Stardust Rhapsody: Anthem | Ep. 19 | White Room: Part 2

Welcome to Legends of Avantris, I'm Ziggy Wooge and you're listening to Stardust Rhapsody Anthem. You descend the stairs into the basement beneath the facility, each of your steps echoing with metallic clangs. As you descend the stench of rot and sulfur gets stronger and stronger until you finally see the landing at the bottom of the stairs. The dim red light glints against something wet and slick covering the floor. The stink gets almost overwhelming as you realize quickly that it is blood. It's seeping from beneath the heavy blast doors just past the basement stairs. These doors you recognize immediately as the ones from the video. What in the fuck? Oh the smell! What is that stink? Oh it's burning my eyes. What is that stench? What is that icky icky icky icky? I think it's blood. Yeah that's what I thought too I was hoping you'd say something else. Pixel? Yeah? You asked what we were gonna do about this right? How we're gonna deal with this? We got one thing that they don't. What's that pike? My gauntlet. Let's go. I'm gonna just walk forward. I feel a bit of disgust in my stomach but there's nothing to say about this. I'm gonna hold up my right hand and from the tip of my finger it'll start to glow to kind of shed some light. It'll be this radiant magenta kind of changing to like you know a deep orange, a little bit of yellow, the purples are in there as I'm kind of trying to cast some light as we move forward. Has Pixel ever seen pikes gauntlet? Like in use? I used it in oh you were kind of out of it though. I used it in the room against the silent but you were kind of like out of it. I don't know I think you would have seen me a little bit. Probably wouldn't understand like the gravity. When you jumped in the garbage compactor you would have seen it in the garbage compactor maybe. But it was mostly martial arts. Yeah. I don't think I heard it. Kind of like in like crazy flashy high tense moments. She would understand that it's important but I think it would kind of be like a whoa. You pull this out. It's like maybe a conduit of power. I'm going to be in full documentarian mode at this point. We're beyond the point where I am now like actually just taking photos of evidence. As we get into the cross-thus threshold I am now just full on recording what's happening. A dark and high contrast video footage over the shoulder watching as he approaches the next door. Basically playing videographer as we progress deeper. You begin to capture that heavy metallic clang of your footfalls calls to a changes to a gut wrenching, squelching sound as you reach the pool of blood. Is it deeper in here than it was upstairs? It's there's no other light down here except for that horrible warbling just emergency red light but the tonally. It feels so far very similar but this just shiver runs down your spine and the hairs stand on and the blood flows from your face as you walk forward. Mechanically I cast light. As Pike does that and I see this like radiant sunlight glow I'll just kind of like have a little bit of calming over me I think and I'll nod and I'll think about a line that I've heard Rhett say a couple times that I will say in this moment I'll say by all the gods of Agathos and I'll get a little bit more steely and I'm gonna follow Pike. You reach the blast doors sealed shut at its side space for a key card. I'll pull out the key card that I ripped off Johto's body and I will swipe it. Let's walk it go. Almost a sickening sound at this point. The sound of the door confirming your presence and opening. As the rumbling of the blast door pulls apart. As you enter the room stepping through the putrid shimmering blood the air turns frigid. You're chilled to the bone and you don't know what to expect but nothing could have prepared you for what you see. Hanging on the far end of a darkened chamber is a large grotesque withered creature held as loft by metal manacles fastened to monstrous wrists and ankles. Sharp metal rings are fastened into its hands feet and chest with snaking tubes pumping maroonish blood into the ceiling and elsewhere into the facility. Its body is gaunt and nearly skeletal with sallow gray skin that almost seems to drink in the red light glinting through the room from the stairway landing and patches of jet black fur that grow across its body. Its head is a four-eyed bestial skull that resembles no creature you know of with taut sunken flesh. Large fan-like ears protrude from its head with curved horns that curve around either side. Although it hangs motionless you hear the faint thumping of an extremely slow heartbeat. What do you think that thing is? I don't think it's dead. What? It's not dead. This is red line? What do you mean? Do you think red line comes from that thing? That's what all the clues have been pointing to, Pix. They've been draining that thing. Where did those creatures come from? Pixel, although the heartbeat of this creature is so faint you just know it is, but in your head it is a cacophony pounding over and over and over. Soon you can hear nothing else and it sounds like a funeral dirge. A dirge for those poor scientists. A dirge for Weedlebox. A dirge for yourself. And you are drawn forward towards it. What is that thing, Pike? I don't fucking know, Brad. I've never seen anything like that before. It's gotta be the source. I think Cole's right. This doesn't mean where red line comes from. Where it starts. The phystroid. Call to that thing. That isn't silent. No, it's not fucking silent. As soon as Pixel gets near the horrific stinking creature suddenly moves. Pixel, get back! Pixel, no! It's way you did! Hold on! Left hand where the tube had been removed, flexes and Pixel yells out a yelp. A swirling surge of bright green mist emerges from her mouth as she sings a discordant note rushing toward the monster. As it flies through the air it shifts from a beautiful iridescent green to a horrific and putrid red before slithering into the skeletal jaws and down its sunken throat. Then it immediately lurches forward. Its sunken withered flesh fills out as if it is gorged for days. Its four eyes open with horrific circular beads of fiendish red. The abomination pulls itself free as the four other tubes siphoning the blood rip out, spilling the putrid icker everywhere. The thing from the worst of hell lets out a shrieking discordant wail. And its stinking breath is a frigid wind colder than any winter storm. It is still hungry. It will feed. Roll for initiative. Nice fucking job, Mace. This is fucking god damn shit, man. I got chills. I mean, Mace, am I still enchanted by this thing or now that it sucks this stuff out of me is that broken? The absolute, what was that? And now that it sucks some kind of... It has pulled the force from you and you are the closest person to it in its form. Am I still entranced by it where I want to keep me towards it or is that broken? No, you're not. It was pulling you forward to consume your harmonic resonance. Oh, okay, okay. I went to my car. You're snapping out of it. As you accomplish that, you're snapping out of it. Oh my god! Let's leave that there for now. Okay, yeah, yeah. Oh my god. Help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me! I just need any marker. We're right there. There you are. I am almost certainly last unless someone's got a little five. I didn't roll too hot. Not as hot as usual. My? I roll pretty well as co. I think every single initiative roll has been sub eight for me. Almost every single one. What's your initiative? Plus three. Yeah, it's just because I'm a dex class. It's just because I'm a dex class. Yeah, yeah. That's all. My initiative was pretty dex. God's death. Dex Sam. What can I say? I'm partial to dex characters. Oh, bro, I forgot that. What is rex? I think he's just stunned speechless. Oh, yes. I think he's such a fraud. He's such a fraud that he like basically is like. He pisses pants. He pisses, yeah, he pisses pants, baby. He is. He is locking up like. Yeah. He's now in the big leagues. Yeah, he's wearing yellow pants. I actually wonder what kind of character growth of where imagine you are pretending and you think that you're the real space cowboy and you see presumably a dex of literal hell and experience all of this. My ballerina. That was actually going to be my question is do we have the vernacular for a demon like the word demon? Demon is more of a colloquialism. So we don't like, okay, we don't have like a thing to call this thing. This is like, you know, that's my point, right? Well, I think the idea of it with the idea of a demon be in this galaxy. That's my question, right? Like that's not technically a demon. This is literally something like none of us, well, most of us would have ever seen. I guess the reason I'm asking is like, you know, Red Seng like, like, what is this? And I'm like, I don't fucking know. That's Sengar. I want a word for this, you know. Like what the fuck is this thing? Yeah, I think, I'm going to text you something. Boom, me? Yeah. Oh, okay. That's why I'm asking. Someone let the pants shitting magician into this room. Oh, yeah, somebody let the pants. Oh my God, who's shitting my pants? Yeah, wait, what is it? Pants shitting magician man. The shitting my pants magician man. The shitting my pants magician man. Of future past and future forward and present day. 20 to 25. Not today. 15 to 20. I got a 16. I got a 5th. Oh, yeah, I got 15. I would have been kind of up here. Yeah, you can place yourselves where you think you'd reasonably be. But the pixel would be the closest. 10 to 15. 11. 15. Oh yeah, you got it. Answering questions twice. Five to ten? Five. What'd you get, Rhett? Oh, sorry. I have fifteen. No, thirteen. You're right after picks into fifteen. Thirteen, sorry. So you would you get? Eleven. Eleven. Eleven. Okay. I have a question. May I have a question? Yeah. This like gulping down of my essence does this have any like effect on me in any way or I'm like I'm when my term comes I'm just good to be. You're gonna pay to find out. Oh fuck. Pay to mind out. Pay per view, Pixel. Cut to thirty minutes from now. Nikki, will you please leave the table? Brutal. Okay, thanks for what you've been part of, Stardom. We're so glad that you enjoyed Ship Mouth, you can go. Ship Mouth, shit jaws. That's savage. That'd be funny though. Imagine being asked to leave the table. I mean, whichever guest we're having for the next session has really been waiting for a long time. Man, really? It's gonna be crazy when they come in. I thought I was getting asked to leave the table when I walked up and Rich was like leave the table. And I was like, it's going that bad? Wait, what? Lillian, I just want to show off my shirt. You've been very... I told him to walk back off camera. What's happening? I meant to say don't leave the table. I wanted to show you, I want to show off the shirt. Don't leave the table. Last time you walked away, I was like, where are you going? He literally said, before you walk away. He's so upset. Okay, I don't need this. Do a 360 then walk away. I haven't heard that one a long time. I know. Just as we got set up here and we have the initiative. It's huge like Xbox. I'm just going to read this last part to re kind of frame the intro. It immediately lurches forward. It's sunken withered flesh fills out as if it has gorged for days. Its four eyes open with horrific circular beads of fiendish red. The abomination pulls itself free as the four other tubes siphoning its blood rip out spilling the putrid icor everywhere. The thing from the worst of hell lets out a shrieking discordant whale and its stinking breath is a frigid wind colder than any winter storm. It is still hungry. It will feed pike. I think it's in this moment as I'm kind of like I'm watching like it absorb the life force out of my friend and like trying to take it all in that I'm going to look to Rhett and not not even really look at you but you know that I'm speaking kind of to you and everybody. And I'm going to say no no this thing's not silent Ithisthth They're discorded! Pixel, I'm coming! And I'm gonna use my bonus action to dash. Help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me, help me! Get right up in this thing and basically just drive my knee as hard as I can into its side as I attempt to make an attack here. Let me take a look at my actions. I use the bonus action to dash. Ugh. Well, I got it at least. That's gonna be an 18 to hit with an unarmed strike. 