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Now let's dive right back into Tara.
Through the campaign, many polos I know about.
Yeah, fucking Craig do. I know about zombies.
Not yet. I was going to fill you in here
in a second. I'll do the recap and say what
you remember last. The Hand of Fate tosses.
The dice rolls, spins, turns, and the campaign starts and
ends, leaving memories that become stories.
Stories flow out into the infancy, painting it with
legends. Legends wash up on the shores
throughout the infancy, fading to myth until myths are
forgotten. In the campaign that gave it
birth, comes again and again the Hand of Fate tosses, The dice
rolls, spins, turns. The other two we left the Shadow
seekers in the ale house on the 5th level of hell, betting with
their fast becoming friend Zach. Except Mame and Faulkner who
were hauled away downriver by giant crocodiles.
The rest of the party managed to connect with the witches
Sasrella much kinder than the first which Malfikiam, who seems
to hate everyone and everything, concocting a plan with Zach to
get all the keys together in one.
Place at the Acropolis. Zach went back to Sasirilla
while Ash pretended to be Sasirilla to meet Maleficium
with Prisilda Azakup. They promised to help them help
all of them out of this level of hell by meeting at the Acropolis
in a day, which is today. Zach managed the same with
Sasirilla now that the Rum Rollers keys, Sasirillas keys
and both Maleficium's keys. Would be in one place, the
Acropolis to kill time until the next day.
Games of betting ensued, with Vermeira as the victor in the
first round before she passed out.
At that point, Mom stumbles back into the ale house and tells
their harrowing tale of their brush with death and the death
of their new new companion, Falcona, being torn apart by
giant crocodiles. More drinking ensued, with
another bedding leading to Franklin's winning the pot, this
time which included a fortress of Revels, aka a pocket rocket.
After figuring out the nuances of how the place works, the
group explores the interior of the subdimensional pocket space
and sleeps. Mom A drinks and eats while
Flint and Ash get into glitter, battle, fight and wash and clean
up. To sleep while Franklin plans a
zombie jail. And I had here as a note to the
the the rest of the passed out companions were drug up to the
unconscious, drug up unconsciously up to the private
rooms upstairs in the inn. Let's find out what happens this
time. So, Bree Vermeira, you find
yourself. Being woken by the sounds of
heavy footsteps walking in and out of the room, it sounds like
carrying different materials to a rock on the floor that
Franklin standing next to and kind of directing some dwarves
into this, into this rocket appears because there's almost a
constant, now swirling cloud of purple with these geometric
silver forms in it that the dwarves are disappearing into,
and then it that that cloud of smoke.
Funnels into the rock. Interesting.
So there's so there's like a thing that dwarves are going in
and out of. Yep.
And they're carrying materials in or out, it looks like.
And I'm, I'm in the, I'm in the bar area.
No, I was going with imagination here.
And you're upstairs in with the rest of your companions who
drug. You OK?
So we're like in A room. Yeah, it seems like there's a
couple other ones. Like in A room.
OK. And then I guess it's Franklin
and Maumee. In the room too.
Mommy is not in the room, it appears.
Mommy, you you you last. I'm not sure if you're waking
right this second. It's still kind of the middle of
the night. Probably wouldn't have been that
much longer. I just wanted to play out how
this kind of situation may have worked out because you you would
have been awake most of the night as as Franklin and having
to corral. The dwarves probably indirect
them to some degree of what you wanted.
I forget what we're doing with the dwarves.
Last thing I knew, we went into the pocket rocket and I found
food and then I passed out and a hammock.
Yep. Yeah, that is exactly what Mama
did. So for the dwarves, the plan was
in the pocket rocket, there's a little space right at the entry
point, and we were thinking of turning it into.
A basically a little Volt slash jail, and the initial idea was
that we fill it with a horde of zombies for a quick release
zombie horde. Yes, I remember that, but like,
I feel like. I'm awakening now to like
Franklin directing some dwarves around.
I don't remember. I don't remember how it came to
be like this. You're not Mommy.
That's what I was saying. This is kind of like the middle
of the night. But my idea would be, I would
have guessed woken by the by the noises and and having been left
in the room unconscious near this where this is was
occurring. Because yeah, it was kind of
Franklin's last last. Act as of as of the last session
to start start communicating with them and had laid out a
plan with them more or less to to how they how this was going
to look. So I just, I guess if a matter
you you'd pop up and see Franklin as a familiar face and
go, what the Hell's going on? Yeah, hey, yo, Franklin, what's?
Hey, what's up? What's going on over here?
He kind of like pauses while kind of directing traffic of
these dwarves. I hired a number of Craftsman to
improve our pocket rocket. What is a pocket rocket?
Oh, he. I point at the rock on the
ground. When I say this is a it's a it's
like a magical, magical house inside this rock that we now
owned. We wrote what it from from Zach
and a bet. Ohh.
Yeah, so. Yeah, so if you're wanting to go
in there, I think everyone else is currently sleeping.
I'm gonna be hurting in here soon so I could get a full rest,
but I just wanted to get these good gel but here all their way
and I slapped one of them on the back.
Really. Ohh, fine.
You're paying us enough and. At that, you two realize that
you're out of gold pieces to lend, out to make.
New. To make new pendants or tokens
or what have. Ohh yeah.
Do you have a gold piece? I'm out of money.
I gave all of my worldly possessions to these dwarfs A.
Gold piece. Yeah, apparently you have to
have a gold piece to make a Talisman so that you can enter
the thing. And it has to be like keyed to
you. So if you still have, I don't.
I think I gave you one. One of the Little Claw has
dispensers for the goodberries. Ohh, I think you did give me.
One, I turned everyone else's into a little access cards like
Little Fobs. OK.
So if you all had me that and what gold piece I don't have any
more gold pieces, I will. I will do that for you.
Absolutely here. You are great.
Thank you so much. I make one drafting guidance.
Ooh. Ohh wait no that was the is that
the ohh the two was in addition to the OK I got it now because
I. Screamed guidance at the last
second. No, it works.
You take you take the rock as one of the the rest of the
dwarves funneled in and out for the time it seems like and you
take the rock and you slam it down on on the gold piece and.
What do you think he go with this exact instance?
What am I thinking of? Yeah, I mean, he's probably half
distracted with the getting the dwarves all set up.
So he's he, he's construction Franklin right now.
So he probably is thinking of like the lock contraption.
To enter the the zombie room. And for that reason, as you pull
the rock back of the gold piece in your hand, it seems to to be
a flat, a flat square piece, almost with a diagrammatic image
of what was in your mind on the on the gold piece.
I take a second and I put her name on it.
And with the 25 I feel like I get your Your name, accurately
spelled and with exquisite penmanship.
Everyone, most everyone else's is wrong.
And they're they're little poo emoji type shapes.
Ohh yeah, that's right. You have a nice one.
Everybody else has a poop. The Golden poop.
And I hand it back to you, it is.
Hold on to that token. That was way nice.
The other ones. Wow, this.
Is this is wonderful? Yeah, going on to this and I can
go into inside the pocket drive. Yeah, pretty sure it's something
like I have like you hold it to the rock or like to your head or
I as long try to recall. It So you're holding it and you
want to go in right now, Volmoto, right?
Ohh, that was my idea. I was gonna figure out how to
use it. So as soon as you were holding
it and you and you have intention to go in, the purple
mist starts swirling out of the rock and engulfs you to
transport you there. I will finish up my organization
of these dwarves and then make sure I get into the thing in
time to get like a full rest. OK.
Let me it is possible flip. This on over here and I'm gonna
grab. Naira copy, paste paste.
Oked it can you see there? I think so.
Hold. On I do.
I have to find the right part of the map hold on.
That might help. There it is.
I'm here. Hey, welcome to the place.
So I point forward. This here is the room we're
turning into a little jail cell. So it's for zombies, but also
it's lead lined on the inside. So if we have to have any
particularly or specific conversations, we're gonna be at
a lead line room inside a pocket dimension.
So I think we'll be pretty safe. Sounds lovely.
Yeah. And then there's a tunnel over
here that we made. That well in the door that now
goes to the sleeping quarters and then through there you could
make your way to the rest of oh. OK.
Oh, I need to make the. I need to edit that, but I'll
get you through. It we're locked inside.
That actually you probably get you in between them, so you got
a tunnel that you're going through and then you can get to
the other side. Wow, these are some fancy
sleeping quarters. Holy crap.
They really are. Have beds been claimed?
I think you just sleep wherever you want.
Some people are sleeping. I think up on the havocs and the
third, the 2nd floor. And there's some people I don't,
I don't know where. Yeah, Mime, I think was it Mime
was having was having intercourse with Flint the last
time I saw what What Was that true?
Who was it? Who was being romanced last
time? Printing rumors.
I mean must leave it cannot. Affect myself but.
What's this? Give me a second.
I gotta go downstairs over here. Ohh yeah, this is the bathroom.
I point at the water. That's where you pee.
Ohh. I think.
There's tubs over there though, so you don't have to like, clean
yourself there. I do see bathtub.
And you're seeing too around. You pocket dimension has like an
ocean. After you'd left the sleeping
quarters, you went down a small ladder from this mezzanine area
across over a wooden. Platform area that's slightly
raised from the the rock floor. The rest of this is kind of
looking like a stone dug in cavern, almost naturally formed.
And where you're standing is one of the three bell shapes that
you could kind of see off of this main passageway that goes
up into a into a. Apparently another level above
you that's got some sort of walkway up there too, with
hanging down ferry lights, lighting the whole thing and the
room that you're standing in currently.
Yeah, it has waves actually inside of there and there's a
bit of an ecosystem in it somehow probably producing some
sort of oxygen you would presume is how this place is being able
to. This place is pretty cool.
Right. Exact.
Just like betted on Duffin Ioffer.
I bet him a block of incense. That's what I bet him.
Well, other people bet too, but like, overall it was like 100
gold. Nice.
Also, there's bunch of gold boxes, boxes of gold over there
if you want to go grind a handful.
They are these cards. Yes, maybe right next to this
other table with knives card game is this.
I picked up the cards. And look at them.
They look like normal playing cards.
Because it's supposed to be a gate robe.
All right, all right. Also, Buddy Robe.
Where's the rest of our group? What happened to them?
