened, but I don't feel
like mommy, like, did mommy go to the greedy goblin?
I don't remember. I think the first time that we
went there it was me, Ash and Franklin, and then we went
shopping afterwards and I'm pretty sure that's where I left
off was when. We stopped, so when Yeah.
So there's so like when we broke the mirror and got out of the
last level of hell. I think that's a.
Lot of God happening. Yeah, it's like the beginning of
the recount. So you think I've?
Been on this level of hell? Yeah.
No, I've missed all of this. That's why I like choosing.
I mean, pretty much where he started was what we did right
after you left, after we left the mirror.
Yeah, because all of the all of the choices of violence, right,
because I love explicitly and violence quickly the answer.
You. You maybe?
We chose violence over and over again, which, you know,
whatever. Yeah, I mean, we kind of started
out violent too. Franklin and I went to go fuck
up some goblins, except I was too drunk, and then Franklin
went and fucked them up afterwards after we went to bed.
So yeah, so it's, I think that's why I'm just going to walk over
to Franklin. So I'm just assuming I've been
like taking a nice nap or something through all this,
right? We got to the next level and
mommy was like, I'm tired. We're going to nap now.
So I, like, don't know what's happened to Franklin except for
I know he's like, obviously changed.
I'm a little concerned. I'm going to go pick him up and
just like, like, hey, buddy, you OK?
You all right? Last time I saw you, you were
filling out your Pokedex. You're your Boy Scouts hand
guide. Like what's up?
He doesn't respond. I, I, I am unable to hear or see
you. Oh, I think he's in his little
trance thingy. He's looking through his
crickets. On the wall you can see a giant
city, like falling into a giant magnum of pool.
What the fuck? Actually, just like a number
Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding,
Ding are. You.
I know you're able to protect an image.
I think you're able to protect harmless sounds and smells too.
Are you projecting the sound from the other side?
It just streams of the damned. Yeah, Franklin is not projecting
sounds. He doesn't want the other
occupants that we now have to be distressed, OK, Or any any
indication of who's really behind it.
The future Shadowrunner employees.
Right. Yeah.
So that's what you see.
And it's kind of like projecting out of his eyes.
So like as you pick him up, the image probably like flips to
like the ceiling instead. So they've been busy, so
everyone else. So we've got like new person and
another new person to me at the very least, and I think also to
mommy, because you haven't been here on this level of hell.
Is it mommy? This one?
Yes. Yep.
Yeah, yeah. And so two new people to both of
us, and one of them is being tortured mentally on the inside,
as well as the one other person that we know.
Yeah, based on what you hurt Ezra, really emotionally.
But you haven't like, heard any of us being like, what the fuck
is happening? Franklin, are you OK?
Like none of that. No, no, he's currently got the
sound of, I'm going to surmise, ear piercing like dog whistle in
his ears apparently. Probably.
So you probably saw him initially looking like a human
being, but now he's pretty much warped into a straight up
werewolf with his ears kind of like pulled down and his hands
over him. We got a new pet.
What the fuck? Franklin's been busy.
OK, I. Guess that's pretty on
character. I guess I would turn to the
other new person, just be like, hi, I'm more things.
I don't know what's going on. So.
I am gathering from your lack of reaction that people just
appearing is not uncommon. Not yeah.
Some sort of purgatory I find myself in.
Actually, I think we're on, I think we're on greed right now.
But like, yeah, you could kind of say that.
That's makes sense. Pale.
OK, Yeah. I'm failing.
Nice to meet you. You would see a rather tall
skinny dark elf wearing like very dark sorceress robes with a
oh shit what was it the colors it was?
Was it red and gold for the cloak of protection, Josh?
That sounds right. It was to.
Match. I think so.
Yeah. It was to match my jewelry,
yeah. But yeah, a lot of like blacks,
Reds, golds outfit. I'm a very squishy looking
person basically. OK,
I'm sorry. I got a lot of gelling going on
the other room. One second.
No. I'm guessing you walked around
over to hit. Oh yeah?
Well, yeah, should be decay, so sorry.
Over to him to do that introduction but.
Yeah, he would place a hand on his chest and offer just a
slight bow. You may.
Call me. Foul.
He's a relatively scrawny foreign work.
Not like, at least as his speech as his like race goes fellow
bald white button down shirt with a vest over it, though it
is largely tattered. He found himself in hell
somehow. Maybe a little sandwich from his
experience with the book and a pair of circular glasses that
cover up a pair of sickly green eyes.
The. This is a level of chaos I'm not
accustomed to. Yeah, I don't think any of us
were. I can't explain.
Oh, OK. Yeah, can't explain the big
puppy dog that we now have, but the turtle is Franklin, and I
think he's made a lot of decisions that we now have to
clean up. Would you say that?
That's right, Mommy. I.
Feel. Sane.
So I think the three of us are pretty much on the same page
about levels of knowing what's going on.
Yeah, so. Tend to the crickets.
What do you mean by tend to? They seem to be everywhere.
They're they're, they're Franklin's, they're they're like
his helpers, I guess. Charming.
Yeah, you get used to it really, really fast.
I doubt you'd be surprised. Mommy, have you been successful
in, I guess, communicating with Franklin at all?
Negative. I'm just gonna keep holding
Franklin and just kind of like concerned, right?
It's like. How large is Franklin?
Is a So the character you see being held by Mommy is a about
four foot tall adolescent turtle.
It appears to be exactly an appearance of the children's
book character Franklin the Turtle, except he has vividly
pitch black eyes and mommy's arms are going through his skin
as insects are now kind of crawling of up and over her to
like complete the the appearance.
So kind of looks like he's clipping into her.
Oh, that's new. OK, Yeah.
And so I guess about this time, like when the when the
population ticker finally like stops or slows down, the the
screen shows a thin text and then goes black and slowly
Franklin's eyes were like flutter open.
He sees mommy holding him and he gets this huge smile on his face
and hugs are tightly bye. There he is.
Oh, he's. Back.
Hey guys. Oh, a new person.
Did you get in dressed before the explosion?
I think all of us just got in now.
Oh, welcome back. It's kind of busy in here.
Sorry about all the noise. I recognize that I am in hell,
but this is disturbing. Oh yeah, I'll kind of like pat
mommy on the shoulder and move to like, get up.
I'll go ahead and put Franklin down.
I'll stretch and like, crack my knuckles and bones and stuff.
I'll reach out. Hi, I'm Franklin.
Welcome to hell. Well, welcome to the pocket
Rocket, I guess. Exactly be what you guys got
introductions to your. Name this This space is actually
an interdimensional space in a rock we call the Pocket Rocket.
Yeah, it's our house. Yeah, it's where we all live.
He would eventually extend a hand to Pig Franklin's house.
I take your hand, you grip my bone skeleton hand, and then
insects cover your hand, and hundreds of us all shake your
hand at the same time. So, Franklin, that's new.
What happened? There, do you like it?
Oh well, I've been reading. I learned to read recently with
the help of some friends. So I've been reading this book
and it had some effects on Bay and Thou That'll be My friends
are all the same person. OK, OK, interesting.
What's with the dog? Dog I'm.
I'm regretting putting. Grand am on.
The other table because Grand Am would be having a fun day right
now. Hats off, I suppose.
Yeah. We have a dog.
Yeah, right there. And I'd point to where Ezra is.
Oh no, that's not a dog, that's Ezra.
He doesn't always look like that.
Sometimes he looks like a real person without like a real
person, though 'cause we're all real, actually.
He stops, gets a Nosebleed, eyes clicker, he gets angry, his eyes
turn black, then back to normal. Anyway, no.