18 to hit? 1d6 plus 5 is going to be 9 points of bludgeoning damage. And I think because I dashed, I had to... Step of the wine? Yes. You did something else, I think. Only if I expend a focus point, which I don't want to do. I think to dash as a bonus action you have to expend an additional... Right, the additional shit is if I expend an additional focus point, which I don't want to do. Oh, interesting. Okay, I know that they changed it. So I'm just going to use that one focus point to dash to make sure that I get up in this thing's face so that it doesn't eat pixel. So that is the only thing that I can do. It's just this one first attack to go and that's it. That's my turn. How much damage did you do? I'm sorry. I did 9 points of bludgeoning damage as I basically kind of flying knee this thing as hard as I can to its midsection to try to get its attention. As you race up and you use your speed almost to lurch yourself forward, your knee juts out and it lands cleanly in its abdomen. And as you press into it with rapid movement, one of its massive arms... Come get some! ...crashes down towards you. That's a 19 to counterattack. It gets me. I have 19 AC. Oh no. I am going to use one of my spell slots as a reaction if I can. Do I have a reaction? It's okay if I wouldn't have a reason. Make a roll for it. Make a roll for it. I was just going to use silvery barbs to make a roll. Yeah, but given your current strength. Sloppy gutter bites. But if you think that me moving forward and doing all that stuff would have used my reaction this round, I think that would be fair as a deal. I think because he has consumed your harmonic resonance with your first. I would say that just for this moment you do not have the ability to react. I agree with that. I agree with that. I don't think I have to spend anything to your step of the wind. That's what Dan says. Yeah, I think that's what I thought. The focus is for dash plus distance. The extra shit you get is only if you spend the focus point. Got it. Well then in that case, after this... No, I still have to use my bonus action to do it though. So I still can't take any extra attacks. Correct. So we're good. Just use your head. You're in me. Yeah, but you get the focus point back. And as you get right in there, it's a looming, lurching form. Towers above you. And with almost an uncanny speed, its hand slams into your body as it connects. You take 14 points of blood. That's okay. Here's my temp HP. We're good. Pixel. Um, I... Seem like I can use my full turn. You? So you do seem like you can use your full turn. Okay, cool. The, from the moment you felt that faint heartbeat, the turned funeral dirge for you, for Weedlevox, for the scientist, the... You can't help but a crash, parallel its sensation, parallel its feeling with the thumping bass of the speakers you performed next to for so long as you... You are not mechanically sapped or exhausted, but you almost feel that way as you may take your full turn. Okay, cool. Cool, cool, cool. Oh, fuck. Shaking off the, um, just the feelings that I'm feeling. I'm looking at Pike. I still hear the words that he was saying as he rushed forward to come to my rescue. And though I still have, um, all of the dead just in my mind, almost speaking to me and unison, I realize that there are so many one... My family is alive next to me. And so I shake it off and I immediately look towards Pike. You got this, buddy! We can do this together! And I strum on my keytar and it comes out almost in a minor key at first, but I fix it. You hear the major key come through as the synth pop starts starting. And I'm going to give you a Bartok Inspiration. Hell yeah, D6? A D6, yeah. Let's fucking go. And then, um, from there, I am going to... I am gauging the situation, not gonna do anything crazy. I'm just gonna do, um, a cam trip. I'm gonna do a Starry Wisp and I'm gonna just let loose a wave of... Or am I like right up next to it? It looks like I'm like one space back. Yes. So I'm gonna get this advantage. Cool. So, 24 to hit. Oh, 24 to hit. Oh, heck yeah. Eight. Eight radiant damage. Nice! That's a big one. A blast of radiant light just rockets out of. Almost like, it almost looks like a shower falling stars that just rush out of my, um, my keytar. And then I'm going to start backing up. You got this, Pike! I promise I'm just gonna go next to co. You back up from it? Yeah, I'm gonna back up and head towards co. She's, unless it has 10 foot range. It will take an attack of opportunity. Okay. Pixel wouldn't know that, so she's gonna back up. Run! As you attempt to walk away from it, um, from the elbows, its arms fold out and you see this unnatural length of these terrible limbs as the claws lash out at you. Um, 22 to hit. Misses, yeah. That's too bad. Yeah, my AC is 32. Oh my god! You're getting the action back, girl. So just frost for the last time. Yeah, I know, but I think Pixel would save it for her friends. She's not gonna use it for herself. We got some 10-page bids, okay? Yeah. Oh, damn. That's true. That's true. That's still, that's still active, right? That's 10-page bids. Yeah, yeah. Thank goodness. What kind of damage was the attack on me and now on Slashing Ditch? How far did you back up? Uh, I would move my full movement speed. Uh, you won't. I won't. No, I won't. As the claw attack hits you. Yeah, no, no, no. So, you take 11 points of Slashing Ditch. Okay, okay, not bad. You then feel this piercing cold almost injected into your body. That doesn't, that's you. As you'll take an additional 10 points of cold damage. That's not bad, that's not bad. You are now grappled in its claw. I gotta say. And you need to make a constitution saving throw. Oh my god. Come on. I'm right here with you. It's okay. It's gonna be all right. It's gonna be okay. The rest of the cavalry is coming. I can't wait till Rex gets ripped apart. 15. 15 meets it. Oh, shit. All right. Let's fucking go. That's some heart plays. You feel it as it's grappled within its claws. As it tries to once more pull on your harmonic resonance, on your life force itself, but almost fully sated in the moment having just feasted on you. It doesn't pull from you and you just take that initial barrage of damage. You have passed the... Oh my god. That would have been like a three attack. Jesus. But I am grappled so I can't go. You're grappled. You are full grappled. I'm giving the fucking business. I'm actually piked. I think I'm just gonna hang out here with you and make sure you're okay. I got you buddy. Oh, so that was its turn too. No, that's what I'm saying. He hasn't gone yet. That's a mess. That would be it. She skipped it. Oh, no. Oh, shit. But I'm in his fucking face. Hey, I will assign homework, Andy. I'm just making sure I'm trying to understand. I thought, yeah. No, that was all the attack of opportunity. Yeah, I'll proc to every man. Well, now it's its turn. It is now its turn. This fucking guy. I'm in his fucking face. He uses reaction. I'm trying to... I see what's going on. He uses reaction right before getting it back. Do you taste like globulin? No, I don't taste like globulin. That's for sure. I think... Let me space this. Oh, no. Well, I'm gonna fucking punch in the dick. Fuck on his leg. I think it'll stand there. As it lurches forward. What if it doesn't have a dick, Andy? Well, then I'm just gonna punch it. It strikes at... I'm gonna punch. It's gonna be a dick punch. You striking at me? Yeah, I'm gonna hit 17. That misses. Try again. You're also gonna... He's gonna... Well, only if I hit. Oh, and I get hit. One, two, three. Well, that hits me. Yeah. Now I'm gonna actually... Oh, shit. No, I'm... What is your reaction on? I'm gonna use my reaction to deflect the attack to reduce the damage by 1d10 plus 9. So basically as the thing's coming in, I'm gonna attempt to like take a glancing blow and like knock it out of the way. So I get hit, but feel free to roll the damage and then I'll reduce it by 1d10 plus 9. Is it gonna move like... Is it relevant to type of damage? It has to at least be bludgeoning, slashing, or piercing. So you will have the option to reduce the first portion of this hit. So that was the only thing I wasn't sure about and I asked this like forever ago. It just says when an attack roll includes piercing, bludgeoning, or slashing, I can reduce the whole total damage by 1d10 plus 9. Okay, okay. So let me know what it is. Hell yeah. Well, that'll be fine. It's 10 slashing damage. Come on. That's pretty good. Pretty good. 9 cold damage. I will only take 2 points of damage as I reduce it by 17. So I basically take like a blanzap blow. Yeah, I hold up my right hand with the gauntlet as this thing's claws like... Oh, fuck. ...crash off the gauntlet. Kind of catching me in the shoulder just a little bit. I don't want to take 2 points of damage. I'm seeing like blue sparks or something like flash off. The gem like flares. It goes to like, you almost see it with this rapid terrible movement as it goes to strike this claw hand at you. And as it's piercing nails reach towards you, you're able to, it scratches you as it goes past, but you're able to deflect it enough where you only take the slightest bit of the slashing damage. And you don't even feel the cold separate from the cold of this room. But that is my reaction, so no attack of opportunity. Right. Worth. Is he going to do his thing? No thing. He did attack. He attacked Pike. Oh, that's it? Oh. Okay, you were lining up something and I'm like, oh, I'm going to take a... Well, I think he was moving to get as many people within him as he could, but I think technically it goes outside of my range. One, two, yeah, 15. Yeah, so... Got it. Okay. Anyway, just making sure. I mean, did you assign a homework teacher? Is he going to do his thing? Has he not done enough? No, I mean, this has a fucked up first round. I'm going to... This is bad. ...strafe. And I want to see Pike take these two hits. Oh, yeah. Pike, back up! We can take this from range! And I will... The singularity will swirl and almost pulse this dark blue and purple energy as the barrel of my grav cannon glows. And first it'll fire like just a bolt of gravaton energy as I make an attack roll. You know, have I ever hit with that? I don't know. Plus... You've got some crazy action. Yeah, shit, I don't want to hear from you. 11. 10, 10, 10. Lunacrit shit. 11 to hit. That misses, presumably. 11 misses, yes. And now, as a bonus action... Oh. I will take the handle and go as the blast, the glow will then start to spin and spin and almost focus into a beam as I use the disruptor beam that you saw in the clone lab. We'll shoot again at this thing. Fucking un-make this guy. In a full line, I want to try to dodge Pixel and Pike here. Oh, I think you can. Yeah, basically, he's so big that I'm hoping I can just line him up. He needs to make a dexterity saving throw. And it's 10 feet wide, so basically, just kind of crossing his whole body. 16. My, presumably, my spell save is 15, I'm guessing. 8, 9, 10, yep, 15. So he's going to take half of this. He is going to take half of 2D8 force damage. As I grab a D8, 4, 6, he takes 5 points of force damage. 