I point up and there is this wood thing that you see is
apparently floating like a second floor above us.
This floor here. Uh huh.
But there, that's that's the floor you're walking on, but
there is like a secondary floor that looks similar above you.
Oh, OK. Good.
A good 20 feet in the air, at least.
I'm pretty sure isn't it? Is it Flint that's sleeping up
there still? Mame is Flint was actually
washing himself or trying to look like get glitter off of
himself still. Next to the next to the the the
waves and got it. So you would have seen them
there? Yep, alrighty.
I don't know what they were doing, but it was a lot of
glitter involved. Anyway, stay away.
From Glitter. That there's another room over
here. This is more like a lounge bar
area. I checked, they don't have any
milk. That's OK.
I don't really like milk. What milk is so good it?
Don't really do anything for me. Huh.
You must have strong or weak bones.
I would guess anyway. You did see Ash as well,
sleeping in one of the beds with OK with her baby, so the only
one that haven't. Seen Mama.
Haven't seen Mama yet. Yep.
And what about Rebecca? Have I seen him yet?
Nope. Interesting.
Also are missing. Well, I see.
You may have noticed him actually in the room where you
guys were were thrown. Haphazardly, you could tell that
you you probably got a couple extra bruises than you remember
too. Yeah, the room that I woke up
in, Yeah. OK.
So Rubik was in that room, yes. All right.
And then I'm is in this game. I forget is that That's Warren.
Warren was in that room, too. Yeah.
Warren was in that room, too, OK?
I'm just trying to, like, figure out where remember he was in
this campaign. Well, this is nifty.
Oh. Yeah, I think so.
And Griselda would have been in there too.
Would have been the other one. OK, so.
So that we just gotta decide what we want to do.
Yeah, I was gonna say like, what's our, what's our move?
Well, I'm pretty sure we were supposed to be the witches for
getting out of here today. Yeah.
But at the same time, do we want to do that with the 2/3 of us?
Uh, we had talked about capturing some stuff to put into
the box, but it looks like it's still kind of under
construction. Yeah.
Speaking of which, you see a fair number of doors that were
there are have already somehow managed by the time that you
guys just walked down set up bars on this first mezzanine
that you were would have entered on before with the storage goods
all down below. Now on the lower level in
between the sleeping quarter in this mezzanine, in between the
two messagings there, there's a bunch of goods that look like
they that were there for you for matter the first time.
But Franklin, you're realizing those were all the ones that
would have been up from above, and you hear Dwarf calling you
actually from behind, hey, and you look back and you see
Franklin, the the dwarf you originally made the deal with.
Hey, I go up and give him a quick hug and say hi.
What's up? Does a 15 hit?
Let me see. No.
OK, so he go up to hug him and he tries to like swat you away,
but you duck under his arm and then he tries, tries to dodge
out of the way and he can't. Too crafty for you, Fred?
He couldn't move fast enough before your arms around him and
he's like get off. And then I set him down.
How's it going? Oh, hey, it looks great.
Fucking. Hell.
It's OK action. I guess it's the shit I have to
deal with. Anyway, I I just wanted to make
sure you disengaged your cricket friends as you know what
happened last time and this may have been a blank spot.
And you remember, because I I did forget that that we should
have enacted this part, which is the literal last point was when
the dwarf said that he his friends were already taking all
the gold you left on the bar counter.
But then he remembered your you'd like, just warm there with
them? So they were just guarding it.
That's right. So yeah, I probably would have
done that if I was up there directing when everyone woke up.
Yeah, I'm guessing. What would have happened in that
scenario, actually, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, just to
kind of speed things along, is that you guys would have rushed
back in, There'd have been crickets everywhere.
You would have called them off and then and then you'd be like,
just don't touch the gold and finish the job and you get the
gold when you're done. Yeah, that's fair.
Yeah. And then at the same time, I
guess I probably would have, I probably would have moved it
inside here to maybe like this table so that my crickets could
watch our other chests of gold. Ah, okay, that's that's a good
idea too. In that case, yeah, he would
have. He would be coming up to you
right now then too, and saying. Well, we just finished the
connections on this second lift here you'd had floating around
for that mezzanine level that you didn't need a lift to
anymore. We moved it over here, right?
Yes, points just right behind him.
So you have one up and one down to the second level.
I figure that's great sense. That's great.
Thank you so much. Yeah, yeah.
I no more hugs though, but I'd be taking that gold.
I think then we'd be square. Sure, let me just.
Go do a quick punch walk on this and then we'll get you on your
way. Gonna Punch walks punching
white. He's just sitting.
It's where it's at if you walk away.
I'll go check it out and make sure it's time.
Okay do you? Ohh, you, you just wanna check
it out here or you can show you a little bit here And he walks
up, Yeah, climbs up the ladder. Yeah, look at you.
Yes, this is the tunnel we talked about building here.
It worked out pretty good. The the only thing I'd like to
make sure you're aware of is that we didn't need to do any of
the lead stuff. As it it turns out just below
this port here and and probably back in there, we'd we'd kind of
use some detect sorts of magics and notice that the entire
cavern seems to be land lined with adamantium.
Ah yeah, that's really good. Yeah.
It's pretty, pretty impressive work.
I don't know who they got to do that, but it's it's pretty
impressive. Yep.
And then we put this door on here, you know, figuring you
wouldn't need a pretty secure door.
This one's a solid stone. Ohh.
Yeah, you just have to. And he like, runs his hand
across it and pushes. And when he does that, you can
see a little lever down by the bottom left of the door, or
actually at the top left of the door that he has to almost jump
up and grab and pull down before it opens and slides and pivots
on a a single point that you can't even see.
And then you just walk on in and through there.
That's great. And then you've got the cage
door here, so you can. You know, look at your prizes
that you've caught, I guess, and you can, you know, go in here.
I should lock the door you open. Go on and just walks in there
and donchalantly because he's been working in there so he
feels pretty comfortable so it probably wouldn't have suspected
anything at that time. I was thinking about it after I
walked him through there though I was like anyways and then he
points to the edge of the mezzanine which was open to the
is still open but with bars now kind of encasing that spot so.
So you can, you know, see what you've caught from inside of
your home. I do.
I thought it was a nice feature. I'm gonna look through the bars
and I'm gonna cast just like a a basic.
What do I have? Okay, that's nice.
It's just here's my question. Do I have?
I mean, really the only thing I have is infestation.
So I'll cast infestation through the bars.
Not anything, but just to prove the point.
What happens if we catch up? They like shoot stuff, like fit
stuff at us through the bars and and it goes through the bars no
problem. And it doesn't hurt the bars
either it it it looks like. Yeah, but it I I I'm assuming
anyways because I don't know the spell off the top of my head.
You might have to send it to me to see exactly what the.
Damage is but let me. The IT does go through the bars
and he goes, well, I guess you just don't do that.
I don't know not. I just build stuff.
Yeah, I gotta say, bad. Seems like a pretty big point of
difficulty here. Uh, what?
What do you think? Fabira and I say say that down
to it. Does this seem like a secure
location for anything we might want to put it here?
I stick my hand. Moderately secure, I mean.
Yeah. For anyone who can't do magic.
That's fair. I mean, we need some
improvements if we want to hold anyone who can do magic.
Yeah. Yeah, I mean we could look at
that for a higher price, but for 136 gold, I thought and you
know, this is probably we're already, you know, a good six
dwarfs deep, four hours each, man, hour, hours.
Ohh, yeah, that's fair. Ohh.
No, this is this is great for for what you guys have done.
Yeah, we'll we'll we'll maybe approve about this later, but
for now, pose. That's fine.
Can I make an insight check on this guy to see if he's jipping
us? Probably not the right word.
If he's screwing us, I mean. Considering the era, he's not
true. He's not using any screws at
all, just. All well, all right.
That seems totally fine for me, so I will pay him.
So I say you're going to go down and just get the gold and come
back up and give it to me. You mean?
OK. And the?
Other here, I'd lock him in, but they're not, he goes.
Ohh, all right, I'll go split this evenly goes through the
portal. Ohh wait and he he just before
he goes through the portal he sets down all of the like 7
trinkets of poo. That you?
Yeah, in front of and then goes out through the portal.
Walk through the store. At a bad tan, it's pretty
expensive, isn't it? It's like the most expensive.
Is are these columns made out of Adamantien like the columns?
Yeah, what columns? Or these one like the ones that
made these? Ohh.
How much of this is made out of Adamantien?
Yeah, it looks to be like they got 25 square feet of adamantien
from this, from this, from this tunnel.
It probably made out like bandits.
Yep, That's how contractors roll, my friend.
They're like it's. True.
Probably. Probably do that for, you know,
1/2 a half a half $1,000,000 and they make $1,000,000 on all the
scrap. Yeah, like copper cow, huh?
Franklin doesn't care. He's got no mind for money.
I know we got screwed, but he doesn't.
All right, so we got that, made little Cage a little concerned
with the the spell casting through there.
I mean, if we're just putting zombies in there, I think it'll
it'll work. For sure.
I'm hoping one day that we could put God in there.
But let's go I. Mean we can, we can always
probably got a theater. Yeah, probably got to spend more
than $136 in prison. God.
Yeah, probably cost a little more than that.
All right, we returned through the portal.
Well, do we want to? Is B Bay out here?
Do we need to go get her? Mabe mabe sorry.
And both of them go by. They just.
They do. We need to get her.
They Jesus. The whole reason she did it too.
Franklin's got her pronouns. I'm just a child.
That's why we're practicing. It's fine.
Yeah. I would appreciate it if you
came to get me and woke me up. I will go very quietly wake you
up by where are you? How are you sleeping?
I'm in a hammock. I cuddle under a hammock with
you. Ohh, you flip it over.
Do you do that? Do that, do that.
Just I'm gonna put you guys into perspective real quick because
you do at least remember Franklin too.
I would say that you. Yeah, Mom is huge.
So I don't know if I could actually flip her.
Well, that would be that would be the dice.
Dice checks. But it was more so the
perspective on the matter, on the sense of you go up to the
second mezzanine level and you guys both see mommy lounging
asleep, probably. Well, you can describe how you
are Mommy. Yes, I am sprawled as much as
you can and a hammock right So like my head.
Tilted all the way back, mouth wide open, I'm snoring like my
arms are over the edge of the hammock.