So that's Ezra. He's kind of like you guys.
Well, like all of us. So I turn Ezra, why don't you
introduce yourself to the group? At that point in your head, the,
the, the pulsing those subsides, not just at at that point it had
been subsiding for a little bit. You do hear a voice though,
probably Speaking of over Franklin's in your head.
Oh shit, we. Don't have time for this.
Just saying, more or less, there is going to be a recompense for
this, although it's not going to be of my own doing.
There's a bit of a laugh and kind of a merriment coming
slowly to the voice. Now you've done this to
yourselves. Now this whole entire chamber
will fill with magma, says with Gleam.
That's sick. Is your head, Ezra?
I'm so eating you did. You say that out loud.
Yes. Was that his introduction?
No. It just got the the sound wore
off in his ears and now he's heard that he's like, I'm so
eating that guy this. Who are we?
Hi. Let's see how tall is man man,
this in this one I mean mommy. Mommy's tall as fuck.
Like 7 feet. He kind of looks, he kind of
looks up to you because he's only standing like 62.
Nice to meet you. So what are you still do you?
What do you look like right now? Yeah, are you still dog?
Oh yeah, he's still a dog. Basically.
His eyes are like a a Ruby red where his coat's like a jet
black. But he slowly Yeah, 6 feet tall,
62. As a dog.
He's a he's a werewolf. He hasn't shipped it to a dog.
OK. Yeah.
OK. So Mama is just going to sort of
pat you on the head. That seems appropriate.
Maybe a scratch behind the ear. Oh.
He's like, Oh yes, thank you. My ears hurt.
He looks down. George Frank.
He looks down towards Franklin. Franklin, we got to go hurt.
One who takes money from me makes my ear hurt.
Oh, that's bad. You want to go see a ear nose?
A throat doctor? I'm going to be his throat
doctor by eating his throat. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Hang. On Yeah, we probably don't have
a whole lot of time for pleasantries right now.
So Long story short, we got to the next level of hell.
It was run by a God that was a little bitch, and he was hiding
behind a bunch of doors of like, magma elementals and stuff like
that, so we couldn't get at him. So we figured the best way to
get him come out of his hiding hole was to take all of his toys
from him. So we blew up the city.
What? Yeah.
Did you at least like? Why?
Did you at least buy everything that we needed?
Well actually funnily enough, I gesture around and you see like
30 goblins. I met Bildreth and he got some
goblins with carpentry skills and other useful abilities and
just craft stuff and they live with us now.
At this point, you you don't. You don't see all of the
goblins. You, you probably see only two
of them. Both of them are pulling their
heads out of their hands also. And you hear a lot of activity
above you actually. And there's every now and again,
just a little bit of a rock, like small rocks falling from
above. Hey Amos, can you make sure that
they don't dig too far into the exterior of the pocket rocket?
We don't want to accidentally cause a rupture.
They can only go in. I'm I'm already on it by side
got the got the one of the endlings on watching them,
making sure that they can they can only get so far.
Perfect. All right, You're amazing.
Thank you anyway. So yeah, we blew up the city and
now that was what you saw on the screen, and now the God is
probably really angry currently. OK.
Did you at least spare that Lady?
That was really nice to us at the beginning when we first went
to the market. If she's here.
What are you doing by the way? Hello, sorry to unmute myself.
OK, you're right. I am just like sitting there
drinking, watching all of this happen.
OK, haven't introduced yourself or anything.
No. Just watch it.
Hasn't been a need for it so. Bildreth would probably turn to
you and and go. My head kind of hurts.
Can I have some of that? Sure.
I handed hands. I guess I'd grab a glass and
pour him some. Thanks.
And he just downs it without and without even gulping.
Just one single gulp noise. I love that.
That's going to, that's probably going to work here in a minute
or 20. Geez.
And he started walking over to Franklin, who's he had dealt
with last ass beside Ash, who isn't here, and he just go
starts talking to you in broken common because he's he's 1:00 to
be able to speak other than the other goblins.
And he just says we're going to have to do something about hi
Shen. He's still in head.
Yeah. Do you have any suggestions
about that? What's he saying?
He looks kind of up, as almost if he's like listening to
something from far away, and then he goes the chamber.
That. Was home is filling with magma.
Wow, what a bitch move. OK.
Franklin is the is the pocket in a safe location?
For another moment, it's currently being held by by
familiar who is invisible out in space at the top of the the
chamber, right? That's currently, and I guess
this guy says that it's filling up with magma right now, so
we're going to have to figure that out probably soon.
He sticks his hand in his pocket and pulls out a tridecahedron.
I'm not sure what this thing does, put it down on the table,
but I suspect it's some sort of portal to different levels of
hell. So maybe this is our escape
ticket when I know Arcata. And mame would recognize the
thing. Brazil that had it.
That Brazil that had it last but and he would have used it
actually to get to the fifth level after Ash had made a deal
with a interstitial space demon called Tanaka who she traded her
body for if I remember correctly.
Didn't we kill some guy for that thing?
Yeah, it was some mundane little guy that Mariel just meant to
like Bonk, but he ended up being so squishy he she splattered his
head. Sounds like something that would
happen to me. Yeah, we kind of had.
We had no idea how to use this thing, but now we have.
It sounds like something that happened to me in a tower.
This Griselda, when she died, well after she died, we turned
her to goo. Oh, is she the one that we
rolled like toothpaste? Uh huh.
That's the lie. Yeah, Power to be.
I think I we grabbed it. I think it was in the skeleton
monster thing, but I don't know if we grabbed it or not.
Yeah, she did. The skeleton monster had
chomped. It off?
Well, she died, yeah. Oh yeah, because she like, yeah,
that's right, she got eaten by the skeleton monster.
And then you guys were like, well, let's not waste her body
and turned her into goo. Yeah, very useful goo by the by.
We use that useful goo 4. We haven't used it yet, but.
Yeah. Will be useful.
Well, because we I've been running experiments with it, it
turns you temporarily undead and it also allows you if you're
undead and you bite someone while temporarily undead, they
become permanently undead. So it's like a zombie maker.
Which Franklin is very useful. Yeah, something tells me
Franklin shouldn't have that. I'm pretty sure Franklin is the
one that has it so. Yeah, and and the crickets.
Yeah, OK, Spacey, we need to find the guy that we're supposed
to kill to get to the new level and not die in the process of
all the magma that's filling the chamber that our pocket rocket
currently resides in. Yes.
More we need to get out of here. He being Caishen, his voice
comes into your head specifically.
You can feel him, his, his like specific attention.
I guess you could say you could, you could tell it's a focused
thing. Not everyone's getting this
message. And he goes.
I hope you enjoyed your time here.
You have an hour left in the chamber to close the seal.
If you do, I will have a conversation with you on terms
on what to do next. This.
Is not my only settlement, you worm.
Who was that to? Ezra is the only one he's inside
his head besides some of the goblins.
OK, frankly, the mean floaty head says that this we we go in
trouble soon, we gotta get out of here if not.
Me floaty head. Me floaty head.
Another place I need to go there and eat him.
Oh, I'm not sure. I'm down for eating him.
That can be you to do that. I want to eat that.
Yes. OK, then you're and you're not a
dog. No, I'm Ezra.
Salen, OK. He says this as if you should
know it too, Ezra. He says if you would attack, if
you can seal, or rather it's not sealed, if you can gong the
anvil before your death in the center of the chamber, I will.
We will. We will talk.
Franklin the The bug, the Anvil. What?
Does the bug outside see an anvil?
Oh, one second. I close my eyes, Take a peek.