5 points of force damage. That's my turn. As the beam hits him, it strikes cleanly, but it kind of like hits and almost like moves off as you see this like glancing blow take place. Ziggy. I am going to turn to Rex, who doesn't seem to have an initiative order. And I am going to wherever he wants. That's funny. What's he doing to you? No! I'm really, he's pushing it through. He's shooting at you. No, stop yelling. Shoot the fucking guy, shoot the fucking guy, shoot him, shoot him. Pull out your gun, where's your trigger finger now? Figure it out, fuck! And I'm going to... That's exactly right. That's exactly right. That's exactly right. That's amazing. That's exactly right. I'll go here. And I will pull my gridboy out. It's been recording this documentary, but I am going to push the sides together and open it up to this battle script that I always can run. I will quickly type a few pieces into the command line and I am going to... I'm just going to go really classic. I'm just going to cast tether protocol on this thing. You're going to see a beam of green energy, almost like a lightning bolt, attempt to grapple onto the creature that we're all screaming about. And as soon as it latches, it straightens and hardens like a laser, almost, and just maps back to my gridboy, allowing me to essentially scan it. I'm going to ask it to make a... No, no, no, I get to make a ranged spell attack. Well, like in the wireless wizard where it shows the line that connects you to the internet, you know? Yeah. That's what's happening there. I am casting for the record, I'm casting Witch Bolt at a second level. Nice. Nice. Oh, shit. And so the... Amazing. On a hit, the 2D12 lightning damage at a higher spell slot would have been... Oh, no, no, it's already a... No, no, no, no, it should be higher than that. It's a 3D12, so that becomes 6D12. 6D12. That's so much of your boss fight, guys. Let me see this. You need some D12s? I can give you some D12s. Yeah, I have them. That's one of the D12s I got. You're two. That's four. That's six. Five, six. So the Celebration Song from the Return of the Jedi is playing, and Glup is his sports ghost is like nodding. And he's just nodding in approval. Wow, that's good money. Okay, that's gonna be ten... Mace is feverishly being like, what's an extra hundred? Thirty. Forty-two, forty-seven lightning damage. Nice. And magical attack. And is it magical attack? That's a spell that I'm doing. It's forty-seven magical lightning damage, as all of a sudden, perhaps it's the data that I've been recording this entire time. It's overcharged with all of this information, and it sees the discordant. This massive beam attaches to this thing and latches on and straightens, and I am in the hyper grid. I am flown. I'm ready to go. That's gonna be my action. I don't need to do anything else. I'm very comfortable. You hear a Ziggy turn around and talk to Celica. Did you hear that kitten? Where daddy will be home soon. Oh, welcome. Oh, welcome. I'm not listening. I'm just in pure focus mode. It's like when you're in a Dark Souls boss fight. Oh, yeah. You're in a flow state. I'm in the flow state. In response, it dashes at you. Well, I don't know about that. Well, shit. Can't hear you about that. They might have crossed Co's path. I don't know if it was here. This lumbering. Do I get an opportunity to? Yeah, I mean, it crossed. You can draw the right pass here. I mean, you can still in reach. Perfect representation. You can absolutely get an opportunity. Oh, now you don't ugly as I am going to try to bulk them in the back of the skull. He runs by, just crack them. I think it's only a 14. 14 will miss. Yeah, I was going to say. It's moving with extreme speed. Yeah. And in fact, I rolled a natural 20. I'm going to use my reaction. What? I'm going to be slow. Let me have her. I'm going to Sloppy. You got it. You're too dangerous. You cannot be on the can. You cannot be on the can. Had a kid. He's too dangerous. He's up to life. Look at the dice. Right here in the middle. Right here in the middle. That's another 20. Wow. He deserves it. He deserves it. He deserves it. Fuck. To be fair, you deserved it. But you still get an advantage. 1 in 400. That was 6. Yes. Sloppy got a prize for a worth. You earned it. You earned it. For sure. You earned it. Oh, my sad block. It's hard to argue with that. No, absolutely. That was a great try, Nikki. Just one try to see you right now. Look, Coast still gets an advantage. No, I mean, he's going to have to do his kind of reaction. It's going to be a million fuckload of damage points. You don't know. Oh, it's... I mean, it's going to be... He hit... He always said pixel for like, 40 pot damage. Oh, no. It's funny you say that. You take 44 damage. So you have to figure out what half of that is, and then hold for concentration. Consequences. You passed it. Why do I take half? No, no, that's for just your concentration check. It's for which? No, no, no. Okay, hold on. Take the damage. Take the damage. 34. 34 damage. It is relevant. I have 3 health points. I have 3 health points. I have fucking clawed damage. Zero hit points. Derek, you know you can just type the number in and hit and hit. Yeah, I am doing it right now. Yeah, this is more exciting. I'm doing it. No, but I'm saying you don't have to use a calendar or a calculator to figure it out. No, I have hit. You can't believe I double rolled it. That feels good. Are you still up? Are you still up? No, no, I like doing calculators. Okay. Bro. Yeah. Are you still up? Yeah, I'm barely up. I am a wizard. How much health do you fucking have? Not at maximum hit points. It was only because of the temperature. 9, 10 hit points. I have 44 with a 1 shot. I have 3 hit points left. I have 3 hit points left. He's also a dinosaur. He's a giant dinosaur. I don't have a shock. I'm just a little surprised, guys. Okay. Okay. Go. Wait, I need to roll concentration. 22. 22. 22. That's all he said. Thank God. It is a constitution saving throw. Are we playing with 18 or higher? Or are we playing with massive damage rolls? Nope. He shits himself. 18. 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For teens it was like, I can do this by that. So like, could I go green and use the green? When you do it, you can use it. When you create a new effect, that's a use. And you can also change your color with the effect. Okay. So, but I still have one left. Yeah, that's a blue one thing. Yeah, that's your turn. Come on. I think Derek's in trouble. I see this thing holding pixel. I am going to, as I feel the code in me as this street brawler, I see pixel in danger. I see my friends in danger. My heart is beating as there's this kind of booming thunder as this almost like this. I start slamming my my boot onto the ground and I, uh, almost like this cacophonous or not this cacophonous, it's bad. Like this booming thunder, this rhythmical as I say, pics we're going to get through this. I'm going to give you a beat. And it's my heart is just going crazy and crazy as my connection to my code and the tether to the Zoro existence, the magical power within surges out as this as my tattoos start to kind of glow and surge out and kind of crackling static electricity as my own harmonic resonance is going to start to go. And feeling this trying to give a beat to pixel song as I use my bonus action to use lay on hands for 20. 20. Yeah. And sick. You know, that's there. No, I'm I'm I'm. 10. Yeah. 10. 10. 10. I would say you'd be able to look at me. And I just followed my own tone. And I'll look at this thing as I'm starting as this this residence, this drumbeat is going as I am feeling this resonance around me. I'm going to look back at Pike. I'll see the gauntlet and I say, I don't know how to play Pike, but if you show me how I'll try. Yeah. As I just scream, just trying to send this fucking demon back to that's bad. Oh, that's bad. I mean, yeah, that's shocking. That's shocking. Oh, no, 15 misses by one. Yeah, 15 misses by one. That's it. That's my turn. Yeah. Fuck. Yeah. You should say guys. Yeah. Bullets like a boy. Yeah. Yeah. We're all dead. We're all dead. Absolutely. The creature doesn't even look at Rex. These bullets go like, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. Thank you, Dan. It was patched. Dan, we got a patch note. Yeah, we got a patch note. And I'll say, when in doubt, punch it in the face. Yeah. I will, hopefully, I believe that is a 17 to him. 17 on it? His AC is 16. I punched the demon in the face. That was Scott. That's about as cocked as a gift. Yeah. That is, like that pumpkin. I like that pumpkin a lot. I like that pumpkin a lot. 11 points of damage. And I'm gonna try to, You throw up a fist. And as imposing as you are, you have to throw your fist up at an upward angle to strike this in the face, but you do catch it right under the jaw and almost full extension of your arm, you land a blow right at it. I give him the shuriken. As it glances down at you. Okay. It pays no attention to Rex as he's shooting out, landing no shots. Pike, you're on. My heart is going a million miles a minute, but I hear what Rhett has yelled to me and I hear what Ko has yelled to me. I think that Ziggy's fucking dead against all of my instinct. All I want to do is rush in to help and get in close like I normally do. I force myself to slow my breathing, focus on what is inside and level the gauntlet as I use a focus point to flurry of blows and make three radiant shots at this thing from across the room. So I'm gonna attack three times. Wow. That's cool. Oh, I only used head of my land. 15 is a low. 15, I get off. 15 on miss. You have inspiration. I'm gonna use my inspiration to add to 15. Okay, definitely good then. That's gonna hit and then the third hit will be a plenty. So all three are gonna hit. That's gonna be 3D6 plus five radiant damage. Five, nine plus 15 is 26 radiant damage over three attacks. As I plant my feet, take a deep breath, focus on what is inside me and shoot these radiant blasts directly into its back. Boom, boom, boom. Boom. As these radiant blasts kind of are almost fired so rapidly they almost travel completely together as each one boom, boom, boom will land straight in its back landing a pretty massive hit. Come on, come on, turn back this way. Come on. That's my turn. That's your turn? Yep. Pixel, let's see you. As Co runs up and does this and almost charges Pixel with the sound, you hear the music get faster and Pixel starts to change colors. When you use my bonus action, you're gonna watch as Pixel turns back into her standard neon green, her bright yellow hair, just rocking out as she's going to look out towards Ziggy. And so a part of this bonus action, you watch as the lights once again appear and the spotlights start going crazy but they're gonna hone in on Ziggy. And I'm gonna reach down and I'm gonna cast Cure Wounds at second level on Ziggy and it's gonna, a burst of healing is going to just erupt out of this as Pixel takes on this new color. You turn and you look at Ziggy and so many strange happens for a moment. On the wall in front of you, you see almost a Napoleonic-stricken, beautiful painting of someone you recognize very well. My point is, oh, I'm sorry. Thank you. It's a little bit discordant. It's hard to get. Someone you recognize very well. And then a sound draws your attention away from the art hanging on the wall towards the center of the room. Oh, my God. Wow, duds. This is pretty fucked, Dad. What the hell is going on around here? You see the bold spot that orange skin as grobulous J. Weedlevox sits at a chair behind his desk. He knocks the table as you turn towards him and you'll note that he knocks it with a different hand as he gestures towards you with his other ring finger cut off. Oh. But I took the glimmer, I took the luster brush. Wait, what are you doing? Hi, honey. Whoa, I bet you wish you hadn't done that, huh? You could be in the glitz room right now, living it up. We could be snorting lines, but instead you're tripping over your own toes out in some fucking bloody laboratory with some creature in nightmares, huh? I mean, what the hell? Who chooses this over me, yeah? But I'm doing good, though, honey. We're helping people and I'm practicing my songs. This is how you define good at empty laboratory, getting chopped to bits by a giant monster. You could bounce a nickel off that ass, huh? And instead... No, I can't get you good. Then you're playing around in the dark. I don't know how to do it. Good luck. Yeah, it's pretty fucking obvious you don't know what to do, wrong decision after wrong decision, and that's why you find yourself where you are. I'm sorry. As you say... I'm so sorry. I'm sorry. I miss you. The eruption from your guitar goes out and you heal Ziggy. Ziggy, you hear her shout, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm assuming they would have heard everything that I was saying, yeah? No. Oh, okay. Just the end. Thank you, thank you. Sorry. You're welcome. You're welcome. And I will not even be looking at Ziggy. I'll be just staring at the spot that I saw Weedlebox. Is that your turn? That's my turn. The creature raises its go and cuckoo bananas. You are a hell bin. And I need you to make a constitution saving throw. Drugs are hell of a drug. 21. Nice. Oh, crushed it. With a 21, it goes once more to draw upon your life essence, your harmony, and it can't do it. So it crashes its fist holding you into the ground. No! Let me go! 18. 