My legs are edge of the hammock. I am 7 foot tall and £300.00, so
I like like the the hammock is straining under my weight.
I don't really fit in it. It's not made for me, but I was,
you know, very full and very sleepy and and a little drunk,
so I didn't care. Yeah, so I like take a look and
I'm like. Yeah, maybe not when I walk
away. She's sleeping like an Angel.
Um, let's see. I don't have the alarm spell.
What's a good way to wake her up without frustrating her?
Let's see, how did I always get woken up as a child?
I begin kicking her. Yeah, song too.
Unarmed strike. Better strength?
Check. No, it's.
It's a. It's just.
A D20 No. It should be under your.
Actions. Unarmed strike plus four.
Hey, wake up. Get up Scub, and I start kicking
here. This is 16, Mommy.
So my honor class is 18, so I don't know how you want to play
this. I don't know if it like disturbs
me or if I like. I just your your hammock
probably starts swinging. Imagine you probably just hurt
your toe. Yeah, that's.
More How right? Because you kick mommy and
realize the the the their hard skin is a little, their Gray
skin is a little bit harder than you expected, and you stub your
toe on on on her on them, and the hammock does swing a little
bit. But.
Take three image I sit down and Beacon crying.
The sound of the cries I feel like would wake me up, just like
like come to. I just open one eye and look
over at Franklin. You're really tough.
Next time, just pull my finger. Mama stretches and and not so
delicately gets out of the hammock.
Kind of thrump lumps on the floor stands.
Up and stretches some more. Kind of stretching you on and
like scratch my side and say, is it morning?
Are you sure? Well, I'm pretty sure until like
3:00 AM. I think the original idea was
that we sent the dwarves on their way.
We should probably should have just went to pad, not.
Too late now. Yeah.
You're out. What do you want to do?
Let's get out of this. I'm gonna gesture vaguely at the
surrounding scale this thing and go back to the Ale house and
yeah, what we should do next. Yep.
We gotta get the others that are in the ale house.
Stick a bed here. I can do that feeling much
better after my nice nap. Good, we go get them.
Are we? We Exit this so you all head
back down on the lift, go up, go across the walkway through the
bed chambers creeping softly to not wake Ash and the baby.
Do the trick to open the door and then go in through the
purple glittering portal outside of the rock.
I will move this over to here and go back into the room still
slightly in Imagination Land your your friends are all all
sprawled out and some some of them are actually probably piled
just on top of each other from when where people dropped them
when they were drunk and like dragging them upstairs.
So I don't know how you guys are going to put them inside the
portal there, but you do have this ohh extra poop poop charms
there too to slap on them Franklin.
Yeah, so I'm gonna pick up one in each arm.
I'm just gonna at random, just whoever's next to me to pick up
kind of like a sack of potatoes, one in each arm.
And I'm gonna look at Franklin and be like the the thing on the
forehead, right? Because it's in the coin head.
Well I think you you just have to think about it now now that
you've got the your your your entry thingy and you you hear a
slight I don't know if you could hear the chime but there was
like a chime as as as the the smoke starts to come out and
then comes back in because of the you you can feel there's a
resistance to go because you as soon as you started thinking
about it you felt a pull towards the stone mommy holding the
companions but the two you remember.
Ohh yeah. Before that, if they had they,
they had to be willing to go into the stone.
And if they were unconscious, there was a There was another
way to get them inside. That's right.
Let's see. The one I remember is you have
to beat them to the one HP of death, But I think.
That was the other way. That was the only other way.
I'm gonna press one of the stones and the poop symbols to
one of their foreheads just to try that first.
Yeah, I'm just gonna look at them and be like this is gonna
be safe, guys. You're gonna be happy.
There's hammocks and food and waves.
And babies and like, let's go. Gonna shake them a little bit
and be like, you wanna go with me.
Shaken Baby Syndrome. Roll me a persuasion.
I don't know. Got it.
I have a -1. Not my I think.
And. Like Franklin, you talk to him,
you talk some sense into these creatures.
And and Warren in your in, I'm assuming would have been
somewhere in the pile that you pulled out on one of your
shoulders and you just see his face scrunch up and then you
hear it. I've been farting.
Yeah, I'm looking for him. Be like you're tired, like lean.
Down and get their faces, their unconscious faces, real close to
Franklin. Hey, it's me, Franklin.
If you don't get in this, I'm gonna have to beat you nearly to
death. That's it.
He'll do it too. I've seen him when he's angry.
Think he's a Boy Scout. Thank God.
Yeah, I will guide myself. Come on, Papi, where did the.
Oh yeah, I rolled a 17. But you get this.
There it goes. So you got a +4?
Yeah. You got total screen?
Yeah, so. Way to go, but you're well.
You see the, the, the, the scrunched up face of of Warren,
relax a bit with his handlebar mustache, drooping at at the
sounds of that, and you're you. You didn't smell the fart
before, but now you do, and you're wondering whether or not
it was actually if there was, if, if there was some other.
Excrement along with the fart this time Oh.
No. As as that's happening.
Too the. Purple smoke comes out golfing
Mimi with the two companions in their in in their arms.
I'm just gonna, I'm gonna walk them into the room with the
bathtubs. I'm gonna bathtubs gonna deliver
warrant into one of the tubs and like prop them up so he doesn't
like drown in it. Make sure the water's low but.
Who Warren and who else did I grab?
I see one of the lighter. Probably Griselda then.
He's all done, Warren. For the first time.
I'm assuming Rubik's gonna take two hands and then Bob is
probably gonna take two hands. Oh, I mean, Franklin can
probably grab someone, and he's got a swarm of insects that can
also physically move people. Fun.
So let me think. Rubik was deathly afraid of
insects, right? Yeah, yeah, he my insects move
him into the thing. That's appropriate.
Alright guys, you ohh. I also give my insects a uh a uh
poo symbol so that they can get in and out too.
They are meddlers of the family too do.
They count as one, Josh. Or do we need like a million?
That's what I was trying to debate about in my head there.
And I was. It was just.
Doing that, my brain was just
doing that thing of like wheel. Spinning the wheel.
Spinning. Exactly.
So my coins guys.
Oh my God, I will bankrupt. Have to be so small though.
Maybe it's just to the Queen, actually.
As unrealistic as that is her crickets, I might allow that
there might be like 1. Maybe there's one in particular,
maybe not a queen. Maybe more like a mob gangster.
Influencer. An influencer cricket has all
the followers on it won't get off it.
He woke it off the crab. He's always on the web.
He always stays. He always stays.
Stays in your shell too, that that particular one.
It never leaves, even when you tell him to.
Here's the 1st. And.
Maybe, maybe. Maybe for some flavor too.
At this point you're kind of trying to communicate with them,
and none of them seem to have formulated any sort of language
between and. They just kind of stare at you
when you talk to them otherwise. But that one in particular is
like pops out of the shell at this time, where you're trying
to communicate with them and goes trying to think of a good
cricket voice now. Hey boss, hello.
Can I Can we say this is all an interpretive dance as we speak?
Sure, I interpretive dance. Say hi.
How would they give you this? It's a it's an ambulance and it
will let you enter our magical pocket space.
But I'd also like you to take my friend with you.
His name is Rubik. He's deathly afraid of you, so I
think a little exposure therapy is necessary.
Should I leave a couple behind to, you know, watch over him
then? I think so.
They could stuggle up. And this one, this particular
cricket is bigger than the rest of them, even though they're
still in, kind of like they're just past their pupate stage, so
they've gotten little cricket legs and never been.
Yeah. Yeah, because these are the.
Shape to them but they these are this one in particular is
probably about the size of like a like a corn on the cob whereas
the yeah. If I ever call their dire
crickets, right? So they were giant, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
The rest of them have. Ohh, they're.
Big grown to mostly about the size of like a Matchbox car.
Yeah, because they were. They came out as larva, right?
So like me and Franklin dove into the eggs.
And so the larvae like burrowed under our skin.
And I used magic to get rid of them.
And Franklin was like, no, I'm keeping them and they like,
burrowed out of his skin. And then he like, I forget some
magic to like, control them. He like has a like a mind
control spell on them so that he like owns them and he's just has
this like horde of crickets. Yeah, my my subclass is swarm
keeper Ranger. So I just kind of retcon my
swarm from that class ability as the ones that I picked up, which
they have the ability to like attack and aid people and pick
people up and like walk around with them and eventually they'll
be able to like, pick people up and fly around with them.
It's great. I don't know if I should be.
Out or yeah, Well, and if you're real hungry, he'll create you
some jalapeno poppers which are really just this these crickets
of larvae form. But those are also four flit
that that's also a rat, like a those are good berries.
So everybody's got one in their little keychain thing for one HP
emergency healing. I just didn't.
Didn't remember. All the data, happy to help.
The best, probably, for the best.
Thing. You may you may have deleted it
from your memory as well that may have.
Happened that's also that's also very possible.
So yeah, you know, insects are full of protein.
That's fine. They are protein and data.
Those taste. They're a great replacement for
cheese for the cheese and the jalapeno poppers.
Yeah, yeah. The more you know, the more you
know I left it anyway anyway. I'll have to create a token for
them at some point. Yeah, all.
Right. So are we missing?
Yeah. Who has the white hair?
Griselda was was put in there. That was the first one that you.
Zelda Zollis is Zollis in here ohh.
You guys have been looking around and you haven't seen
Zolus or been interacting with Zolus for a very long time, or
Mario for that matter, and you're wondering where either of
them has have disappeared to in this level?
Ohh, Roselda and Mario are missing.
Zolus. Zolus.
Even worse. Mario and Zolus.
Who is this person back here? Is that just like an NPC?
Am I getting this confused? Yeah, that's just an NPC.
Okay. I think somebody else seen it
last. Ash seen him last time I was
like, is that Renshaw? I think.
It's just. Yeah.
So I think that's just the token I used for Renshaw.
OK, OK, that's not a person. All right, So we got everybody.
Yep. And you guys?
I'm gonna look at. Yeah, stairs, I would assume.
And see Zach passed out in his food.
Or still. Oh my God, guys, you could
kidnap Zach and put him in the cell.
Well, Franklin, I was gonna ask you if you think we should try
to convince one of these ghostly forms to come into the the
Pocket Rocket, because they seem to be able to generate any food
or drink, like, on demand. Oh well, I could convince.