Let me see something here, see if I can do this or not.
I might be able to blink, can you see something new?
There screen went black. Let me zoom out, zoom, zoom,
zoom, zoom, zoom zoom. All black.
Oh wait, it's really dark outside.
Yeah, it's. Pretty dark.
There you go. How about that big?
So big? A big bag of a shaper.
Still dark. Oh wait, I see my character in a
field of darkness. Yep.
Oh, you know what I need to do. Frankly doesn't have what he
sold it. Dynamic lighting is on, daylight
mode is on. Now safe?
I don't know. Yep, now I see.
Wow this place is big. I can't believe there used to be
a city here. It's not your poken that's there
obviously, it's the the diner cricket.
I just grabbed you instead of the cricket at that point.
Sure, I look around and try to spy with this little lie.
I have a 21 passive perception but I can also specifically
look. And you see a very blatant,
weird kind of disk of rock that's floating with a giant
anvil on it all the way across the chain from you.
I look around and try to spy any threats or dangers, creatures or
cookies. You definitely wouldn't see any
cookies. You definitely definitely do not
see any monsters either though. Interesting, interesting.
I zoom back into the I switch off my my vision and I turn to
the group. Yeah.
So well, here I'll, I'll have projected that so that they can
also see. As soon as Edward sees it, go
hit it, go hit it. Don't get it really cold.
We don't know about how dangerous there might be.
It can't be that easy. So a God has invited you for a
conversation, should you strike that?
I mean, if you count feeding him this conversation that.
Is that is what was said correct?
Yes. It's a trap, you imbecile.
Oh my God, do we have someone smart among our ranks?
This is amazing. Ezra Smart, I know, Franklin
kind of like. Eyes.
The others, yeah. Have I have I got everyone and
has does everyone see everything I mean?
You actually go over to the right.
Page Oh yeah, that's a lot of lava.
Damn yeah what the fuck did y'all do?
We suck the city into a lava. And.
He also stated that he has their settlements correct.
Yeah, which was really dumb of him considering we got like 5
levels worth of XP from this settlement so.
I don't know what that means. I have a nose blade you will
that. Makes.
You really strong because that's what Franklin says.
Yeah, you get real strong here. All right, well.
So we need a game plan. Was all of this your decision
making? No, I came up with the idea.
I pitched it to the group and the group said that's a great
idea and then we did it. Who said it was a great idea?
Ezra, Ezra, Regina. Yeah, Ezra, Regina.
Kids. I put my hand on your shoulder.
I have a child too. What?
You are too young for that. Why are there so many children
in? There, because God is it.
God hates us and he gives children bone cancer.
Oh my. God Ezra, not child Ezra has
punk. Allow me to ask some questions
if I may. If we have, sure.
Yeah, of course. You're due here.
You're probably really confused. As I said, this is a blatant
trap. Likely wants to stop for time
while we burn alive in the lava. Agree.
Why? Would we not locate one of these
other settlements? Yeah, so that's the thing.
Here's the here's the big question.
Earlier I look around for the guy with one hand.
Somewhere around here told us that the Kai shed was a
masquerade. A a man behind the curtain hid
somewhere beyond the lava monsters, hidden in like a nice
secret spot where no one could get him.
He was just like a regular guy. We tortured him pretty hard and
we're pretty sure they weren't lying.
So you predicted it back on the screen the the situation up on
on it, right? Oh yeah, I'll have to like zip
back in to eventually. Yeah, peak.
I was, that was part of my point, I guess.
But the other part would have been like if, if you would have,
you know, directed people towards him kind of maybe even
just before you went in, like guys need to keep talking to
this guy because he's the one that told us the stuff basically
about the guy behind me, the curtain and such.
Maybe before you brought it back up on screen is all.
And sure, yeah. And the kind of, so you guys got
a view of what's on the other side?
I'm just going to hop back over to the other one now.
Map. Wise Franklin are Franklin are
you nodding at answer to go get the guy?
Please say yes. He's right next to you guys.
Ezra squeers a little. So I'm here, friend.
Who is he? Must have conversation again.
Most flamboyantly dressed of them He he, he puts it.
He's just putting his hat back on and straighten his hair out
after having his hand in. The pimp outfit.
Yep, and he's just like. Ezra picks him up.
He before he looks up and says sees who's talking to him or
anything like that too. He just says, hey, what's going
to do for and in the North? Of fuck off.
To to you. There's just too many people.
We're going to go have a we're going to go have another talk,
you and I. Have you do?
You do you need someone that's good at talking?
I can kind of do that. Yes, yes, you can come with me.
OK, Yeah. Franklin, come do your.
Character sounds so exasperated, so yeah, all right.
She really is. She, she's the tired mom.
She really? Is Oh my God I left for 5
minutes so it. Is.
A. How did they do this?
Literally. In our defense, we were left
unattended. False.
We really were a. Man posing as a deity.
That's what kind of that's what it's on like every level of hell
and we're making our way to one of the actual gods, I think.
And we're either what, freeing him or killing him?
One of the two. I heard you.
We haven't. Decided yet?
We haven't decided yet, 'cause what?
Freeing him blows up the world, right?
Yeah, and then we become gods. Yeah, yeah, so he says.
Gods. But he is literally the God of
deceit. Yeah, no.
No, no, the God of manipulation. Manipulation.
OK, much bad. Yeah, so.
Completely different. OK, basically we are just trying
to make our way through hell, taking out all of these false
leaders on every single level to get to like the real leader of
all hell. And then we can kind of decide
from there whether we want to kill him or free him.
Both of them not great options, but we get to decide at the
least. I still think there's another
exit. Another exit.
Oh, like another way out where we don't have to free him or
kill him. Yeah, there's got to be.
Yeah, probably. Edgar's already walked back with
the pimp. Oh, I.
Skipping a little bit, I. Believe that one needs.
I'm going to follow that one. And as.
I feel like I have another kid. As as the as you approach him,
Ezra, I don't know exactly what you're doing, but he would
immediately see you and back, back off and just kind of like
keep walking backwards with his one hand behind his back that's
actually got a hand on it and putting his stump towards you.
Oh, as it's grinning ear to ear. Come friend, we have another
talk. No, no, Phelan.
Is approaching very fast after him and be like I'm so sorry I
did. Did the talk last time lead to
the stump hand? He makes up at you and looks
down at him and he goes. No.
Insight. Oh yeah, you too. 15.
You're quite sure that was a a bald faced lie?
OK. Yeah, yeah.
No, no, no. I'll prevent that.
From ear to ear, he's like ear. I will prevent that from
happening again. Actual conversation so that some
of us that are a little bit more confused can like catch up a
little bit. That'd be great, please.
OK, can I still use the bike? What I.
Put him on the on the spit and then I roll him over the fire.
Oh, let's not do that. We can just sit at a table.
But how do we know he tells truth?
That's what Franklin let me do. How do you know he's not lying
to you to get out of from on top of the fire?
Does Franklin said so. Let's just, let's just have a
normal conversation and maybe he'll be more compelled to tell
us the truth with not being tortured.
Can I tell him he's like I get to put him in the Pike again?
Do you want to roll a pipe? I like the truth.
That's how we do that. He was telling the truth.
Wow. Of course, that's when I roll in
that one. It's still a nine total, but.
He looks at you, looks down at Ezra in his direwolf form, and
then bolts to go upstairs. I think Ezra was holding him,
wasn't he? I think so, yeah, I said.
I grab him. I misunderstood.
I apologize, I didn't. Realize, yeah, I think he was
like carrying him away. And I was like, wait.
Yeah. I didn't hear that part.
How How were you going to do that then?