18 points of damage? No, it's just 18 to hit. Oh, yeah, that hits. Okay. Yeah. 13 points of what we'll call it bludgeoning damage. Okay. Eight points as that same sickening cold pulls into your form as opposed to erupting from an absence of warmth. It will also... Oh, you're further away. Coe, you hit it last and are close. It will reach out and back and almost gestural. It will reach out and back and almost gesture back with one of its arms and slam to... One of the points of healing for you, Ziggy. 20? Yeah. Hold on. Higher than my greatest hope. 20 to hit. 20 to hit me? No. I'm sorry, sorry, sorry. There you go. But I have nine points. Sorry, head point. I don't know if you knew. Thank you, that's massive. I also don't even know if you know this, but I'm actually resistant to cold on Barnabos Dread Lake. This is about a maze. You remember lying on that for so long? 12 points of bludgeoning damage as the fist crashes back and strikes you in the body. You'll feel the cold emanate from its form as this eerie sense seeps into you and you take nine points of cold damage. Right. That's 21. I guess at this point, I'm seeing this thing stop around and absolutely wrecking my team, but then I'm seeing all of this up happening where people are being made healthy again. So how does everyone look currently? Relatively. You're looking bad? I'm looking rough. I feel like, if you want my suggestion, I think Redson like fucking annihilates me. Well, that's sort of what I'm thinking. I think Redson annihilates me. That's what I'm thinking. He is in. Give him the business. His training is kicking in. He's like, that's my fault. It's your character. I'm basically gonna run sort of strafe up shoulder to shoulder with Pike as he's doing this. We gotta focus on taking this down. No matter what happens, Pike, you understand? I'm with you. Hoping that this thing has been experimented and maybe they'll get pissed off about it. The ether tanks in my pack will clunk and whirr and you'll hear almost like this liquid now flow through the tubes as the barrel of my gun turns almost into a nozzle. As I will spray liquid ether in a straight line casting Tosh's caustic brew. I fucking love that. That's awesome. 30 foot line, five feet wide. So basically just right, I wanna avoid all my team. It needs to make a deck saving throw. Would it benefit you to change the shape of that line? I don't think it's that easy. As long as it touches them, I'm good. Okay, I mean, it's not like a 10 foot sphere would be better or probably not. I don't think so. I don't think so. Especially since it's a single target. Not in this case. I'm just jumping in to... No, that's great. Cause that's a meta requirement of hotfix. I just wanna say whenever we play this campaign and then we have combat, I'm like, I gotta go home and work out. I could bench press 700 pounds right now. No, no, no. I have to get as strong as Mike. And there's no time left. I have to go for a run right now. All right, Rhett, what do I gotta do? Deck saving throw. DC 15, I think. Very funny. Oh, 10. It fails. It is now covered in this caustic ether. Purple and indigo and blues are like popping on its skin, on its sallow skin. Also a roll of perception check for me. The creature covered in the acid takes 2d4 damage at the start of each of its turns. So for a minute or until it lose concentration or until it takes an action to wipe it off, it's gonna take that damage every round. I will make, what happened to my d20? It's gotta be around here unless you lent it to someone. Oh, I put it back in the box. What am I doing? That is a perception you said is a 7, 18. With an 18, you mentioned, you believe this thing to have been experimented on. You've now engaged it for, I mean, honestly, not a long time, but seconds can be a lifetime to you with kind of this battle-heartedness. You almost never lose sight of your ability to kind of grasp the situation at hand. This creature is brutally and forcefully and ferociously that is bringing the fight to you. You know that when you walked in, this thing had presumably been blood, or bloodlet since the events of that tape. Possibly the events of whatever happened behind the door, whatever it was after the screaming is what brought this into being. And it has very much been, not just an experiment, but it's in a weakened state. And it's not looking good. And so after I do that, now with this new change, I will basically reach down and turn some knobs and pull back again, and the liquid nozzle will then start to spin fan back out. And the singularity, the panels that sort of bypass the singularity for the ether now come back and it starts to whirl up again. And I'm just full trying to kill this thing as fast as possible. I'm gonna use another charge of my Disruptor Beam. It needs to make another deck saving throw. Oh my God. And... In the business. Fuck yes. 14. Let's fucking go! It fails, it takes 16 points of force damage. Max fucking damage. Max damage. That was nice. 16 points of force damage. If it makes you feel better, I called it in my head before it landed. I was like, this is gonna be max damage for me. Sometimes you know. I know, sometimes you know. Sometimes you know. Covering it in this caustic brew, flipping the nozzle and blasting this thing straight into it, these subsequent attacks are huge. This thing though, it has dealt immense damage out. You have given back as good as you've gotten. And it is showing the where. It's bloody probably. Ziggy. Yikes. I was immediately near the edge of consciousness and even as confusing as Pixel's behavior was, I was magically rejuvenated by her actions. And so I'm feeling okay if not terribly shaken. Pixel, keep it together. Keep it together. Tars are just streaming down Pixel's face, but she's smiling at you. We got this, we got this. I'm going to type a few commands into my grid boy and I'm going to use my bonus action to enjoy the remarkable fact that I didn't lose concentration on a witch bolt. So it's just gonna take 1-12 damage. Yeah. Not bad. It takes nine lightning damage, magical. Then I'm going to type a few more commands, execute those and I see the script running up my screen and it's going to use that tether and you're gonna see a pulse of energy go like that. I need to make a range spell attack against the target. I'm casting Websocket, which is my reflavor of the Crooked Moon Spell Blood Bolt. I'm going to get a, what is it, plus? Go your own deck. I'm gonna get a 19 hit, I think that that hits. So that is going to be 1-16 necrotic damage. It takes two necrotic damage, but I also gain a number of temporary hit points equal to my proficiency bonus. So I gain two, I basically siphon that energy and you see these grid lines form around my person. It's like this push and pull as the energy fires out and comes back to you and you see the grid erupt around you. Co, with that safety, I'm just going to attack of opportunity to do a no. I'm going to 5, 10, 10, 10, 30. Oh, he'll take it. I'm going to run back to Rex. That's a 16 to hit. Oh no. Does that hit? Yeah. So it's meaty. I can instantly use my reaction to stop it. No, I couldn't because I'm on my turn of Erdys' casted spell. Yep, you get it. Shit. Oh, that's true. That's a pretty corner case. That is like, I've never come up with anything. Interesting. I can do a lot of decision trees on that. That's pretty corner case. Got an index and a bounds exception. 13 points of slashing damage. Wait, Dan says you didn't use a spell slot. You can shield. I did a cantrip and I used a. Oh my god. Yeah, you didn't get it. A kind of spell. Dan Dylan. Dan Dylan. Let's see. Dan Dylan. Go to bed, Dan Dylan. Go to bed. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Like again, how crazy corner case that was? Blood for the blood gods. You know, sometimes if you have it. So I will absolutely cast fail safe or shield. And I will instantly solve that problem. Yeah. It's done. As it slams into you. Yeah, those grid lines just fucking. You kind of like copy paste over. Yeah, as you. I'm surprised you didn't name it Firewall. Yeah, that's a good one. Firewall is something else. You need to get that out of bounds in no point or exceptions. Oh, I'm raw. That's what you need to. You gotta throw this in there somehow. Pixel is bloody and crying, but she is, she's a fighter. Pixel, I'm giving you a beat. Just use your song to kill this thing. As once again, another pulse as the beat of my heart, beat of my resonance as I'm pounding my chest and I'm gonna use the last of my lay on hands to do another 10 points of healing to you bonus action. And then. The intro drum solo from Hot for Teacher starts playing. I love that. And I sub regular attack, right? You guys are me. Yeah, I am going to, that is gonna miss. I can't fucking hit this thing. Why won't you let me kill you? Pike, what did I pray for? And then I'm once again gonna try to give it an uppercut. Another shoryuken. Shoryuken. Another two. So I am. Swap out, yeah. Swap out. It has this like eerie agility to it as it moves almost like anticipating the flow of your body as like sensing your intention. That's a turn. Rex has been screaming for 18 seconds. I've been running, I ran up to him. Oh, figure it out, figure it out, fire, fire, fire. Go, add him, add him, you're hitting the roof, you're hitting the ceiling, stop it, stop it. What are you doing? Sorry, head boom users. And gamers. My third limit is. Sorry to me, I'm like next to him. It hurts. It hurts. It hurts. Oh, that's very funny. I often wonder about our neighbors. They fucking hate us. I mean, it's only once a month, they'll deal with it. Yeah, that's true. What are they gonna do, call the cop? Yeah. Oh, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. All these blasts go out, they ring all around this creature. And then one miraculously finds purchase straight at the nape of the neck at the back of this creature. And this is very funny. How do I wanna do this? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You're a scumbag. You're a fucking liar to scumbag and you're a terrible person. But so many people place bets on this fight. You can't do that. There's no way, there's no way. No, last to ring out. The shots from the phaser, one lands clean at the nape of the neck on this creature. How do I wanna do this? And as it does, it stumbles forward for a moment. You feel the grip loosen around you, Pixel, as it drops you to the ground. Suddenly, the creature lets out a horrific screech that sputters out into a whisper as a burst of frigid air fills the room, as the being folds into itself. As a rip and tear of reddish energy crackles everywhere, explosions arc out, the arcing lightning dance out from this in red form as portal-like energy bursts and suddenly the flesh of the slaughtered monster is gone and the metal rings that have been forced into its flesh clatter to the ground. Silence returns again. What the fuck? Is it dead? What the fuck? Is everyone alive? Pixel, are you okay? I'm gonna go and kneel down. Are you okay, Picks? Yeah, I'm sorry. What are you sorry for? I'm sorry for causing problems. You're not causing any fucking problems? No, I'm sorry for causing problems. I'm sorry for causing problems. I'm sorry for causing problems. I'm sorry for causing problems. You're not causing any fucking problems? We killed that thing. We killed that thing. Are you okay? Is everyone alright? Okay. Rex Maxim, real space cowboy, does it again. Oh, did you see that? You got lucky with one bullet? What do you mean? You fired 50 fucking shots at that thing. Look at the ceiling. You shot it and it exploded in your ass. You killed 40 or something. You fucking killed that thing. I'm raging. Look at all the work everybody's doing. Look at the blood. Look at the blood. It's healing. Rex, shut the fuck up. The ceiling looks like a popcorn ceiling from 1970. I'm gonna take a few steps forward. The gauntlet's still drawn on whatever's left over. Trying to get closer to see if I can see if there's anything of it left. I'm stunned. This thing just fucking crumpled upon it. I mean, I'm worried that this isn't over. And I'm just gonna try to get closer keeping the gauntlet drawn on where it was to try to see what's left. Is everyone feeling okay? I'm alright. You really helped me. I was about to black out. I helped you? Yeah, you turned to me and you were acting a little weird like you were seeing something else. But your music, it healed. It healed me. I'd probably be dead if it wasn't for you. Are you okay? I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm alright. To get ripped back to... You say cacophony? Yeah. What? I don't know if this is over yet. Everybody stay on your toes. I'm gonna step away. Is that alright? Yeah, everybody back up. It's dead. Fucking Rex. Max and Reels. Fucking space cowboy. Lady Luck is always on his side. Lady Luck is always on my side. Shut the fuck up, Rex. Okay, the tensions are high. I get it. The moment that I'm close enough, you said that there was something left over. And it's as you approach... Oh boy. That I'm gonna keep a few steps behind Pike. Beep. Beep. Beep. What? Did you hear that? Did anybody else hear that? I'm gonna give it a little kick. Just a little nudge with my foot. Or what, five rings with my boot. Suddenly you hear a beeping. As the five rings from the tube stuck into the creature flash with a pulsing red warning. Aw. The large bladed ring that had been in the monster's chest beeps louder and louder until the entire room fills with red light. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. A siren-like alarm blares throughout the facility and you hear the sound of heavy blast doors moving open. Echoing throughout the building. Even more alarming, the building shakes around you as if from the approaching footsteps of massive creatures. What the fuck? Shut it up! I think it's time to fucking go guys. It's too late. We came when we got here. You have all the fucking evidence? I got it all right here. Let's get the fuck out of here. Let's fucking go. You got to go. You good? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They stay right behind me. Don't get away from me. Wait, yeah, I got little legs. Okay, I'm going to pick up Pixel and I am going to, I'm going to put my club on my back through my vest and through the belt and the harness around my vest and I am just picking up... Can you put it in there? Oh no. What? What? What? What? What? I'm picking up Pixel and I'm saying, grab under the handle of my club and we will, Donkey Kong and Young Paulina. I like Donkey Kong of Manaids, the only fear switch too. Our way to that as I am going to just start booking it. I think that Rhett and I would take the lead. Yes. With everyone close behind and I don't give a fuck if Rex lives or not. The alarming is ringing throughout the facility it almost feels like it's causing the place to shake and tremble. Your foot falls, squelching louder and louder as the horrific stench hangs so heavy in the air now. Your footsteps as you race out of this room, ripping out of the blood that's gluing it to the ground. As you break just past, you leave bloody footprints as you ring around the side of the basement stairs. You start racing back up as you burst out on your left, the office way of Dr. Joto. The empty bullpen of scientist terminals in front of you, burst passing them. You know that you have to get out of here. You don't like the sense that's come over you. You don't like what's happening. You start running through the bullpen, bursting through, knocking chairs, clattering things over, bursting out. You're back into the massive room of honeycombed laboratories. You start racing through them, snaking your way back the way you got there. You move forward, left, forward, left. And then in the distance, up a flight of stairs, you see it, the doorway open to let you out back towards the lobby section. And that is when you see it. Oh, no. What do you mean see it, Mace? It? You calm down. Calm down, bro. What the fuck is this? These are laboratories. What? What do you mean? What do you mean? What do you mean, Mace? What does it mean? Explain yourself. Mace? What the fuck are we looking at? What is this? What is this business? What is this? I don't know if you like- Whose chair is this? Whose laboratory is this? That might be a little tough to see. We've been shown a number of rectangles, all of different styles. A bunch of rectangles. A bunch of blocks. I think we might consider redoing the borders of darker color or a more robust color. The whole thing is not going to be terribly relevant. It's more to set the stage. It's going to be more used towards the end. Okay. That is helpful. It's still worth outlining. Do we have the other items we discussed? The other items we discussed? What do you mean? Oh, do we have the sacrificial dagger, Andy? Yeah. These are appropriate. Do we have the bloodletting blade? The bloodletting blade? The bloodletting blade. We're supposed to refer to it as the BB. The BB. Do we have the BB? Where's the BB? The thing we discussed? I'm going to say, what is this? Why would you do this to us, Mace? Mace. Are your notes anything important there? It's just my notes of no. Okay, I just want to make sure. Oh, you shut up. Oh, I know what's happening. It's 300 things. It's literally the walking end. It's 300 things. You spin around looking up this alleyway towards the door out, and as the large blast doors that previously were locked in the shutdown sequencing, however it was functioning, seemingly that discordant fiend was somehow latently powering the facility, and when you defeated it, when you killed it, it triggered a reboot, refreshing the auxiliary power, and releasing the emergency lock. So what you're saying is this Rex's fault? As the blast doors have opened, starting to pour out some from lock sections, almost everyone that stumbles out are these shambling horrors of sallow skin, deep, dead set eyes. You see now the talonsfolk. You see them in front of you. About at a quick count, a hundred creatures stand between you and the only way out of you. Between us and the way out. So where are we in relation to them? You can kind of... where are your talons? They're there, there, there, and there's Ravi slash Rites. Mace, did you ever play Shadow over Gontzmouth? Yeah. Oh, that's weird for me. Oh, fuck. Oh, yeah, just push them that way. Um... Oh, man. As one of the blast doors open, you see the sign behind it, Read Quarantine. As the talonsfolk previously affected, pour out. And the full weight of the words, I am become death. I am sorry, written on Dr. Jodo's lab, now illuminates his true meeting. As the walking undead stand before you. The most horrific thing about it all is you feel the weight of this place as the doors are slamming open, as the sirens are going off, but even in the noise, you can tell that not a faint whisper of sound comes off a single piece of cloth that's moving around them, as this shambling horde moves out completely silent. Holy shit. Are we maintaining the original initiative? Yeah, perfect. Um... I'm gonna do one that's... Should we go that way? We gotta get through them? Yeah, we're gonna have to get through them. So, just punch. All we have to do is, you know, not die. Why? Why do you do this? 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Uh, your blasts rain through and you'll find that as they hit the first one you aim at, they pierce through cutting it in half and hit probably two more behind it as you drop three in front of you. I'm basically walking slowly ahead as I'm firing off these blasts. I have one focus point left. I've let three attacks go. That's my whole fucking turn. I'm just gonna try to keep pepper in these things. Uh, how close am I? I'm technically on Co's back. Uh, you're what? Let's say you're here. Okay, over here in a 20 foot cube, I think it's a 20 foot cube. 45 feet. 15 foot cube for these guys. That's three by three. So I wanna get as many as I can. I can, it's a 60 foot range. They'd be... But I'm going towards the back. Yeah, I don't know. I mean... Like these ones. I'll do these ones. Yeah, so I'm gonna, I'm gonna cast, I'm gonna use my hollow show. And I'm gonna cast silent image without it being concentration. Nice. And it's going to create the image of a person there, a healthy, alive person. Yes! That I'm hoping will draw their attention. Absolutely. Uh, good fucking call. Did you move, by the way? Did you wanna use any more? I just kind of like moved forward. I was just walking forward slowly. That'll work. You summon this healthy, alive person, this complete hollow, uh, representation of it. Uh, and several of the gathered, uh, husks that now surround this thing, the townspeople. It can't make noise, but I'm gonna, I'm gonna have it, like it, I think it can... They start to dance. They start to dance. Um, and you can condense whatever that section is. You can basically condense it on this side. Yeah, and I'm gonna have it, um, like, drop to the ground as if it's being consumed. And I'm just gonna see if they're stupid enough to fall for it for a long period of time. How big is it? It's 15, uh, 15 foot... All right, all right. Well, we, yeah. Do we know if they eat flesh, zombie style? Uh, I have no idea, but I'm, I'm, I'm thinking of it, if they're coming for us, they're gonna come for anything alive. Uh, you've battled, uh, this silent once before, and then in an attempt to consume your flesh, but... Arrested. ...sever your harmony. They tried to eat my colors. Well, one of the, um, but these are like, those were def, those were like, looking upon, looking upon this, that was a completely different breed of the silent. Yeah. These are like, these are falling over. Pike shot one shot and tore through four of them. Oh, the other ones were a lot more durable. They were, they were a lot tougher. They were beefy. Yeah. They were scary. You definitely get the sense that, you know, I mean, it was a style of like, barrel through them. That's fine for sure. Um, but you, you, like bashing them around. Just fucking tear everything apart. Yeah, you would find, fucking ruin. And then, uh, as a bonus action, I would, I would give, um, was, was Rhett the furthest one out? Yeah. I would give you a part of the inspiration. Well, no, no, no, I, I, at the time I wouldn't have been. Yeah, you wouldn't have been. Who was? Pike would have been. Okay, then Pike gets it. Sweet. I'm just gonna try to time that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we gotta pick a place. I am, I run for it. I'm with you, Pike! Uh, I'm gonna very quickly, um, the gun will go, doot, doot, doot, doot. As I cast magic missiles. Um, and I'm gonna shoot four different ones. Nice. Uh, and they're each, they automatically hit, I think. Yeah. So one takes, um, two force damage. If they hit, you do not have to roll the damage. Oh, just kill four. So, uh, I'll shoot some of these guys at one, two, three. Uh, I guess, yeah, the range is what? Uh, 120 feet. You have to be able to see them. So grab the ones in the middle. My kingdom for fireball. I would, I would want to shoot the ones like furthest away, but I can still see like one, two, three. Um, and then, uh, that's gonna be my turn. I want to save my, yeah. I will immediately run up. I will join, uh, am I here? Yeah. Uh, five, one. I think I can get right next to Rhett here. And I am going to engage the, uh, the hottest of scripts. Uh, I am going to, uh, cast Shatter, which is a 10 foot radius sphere, uh, doing 3d8 thunder damage. Uh, that's a pretty large sphere, is my understanding. 