Them. Yeah.
Can you convince one of them to like just set up shop?
What I mean is, I hold up my arm, which half of it is a
skeleton hand I gave them by hand in exchange for that power.
Wait, what? When did this?
Yeah, pretty really odd. I one of them.
I followed one of them into the back robe and then he, like I
asked him how he did it and then he just chopped onto my head and
I did stop him. So you can create drift food and
drink on demand? Yeah, because in the the one
shot we had with the health eating people, I well, I created
human meat for everyone to try because it was like beyond me,
because because I wanted to see if, like, is it morally wrong to
eat human meat that never was part of a person with a soul or
is it just fine? What did you what did you learn?
Everyone was fine with it. OK.
Is that because it was delicious?
Yeah, I think. Or was that?
Because it was disgusting. Well, like they wouldn't.
They didn't want to eat the elf jerky that the the dwarves made.
So I made real people be, but without the soul murder part and
they were fined with that. So I conclude it's it's not the
eating of human flesh that's a problem or your own species,
it's it's the fact that somebody had to die to get it to you or
like a soul or something. I don't know that part, but they
were fine eating a. I think we should question the
morals of our group, but that sounds like a conversation for
another day. We have.
I think we're at the fifth level of hell.
There we have some witches that are hopefully not waiting for us
yet. Well, Zach's right there, and
he's unconscious. Well, we can throw Zach in the
cell. This might.
Can Zach do magic? Does anybody know?
I don't know. I wasn't pretty sure he's a
witch. That's like that might that's
like what they do, right? It might be a good test, yeah.
But witches need like talismans and and ingredients and like
Bocci for their magic, right? They don't.
Just like wave their hands They need like like existing stock.
They they yeah they I hold up like a my my polka dots.
This is what I use. I mean, we could, but like, I
think no, no, this is by like focus, but we could do that.
But like, is it Zach, our bread? He's we've been working
together. Yeah, we can give him like, you
know, a a bowl of food and like a tank of ale, tankered of ale
and like a nice bean bag chair to sit on or something in that
cell. I mean, we just have to like
throw them in the cell, but it would be a good way to test and
see how good the work that were the dwarfs.
Did you know? It's a persuasion check, cuz
Franklin is easily convinced. I mean, he's a friend, right?
He can't be that mad when we when he wakes up, we can let him
out. But you know, if he's in there
for a while, it's a good test of how secure.
That way we know for the future how secure our enclosure is.
All right. Three.
All right. You would use, I guess roll.
If you wanted to just for the the the flavor of it to, yeah,
usually would roll some sort of Wisdom based count, like Wisdom
save as a counter. All right, let's do that.
Wisdom save. Yep.
Well, this is gonna be an automatic success unless I screw
up. Roll a 119.
Oh, because when I was locked into a cell my whole life, I
really didn't like it. So I don't think we should do
that to our friends. Wait, no, we're friends.
Hold on. Don't we have to?
Friends don't lock friends themselves.
No Friends betray each other. That's rule #1.
Let's do it. He convinced me.
So no, that was rule. That's fair.
I did convince myself. All right, well, firstly we have
to get his like stuff off of him, right?
Because he has to go in there willingly.
That's the first thing. I'm gonna walk over to Zach and
pick him up and like, cradle him like a baby and whisper to him
like, come with me. You'll be safe with me.
Yeah, I'm. Gonna like, rock him.
Yeah, I would, I would say. Gonna lock you up in your own
house. It would be persuasion with
advantage, because he's been pretty trustful of you guys. 16
All right with with the D4 for guidance.
To 20. Well, he's got to roll it here.
Unless you want to roll it, I always look the other person
roll it if they want. Damn it, No, you should roll it,
all right. Plus a 111717.
It still seems to work, as Zach is, like I said, fairly trusting
and having heard your voice in particular.
Kind of like melts into your arms, mommy and arms first to
nuzzle against you and wrap another arm around you.
Like to try and cuddle like tries to turn over in your arms.
Like to try and cuddle you. Yes, yes, here.
So I'm gonna carry him in and I'm gonna motion for.
Frankly, I'm gonna like with my head like nod for I will as we
go. In now we have to find nice
amenities. Actually, maybe you should go
ask the bartender. Well, there's beds in there and
we have furniture. We need food and drink.
I have the ability to create food and drink.
I hold up my hand or my skeleton.
And OK, so let's go in and we'll, we'll make him a nice
little nest. I agree, Yeah.
And we're gonna strip him of all his stuff.
He's got to be naked, right? We don't know if he's got stuff
like in his clothing seams. OK, but then we have to give him
a blanket. Yeah, absolutely.
He has to be cozy. Hold on.
We have other clothing we could give.
We could give him other clothing.
OK, I have to I. Have to B or B real quick, but
I'm gonna just follow Franklin's.
Whatever he puts from the pocket rock and playing, I'm gonna
follow him around with Zach and and comment.
I will. I'm essentially gonna I'm gonna
essentially do what we've said, place him in there, completely
strip him of everything he has first.
And while I'm getting him situated, I'll probably handcuff
him just in case, and grab him like a like a chair, like a
cushion, some like a small table, like give him a little
little setup in there. And then, in case we're not
here, I'll write him a little note, you're fine.
And then give it to him and lock the door behind me with him
inside. I'm pretty sure we're just going
to backstab these witches now and lock them in this cell,
aren't we? I don't think that's a good
idea. We already got one of them.
But we're just. Doing that, Tom?
Sure. Yeah, we are.
It's just so that we them with us to meet the witches.
I mean Meadow wise, I don't think he's going to be very
happy once he wakes up. Probably not.
And Josh, explain to me again. We're meeting up with the other
two witches today to get out of hell.
Yes, in in a few hours. In a few hours.
Boy, gosh, this feels like a great opportunity to get
backstabbed, these people. Can we do that without one being
conscious? Well, the idea is we need their
keys, and the other two witches agreed to meet up with their
keys. So we're just shoving every
pocket rocket so we can act on their behalf?
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, yeah, that makes total sense because we needed him to
come with us, right? We need him to come with us.
And if we leave now, he's not going to.
So we had to put him in here. That makes sense.
I don't know. This is just so tempting to
like, just lock the three of the men here instead of up zombie
horde. We just have 3 witches.
I I don't want to make that decision for the whole group
though, so. Although the Pocket Rocket has
been in your possession this whole time and still is, I put
it in your inventory if you didn't know.
Yeah, I have it. I just.
I don't want to make the decision to turn on the three
witches and all that when everyone else is not currently
here, yeah, but it seems like it would be fun.
It is kind of, well, you guys are kind of at the helm right
now, so I mean you know. Whatever you Well, wherever.
Wherever you guys are gonna go, everybody else is gonna have to
catch up, is is all. We'll discuss it once they're
back, because I think the idea was that all three of us were
going to leave and we believed that, like, was it that somebody
rolled an Insight check or something like that to determine
if we thought the other witches were going to try to turn on us?
There, there was something of the sort, but it was.
It was more so that. You're you're just making sure
that they're going to follow through with what they said of
showing up at the pre pre prescribed times to get out of
hell. Wag went through this Zach
stuff. Did I find do I find any
letters, any sort of correspondence?
Or trying to find any sorts of I I guess an inventory of what
they have, but specifically any correspondence, secret
correspondence with their sibling, interesting or method
has. Happened actually when you tried
to remove all of the things from Zach.
I would, I would guess there was some sort of enchantment you
only figure because as soon as you start to declothe them,
there was a bit of a magical glyph that.
That illuminated at their at their neck and everything that
was of possession of on them, and as a possession just swirled
up into a similar purplish smoke, but it went up their
butt, up his butt. I'm gonna go look for some
gloves. Or wait, even better.
I turned to my cricket friend. Hey, bud.
Hey. Yeah.
So as far as I understand how this works, there's a little
pocket universe like I have in a rock that I have.
So he's either so this guy, he's either enchanted his own butt to
be a pocket universe, which like make it really popular on
Grinder, or he's got like a something up there like an item
that actually is the enchanted thing.
Do you got one of your smaller bugs that could go check it out
for me? Yeah, and he just he gestures
over to another bug and kind of points and there's some other.
Dances. It looks like that he's been
doing to speak with you over to one of the other bugs to to to
go check it out and the bug goes up his leg and real carefully.
Around his his cheek and and we're just gonna roll this real
quick investigation for a bug. Ohh no.
Everybody's given the help to the of the campaign to the Chaos
character. Ohh no I can't help myself.
What is it? What is the matter to doing all
of this? I'm.
Just kind of watching drinking. I made my My theory is we have
to know if they're gonna try to betray us, right?
That's a big graph. Like, I'm like, yeah, this is a
great idea. Like what?
This is information? Well, so, OK, I'll pause a
second before he goes in. Welcome back.
Thanks. So some stuff has happened a.
Lot of sticking, not big stuff, but uh alright.
So as you can see, this job is, uh, I think, now naked.
And in the jail cell? In the jail cell.
In the jail cell, Yep, we got him in the jail cell.
When I went to go remove like his stuff from him because I I
would a wanted to remove his stuff to make him like docile.
And BI was hoping to kind of see if there was any course secret
correspondence with his sisters to see if they were going to try
to betray us. Because you never know it all
sisters world what? I didn't know he had sisters.
Interesting. Well, he's one of the three
witches that we have to, that we've made a deal with.
So we've got one of the three witches now in a jail cell.
Shit, I didn't know. Yeah, we're 1/3 of the way.
We're 1/3 of the way to betraying these guys.
Okay, this is for testing. This is for testing, yeah.
I mean, the other thing we had said was if we were to go meet
with them in a few hours and leave now, Zach would not be
there, which he needs to be. So he needed to get in so that
we could move him to the location.
OK, we're just doing other stuff first.
Well, and this is good because now he's a bargaining chip,
right? We're not just moving him, we
also have control of when he comes out.
Anyway, continue. Anyway, so all of so I went to
go remove his stuff and he has another, what I believe is
another pocket dimension. Which pocket?
Inside of a pocket. But anyway, it all swirled up
into his butt. So I have two theories.
One, he's enchanted his own buttocks to be a a
extradimensional place. Like played like called a pocket
dimension, like a butt pocket dimension anyway.