Because I think he would have I I was still imagining that he
was like at. Like, yeah, like under my arm.
Like like like grab him up under my arm, right under my arm.
OK, so you turn back, turned back into your humanoid form.
Yeah, I still had you imagined as the wolf as well.
So you turn back into the humanoid form to approach him,
which he definitely recognizes as well.
And as you were to approach him, you know, and as Phelan's kind
of trying to talk to him from afar, he doesn't even listen to
her. It looks like as he tries to
turn tail and run before you, you try to pick him up.
Like if you were trying to pick him up he would definitely have
bolted. Like not.
Even think in Ezra's mind oh goody it runs and let's see here
gonna go get me some food today 21 hit the rabbit yeah to hit
him grabbing. OK, I was going to ask actually
if you what your speed is speed is.
I believe it's 30. OK no wait no Barbarians get
faster speed. I think it's 45.
He fast boy. Not as not like other people,
fast, but still fast. OK, so you would actually catch
him as he was trying to get, he was trying to get about, you
know, 40. Well, actually it'd have been 60
feet because you probably guys both would have had the dash
because he would have taken the dash action to run away, you
know, and you would have had to dash after him just to, oh,
well, no, actually not even because you have 45 and no, you
still would have, yeah. Because you would have had to,
yeah, 60 feet away. So you took and you, you, you
rolled a 21 to hit on on that dash and how it how it all
happened basically. So as they're Susan Bolt and
goes kind of like smiles for himself, he runs and then runs
and like like catches up right behind and go, I got you.
That was fun. We should do it more.
That is absolutely mortifying to experience.
And then he puts him under his arm and go ahead.
I guess he hears failing. Start talking, huh?
Yeah, so then it would have come to me trying to be like, let's
just calmly have a discussion. So I don't get to bring the the
pit. If it comes down to it, then we
need it. He smiles a little bit.
OK, where you want me to put it? It's real.
Having a third kid, Oh my God. Just wait till you find out that
he is the death of the other kid.
Phelan proceeds to question all of her life decisions and what
led her here. So are we like sitting him down
at a table and everyone surrounding him?
This one sits down with him at a table.
Are you like a hold? Is he like on your lap?
Yes, yes, he. Is I guess I would call everyone
over and just be like. So anyone have any questions for
our new friend HE? Tuts Yeah.
Where is the secret? I mean, the the most important
one, right For our, our timeline is where is the secret entrance
into the guys, the Tyshawn's house?
And he looked up, he would, he had looked up at the projection
before. He goes, he goes back down to
you. I think it might be flooded with
magma currently. That sucks.
I don't have use for him then. Remember, tell truth or I'm
hungry. Hold on.
Yeah, that's right. You're you're totally right.
Well they just cast a zone of truth the better and I'll flower
girl style take some salt in a basket and skip around him
happily scattering salt around. And my eyes are all black and I
whisper infernal spell work and eventually a dark sickly
greenish color like rises up from the circle.
And I said tardy you guys, thumbs up.
There you go. So the truth.
OK. You had this and you tortured
him anyways. No, we did both of course.
Ezra nods it because he has to play.
You got to be sure. Oh.
OK, his. Hand not part interrogation, no.
He touched my pup with his hand. That's why you know what I.
Am he did do. That I was there for that one.
Yeah, he adopted Regina. Oh, the one that thinks I'm her
mother? Yep.
OK. Yep, she got a new mob now, so I
think you're off the hook if you don't want to be your mom.
Well. I'm not off the hook.
I feel like I'm even more on the hook, OK?
Oh well, her new mob's a floating skull rhizome that
turns things into zombies. She's very nice.
You should have her over for dinner sometime.
OK. Yeah, yeah.
Great. Anyway, so secret chamber where
the guy is underground Underbagba.
How do we get there? What do we think?
Oh, are you not asking me? I mean you too if you've got any
bright ideas, but I'm also opening it to the group too.
I don't have any ideas. The only thing that I could
probably suggest is he's he kind of stares off Kai Shen is
talking to me as I guess he's talked to to you and he points
to Ezra that the you have now less than an hour to to to slow
the flow of magma filling the chambers.
Yeah, we got to do that, Papa. OK, Had OK secondary thoughts.
Hey, so where is? The source of.
The mag of the magma. That's what we need to know.
We need to know. Where the source of the magma
is. It's under the magma.
Maybe, maybe his his layer is feeling with magma and he wants
us to stop before he died. Let's not stop it and let him
die. Yeah, but we also will die.
I mean, we're already dead. I turned to the new guy.
You're dead, by the way, I think.
We don't have that confirmed we're.
Not we don't have that confirmed, but we're in hell and
you just showed up here magically, so draw your own.
Thing is, does anyone remember dying?
I do. You're also not exactly
corporeal right now, so like, you don't count, sorry, frankly.
I do have. Very distinct memories of being
incinerated and frozen at the same time.
I guess I remember breaking my foot on something.
Probably not affected. He died a great grade.
I do die. I.
Don't know hasn't been embedded yet.
Anyway. Thoughts on how we stop?
Magma. Well, so either we stop the
magma or we. Don't but the question.
Is where is, where is this next level that we need to get to?
Is it where he is? It's where he we have to kill
him. And there's some way, wherever
he is that likely connects to the next level because that's
what happened in the last one. So maybe we don't need to stop
the lava. We just have to get to him,
right? Well, yeah, but we don't know
how to get to him. Hey bud, do you know how to?
Is me or Mommy staring at the tetrahedron this whole time?
Mom. Kind of right.
I'm listening, looking at the tetrahedron.
I know there's I don't understand.
It's like Mama is kind of doesn't understand what's going
on with the magma except for it's like real hot, right?
Like don't want anything to do with that.
No, thank you, Access. Don't work fire resistance to
make it less hot for you. We bought a bunch of them.
No, we did, but that won't probably.
Stop magma. It won't like help that much
against the magma, but it might make it a little more bearable.
I don't know anyway which. Something chimes in.
Your mom is yeah. Mom is not so concerned about
the heat as much as like my axes are ineffective.
So I know the, the, the, the object, the thing I can pick up
will get me away and somewhere else.
So I know like the whole point we want to get out of here,
right. So there's something under the
magma that you guys think will get us out of here.
But I know this thing in front of me will get get us out of
here. So can I like is it?
Where is the? It's not a tetrahedron.
Where is the the object? Yeah.
It's on the, it's on the tables. Yeah, I put it down.
For whoever wants, can I go pick it up?
Yeah. So I'm going to go pick it up
and I'm just going to kind of like mess with it.
I'm just, while they're all talking, I'm just going to sit
there and like mess with it like it's a fidget toy.
That would be a sleight of hand roll, which it looks like you
have disadvantage of. But yeah, just.
That disadvantage of dexterity. Yeah.
Not proficient with armor worn. It's this light of hand.
Specifically, it looks like you have the the D next to it.
Oh, you had a really good role and then a really bad role.
I was going back though. When I'm not proficient with
armor worn. You got too big of a too thick
of armor. Yeah, normally.
Speaking of which. Barbarians can't wear heavy
armor, so. I was trying to find it here.
Yeah. And that is, it's the very last
thing and it's never been created as a item that you can
actually put in there. I'm going to put a note.
Actually, I went all the way down on your other possessions
at the very bottom. If you remember in Purgatory you
fought with Vilmira some animated armor that you put on
that made you immune to fire. Oh yeah, I see that I'm now
fire, I mean. I have.
It's down there. I took notes.
A question. Fuck this magma.
I still don't like it. My axes are still ineffective,
but. The Key to Hell, the book I
found or that I arrived with. Are.