10 foot radius sphere. Yes. Uh, that's fine. That's fine, but I'm going to refactor it. I'm going to use my feature and ability to turn into a 30 foot cone. And that's going to look like something like this. I think I can hit a huge chunk of these people on this side. Uh, so starting from here, uh, one, two, three, four out. I think that I can hit all of these in this order. Nice! If I just crush all of them. Thank God for Wizards, folks. Then I would, then I would destroy all of them. Can you get the thought zooming that they are actually, uh, It's all these here that he's bringing to a cone. Yeah. And he's going up this way. Wow. Let's fucking go. And does it automatically do damage? Uh, they, uh, presumably they would need to make a, uh, Constitution saving throw. So you could do it for the group or you could do it for 14 people. Negative three. We're fucking golden. Uh, these guys are like wet tissue paper. Uh, I, uh, type in a few things and you just, you just see them dissolve into zeros and ones. Right? Uh, there, there, there's a sound, there's a, there's an explosion, but I, I am just typing furiously. That's the end of my turn. Done. Uh, I'll say, hold on, pigs. We're going to go right to the exit and I'm going to just use my, uh, action to dash. Uh, so one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12. And that'll be the opportunity attack for number six. That's my turn. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's the next sound. That's very funny. Uh, 15 hit. Uh, 15 hit misses. Okay. He swipes at you as you, as you crash. I am just sprinting. I don't have my club. I'm just bolting. Uh. Ah! I hope he gets lost. Uh, Rex is going to dash forward after co- um, dashing, uh, basically, uh, 12 units of movement. Uh, how are we going to do that far? We'll take him. He can just get there. Um, uh, that's funny. Right next to that house. Um, and then, let's reset. I'm just going to say, kind of, do what it is. Oh, yeah. Oh, well, yeah, I don't, I don't know if those guys, those were the ones that I had charmed. Oh. So I don't, it's up to you whether you think they're, they're still. Oh, no, no, no, no. Definitely they would be. Um, it's just a matter of, Oh, we see those guys. Um, you guys, it's cool. It's been seven and a half minutes. Oh. Wham. Wham. Wham. Oh. Wham. Wham. Um. Who's that? This will be on co. And then. Rex is Rex. Yeah, Rex is in the co- Oh, shame if Rex got ripped to shreds. got ripped to shreds. It's so sad. There's an 18 hit. 18 does have a hit. Okay, so you will take two hits. You take eight points of bludgeoning damage, and you know intrinsically that you cannot recover that damage currently. Okay. Like, I run out, I move up. I can't really see what's going on here. I move up as far as I can, and as much as I hate to do it, I'm gonna basically shoot through these guys and save Rex's ass. I'll use my last focus point to roll and make three attacks. The low on those, oh that's a natty one, so two of them will hit, one will miss. You have a bardic, well natty one doesn't matter. Yeah, unfortunately. Even with a natty one, what is your hit? Oh, well in that case, it would be an eight, and then I could bardic inspiration. Natural one's always missed though, no matter what. Oh yeah, that's like the rule. Okay, okay, yep, and then misses. So two of the laser blasts, again, if I can catch more than one guy with one laser blast, then I would try to do that. Yeah, so if you can kind of wind them up, I would generally say that those guys are going to wind and I could this one and Rex is fine. I save Rex's life much to my chagrin. You're firing radiant damage, right? Oh yeah, it's like tearing through. Yeah, okay, all right, I clear the way for Rex. That's my turn. I don't really have anything that I can do. I am just going to, oh shit, I'm gonna start with the one that's in front of me. That would be a 14 to hit. 14 hits? Perfect, it's death. Yeah, perfect. Nice shot, Picks. I don't do AoE. Do they have turns? When would they? I just took it after Rex. At the very end. Okay, Ziggy, go. I took their turn basically at the end. So I did what, one, two, three, four, five, six. All right Ziggy, patch me up. Now's the time. I'm gonna cast Tosh's costed brew, hoping that you change it to a cone instead of a line, as the liquid ether shoots through. If you can't do that, it's still gonna be a five foot line. So I don't know if you have your reaction, if you have that feature left. I used my reaction to do the cone on my turn. Oh, that's a reaction? Yeah. I'll still do... Oh, change your own thing to a cone. Yeah, yeah. So the line is still gonna be able to hit like all these guys. Yeah, I mean you're sick of fucking mom. Change. I would love to. 90% of them. They need to make a deck save. Save being what it is. Turn. They fail. So at the beginning of the turn, they'll all die. They're like, you're fucking gone. Okay. What, and you, who did you hit? I mean, I was just trusted it's all the giant claw. Basically it's like this line. Everything is different. Everything is kind of like by the holiday. It's the only thing that'll leave a couple of them. It's the only thing that'll leave a couple of them. These guys will all die. So do all of those. Ziggy. Okay. I get my reaction back. I'm gonna race forward. Can you move me six squares forward? I How are how are Cohen pixel-looking? Not good. Oh Shit really? Let's do it anyway Don't I want to that's the nightmare We're in a timer Derek. I know and that means that I'm going to cast a magic missile at second level Can I just clear out a path in front of here? Oh, yeah, yeah, I just need to get rid of so how many bolts is that for four? Four four three four. That's beautiful. Maybe this one here. Yeah, cuz it's there. Yeah. Oh shit Oh, we're like here. Yep. Also auto hit the auto kill. Yep tethers of Code magic appear and slam into these beasts. They immediately evaporate into zeros and ones Cool, uh I'm just gonna book it come on guys hurry up Two just hang on to me pigs Seven eight nine ten eleven twelve I'm just sprinting. I'm trying to get pixel out of there. I don't look back. Mm-hmm. That's my turn Is it great you you race up the stairs you're back in the Lobby as you look at the destruction around you you see the next set of stairs going up leading out The the door still blown open ahead of you now shrouded in darkness Rex He'll just start racing forward stop screaming I saved your ass get out of here He's out the shamblers so they will all melt away in acid, right? Yeah That number two is gone to you You just kind of Shit Yeah, if I'm not 120 feet away those ones on rat might when they start coming this way to like Yeah, sort of shamble. They're not like yeah Rain Harmony or whatever Ziggy and Ziggy 15 no right And oh 17 that'll hit right that does hit Ziggy Five points sorry Three points of bludgeoning damage and you know that you can't recover that health intrinsically okay, I'm Red I've got at least like one two four five on me What's your tell me or you see it's 18? One will hit unless you do anything. No, I'm taking up. Okay, I'm HP. I've not been hit yet Eight points of bludgeoning damage and you know that you can't heal that health Quite I'm gonna take two shots. I'm out of focus points But one of those shots is about to strike like six of these kids I got another 90 one, but the other one is gonna be a 19 to hit As I just fucking absolutely obliterate this entire line of these guys. Yep. Hell. Yeah, thanks You're your radiant blasts a Searing through them as you see almost like these holes getting blown between them and the town's folk of cinemas Springs Falling as the as the the Salo flesh of these things just kind of burst everywhere Ziggy you watch like how to slide to a stop standing next to you to get between You and the other silent that are moving forward go get out of here now Thanks. I'm on my way picks is out Rhett. Oh I would run up and I'll take two opportunity tags if they care as I'll spin my Cannon up and I'm gonna use my disruptor beam to disintegrate them that is Ten foot wide 30 foot cone. They're all done Because they take half damage on a fail and they're gonna basically fall apart there. Yeah, they're just there they're Matter just evaporates. I did I moved one And a half two and a half three half four and a half five and a half. That's as far as I can go Zee oh those bonus action. Oh dash You're out Ziggie Dan said they can take Opportunity to take a regular react. They don't special reactions. Just they can't take Okay, these games just kind of take that good misses perfect Um Zee more blasts of hyper grid energy hit three of them as I cast mid. No, no, you know what fuck it I'm gonna dash. Yeah Ziggie's out. I'm out. You're out Those couple will just come towards pike and What's the speed Oh 20 I'm a liar. Oh these guys can't reach them. Yeah, so these four Was your AC pike 19 This no fat chance. I'm close that chance. Um, I just kind of dance out of the way And taking as many opportunities I need I basically am like I Don't I don't have time for this and I'm just gonna I'm gonna bonus action dash away And I'll take as many opportunity tax I have to as I continue to just kind of like Deathly dance out of the way. You can't touch you. Yeah, it's easy for you Their movements are almost in slow motion to you as you find it almost laughable To move between them as you race out of here and I run up behind my friends You all burst out into the lobby up the stairs And you crest once more into the fresh air that Putrid stench of the basement Still hanging in your nostrils It's night when you finally exit the horrific research facility the bus you took to get here still sitting Parked outside the entrance the previously quiet environment is now filled with the rumbling of earth shaking of leaves Shaking of leaves and snapping of branches as you pile into the vehicle you finally see what has been approaching You see shapes and silhouettes past the tree line many of them Absolutely huge as they draw closer. You see dozens of huge chimeric Abominations lurching and lumbering towards you every single one of them is dead Even worse among them are numerous mortal beings of various species throughout the galaxy All of which are lifeless as the rest despite shambling before you much like the townsfolk You are faced with What now basically the Scientists that were not sacrificed that may have escaped in the end at the head you recognize a face The desiccated visage of dr. Roa Zampan Oh, no bad you used throughout this investigation is among the legion of dead marching towards you. I Would fire the engine up Hit my foot on the gas You're not being gentle anymore the bus rumbles and Trashes through the trees Roll a roll of vehicles handling check for me, okay? As the bus clatters across the ground the terrible most horrific portion of it is you hear the You hear the crashing of tree you hear the snapping of branch as these horrible nightmare monsters Dog you're every step summoned by the siren of this place, but they themselves evoke no sounds Though the forest around them is now cacophonous in the destruction of its woodlands can think of something about I have given you Bartek inspiration, yeah, well, it's up to the DM Could I'm like when we jumped in seeing all this happen like I think you definitely make that Yeah, absolutely, is there a specific skill Check that I'm making with this or is it decks? Is it intelligence is my technology skill? I would say I'd say technology I mean Yeah, technology. I think you're totally fine Yeah, I think for now that makes sense so that's a 10 and if you inspired me, I did yes, okay? Is there all the natural one? Oh, but it's plus nine we roll the van and die But there's I know there's mishap tables that exist we roll the van and get eaten by the The bus bursts through this 10 minutes my head ride up this Dirt road to the nightmare lab that now pulls away in your rear view You turn a 10 minute ride into four as you're racing down this path In some moments you're begging the bus to keep up with your command as you're hoping you can just skirt these trees and not crash Every now and again you end up missing by just a hair as a Bark strips off the trees you scrape past it bursting out off the road you crash now in the Cinnabar Springs The the bus tears through the town as you turn up the the road towards the landing pad Hold on to your butts the creatures now charging