Or he's got a little item like a stone, like an enchanted stove,
like like we've got shoved up there and that's the actual
pocket dimension. So I was gonna send one of my
bugs up his butt to the look. What do you think?
Yeah. Yeah, I was just gonna ask, does
anybody have a hamster? Do we have any?
But I guess your bugs are the the equivalent.
Yeah, they could get that small one.
And my theory behind this is like, right, We we want it all
for sure. If they're gonna like, try to
betray us so we could betray them for.
But yes, cool. I just wanted, just wanted to
make sure that there wasn't, you know, going off the deep end
here or anything. And I pull.
On a I do wanna confirm Zach is securely within Zell.
I have him handcuffed in the cell.
OK, he's currently naked, but he's yeah, I got him like a
chair, like a like like some furniture.
OK, I guess now he's probably laying like face down on like a
Chase Lounge or something. We're.
Not we're not terrorists, OK, We are.
No, we're civilized people. No, we're the TSA.
OK, good. So.
To to elaborate on exactly the sales situation that you were
just talking about. And I brought you guys back over
to this map because I need some more descriptions for the next
parts. Come on there, you're in the
cell, Franklin enacting these things I'm I'm assuming and
having propped up, I'm not sure where where you got them propped
up. Is the door closed?
The door. Ira and Mom may also inside the
cell with you are standing outside watching.
I would not have the door closed currently and I would have my
swarm kind of like right at the door entrance threshold, keeping
it like protected. So what I'm gonna suggest is
that Valmara and Mama step out and close the door, just in
case, just just to just in case that way.
Or frankly, Franklin wants to be outside the door and direct the
swarm from outside. So yeah, we have, you know, I
just clear, I would prefer that. Yeah, maybe we should, maybe
everybody should be outside and we should definitely close.
I just think the door should be closed and there should be a
friendly on the outside of the door.
Yep, I agree it's a colonoscopy. You don't have to be present for
you can do that remotely, yeah. The technology, everyone to make
me a Constitution saving throw. I'm not getting the colonoscopy.
What is that natural 20?
Thank God. What's the D?
What's their DC again? So wait, is this happening after
we closed the door? Yeah, when the when and when
when this all starts. Yeah.
When the little bug named Phillip gets crushed to death by
the buttocks of of Zach. No.
And he had a family. And Zach jumps up naked and you
see the chanting and reddish hues.
Light from their eye as this cloud of putrid smoke erupts
from them, filling the chamber that they're in.
And it's a 60 foot radius, so five 10/15/2025.
Yeah, that's everybody. That's what I that's what I
thought, him included. Yeah, but it doesn't affect him,
right? Row I.
Mean right back and grab some eye drops.
Okay. And keep having to bop back and
forth between the spell on a field.
Safe take half okay. So we've got to roll row, row
five and three. There we go. 31 damage, OK.
Everybody. Yeah.
Or what? What was?
The well, 31 is the total, yeah, the DC, that's what I was still
trying to figure out there. That's half if.
That's yeah, yeah. Ohh 15.
I have a question. Wait, when it +7 to Ohh no.
Yeah, this is verbal, somatic and material, right?
Yeah, yeah, he's. His hands are handcuffed.
The clouds are brown. Ohh, it's an automatic response
gotcha. The the butt cleep cheeks
slanting together, killing Phillip.
That was the. Make a portion and out came this
this. Those are contradictory actions
there. It it came out really hard and
fast like think think compressed air so it.
Didn't blow Phillip away. Wouldn't Phillip have gotten,
you know? The remnants of of Phillip did
get ejected, but. I'm assuming, Phillip, it
doesn't have more than six health, so.
And it would have had to clamp and then open back up.
No, no. Your butt like you know how you
fart you it still it. It still opens back up, but not
like a lot. But not if they're clutched
together hard enough to kill an insect that was.
The first That was the first reaction of jump up, clap butt
cheeks, clap together. And then the putrid smoke came
out. Ohh, because the like casting a
spell, the semantic portion, you know, like a hand gesture or
whatever. This one's case was the butt
cheek clap claim OK, Is he still asleep though?
He's looking around all like disoriented and eyes are red,
right? Smoke and his eyes are red and
he's breathing heavy. Like who?
Dutch to me. And he's looking around all
confused. And then he sees you guys and he
goes, oh, hey. Wait, hey, am I bound?
Oh, wait, sorry. I don't know why his voice is
like that now. Hey, why am I bound?
You got really drunk. Oh, was I trying to do party
tricks again? Yeah, you just did watch.
Yikes. Yeah, sorry about that.
When I get startled, that's kind of my first reaction.
It's one of the very first spells that I was able to to
make. Yeah.
Oh wow, flatulent spell was your first spell.
What did you major? In interesting.
Well, you know my sisters, it was just happened to be one of
the first spells Malfiki was able to get me to do.
Well, I actually. Focus my areas on
interdimensional spaces as you can see around you.
Yeah, that's really cool. Speaking of which, somebody must
have triggered my safe spell because I appear to be naked
when you see. His stuff swinging in the
breeze. Yeah, I apologize for that.
I was trying to change you into some Pjs.
Persuasion Cat. Against his insight.
Come on. Oh well.
I don't think I have any inspirations either.
Not excellent unless I get guidance, but no or unless
poorly. Oh man.
That was not the case, he goes. Uh huh.
Likely story. You're just trying to see what I
had under these robes and you start helicoptering.
No. Wow.
That's it's gonna. Yeah, Mom was gonna chime in and
be like you got us, You got us. We had to know anyway, anyway.
So more importantly, what do you think of our modifications and
Mommy is gonna like? You know, gesture to the
surrounding halls of his gazelle and like cars that are between
us and him. Well, it looks like it looks
well well crafted. You had to have conscripted some
dwarves to get that metal to work the way it has.
It's, yeah, pretty pretty well, probably, probably hold just
about anything. Though I do see the flaws and
the designs and their logical minds couldn't think past maybe
the holes in the bars. Yeah, yeah, I thought the same
thing. How would one such as yourself
escape from a room such as this? Well, if you're asking my
professional opinion, I think I'm going to need these offers.
And he turns around and. Shows and shows you his butt
with the hands over the back of behind him that are somehow
bound. I could take off myself, but I
figured, you know, if we're all being friendly here.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know this is purely an
exercise on our part. We, we want to know, right.
We don't later down the road, we don't want to put something in
here that can get out right. So we're trying to understand
the limitations of. Space that we have, yeah.
And you're the strongest guy we know.
Yeah. So we we wanted, we wanted your
professional opinion and also to see you know compared to you if
we're measuring in terms of Zacks, what on the scale of 0 to
Zack can we put in here and feel confident.
And he is. I'll let you know as soon as you
unbind me here. And we'd have to open the door
and that's, But isn't that part of the size?
He walks up to the back of the door and sticks his hand through
the bars. Sure.
Fill the space between these bars, but look at Franklin.
I nod. All right, well, I think the jig
is up. We can't really keep him here
without dying. That was never the intention.
Never the intention. Let's unbind the hands and see
what he. Does, yeah, I I'd bite his hats.
He takes a couple steps forwards and loosens his wrists up and
then with both hands does like a a quadruple snap with each one
of his fingers somehow. Like, not, not.
You know how you can snap your fingers?
But he starts, yeah, with the pinky and snaps each one of them
down, and his robes flow out of his buttocks and around him
again, Much better. Did you enchant yourself?
That's. So cool.
That's very, very observant of you.
It was one of the one of the tricks of my interdimental
dimensional spaces that I quite like that I've I've especially
once I figured out the oxygen trick.
I guess there's a lot opens, a lot more options if you
understand. Wait, could you do digress?
What could you, could you, could you go into your own pocket butt
like I if you if you reach your hand back there you could like
would you just like inside out And now you're inside your how.
How'd that work? Can you do it?
That's a little bit of a conundrum, as you're lucky that
my my particular spaces don't interact with themselves as
others do, otherwise we'd have been in in the astral.
It currently and we're exploded into bits one way or the other.
It's kind of finicky, but no, actually, that would probably
land me in the Astral Seeing. I'm just gonna laugh at this
continual use of astral. And well, you know, it's a bit
interdimensional if you can. Little little perhaps your
understanding without having many more hours to explain the
theory behind everything here. Well, that's really cool though.
Well, let's see. We'll.
Just check this and he goes over to the the bars on the other
side and he just grabs on a hold of the corner one and shakes it
for a bit and he goes oh Yep then definitely dwarf and work
very sturdy. He flicks it.
Mmhmm. That Adamantium ring.
Ding. Yep.
All right. Well, the easiest thing for me
at least to get out of this space would be simply to use any
pulls out from one of his sleeves.
Just kind of rolls out of the sleeve and into his hand as a
another similar looking stone to the one that he gave you guys.
But this one, it looks a little bit more finely made and well
crafted on the on the stone portions of it, there's some
more engraving. There's actually engravings and
such on this one. And then he.
Presses a small indent in the stone that recesses and little
legs pop out and he goes, this is one of my walking
interdimensional ones, and I'd probably just go in this and
throw it out there and walk away until a certain point from the
inside I could kind of see out and pick where I want to go.
Interdimensional space is is pretty, pretty Ebola like that.
Hey, yeah, that's. That's amazing.
That's cool. That's.
I would have never thought of that.
That's a I support that. That's very neat.
If you didn't have that, though, what would be your next plan of
attack? I'm sure there's many forms of
getting out of this, but as you as we've all noticed, the the
holes in the Boz be the weakest, just walks around in a circle,
kind of looking up at the ceiling, looking at the walls,
and he goes over to this one, taps on it.
Goes over to where the bars connect, actually on this side,
though taps there and he goes, ah, ah yes.
I'd probably lodge something just in between the stone and
the adamantian stone and the adamantium at Silphia Baz, and
probably do some sort of, I don't know, simple chemistry
between the two of them and make enough space for me to get out
that I'd be the long game, I guess, if I were trying to play
to figure out what your game is. Well, other than that I I I have
a few other tricks, but I don't know how long you have,
especially what time is it. Shouldn't we be meeting our my
sisters soon? Yeah, it's in a few hours.
That's why we wanted to get you in here, so that we if if you
didn't wake up before we started traveling, get.
Done. Take you with us.