You going to look at? It as far as the table of
contents correct? Yeah, before you disappeared.
What all was in the table of contents was.
There when you were looking. Be relevant like a map of this
particular layer of hell or anything useful.
When you were looking at it, you did see one of the pages being
more or less a, or rather a diagrams and explaining each
portion of it. And probably you would have done
a perusal after, you know, everybody's talking about the
shape and you're, you know, probably ignoring the
interrogation. If you want to roll a, let's
make it an intelligence of some sort.
History or religion? Arcana one of the.
I'm trained in all those stuff. History or religion could work
if it were something that you're referencing of your own
knowledge, but this? Investigation also could work
when it comes to reading the book.
That's where I was going with it, because you're trying to go
quickly through the thing. You're kind of like trying to
find an answer to the solution, you know?
One of the only intelligence skills I'm not trained in.
All right. Let's do.
It. This whole, this whole time
while while we're sitting there, Ezra's fingernails are kind of
like throwing out like claws and he's just kind of like heading,
heading the goblin. You're petting the goblin.
Well, more like hungryly petting the goblin.
Like I want to eat him. Oh.
No to. Have like God level knowledge.
I'm looking for like. If there's like a diagrams of
this layer of hell, I'm looking for like where we are ways out
of here and where this mother fucker might be.
You immediately catch on something called the Tetrahedron
as one of the it's not. There isn't only one of them,
they there seems to be plethora of them strewn about the levels
of hell and and other planes of his existence actually, but it
is intentionally used to maneuver through the layers of
hell. And if it's the tetrahedron,
which this is, it has thirteen sides and each correspond with a
level one of the levels of hell. And you see that to get to any
particular level of hell, you have to solve the puzzle of the
tetrahedron, which requires a sleight of hand.
Check whichever increases each side that is solved.
Currently, you see the rest of the sides are Gray, but if they
are slight slid into the right pattern, they will light and
correspond to a level of hell. There are two sides.
I think they are, yeah, two sides of that that are actually
solved. I'm actually like kind of sight
of hand. Try to solve to try and solve a
new a new side of it. There are currently two sides of
it which you know increases or decreases the chances of solving
another side, IE increases the DC check of but.
I make the argument that a puzzle.
Should. Be intelligence.
You could in the sense. Like if it's like.
Like I can. Understand like solving like a
Rubik's Cube quickly could be side of hand.
Yes, yeah, I know if you're. Solving like the algorithms to
actually solve it would be intelligence.
Like once you've learned the like sleight of hand wouldn't
really get you. Like being dexterous wouldn't
really solve it, it would just be how quickly you could solve
it once you know the solution. I would see it being as either a
sleight of hand or an investigation check.
One of the two most likely for this puzzle solving.
Like I could see the argument for sleight of hand if it is
like a puzzle that is like twist like a bop, it of like twisting
and shoving things into places and stuff like that.
Ezra, Ezra. Ezra.
Yes, 24 to try to like stealth away with the the goblin in hand
with me. Absolutely not.
I'm 100% keeping an eye on you. You don't.
Have anywhere to hide? You're a fucking barbarian.
I I rolled that 24 Let let, let me see.
Let, let, let, let, let me have. This I also might say.
I mean, that was a great role, I hate to say, but I think Bailin
is staring right at you. So it.
Would have. To roll with disadvantage, I I
apologize. I have not trusted you with this
goddamn goblin since the moment you expressed any sort of
excitement. What's your?
Passive. Bailin my passive is 13.
Meets it, beats it. Sorry, you must be looking right
at both Baltazar as he's reaching out towards Franklin
and you're reading the notes without, without even looking at
at the thing that you're reaching for that Franklin also
just grasped. And you're kind of if you want
to roll me an intelligence check, you would.
Towards me? Who was that directed towards?
Baltazar. OK, Baltazar.
I walk up behind you. Yeah, this is a color.
That's another color. Actually, it's in Mommy's hand.
I apologize. Oh.
Whoever's doing this. Yeah, Mommy was trying to solve
it. I was just going to offer.
I actually have like a a pretty good.
I have an OK bonus to sleight of hand.
Well, we have a couple floors that we could go to already,
right? Correct.
And oh, towards your points, though, it would, you could use
intelligence to solve it, but if you're just, which is what most
people have been doing. That's why it was a sleight of
hand. Most people have just been kind
of like, without any real particular rhyme or reason
shifting the the faces around on it, you know?
So would it be any particular skill on here or would it just
straight intelligence? Investigation.
I would argue if it's a magical thing.
I could see Arcana as well as investigation.
I was thinking your straight intelligence bonus would
probably be the the most accurate towards this because
although you were reading, you're getting only to the key
points. You might need to take a time
take time to study what it's explaining to you, because it
does seem to explain how to solve each side of the cube, but
it's algorithmic, IE takes a while to understand.
Take General. Yeah.
I think one's going to kind of. 7.
Oh. Interject and say, well hold on,
Instead of solving a random side, do we want to see it?
Maybe if we could figure out which side corresponds to which
level of hell, and then maybe we could choose one that might be
beneficial to us, like a water level.
Well, would a water level be beneficial to us?
Sure, if we could like somehow open it up to like drop water
out of them. You aren't able to hide with
that intelligence check. You you.
You must have misunderstood the algorithm in the book.
I don't know if you hand it back to mommy or not.
Either way, we should figure out first and foremost how to use it
besides trying to solve another one, but how to use it to like,
teleport away in case we need to, and then turn our attention
to try to like find this dude before we have to use it.
As you're turning back to Ezra after the anticlimactic Baltazar
pulling the cube away, you see him running away with the goblin
under his. Arm.
Or is he just attempting to consign us to death?
Ezra, well, I don't think he thinks that far ahead.
No. I cast one person on Ezra.
I. Forget whole person's what now I
believe I. Believe.
Wisdom, Wisdom save. I totally agree we should just
like get ourselves killed 'cause we're all tricky situation right
now. Right was I'm waiting for that
wisdom save. Yeah.
Before I say something else to you though, in your head.
You are paralyzed. What was it?
You build a 13, my save DC is a 16.
So as you get paralyzed and holding the goblin in your arms,
you hear in your head only 30 minutes left.
Oh shit, all right, we need to use our shit together.
I go and I grab the goblin out of Ezra's hands and I just like
hold him by his shoulders and walk him back over to the group.
Does anyone have locate object or person?
No. Shit, does anyone have not?
Track. That's not tracking.
It would attempt the the puzzle again, but I'm imagining it's
going to take me a little while for me to give up so.
Gosh, if I if I transformed to direwolf, that's tracking.
If you transform into direwolf. What?
I didn't catch that last part. Tracking track Kai Shen?
Yes, you would require a cent for that, and I don't think you
have. Don't we have all those arm
bands? Yeah, and I know that he's in
Ezra's head, but it's it's not like the the senses that you
would use to track as a direwolf wouldn't work in this situation.
There isn't been a like a scent associated with him being inside
your head nor with the arm bands.
Other than the stank of the goblins themselves and same with
even inside of his church or temple, he didn't really have a.
Smell. Yeah.
Shit, do any of our casters have any potentially useful spells?
I I really only have like charm person and stuff like that.
I can detect thoughts and I can charm people and hold people,
but the rest of it's kind of damaged.
You know, I could also banish someone are.
You still holding if you. Can like tell us how to get the
fuck out of here? I need to, oh now that I have
the goblin in a safe spot with all of us, I let go of the hold
person on Ezra. These are just kind of like sad.
As you. I I can offer to attempt.