out of The the creatures now Charging out of the woods behind you pull you see those chimeric undead abominations dogging doggedly pursuing your step as they as they hunger for the only forms of life Left remaining for miles around The the bus Brashes forward as you see the the ground pulling lower and lower you see the Rhapsody pull into view The Bay comes down as the bus drives forward I'm gonna go literally just try to go right up the ramp to the hanger The hanger ramp the bus catching air as you as you Not this mirror And then Pixel's been playing highway to the danger zone the song at the end of the original Halo plays as the As the The bus leaps through the air crashes in its kids show to stop Crashing into the other side of the Bay As you find yourself back in the back in the Rhapsody once more I'm gonna run to the wall hit the buttons and that the front hanger The doors slide up and close and I'm gonna sprint as fast as I can at the bridge You see this behind you you see this black feathered body almost erupting from at these horrid bat wings as this Vipers this long slithering Vipers head rears up from this giant creature Soaring towards you It's it's it's it's leathery scaly skin. It's lost of color And scales falling off its body as it falls from sight as the Bay closes up I came up with Rhett and as soon as he reaches his console I reach mine I will run the same scripts that I've run before and you will experience the function paths giving no one Before you need to nice if you need to pilot we got this thing. Let's get the fuck out That throttle grab the yoke and I will Take us out the Rhapsody drops into the into the lower orbit The the flying Chimera creatures Begin to give chase but they just can't keep up once you kick in the ones the true engines kick online As the Rhapsody passes over Cinnabar Springs as you do a quick pull To pull off into space the previously empty town is filled with numerous undead creatures God former former inhabitants wander their old streets and nightmarish Monstrosity stomp slither and lurch through the town as they seek to consume the life essence and the harmony They have been robbed of all you can do is watch the ruins of a once peaceful yet Vibrant town as you pierce through the atmosphere We actually fucking survived Well, we got what we needed for now we we we we got all of it can we promise never to go back Not only can we promise never to go back to that place ever again, but we shouldn't make sure that nobody ever ever ever goes back to that place ever again I don't know what the fuck they're gonna do You see the size of those things just start over what are you gonna do it out like that? That's crazy I'm tired other people from the town over to Think everybody on that on that entire planet. I've never seen anything like that before You're fucking complicit asshole, I don't care that you got a lucky shot. I wasn't complicit in that Totally different, you know that you are what they call a fucking useful idiot. You know that Fuck the useful is optional Sure enough useful for his fucking schemes. I Have a question for either you or you or both of you Is the colloquial term like demons and hell a thing in this galaxy? Not like game Yeah, I think for now demons and hell yeah are fine fiends demons. Yeah So discordant Like yeah, what the fuck was that are you saying that was a fucking demon from hell? More or less, yeah Hi, I hate the inconvenience you buddy, but you got me I got you and the packs getting a little thin as I hand over another cigarette to a picture happily I take a draw and I We got to do something with this evidence the only people that can do anything about even potentially taking that planet back or the capital on Empire and Contains all the important information that we need to use to screw over the dawn It incriminates him and specifically ties him with all the events that happened on that planet We better do it. We better hope that the Empire gives a shit. Well, I oh, oh, oh one thing hold on All right, you got another 24 hours buddy. Oh That's a great idea, but I can broadcast there's nothing worse than a reputation ruined on the hyper grid I could put it out there I don't see how they survived that do you think anyone's gonna look at that though? Oh, yeah No, people people monitor this stuff all the time. I'm just gonna go head over to info spheres They'd say that truth is stored in the spheres You know pike if I keep this up my voice is gonna have a gravel like Miley Skyris I like that. I love Miley Skyris. Don't fucking tell anybody. She's got a great voice. She really does. Okay. I Need a fucking beer. I'm gonna go to the hell hole And to our fridge what beers I'll open it Harmonica starts playing on the jukebox Loans of Playing you know pike I could use a cigarette too. I got you You're running low, yeah Don't worry, I got you I'll hit a button and in the side console Always keep a spare pipe pack for pike. I'll pull it out. You'll see on the front. It says flamingo slims Sure, of course you can yearned it. Thank you stop smoking Everybody's smoking now. What is this you bratty bastard? You should have wasted a perfectly good cigarette Okay, I'm gonna start smoking I haven't had a cigarette Since I was 15 And if my pop was alive today, he would fucking kill me Just give me one of those I toss you the whole Pack with the last cigarette in it before he gave me the refresh like throw you the remainder of the pack dad It's only one and I'll uh, oh I say light me It's only cuz we don't have any fucking beer But do we have any of that cryptid energy Now they split the last one well that was sex but yeah, we haven't had a cryptid in a while I'm gonna do whatever I need to do in order to now that we have signal again presumably I can broadcast the Evidence of all the stuff if I package that up. Can I just send that out into the universe as a like You you would know what you basically yeah, yeah, we're gonna we're gonna remove our identities you You have the capacity to effectively leak it to the dark web. Oh Yeah It's done there I did it May I ask what name you signed it under? Oh Do we talk while you think yeah, okay? I'll I'm gonna go to the couch and kind of slump back Guys we we killed the demon Yeah, I got a question well yeah, I killed a demon You have the fuck up Rex. Okay? Feel like everybody's missing the the real takeaway here. It's the Rex Maxim killed a demon. Okay, Park take his gun away Maybe this isn't the time but I walk over and basically just rip it off And I toss it to you Maybe this isn't the time but should someone go check on shit mouth shit Oh my god, I never checked up on his head. I forgot Seven hours past You discover that he died from internal bleeding Oh So we're chilling on the couch I'm gonna I'm gonna look at The gang the four of us that are still sitting there. We're all we're smoking a cigarette I'm gonna look at every moment. I say Look Coffini the discordant Even in my old life that was way above my pay grade. I Don't know fucking thing about your old life bike We're gonna have a long talk sometime, but I don't think tonight is the night I Thought you had a fucking desk job and Ophelia was the office siren Either you're a fucking liar. I'm a dumbass or something in between office siren Look I'm setting a course to the nearest guild outpost so we can turn these pirates in and we can Buy some goddamn whiskey and everything else we need God's knows we need it I'd like to mention this I fully intended to I would say that The the desk of dr. Jodo when you investigated it had a bottle of whiskey that had about a third left If you think I think you definitely would have checked the drawers and you I think in Rhett's headspace at the time he wouldn't give in a fuck Sort of put it out there. I appreciate there's the version of reality where maybe you took a swing in the moment But not take it with you. Yeah, I Yeah, you hear be I n O be why tee bethth I know bite I know I Gareththth Nice punch Nice, so cute You punch this zip drive into the dark web, and you seal it in such a way that it has to be hacked to open. And it's difficult enough that anyone who comes across it would know that you're an extremely serious player in the environment. I create just the right amount of friction to add realism and just and earn the files so that they feel correct. Correct. You do that. We move forward just a couple hours. You've leaked the information. It has been discovered a breaking news alert flashes across the screen. Several hours forward from the events of you leaking the data. So we get short rest is what you're saying. As the international news network news desk appears on screen, an anchor in a tailored suit stares at the camera and delivers a report as a ticker of galactic stories run along the bottom of the screen. Turn it up, turn it up. Yeah, I got it. I got it. I'm standing watching this. Intergalactic news network, right? That's what I'm saying. Intergalactic news network. Yeah, he's an international. Oh, Intergalactic News Network, excuse me. Intergalactic News Network. Developing story footage has been posted to the hyper grid showcasing damning evidence that prominent multi industry businessman, Nido Controto, has been directly involved and responsible for horrific experiments and an unauthorized lab on the planet, SILF. Details are still developing, but there seem to be numerous victims and broader plans to introduce untested and harmful pharmaceuticals into the market, including the recently unveiled Rubedo. The following footage is disturbing and viewer discretion is advised. Footage from Dr. Jodo's tape and evidence that Ziggy recorded flash across the screen as the voiceover continues. When pressed for comment, a spokesperson from Chimera Bionetics stated that it seems to be the lone responsibility of a renegade doctor named Dr. Heinzel Jodo in a secret partnership with Controto. The healthcare company has disavowed Joto and Controto and has pledged to conduct an internal investigation to ensure that any potential collaborators are brought to justice. In response to rumors circulating on the hyper grid that Nido Controto had connections to the government of the Cavallon Empire, a representative from the Imperial Department of Ethics has made an official statement that these are simply rumors and that there is no evidence for such a claim. In the same statement they pledged to bring Controto to justice, his heavily fortified mention has been searched by Imperial agents and no sign of the businessman or his wife have been found. The couple remain at large and the hunt continues. The news report fades out with minor details on the news story, but it seems as if your plan to completely isolate Don Nido Controto has been successful. Chimera claims no wrongdoing disavowing Controto and Joto and a claim to do to have an internal investigation underway. Cavallon disavows any connection saying that such a thing is consulted with C Theory and false. The Don's mansion searched and he was not found. He has clearly fled. You know, all things considered, we did alright. Yeah we did, we did good. The Don's week. Now's our chance. He found the run. I think we actually won. We actually did it. We did it. Could I have one of those cigarettes? This is not my fucking cigarette. I thought you had the pack. You grabbed the pack and stomped it. No, there's a fresh pack somewhere. No, he gave you the fresh pack and you gave it back. No, no, I have the fresh pack. I gave the last one. There's only one. You want a cigarette? I'll give you a cigarette. I stand up, I walk a few steps towards you, I point at the floor where you threw a disjoint. Get on the floor and smoke that one, dumbass. Yeah, I just thought I'd try. I just thought I'd try. You know, you know, I'm not good for you. It's not good. Yeah, I was gonna throw out the second cigarette. No, you shouldn't. It was all a ploy. Look, he was trying to do the right thing. I shouldn't. I quit this habit fucking decades ago. I need to have a respectable habit like beer. I started this habit just a couple of hours ago. Just give him one. No, no, he even said it was a poison. No, I'm gonna destroy