So our original plan for this place was to put a bunch of
zombies or something in there and then release them so they.
Actually worked pretty well. I think you could cram them
right tight in here. They don't care too much about
breathing or, and they don't We don't really don't really have
any. Do you know where we could get
some zombies around here or do you have like a zombie syrup we
could get? Because I have to.
I have a bone to pick with that dwarf now and his friends.
A a bone, you say? Yeah, any.
Anyways, I guess we can get into that later.
We should be probably getting getting sorted for my sister's
to. To answer your question about
the zombies, I think that might resolve itself with the one
sister Maleficium. She's particularly in the art of
animating objects and things. That shouldn't be specifically
that of the bio, the the organic matters.
Wait, so do you think that if but wait, hold on.
So you just said the way you said that.
Do you expect that we're going to fight these, your sisters?
Oh, I would hope not. It sounded like you.
You'd convinced Maleficium, the most troublesome of of us, to to
meet there, so she'd probably bring it Entourage.
Though she doesn't really go anywhere without her animated
things. But I suppose if we provided
some corpses that would be now that more helpful.
Now that I yeah, yeah, the corpses, her animated ones,
Those are her like her own. Animated, like she can't
maintain a whole army of them, right?
We need like a regular zombie, not like a like a magically
animated corpse from a a witch. No offense.
Or an untaken I. I think she could probably
actually still make something of the sort.
I mean, zombies come from somewhere, right?
It's it's right. They have their own sorts of
magics. But I'm I'm, I'm thinking she
might be able to do something of that.
I mean, unless you wanted some other sorts of creatures that
she does deal in a lot of undead as they're the easiest to
animate. Boy, that's a good question.
What do you gang? All right.
So we have, we have options right now.
We have to either choose, are we going to go beat up with the
sisters right now because that's that's something that's on the
timetable or do we want to figure out something to bring to
the meetings to have Malfikian turn it turn?
I think we should talk to Malfikian before we bring her a
bunch of dead shit. There might be strengths on how
dead it is. Right.
Mom is going to walk up to the the door of the room at Zach's
in the cage or saying that out loud.
I'm going to open the door like when out that you're awake and
closed. Well we can leave and carry this
pocket rocket with us to the location or if you want to
actually travel the distance you can come out with us.
Door is open. You're obviously aware of the
amenities of the space. Choose chooses you will.
But I agree we should probably not be late.
We should probably start heading towards the location of the
rendezvous. Yeah, we definitely shouldn't be
late. I have a quick question before
we leave this hallway. We are in.
Yeah, compared to the Ogre guys that were out.
In front of the hotel. Would they fit?
Uh, no, definitely not. It's only like it's only like a
5 foot wide hallway with like a a A8 foot ceiling maybe.
Alright, it kind of. No giant zombies got it.
I mean, unless we, like, magically compacted them.
Well, Zach does have that small pocket rocket of his own that
you could put him into and then bring him into the room and then
let him out. But then they couldn't get out
again without it so. It could, like army, crawl out.
Zach would walk out the door that you proffered and we'll
start. Walking, walking down the
hallway and just say Yep, we must, we must be on our way, we
don't want to keep Malfiki. And waiting.
She's quite a squarely 1 well. Appreciate your insights.
That's true though. Yeah, she'll she'll probably
wait until I show up at least. And to elaborate on my plan, it
was it was a good insight of you to remind me that she was going
to probably need some handling when it comes to maleficium,
that is to deal with her entourage because well, my plan
was to. Ultimately, get there with my
sisters, have them all expose their keys, and then take them
into one of my interdimensional spaces where we would be locked
forcibly by me until we figured out our differences.
I see. Like the risky plan?
Yeah. Yes, yes it is.
It's quite, quite risky, but I'm tired of waiting for the other
two to figure out the shit. For us to get back together, our
magics have been waiting for the most part separate.
As we kind of complement each other one and two together, we
can increase our total output. Yeah, I think that's a great
idea and you know like we'd have we'd be happy to provide the
space for you. What what would you then do with
the keys? Like what would we be doing
while you have this gap time? Like would we have the keys that
transport everyone out of hell or?
I personally was of the mind at least to stay in this level of
hell as we've not resolved our issues.
I I presumed anyhow that the keys.
Would unlock this some sort of portal or or or other thing?
If if it's truly out of hell, there has to be some
transcendental magics going into it that, well, that's.
Leave it. Leave either the keys behind
Once travel through the portal or the portal itself would would
would just stay open with the keys no longer in existence.
One or the other. Well, this, if I remember
correctly, this is the big wall that we first read into with the
magic keyhole that we all went into.
What if you guys hung out and sorted your differences in the
key? In the lock.
Well, that's the that's sort of the the, the, the what we're
going to do, except I'm going to use my particular expertise to
make it so that the other sisters cannot escape from from
said lock, so. So easily as you put it the lock
there, but it's and she pulls out kind of this fear from
another sleeve just rolls out into into his hand that's just
this it black space almost in his hand except in the middle
there's of it there's kind of this swirling mist that it looks
like and goes well. See, inside of this particular
one, I'd keyed it in such a way that until we agree, we are not
allowed out. So it doesn't particularly
matter where we're at in in in this situation.
So if you will felt the need to take us with you by all means.
But if we never settle our differences, I really could care
less wherever I'm at as long as we're all in agreeance with each
other. That's really.
We've been disagreeing for nearly over 2. 300 years, right?
Yeah. Yeah.
No. Yeah, that's totally fine with
me. Happy to.
Happy to oblige. But as I said, we may not leave
there for, who knows, another 300 years it might take, but at
least we'll be forcibly in an area that we cannot escape each
other, right? And I'll put my hand on his
shoulder and I'll say, and if you do, guys do go over there
just so we'll keep you safe, you'll be with friends.
Oh. Hey, that's actually somewhat
reassuring, oddly, But I do. I do have to to warn you if it
if it does break the sphere at any point in that time in
transit, it will explode dramatically.
Wow. And I mean like, it's not like
super fragile, right? Like it Like if I like, happen
to clubsy oops butter figures, drop it a couple feet to the
ground. It won't shatter.
Oh no, no, it's it's pretty well enchanted in that manner.
You'd probably have to do, oh, I don't know, something like take
two of these same spheres and collide them together or
something. But you've only got the one
right? Oh no, I've got a couple
backups. And she He rolls them out the
other sleeve into another hand. A second one at the I just stare
at them. And uh, here's.
But I'll be taking these with me.
And he rolls it up the sleeve, You know?
Yeah, keeping sure. Yeah, 100% how.
Like if you were to compare like that explosion to like, I don't
know, like a nuclear bomb. A new What's the new killer
bomb? Ohh.
It's the thing we made in Forestville.
We had this issue where our neighbors tried to invade our
sovereign territory and to show them what's what.
We created a Bob that destroys cities.
Ohh yeah, well I imagine. This it would be.
It would be fairly comparable to that.
I mean, wow. Just there.
Might be good to. Keep in our back pocket.
Yeah, yeah. That's the great thing to have
in our pocket. Yeah, like, like the zombie
horde. But, you know, orders of
magnitude. Now here's another question for
you before we go and do all of this right.
You're going to be stuck in there for possibly hundreds of
years. How do we know?
Like, like, do you have, like a checkin system to make sure that
everything's OK? Like like nothing accidentally
goes wrong. Like you're you're fully hotter,
percent confident. You know, like you don't want
like A50 or check it or. Don't think that it would be
necessary as I hadn't planned on outside communication in this,
you know, I didn't kind of dilute the the, the system here
because we need. Right, hyper hyper emotional
connection to my sisters too. So right, once we're all in
actual agreeance to our souls of of truthness, then we will the
the sphere should turn a luminous.
Shade of pink. Wow.
And then you get ejected from it.
We'll dissolve and we will be materialize.
That's amazing. So Mom is gonna raise their
hand. Yes.
So is there anything that we can do to help facilitate your
goals? How could?
Well, that was where I was going before this tangent.
Here a little bit is once I and my two sisters are in the
sphere. You will have the entire
entourage of hers to deal with. I don't know if they'll be able
to follow you directly outside of Hell after the the gate has
been opened or not, or if you'll have to deal with them first in
some manner of speaking. But we are gonna open the
portal, we will use the keys, right?
Yeah. Yes, that is the plan.
OK, so are we gonna use the keys for after the?
You the pink sphere thing. Oh, as soon as the the final key
is inserted into the lock, I will activate this and it will
forcibly take me and my two sisters into the sphere.
Ah, OK. So, OK, OK, so we're not gonna
interfere with you and your sisters, Correct?
Cool. I like this.
Yeah, this is a pretty good plan.
We just break. We just go there.
Alright, let's do it. You roll your insight check.
Yeah, 19. Ohh to towards what are you like
squint? Is this actually the plan?
Ohh to see if. That's been talking, talking,
truth, or out there at Franklin's a very suspicious
turtle. Never trust your friends there.
You're supposed to betray them. Zach still seems to have been
being very upfront and engaged during the entire conversation,
and even excited when talking about the the time that he's
going to be spending with his sisters.
That's great. Sounds like a beast, he.
Just wants to die sounds like it.
Cool. Well, let's be on our way then.
Let's go. This is how we can support.
Let's facilitate this for you. Yeah, let's facilitate the
reunion to add the teleportation of our group to the next level
of hell. Out of hell.
Zach looks at some sort of device under his sleeve and goes
I. Yes, perfect timing.
Let this be on our way, boy, I want one of those nukes.
All right, so I'm gonna assume that we pick up the pocket
rocket. How heavy is that?
That the you're you're talking about, the one that Franklin's
been carrying around, the thing's only about 3 inches in
diameter, so it's it's maybe like a softball size and it's
probably weighs about just as much too.
So, OK, so so Franklin is is Mom May can feel reassured with
Franklin holding this, or should Mom may offer to carry it?
No, it it seems pretty easy. OK, but can I try Like does does
Can mom may trust Franklin? That's a that's a years
question. Well, he did say that we could
drop them pretty easily. Yeah, But frankly, Mom is just
gonna ask Franklin. Like, OK, Franklin, given the
stakes, are you comfortable transporting this, the pocket
rocket to our next destination, or would you like me to take
that? I am comfortable carrying it and
if we were to like go next to a Volcano Eggs or a Cliff, I will
put it in my pocket instead of. Juggling it like I'm doing right
now. What can go wrong?