As you sit the pin preacher down, he kind of goes stock
still then relaxes like almost bone limp like he doesn't have
any bones and then stands straight back up and kind of
like leans back with his arms hanging behind him and his eyes
glow gold and his mouth starts moving not of his own accord.
You can see and he. What the fuck?
You can. You can hear an almost different
tone to his voice and he just says, hey, you don't get to find
a way out of the chamber soon. You're.
All going to die. Oh, it's this guy.
Here, hand me the little puzzle thingy.
Let me take a stab at it. It's.
This guy OK while my hands it over.
And he'll pass the puzzle off. Sorry, I'm back.
No worries, I'm going to attempt.
Oh that was stealth, but I have the same modifier between
Sleight of Hand and Stealth, so that would be an 18 to attempt
to solve the puzzle. You you still only have the two
sides that you're able to get. That's it.
The two sides that were there, yeah, you may have actually with
an 18 probably lost a side in doing it, but you probably would
have like stopped yourself and gone back.
It's that hard at that point. Oh my God.
Yeah. I was gonna say before I sorry,
I got interrupted by a phone call, but I was like you guys
were doing it. I was going to like, since it's
deck space, I was gonna OfferUp like I might be able to do it
'cause I got a really high decks.
Yeah. I mean, if you've got more than
a + 5, go ahead, do it. Can you guys do it together and
maybe get advantage? I mean I that would be
disadvantage in my opinion. It's not very big.
Got it. Guidance on that one.
Be careful. If we lose both of our sides,
we're definitely fucked. What does guidance give me?
1D four. Oh Jesus, my role was any
better? Great.
With a 21 you do not solve any more of the sides.
Oh, that was a 20. Sorry, I I didn't realize you
had to roll for it. My I was just.
Adding D4, it's not a. 4 Yep, Yep, I got it.
So at 20, yes, you do not solve anymore.
Jesus. Jesus Christ.
Fuck I rolled A6 I mean. Jeez.
And take another stab at it, maybe you'll do better.
I mean, I could, but I don't want to.
I don't want to like break it. Also, so we have 30 minutes to
do this too. You also for breakthrough We can
die. Readings there Baltasar that the
the two sides that are solved can still be used to get back to
other portions of hell and you see the colors that are there
being five level 55 of hell and Level 3 of hell.
I believe correspondingly. That is I just had it.
I was going back to it now. Was five the one that we just
came from? And.
Was 5, we're on 4 which is greed, and it was 33 and five
and three is gluttony. We have 3 and 5 salt.
And three and five seals are also broken on the prison.
You guys would know, especially Malme.
So we'd just be going backwards. I turned to the others.
Hey could what do you guys take a look at how to check out that
God to see if it's the seal? I can try, I don't know what
that means though. Oh, there's a big old gong
outside. Yeah, there are seals to each
level of hell and if we unlock all of them, we release the the
God of manipulation and he told us we're totally going to become
gods. I say with finger gun or like.
Air. Quotations.
I would. Frankly, make make make the make
the bug go above the the the anvil.
I mean, I could do that. Oh please.
What's what's your plan First, 'cause like we should be sure.
Hit it really hard. But Linda, are we just playing
into that guy's plan? I know at.
This point, it's the only way that we have out.
Still we have We could go to Level 3 of Hell or level 5.
But then we won't be able to come back here.
That's true. Change where we are.
Is the seal already working here?
Do we even know to? Be here.
We didn't. I didn't hear what belts Azar
said. We have 30 minutes #1 our first
priority should be rack our brains to try to figure out some
way to locate this guy within 30 minutes and kill him #2 how to
stop the level #3 how to get this thing to go backwards and
like to a different level, right?
And then like the GOG should be the last.
What'd you say, Baltasar? Is there nowhere else on this
level we can go? Giant inside I think like upside
out pill Oval thing in the in the rock.
Wait, is every voice level filled with lava?
Because if we go back to five we can go back through the seal.
Get back to the greedy one if that's safe.
And to your answer of is there nowhere else to go?
The the goblin that seems to be possessed by Kaisha and the the
pimp preacher with one hand turns to you with his with his
hands back still and kind of like at a odd stance towards
you, almost like he doesn't quite know how to use the body.
And he just laughs and he goes, yes, all all of the areas are
plugged with magma leading out of this chamber.
This is the only way out. Can I OK somebody question, so
if I were to use thoughts right now, would I be detecting the
thoughts of the goblin or the thoughts of the the dude that we
need to kill? Oh, that is a good question
because I would like to piggyback off of that then.
Great thing to say to anyone in a situation that doesn't know
what it that thing that they're going to do is going to do.
Fuck around and find out. Fuck around and find out.
I get it once for long rest for free.
So you can certainly try. Yeah you can.
Certainly. I did like free ones for long
rest and I can use spell slots from then on.
So I'm just going to use one free one for long run.
Though I will crack thoughts on this figure and see if I can
detect the goblins thoughts or big bad dudes thoughts.
Who's lovely big bad dude? Who's a big big?
Bad dude. There's that for you to that's
that's a cast. OK, no, here is the spell is a
long read. Thank you.
I remembered it was pretty long. I was trying to.
Last time I used this I got awfully dirty thoughts and saved
Franklin from eating chocolate that would make him horny as a
12 year old freaking turtle. Here we go, and we're going to
just roll this. You mother bitch.
Does the 16 beat your DC? That is my fucking DC.
So you glean into the mind of the goblin, and then you run
into a wall what it feels like on the inside of the goblin.
But just as you're delving into possessed mind, you feel a
tendril reaching towards your consciousness, something like.
That there's actually this like hell no to the no no.
That's how I feel. Elderly.
Y'all we're fucking with something that's way above our
level that. So it can, it can immediately
you can tell start to feel what you're feeling, including your
worries and loves and hates immediately just by the brushing
of your two consciousnesses without you gleaning much of it
other than that it is much more vast than you.
Oh fuck that. Consciousness.
They're very, very bad. This thing is very much larger
than you. Yeah, no shit.
And it doesn't do anything kind of knowing that it you couldn't
get in and just it you feel almost as if it's circling your
consciousness, almost like it's it's thinking about actually,
no, that's what I was going to say.
You can feel as this almost as of a tendril is coming towards
you. But asking Lee as if let yes,
giving you the chance to let it in, crushing and touching.
Go ahead. Balthazar would attempt to take
and make use of the tridecahedron.
All right. Oh no, Do I let this in?
I that's. Your call.
I know I don't like it being my call, but.
But yeah, Balthazar is not hot. Like on the list of things ball
he want, like Faust wants to have happen in his life.
Being consumed by love in a pocket dimension inside of the
what is called the pocket pocket is not high on that list.
I. Don't think it's high on
anyone's list honestly. And it's not a bad luck.
Forthcoming. Go head and roll.
Getting into a position like what is it to use this thing?
Oh, are you looking more into the book you mean or?
Like to actually, yeah, like what does it, what does it take
to use this thing to get us the fuck out of here?
OK, so over the last. Already solved that.
Over the last 10:00-ish minutes that you've probably been
looking at it. Now, like I'd said before, you
realize that the two sides that are solved are the third and
four or fifth levels, 3rd and 5th levels of hell.
That upon touching those sides with intent, you can go to those
levels of hell. And anyone that is touching you
or anything that is touching you with with that same intent to
travel to those places will go there.
We have to do that smartly. Oh yeah, because we'll lose the
pocket rocket. Yeah, if I somebody needs, I'd
grab the pocket rocket and use it.
Will they all come with me? Probably, but.
It's. I think my guys.
Yeah, because it's a rock. So if you go and pick it up and
put it in your pocket and then use it, we would all go.