It's just our party in there. Not a big deal.
OK, let's go. Let's set forth.
I don't remember where we're going.
Who remembers where we're going? I think I remember it was like
near the entry, let's see, it was like to the southeast,
right? Are you?
Guys following. Pop.
Zach popped his head back in the door after walking out of the
Tavern. Ohh yeah, we're on our way are.
They guys following or just gonna?
Yes, stay there. Well, I can't.
Let's embark right now. Did you select on it?
Yeah, I seem to be stuck on a box or something by that.
There we go, over the river and through.
Hey, guys. Doesn't matter you falling along
there too, I'm guessing. Yeah, I'm.
Gonna turn to these guys. You guys wanna go to the next
level of hell with us? Yeah.
Brought our way. The one head turns the other
real confused and the the head that was taking a drink sets the
drink down and burps loudly. Uh, does it have more?
Of beer. I would assume it is.
It's hell. It's the party central, right?
We're just headed out right now and I figure, you know, why not
travel to see the worlds or the floors levels?
Mom is gonna turn around and, like, yell over their shoulder.
Like, come on, Franklin. All right.
Well, follow if you want. Bye.
Hold a quick persuasion. Probably we got it because it's
confused. Guidance persuasion at
disadvantage, right. Yeah, I think that was.
And then guidance 10, come on, give us that in front.
It it just belches again and goes.
Maybe next time. There won't be a next time
Goodbye La La La La La La La La. And Zach gets right to the edge
of the greenery that's starting over the other sides, seeing
there's one sister, the squirrelly 2 of the bunch,
standing on top of a mound that was dead the last time you seen
it, having waving tentacles up to her.
And she's petting them lovingly, and she yells down.
She. Well, Zach yells over to his
sister. Are we doing this or not?
And she looks over and she goes, oh eh, partially late as usual.
I see Zach, it was just raising my companions here who where
seemingly had been very well mistreated and I'm just gonna
get closer to Franklin and just elbow him and be like like the
beginning of our zombie horde. The the flowers that were innate
as you guys are walking up growing on top of these, mounds
of corpses start to move slightly, and creatures that are
long with tails that and Harry are eating corpses around that.
She goes and it seems like one of the what the heck are these?
I forget what they're called now.
I have to go over here. There.
Looked at her short rested before this.
Yeah, you can say it was a short rest.
You guys were just discussing stuff.
It wasn't any I slept. You did, but it I don't know if
it was a full full 8 hours. That's what it.
That's why I was. Saying short rest this one.
Nope, there it is. This one can't do.
Multiple. Yeah.
And one of one of the Canton bylaws were were as deceased
over there but it looks like their friend has started eating
them too. So.
I guess they'll probably procreate here soon anyways
anyways. Well, the hell you.
Oh, and she just waves to all of the creatures in front of them
and the the flowers sort of relax and the hill had started
to stand up a little bit, you know, rise up a little bit I
guess. Slams back down abruptly and she
catches herself while standing on top of it with one of her
guards and gives. I guess you can pass them.
They just been standing here making sure the entrance has
been safe. How nice it.
Turn to Myra. Do we want to pick up a few of
these corpses to like, add in or?
I think we're probably OK. And with that?
To Malfikim started making her way to the the giant door and
Zacks picks their way through the corpses and the creatures
over to the door too. Follow.
I introduced myself to every creature along the way.
Hi, Franklin. Nice to beat you, Franklin.
Nice to beat you. Ooh, except to that guy's
stomach. Excuse me, it's just following,
Zach. That's all of you very nicely as
you guys all approach. Who's been waiting at the door?
Oh. Hi, it's lovely seeing you
again. Hi, this is you.
And Mel Vicium says Ah. Shut the fuck up.
No. How we doing this?
And I well I guess I got the both the keys and and you all
only have one key each, so guess I can lead with my first key and
she. Looks over to her guard that's
been following her this whole time basically and like picks
his shin and then when he goes down on one knee from his shin
being kicked, rips his head back and reaches her hand down inside
of him and pulls out one of the keys and.
Thrusted in the top lock. Some metal.
He goes, all right, who's, who's, who's showing and telling
next? Well, it's just The Witch
doesn't Nick that have the key, right?
You have the key. I wasn't sure.
Yeah, you have the key still no one else does had taken it off
of you or anything like that they.
Couldn't, right? But how does yeah have Has
everyone else put their key in? Maleficium.
Put one key in at the top, it looks like.
And I'm asking who's gonna go? Next.
And Zach will go. We'll go last because we set
this whole thing up and Sasser like is oh don't.
Mind and she just like. Pulls pulls a lock of hair back
and just from behind her ear, this key slides out and she
slides it into the bottom one. There, now you go, malefigium,
so you don't feel like you're going last.
And she just rolls up one of her sleeves and you see a tattooed
piece of that looks like the key in is tattooed there.
Oh. But then she runs her hand
across it and it raises up on her skin before she picks it up
and slides it into the left keyhole.
Now. Come on, final key now, So.
Then I reach and do mine. Well, cuz there's four, so
that's not the final one. Yeah, Zach doesn't have one.
No, no, you guys had it, you said.
You had we have two. You have to right one, so that's
really had the other. There's three in the door right
now. There's only one hole left.
OK, yeah, I put mine in. Math.
So you go to reach into the bag and you pull out the final key
and it slams down to the ground as as oh that's.
Very fucking heavy shit like mom and I like start talking.
I'm like trying to like lift up Thor's hammer.
Essentially, like, I'm just like pulling on it like not getting
anywhere. Wait, like, how heavy is this?
Like, can mom I pick it up? Go ahead and both roll a stink
check. I'm guessing you're helping them
out or out then just a regular strength.
Yeah. Guidance, you could do it.
It's 21. You're all your vessels are
bulging of Omayra as you're trying to pick it up.
But you're not. Getting anywhere until me may or
Mama grabs a hold of the the rest of the key with one hand,
lifts it up to the door, guides it.
Looks like they're guiding it in.
It makes it look like you're putting it in because you're
still holding on to the loop portion at the back.
And it goes into the the slot all all no problem and then mala
ficciam goes. All right, now we all just need
to turn it. And as soon as she said at the
same time. And as soon as she gets that
last word out, Zach rolls the ball out of his sleeve and just
utters one phrase. Let that be.
Peace and drops the ball and it slams down onto the ground.
With all three of the sisters turning into a a black smoke and
and filling into the into the sphere at that too, though the
creatures behind you start to rage.
We try to snitch up the sphere. You pick up the sphere.
No mom is gonna run up and try to turn the keys.
You grab onto one key and you can't see.
I can turn it into one. OK, you grab onto one and you
can't with both of you still pushing, you can't quite turn
those two scream at Franklin Franklin.
Went up after picking that up and helped them try to turn the
key. Can mom may reach 2 keys?
You can, but it seems like that's not not doing the trick
at you're still all pushing and you can't figure out what's
going on. The keys aren't turning.
Damn it. The monsters are approaching.
Yeah, the mound itself is leading the way with the.
Try to have my swarm turn the 4th key.
And the crickets spring out of your shell and as they start to
push on the top of the key, they all.
Click at the same time with four entities pushing on 4 keys and
you you see the the door start to look like from the each of
the keyholes start to shimmer and then turn into the same
colory blackness of each of the keyholes with kind of this
slight shimmering wave in front of you.
Of of of on the door. With it being just this
blackness where the door was into into space, it doesn't look
like it's it's it looks ephemeral.
It doesn't look solid. Cool.
So Mama is gonna take one hand and grab full Myra and take the
other hand and grab Franklin and assume that the pocket rocket is
in Franklin's position and just like, run for run.
Yeah, just run through the thing a port.
Point my hand back with but what the zombie we can.
Find more Zombie. It sounds like the matter.
You are not struggling, Franklin, you are struggling.
So go ahead and roll me a a Dex check to see if you can escape
Mommy's Strength. Check Franklin.
Does your Cape have the? Does your character have a Cape,
or is that just your token? Uh, that's just my token.
He's dressed up like a Boy Scout.
Well, no. Last time he's still dressed up
like a construction man. Yeah, you got a vest on and a
coconut pet. OK, I'm gonna assume I grab a
fistful of your vest. OK, so I have to roll a what?
Strength. Probably gonna win that.
What? No.
Yes. How did this happen?
Oh no. You just barely.
Franklin gets left behind. Mommy's grasp as their foot
touches the door and you see both of your friends or
companions. I'm not.
You haven't completely known for sure whether or not they're your
friends or not. I guess And they just shimmer
kind of like the door, but they like they look like statues at
first. The blackness starts to kind of
cover them over to and then they dissolve into a puddle on the
floor at before. It's kind of like it looks like
it's absorbed into the door. Holy shit, is the door still
there? Yes, the doorway is still there
with the shimmering blackness in it.
Okay can I try to. I'm gonna turn to the to the
cricket on my shoulder and be like, I need you to grab me one
of those zombies real, real fast so we can go through and infect
other people. And I'm gonna be like, ready to
jump through in case I get attacked, but trying to see if I
can eat someone first. I don't have a token for my
bugs, but. No, I get you.
You. I do have.
They're like fully grown forms,
but I don't have like a swarm one for you yet.
I mean anything is fine for now. I can reference that at least.
So dire. Crickets.
No. Not done.
Crickets. What the hell you.
What? No.
Die your ohh I'll take off the S cricket.
I mean. It's in my collection.
I just. Have to go to it.
I guess I'll just tell them to grab someone and go through the
door because I don't have to be here for it.
It's just, well, I'll I'll stick around as long as I can but.
I'll cast Sanctuary on myself. That's what I'll do.
Ohh. OK, while you're standing there,
go ahead and display that one for me if you could while I'm
figuring out this other Shuznaz because I wanted to also say
that here it is. If you would allow an upcast to
cover two people, but it doesn't specifically say.
You're the only person there besides the.
I guess you're Swarm is that's what you're talking about?
Huh. Oh, I just had to let it roll on
here. That's why I didn't come through
first. Does a 10 hit?
With Sanctuary, I feel. Well, attend.
You have to make a Wisdom save. Thank you.
Do you see 15? Otherwise you can't attack me.
Yeah, that'd be a 16. So they can try to attack me but
attend will mess. OK, so I would describe it as
this then you see. That you cast Sanctuary because
a lot of things kind of happened all at once there, right?
You'd kind of seen your, your boss Cricket, explaining to
another set of probably probably a few of them to grab a full
body of something, go jumping off into a direction around this
mound that's bounding towards you.
The thing is massive. It's probably about the size of
this, this whole doorway. It wouldn't probably even be
able to fit through it, actually.
But it's bounding towards you, and as you're casting Sanctuary
on yourself, the Sphere appears around you, but it still seems
intent on striking and slams its whole body and mass into you,
pushing you through the doorway. I'm.
Good to that. I look back at my.
I don't have a name for for my little bug yet.
What's your name be? Ferdinand one, didn't you?
You said Phillip Fribb was the one that died.
Yeah, Phillip died. But now that you guys are all in
one place, it seems like. It seems like.
I don't like that. You with Franklin coming in
last, actually stumbling through the door with actually some of
the remains of that creature that had been the that that have
been the guard for maleficium. It's kind of like a wooden
puppet type thing that gets pushed through with Franklin.
Who gets pushed into Vamaira and Mammae standing on the other
side, stumbling into you with a lot of force.
So go ahead and roll me deck deck saves for Mammae and
Vamaira. My have Azabi in coven.
First good roll of knife. Hey.
Nice too. You're still able to kind of
like absorb the blow of Franklin without him knocking you over,
basically. But it's with such force,
especially probably into Mom A, who was growling Vamara in front
of them to get through the portal of sorts.
So it would be like 10 damage from Franklin Shell being jammed
into you with the force of the entire mound behind it.
To me or to? To mom, eh, your shell is.
I take 10 damage. Yes, from Franklin being
forcibly thrown through the portal, basically as a
projectile. OK.
Didn't you make your save though?
I rolled a natural 20. You did you you you guys were
standing right in front of the portal though, so my theory was
that you saved in that you were able to patch Franklin and not
fall over. Okay.
Because the mound itself is easily, you know, you know, you
know, like the combination of force.
So if you took like a really big thing and slammed it into a
really small thing, the small thing would just go with the,
Yep, same force that the big thing would have had.
Yes, yes, I see. That was kind of my line of
thought. I don't know.
Yeah, fair enough. You're good.
It might be a good spot. For a description here before
Olivia. You need to dip which is.
Yeah. Find yourself in a large
chamber, easily 35 feet. You guess only because of the
echoes of you guys shuffling around, bouncing off of the
walls and the ceiling that you can't see above you because it's
a very dimly lit room with nothing but broken skeletons
around you in heaps and piles. God damn it.
Mossy kit growing around all over.
Ohh. No.
So. So I'm just gonna.
I'll roll a perception, Mossy Skeletons.
And you're gonna roll perception, you said is what
you. Yeah, yeah, 17, yeah.
I wanna know if I get any general feelings, like, do I
feel dread? Do I feel?
Actually, everyone will made perception, yeah.
What's like my Do I feel like I'm still in hell?
Someone's going to know the truth.
Mommy and Maida are quite certain that you if not in hell
or maybe in a worse off situation because this place is
giving you some real dark vibes overall.
Franklin You're like, this kind of feels normal.
I don't know what other existence there is really
anymore. Yep, and I'm just staring at the
portal, waiting for my bugs come.
On and the Mira in particular, actually, while looking around
at the rest of the room and noting too that there's a
change. A little bit of change the
scenery off to two sides of a semicircle wall at the end of
the chamber. Start to notice the skeletons
move. Oh fuck.
And that's where we'll start next time.
And next time, remember, we can always escape.
We have a pocket we. Can go back through the door.
There's everybody go back in and go into the pocket rock and be
like, hey guys, we are currently surrounded by skeletons.
Yeah. I was figuring out this too.
I don't know if you read the description I gave you for the
Pocket Rocket Met, but the I was thinking of it as ironically
that you got it because now it's basically like a perfect party
shield, like like a like your shell.
So like, everybody can just shell into the.
Into it like you would. And then I could just shell into
myself, yeah, yeah, I mean, and if you could generate food.
Or water. It can run there forever.
That's fair. We could.
It's basically a siege, siege proof mansion.
I was also gonna say if everyone gets it, I'm sorry if everyone
gets in then. I could Chuck it like a football
and then will myself into it as I throw it.
Possibilities are endless. I'm a fan of.
This to get out of this room. You're welcome.
I had no idea how you guys were gonna use this.
I knew it was gonna be creative, but I I even thought of all of
the possibilities, that's for sure.
I just thought. It kind of cool.
I mean, honestly, we all just get into it and then my bugs
drive us around. That's.
I like this. This is perfect if we can trust
the bugs, if the bugs become nefarious and create their own
agenda. They they start, they start
gaslighting you guys, everything's fine out here.
Yeah, you can totally come out right into a deep pit that they
drop you in and it's like. A metric teleporter right to the
edge of a Cliff. Yeah.
Ohh guys, that's that's that is a clever way to get our party
from point A to point B without them being seen.
Everyone get into the pocket rocket and just have the bugs
carry you. Yeah, that's great.
Ferdinand would be spelled by the way.
Is that what you that is what you said, right?
Yeah. Is there a D at the end?
There's a D at the end. Hold on.
Like the Archduke that got killed and started World War
One. Uh huh.
Guessing somebody seen. And.
I was going to say had been watching some documentaries.
Oh no, I don't remember much. This is actually like a Buckeye
Local lesson. I don't remember much from
history lessons at Buckeye Local, but they like.
Founded into us the cause of World War One The cause of World
War Two. One of the causes of World War
One was the death of Arch Duke Ferdinand of Austria.
I guess I deleted that. Well, I also.
Appreciate a lot of history crap.
Yeah, I mean, it's cool. So I recently read a book called
Lawrence and Arabia which is excellent.
It's this excellent, like very well written, interesting to
read story that like so Lawrence of Arabia is one of three
characters actually that they go into and it basically like tells
you about World War One and like a very relevant very captivating
way and about just like all of the fuck ups.
It's like, look at all the dumb shit we did.
Like look how dumb we were. Like look at all the people that
died because we were fucking dumb.
It's great. Yeah, it follows like 3 spies
because Lawrence was essentially a spy.
There was a German guy, a very unlikely guy to be a spy, and
there's American guy that they follow.
And these like three people unintentionally like shaped the.
It was it's it's very cool. I highly recommend it.
It's a great book. Lauren, thanks for the
recommendation. Yeah, Lawrence in Arabia,
because there's a bunch of books about Lawrence, right.
There's a lot. There's a bunch of books about T
Lawrence because he's was a very he is he's a fantastic figure.
But Lawrence in Arabia is like this perspective that talks
about the war in general and so sorry.
So he goes into about how dumb the war was and about how it is
like vestiges of like. Medieval European ideas, It's
like why that war even started. Like like like Europe was like
waiting for a war to happen, but they didn't realize how advanced
technology had gotten and just how, like devastating.
It wasn't like you're not fighting swords anymore on
horseback, like you're killing each other with machine guns and
like chemical weapons and like trench warfare nobody had seen
before. They was talking about like, you
know, they assumed they like the, the European populations
like celebrated when they declared war because they
expected this like glorious, you know.
Romantic battle. And it turned into just hundreds
of thousands of people slaughtered.
And so it's it's just this, they just do a fantastic job of like
laying it all out in a very like, captivating way.
I don't know. I highly recommend the book.
Oh, put it on the list. Yeah.
Anyway, yeah, good session. Yeah, it's excellent session I'd
say got move, move forward. No one died yet.
Yeah, I don't know if we're in a better place, but we're out of
that portion of help. Yeah, except for the bug.
Yeah, Sorry, Phillip. Or Phillip, so much, probably,
he said. Laurent Lawrence in Arabia.
In Arabia, yeah. Up and see.
So I guess there's a movie too. Yeah, yes, yes.
Of Arabia is what came up as a film.
That's why I was like of. Well, there was a Lawrence in
Arabia, though. Came up as a film.
Too. It's by Scott Anderson.
I think I found it. Yeah.
Arabia about Anderson. Yeah, there's all kinds of
biographies on TE Lawrence because he he was a badass.
Like, I highly recommend them too.
But this one doesn't just focus on him, it focuses on these
three. If you want if you want a fund
read I I I'd started He who fights with monsters that's a
that's a that was pretty good. I need to need to start the
recommendation Matt gave me eventually here too of dungeon
crawler crawler. Oh my God, that one's gonna
change. That one's top tier RP or lit
RPG like much better than any others I've read so far.
Which book? Dungeon.
Crawler, dungeon crawler, Carl. So the whole idea is, uh, do you
know what lit RPG is? No.
So like think of like an RPG game like Dungeons and Dragons
with experience game and stats and skills and all that, but as
a book. And it's like typically you know
the storyline is someone in current day goes into VR.
World and plays game, but in this one it's.
Same with, for what fights monsters.
It's like both of them. They've they're normal people
that have somehow been either transported or forcibly put into
a game of sorts. Sounds very sort out onliney.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dungeon crawler is similar.
Where aliens basically come to Earth.
Kind of Hitchhiker's Guide with a mining permit from 1000 years
ago, but the real purpose is to turn the planet into a a
survivor game show like a like a hundred floor Sword Art Online
situation. OK.
Main character Carl brings his cat in, who becomes sentient.
And awesome. It's just it's it's fucking
wild. It's just one of the one of the
craziest books. I It is.
It is International Cat Day, so this is appropriate.
I hell yeah, I didn't. Think it was International Cat.
Day Me neither. And I and we're looking.
People that I Wow, that's cool. But yeah, I would recommend it.
I promised Josh that I would send him the audio book.
Version because I have a bunch of them.
Ohh, I sent you the drive to our general D&D stuff.
I don't know if you've seen that to your e-mail sent you access
to our drive. Which has like and I can just
put it there. Yeah, it's it was the night camp
Gmail one that I had. Uh huh.
That's my standard. OK, I will upload it on there.
I would also recommend it for everyone else if you want a.
Ridiculous, like romp of a book. Yep.
But yeah, good games.
I will see you guys in a couple weeks.
Next week? Yep, next week.
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