And Yep, and and you probably. Trust the person.
You probably would get a after studying the the algorithms a
little bit more. You'd probably get a + 1 to each
one of your roles. Now, if you wanted to create a
specific skill, I tend to let people do this because it you're
going with the idea that you're gaining knowledge on this
particular aspect. So if you wanted to create a
specific skill for the tetrahedron and the algorithm
that you're learning about, it would be based on intelligence
like you were going for to solve it based on that algorithm.
And so you would take your intelligence modifier and now
with an additional plus one. OK, thanks.
Yeah, doesn't sound like a bad thing.
I still vote. We use it to get out of here and
come back later. OK, I'm totally fight with that.
Kai shed and goes you guys are no fun through the pimp preacher
and he just goes. I turned to him.
Why don't you tell us where you are and come fight us instead of
being a little bitch? You guys are the ones that are
being little bitches, blowing up my shit trying to make me.
Of the opinion that if this one continues to be antagonistic,
whenever we do come back, we continue to blow up his
belongings until he decides to show himself.
I don't think we want him to show himself.
You have 15 minutes to hit the gong.
What happens if we hit? What happens if we hit the gong?
The. Lava stops flowing.
OK, but what else? Check to see if that's true.
Insight. Insight I move the guy from
where he's standing. I fucking I have no clue bro I
don't know shit. I'm guessing to Phelan you did
not let the tendril in. Oh I'm still debating 'cause it
could be a good connection and maybe I could find him with it
but like oh the corruption it. Is an elder.
Brain. It is an elder brain.
Or is he just using an elder brain stat block?
No, there's no way. Yeah, with the two you
definitely are end, end of one. You're so insightful.
You're pretty sure that that's he's got to be telling the
truth, I mean. Well, is he still in my zone of
truth? Oh yeah, what 2222 to tell if
he's telling the truth. He is still inside of the zone
of truth, so. And Ezra rolled to 22 to see if
he was telling the truth. He, he was.
Hit the fucking gong. What?
Else are we are is is the is the bug above the other thing?
Hold on, is that? Hold on.
There you go. That this guy's smart.
Let's. Go Yeah, yeah, he's the smart
one. Well, I certainly hope so.
Hey, that's not helpful. I would too.
That doesn't answer the question you're.
Dawning the. Question.
As far as I know it this time. That is all.
Finish your sentence. That is all that will happen.
It is not the seal. The seal resides with me.
As expected. Where are you?
In we can talk more of this when you have more time, but you
have. But yeah, someone go hit the
fucking gong. That's why, that's why I asked
Franklin. Franklin, are we above?
Are we above it? I'll bump into my familiar and
then visibly fly towards it while keeping a very wary eye
out. I would also like to posit to
the notion that it would not be a poor idea to be able to escape
at a moment's notice should this be a trap.
Oh yeah, absolutely. And I think your idea of just
hopping out and grabbing the pocket rocket and bamping to one
of the past levels is a good idea.
So. Yeah, but if we go backwards,
what do just means he's going to be waiting for us.
Yeah, but need to prepare more. He's already waiting for us.
It's. Going to make a difference.
I guess it's a group. Vote.
Yeah, we're there. Did we hit the gong?
I'll I'll fly above the gong, but then like kind of turn to
the others. I'll be know what you guys want
to do. I think we should take a group
photo. That I tap my Torb and pop out
outside the pocket rocket above it.
You you may want to wait for that positioning.
Could could you move your token there Franklin for me?
Sure. Yep.
I can do it for for you too if you'd like, but.
Saigon. Is this Saigon?
Yep. Yeah.
So you're up in the still. It is an anvil.
That is, everybody's misnamed it the Gong I.
He didn't say Anvil originally. Because.
You said you definitely said gone at one point.
He may have said, he may have said.
Known as the. Ann Mills name is Gong.
Bonus bonus bonus action rage superhero superhero landing on
it. As as you die, your cricket you
flew across invisibly and got to the right above it right?
It's what you're doing and what is.
A stored Yeah Azra. I know right at.
Least you powered him up first, right?
Yeah, I know. Rage trouble.
Oh, I'm aiming for the anvil. Aiming for an anvil.
Can you roll me a stealth with advantage, Ezra?
Stealth with with advantage. Come on, baby.
All right, there's one 28. Beautiful.
Rogers. I roll the 20.
I roll the crit crit. You land perfectly, superhero
pose right on top of the anvil. Are you?
I don't think I've heard you. Oh, you know, you have the axe.
That's what you have. And you strike it with the axe
and a resounding emanates throughout the chamber, and the
magma stops filling with some of the things that are still
floating in it. And as you do so, the here at
this layer largest creature you've seen in quite some time
erupts from some of the magma facing towards you.
Roll me in a quick initiative between you and it.
Oh wait, I. I, I, I, I get advantage.
I get advantage. Danger sense.
Yeah, I'm already in danger sense. 23.
All right, you go first. Let's see, I'm on there here.
Go back into the rocket, Rocket. I know right?
Or at least like call to us from your torque.
Beam me up, Scotty. I'm assuming you touch your
torque then? Yes, I touched my torque.
And you poop into smoke and there is a loud scream of rage
as the magma starts to to evacuate from the chamber, but
the creature does not it. Stands.
Oh, so the Magma's going down, but now there's a creature in
there? And you can see that you would
only been seeing the top parts of it.
As the magma goes down, it gets larger.
As where it comes back once OK, it's a gun, but.
And. There's a really big fire rock
monster down there. At this point, still kill it.
The pimp creature is just going as Kai Shin and then he just
falls down to limp to the ground.
That's weird. I'm feeding you later.
Don't wait, OK? That was your chance to if you
didn't let the tentacle in by this point.
Yeah, No, I didn't. Didn't think so, just checking.
I was thinking about the final battle, and letting him in
probably wouldn't have been a good idea.
All right, all right. I think I got a little bit of a
taste of what this thing really is, and it's not good.
What happened out there, Ezra? It's time to fight.
Oh goodness. Ezra looks pumped.
He looks pumped as shit right now.
What are we fighting? What happened to the lava?
Wait, lava first. So love Ezra hit gone lava go
down up up. Really big fire rock monster
Ezra wants to share in glory. So Ezra, come back, get you, and
then we go smash it. We're smiling.
Don't ask me, I didn't find him. He popped into existence.
Let's just like you did, ah? So that's that's how.
I turn into a whisper in your ear.
Not if this is real. Where are all.
This paper. And numbers.
And yes, this guy gets it. Yeah, we all know that.
Yes, yes, yes. We're all just the dream of the
gods. Whatever Turtle shoot.
All righty. All right, so what's the plan,
Sands? We're go fight this way.
This is the closest we have to anything to do so.
I'll cheer you. I mean, the only other option is
to flee to the other level of hell.
This thing, I don't know what it is but hey if it does like any
kind of AOEI die. I'm a level one wizard.
Don't worry, I feel the same way and I'm a level 8 sorcerer.
I still feel that way. Also at this time you're
realizing probably with all the others chaos you hadn't but
Baltzar you have a new necklace around your neck, a torque.
Oh good, I've been collared. It's not so bad.
Wow. This guy gets it.
Look into the crew but so sounds to me like we have some fighting
to do for a great need to run. Oh.
We remember that the automaton guy said that he's they're weak
against bludgeoning damage. Also, I know we're probably just
winding down for the the session, but if you wouldn't
mind rolling an initiative for the dire cricket, I know it's
invisible but. Yes, it is invisible.
Actually, how is it invisible again?
Because it is based off of. So I'm a chain warlock and one
of the options is a quasi yet which is the stat block that
I've been using for this Because a regular dire cricket would be
like multiple times more powerful than.
Yeah, I think I'm familiar. They start off as like a a
regular cricket for the most part as they get bigger and
such. But OK, so you start.
You did that and. They, well I'm letting you know,
like the the class itself requires you to use one of three
like stat blocks. Oh, OK.
Without it getting like wildly Opie.
So I used a closet and one of its abilities is an at will
invisibility. It's like a little stealth,
well, stealth little stealth guy.
So it's called a closet. Yeah, I can post it.
Hold on. Oh, I know they're.
Just little amplitudes. Yeah.
There's a link.
I don't know if they would have invisibility then.
Why magically it says invisibility?
Yeah, but I didn't give, I, I didn't say they were quasites
unless like, did I tell you you could do that?
I don't remember doing that. No, I mean so when I became a
chain warlock it gives you three options, a quasi, a pseudo
dragon or an animal. Oh, OK.
Is quasi. Just the.
Form of a cricket. I got yeah because I didn't have
like the the dire cricket stat block you have is way stronger
than this thing or the other options for sure.
And I picked the Abyssal infernal vibe, one of the three.
That makes sense. I got you now.
I didn't. I didn't realize what you were,
what you were going for. You're reskinning that as that.
I was thinking for some reason you were just taking like a
younger cricket and reskinning it as this and I'm like, there's
totally just like a cricket out there.
I know there is as a. Snap, but that would be just
like A1 HP. Yeah, that's basically what they
I'd imagine them being. But I mean the ones that you've
promoted to Admirals and such, I can see why they would be
Quasites. Well, I it's just the class that
I picked is gives you like an advanced familiar versus like a
wizard, like one HP familiar. Yeah.
Hey, you normally roll AD four and then find out how many hit
points the wizard familiar has. That's fair.
As well, do you have more than one of these things at a time?
No, there's the my main familiar is this thing, and then I have
Ferdinand, who is my find steed. Right.
And then I have the staff that lets me summon an insect plague.
Right. So this one isn't Amos, This one
is Akbar. Yeah, sure.
I mean, I it's an amorphis glob of of swarming insects.
OK. It's the way I always kind of
pictured it. Since you were a swarm keeper,
you know. No, I was just trying to
understand because I was like, wait a second, I know
invisibility is concentration. Yes.
So, OK, yeah, you, you guys would be primed and ready to to
get out of there. Did you roll that?
Sorry, his dex is +3 so oh. Ezra's by the. 14.
So he would they would get just the chance to move just before
the creature. Yeah, it's, I mean invisibly.
It's just going to GTFO as fast as it can like out of the area,
like it has no desire to like get hurt.
And ideally it wants to make it somewhere that wait so Azure's
back end. So yeah, if it's invisible, it
would it would ideally try to make its way to some other
portion that like people could stand on if they are trying to
teleport out. So let's see where's the little
like pen measure thing measure. So here to here probably.
Well, so if it dashes, it could probably make it to here.
That's what's its speed, 40 feet.
So 80 feet flight. Yeah.
So. OK, it uses its action to dash
and get to a larger area. OK, I can.
Turn to the others a good. Spot to Yeah, leave it.
Yeah, unhelpfully, Yeah. See what we can do about this
somewhat sticky situation. I didn't think it was going to
take that long to. Start the fight.
Well, when you introduce my character who's like, hey, hang
on a SEC, let's think about things then.
Well. It's, it's it's, yeah, I gave
you the hour because it was like by the end of the hour, if they
haven't solved it, they're dead. Right.
Solving to getting to the thing was not the issue, it was do we
want to push the button. Yeah, exactly.
It was basically just a whole time just going that freaking
meme with a dude sweating and there's two buttons in front of
him, Yes. Right.
Yeah, that's exactly what this was.
Ezra would have pushed any button, they called him.
Ezra would have pushed any button, they told him.
But. I can tell.
Makes a lot of sense. And honestly, my characters
vindicated that. We pushed the button and it was
a trap. It was a trap, just like you
said. Yeah, I mean, you're not you're,
you're definitely not playing a Dumb Creek character and it
shows. Definitely.
If Ezra didn't go 1st and that initially, yeah, dangerousness.
For the win. You I mean the the magma would
have still stopped. You just may have been down a
person. I don't know.
Yeah, that would have been something.
Oh, Phelan is too squishy for this.
Ragnarok, it'll be great. Phelan is too squishy for this.
Fire be purged. I mean, if only what's?
Oh God. Belt Burp.
What's the new character's name? Sorry.
Balthazar. Balthazar.
If Balthazar was here 2 weeks ago, he'd be like level 10 by
now. I know right, If only I was here
last week too and not working overtime it would have been so
nice. Yeah, I I'm so glad I was able
to get my buddy Jake to join us because it's the right time.
Yeah. You you have adamant worries to.
Hats off for any of those that are interested enough to know
this is Ogrimah. Huh.
This is Who's it? What's it?
Ogrimah. Ogremah, an ogre mother.
Kind of. Is.
The mother of all ogres. Is the mother of Earth elements
elementals? Oh yes, you're so happy.
Very. Oh no.
Alien is terrified. Very big.
I put a. Video in I I put a video in chat
to describe my vibe. Excite.
Yeah. Oh boy.
Well fuck, my tiny little 13 AC and 50 hit points ass is not
going to enjoy this. Good thing.
Oh yeah, this, this character is the character that, like Perma,
died the very first time that she was introduced.
As a level one. As a level 1 sorcerer.
Didn't you get a shot in the head?
No, we were in the tower and we made it down a level and a half
before I died. Died.
Oh, that's right, yeah. Again a. 501.
Oh, go ahead. No, no, no, go ahead.
I die to a single Mace hit. Yeah, good luck.
You need to stay somewhere safe. Speaking of the tower though.
You got spells. And I was going to say, it's a
good thing Mommy has axes and daggers to throw.
Oh my. God, I just thought of
everything is full. Magnus But I was going to say
that Speaking of the tower might not be, not to put any ideas in
anyone's heads, but you could have still quite a lot of those
astral diamonds. We could just go in there and
level up a bunch. No, I just thought about, I just
thought about this. Did somebody say they have
vanish? They have what?
Somebody say they had to spell banish.
Oh, I have banishment. Okay, so that is that
motherfucker. I will try to for sure.
We have banish, we have a horde of dynamite.
It's God, Yeah, we used that. We.
Used. We used all that.
Was what was used to blow up the town I'm guessing.
Yeah, allegedly, allegedly, allegedly.
Shut up. You guys dynamite, what's been
going on here? What?
This town this town was a. Modern.
It was a mining town. It was a mighty.
Yeah. So they had their own dynamite.
And somebody, somebody, you know, accidentally maybe sort of
stuffed all the dynamite in one spot and then it went boom.
Alright, feel like that part wasn't as accidental.
Yeah, that was very deliberate. I'm.
Gonna go to. Sleep.
You should. Shit.
Bye guys, bye. Goodnight.
Good times. I, I I'm sorry, I turned this
into an episode of Do we push the button?
But. It was good, it was good.
It was needed. Yeah.
So far there's been no, there's been no second second guessing
anything. It's just been That sounds like
a great idea. Good idea.
Well, that's what happens when none of the, like, adult adults
are here. Right, Ezra is an.
Adult Ezra is barely an adult. Rick, this character is
basically just you. Oh boy.
All. Right, guys, See you.
All. Next week, bye.
Bye. Talk to you tomorrow, Jacob.
See you. A grand and wonderful thank you
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