it. I don't want a cigarette. Everyone needs to stop smoking. You've done drugs. Yeah. And wait, hold on. What? I'll be right back. All right. I rushed to the storage unit in the hallway outside the storage room. I passed the drum of blue and I go to the storage unit and I like go behind the flight simulator that's installed. And it's been locked in this position where it's constantly doing this nonstop without. I haven't said anything about this, but it's wasting a ton of energy. I wrote the drum boxes and I will return. And I'm holding a bottle of liquor that says Southward ease. And thank you. I totally forgot about this. When I was cleaning up quibbly stuff, I found this and fucking it's disgusting. But that's very in a pinch. I think it'll do. What do you think? Any spaceport in an aether storm. All right, let's fucking go. All right. And I five glasses of basically Southern comfort. He said five. I think you miscounted there. I don't want to raise any alarms. I think Lady Luck might actually be on this jackass side. Lady Luck is always on my side. I tell you what, you pour me a glass and I'll give you something that you're replaceable. Here. All right. Okay. I propose a toast to the people of Cinnabar Springs and to dearest Portia Bella. May we never experience her fucking wrath. I'll drink to that. Cheers. Cheers. Quibbly was a sick foot. Wait, do we know where the fucking Don, if the Don and his wife are gone? I can't believe I'm going to say this, but I think I know what to do. What? I don't know what it is. Something about me killing a demon. Are you guys with her? Yeah. For the first moment, I taste a real sense of freedom here. I've been under the thumb of the Don for so long, you've done, you got them on the back foot on the run. I didn't think that was possible. That's right. Well, guess what? I used to fucking not try this place that they had on the lake all the time. Wait, like a vacation home? Like a vacation home. Like a super secret vacation home that they're probably at right now running from the law? It's kind of like a normal secret vacation home, but yeah, exactly. If they're on the run, they're there. All right. What world is it on? If you're right, then you earned that drink. What world is it on, you say? He recites it perfectly and never falls asleep. He tells you exactly. Yeah, we can always follow up. Oh my gosh, I've been there so many times. I know all about or nothing about that. I'm gonna start worrying about it. I can't believe how many times I've been to Celadonia. What is it? Celadonia. Celadonia? I can see it through the fucking thing. It's a loss. There's an etherstone going on. That's cool. And if that happens, we're sorry. Goodbye. So we're going to fucking Celadonia next. Huh. Well, you help us get there. You help us get in. We either bag or kill the fucking Don. Take down the scarlet eye. You're off the fucking hook. We bag him. We need the notes. Can we stop by Medium Mall on the way? I got a guy there that can hook me up, you know what I mean? Well, look. Plus I need new heels. Once we turn in those fucking pirates, then we'll all get our share. Not you. You had nothing to fucking do with it. Yeah, come on, even. You took 50 fucking shots in 12 seconds and one of them magically happened to land. And they had nothing to do with the fucking jaws of pirates, all right? Firstly, it was 18 seconds, okay? 50, I mean, just check the math on that. 50 and 18 seconds, that's a wild amount of shots. That's a regular amount of shots. How many eggs did she make? That's what I'm saying. He wasn't bound by action economy like a restaurant. Somehow he transcended space and time for a period of 12 seconds. He's just that lucky. I bet you have the nickname Hair Trigger, you weak bitch. Oh, no, he's got an erection again, Carl. Fuck! It's so obvious. Why do I keep doing that? What is up with you in these accidental erections? Oh, I hate to say it, everybody. This was a purposeful erection. Oh, I hate to say it. You don't seem like you hate it. Also, I'm spent. It's been a heck of a day. Yeah, we all live on the side of the room too. I think it's bedtime. Fuck, I'm exhausted. So just take me to the honeymooner suite. Are you gonna cuddle with shitmouth shitjaws? Oh, in the brig? Are you done with your drink? Yeah. That's done. Take him to the brig. No, no, no, no. Wait, wait, wait. We've got another quarter. Just tie him up inside the flight simulator. He's not gonna be able to get out. He doesn't have to spend his night with the captain sawdust and the piece of shit? Yes, he does. No, no, he won't be able to get out of there. Will he? No. We're putting him in the goddamn brig. The flight simulator is punishment enough. I don't know what you're talking about. Wait, is it supposed to do that? No, no, no, it's broken. I can't fix it. I've tried everything. It's crazy. I install the driver and then I go back to the settings and the settings aren't right. Why is it plugged in still? Well, I thought I'd be able to get him to go out. Oh, please, take me to the brig. I can't listen anymore. Hold on, hold on. Okay, all right, I stop. We do have a third option, all right? There is the spare crew quarters. There's a bed in there. And I can make sure that the doors lock from the outside. You gotta be kidding me. You put Hank on guard duty? Is he a good guard dog? He can keep an eye out. And he won't be able to get out either way. Only if you don't leave him in there with the 45 gallons of lube. I think we can do that. 45 gallons of lube? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I decrease it by five gallons every time I mention it. Fine, I'll get the hand truck. I mean, that's at least four hours of fun. Oh, I knew you guys would come around. To the other crew quarters. Look, it's still basically jail, all right? It's just a little more comfortable. Are we putting him in the slime room? Oh, no, no, that's your room. Oh, yeah, I love that slime. Well, no, the slimes cleaned up, all right? Oh, it's not. Wait, who was in the spore room? Nobody. That you? Yeah. Oh, you're in the spore room? Yeah, I'm in the spore room. You're in the slime room. Oh, yeah, I like that slime. I need to fucking sleep. Howdy Bunny and I are gonna, now with this new context, reread those love letters, have a good laugh about it, and I'm gonna pass the fuck out. Good night, everyone. Good fucking work. We killed the demon. Good fucking work. Let's take him to his room, let's do it. Yeah, come on Rex. How unfair is it that he gets the clean room and you got a spore room and I got a slime room? Nobody's talking to you. I slept a lot in the fucking gutter. It's all the same to me. I mean, I like this slime. I'm just thinking about it. Whoa. It's all the same to me. I can fall asleep anywhere. Can I have another shot of this? Yes, Lanny. Hey, Cole. Thank you. It's really gross. Mycealy rum. Is that what that is? Yeah. Yeah, thanks. Hey, uh, Pike. Yeah. Can you, uh, can you give me like six or seven extra pillows? I really like to cocoon myself. No. And I kind of like roughly like wrap my shoulder. Oh, not the balloon. And like pull him towards me and like kind of shut my head towards the room. Keep walking, jackass. You have a steamer in the room, I trust. No. Ah. Prisoner again. Oh, wait. As we're walking, as he passed the storage room, I was like, give me a second. I run in there and I unplug the fucking plate. I don't know where you come up with this stuff. I don't know where you come up with this stuff. You are bored. Every session. Every session. Can we take him to the, to the, to the, to the space? Can we lock him in from the outside? Uh, you do so. Joss him into the room. You lock the door. I'll hit something on the like outdoor panel or whatever and make sure that it's sealed. You have, you have controlled. Yeah. You can, you can lock the door should you choose to do so from a side that he would not be able to unlock the door if you designed it. Right. Um, you lock him in. Uh, and you all with the events of the horrible events of the day now behind you, you all turn into sleep. I think Pike and I would share one final drink of south. Yeah, we would suffer through one more glass together. On the bridge, maybe, you know, it's one part in my C. Lee rum and nine parts sugar. And it's just like, we just fucking, we tolerate it and we probably killed the whole bottle. You do so. Yeah. Um, you have that, that moment on the bridge. Uh, you, you don't enjoy it when you spend the time and you don't enjoy the drink, but you enjoy the company. Yeah. Um, everyone else settles in for the night. I would before going to my room because our rooms are next to each other. Oh, would it be okay for? No. I was going to ask. Yeah, pigs. You want to have a sleepover? You know what? No, it's fine. I'm all right. It was a, it was a rough, it was a weird night. Are you sure? Pigs. Yeah, just, I'm feeling, I'm just not, I'm feeling out of sorts, but we did good, right? We did good, pigs. Yeah, you look tired. I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to talk to my digi diary for like four, five hours and then go to sleep. Okay, I want to talk to Howdy Bunny for four or five seconds. Yeah. And then go to sleep. Okay. And then we'll get beer tomorrow and then we'll get your drugs, I guess. But if you get really scared, that would be great. But if you get really scared, I'm going to leave my dorm unlocked, okay? Thanks, pigs. You're welcome. Thanks. I may take you up on it. Okay. And I do have a lot of pillows because I like to sleep in a cocoon. And then I'm going to prance into the room. You can always invite Rex. Ew. I'm going to shut the door. Night, pigs. Good night, Co. Shark Channel. And you all settle in for the night. Pixel. You dream. Oh, I thought I was listening to this music. You're back in that familiar office on the top floor of the Glitz Room. The central desk is covered in a mountain of glimmer, the top of which sits a bulky gold communicator. You hear it crackling with a voice, that familiar voice you know so well. It is garbled and staticky, but you recognize Gromulous J. Weedlebox. Call your name. Pixie Nest. Pixie Baby. Pixel. You dive into the glimmer and attempt to climb up the mountain of it. But like sand, you sink into it and slide down. The more you try and scramble up the glittery prismatic hill of powder, the further the golden communicator gets. Soon, it is hundreds of feet above you. And you can only hear Weedlebox's distant cries until you hear nothing at all. You are carried away in a tidal wave of glimmer and spill out in your old room. Every inch of it is filled with colorful clothes, electronics, toys, posters, albums, and other items of luxury that you had gotten so accustomed to. And there is something out of place. On the wall is a gaudy oil painting that you might find in an old hunting lodge or the VIP room of a racetrack. On a tropical beach is a large, proud perico, a creature native to Cherix that has elements of a sea turtle, parrot, and monkey. It has a gaudy golden saddle and bridle with a lead in the hand of Gromulous J. Weedlebox. However, he looks different. Instead of his familiar orange skin, he's a deep purple. His eyes are bulging and nearly popping out of his skull. Bloody foam runs down his large double chin, and the hand holding the lead is missing its ring finger. He stares at you blankly with the look of death until he erupts into darkness. You are among the shadows. You try to sing to the shadows. They do not respond. You dance with the shadows. They slither around you like grave lumps. The wriggling mass of darkness takes form into the shape of a man with discs of crimson for eyes. The only light comes from your soul. It's misty green hue that of your neon skin. The watcher in the darkness inhales and drinks deep as your inner song, your inner fire, and your inner essence is consumed and snuffed out as those terrible scarlet circles crackle like garish suns. Yet you feel no pain, only the cold. And then a familiar voice whispers in your mind, the voice of the being you know only as the viceroy, the thing that tried to devour you once before. You will sing for me. And your song will be a dirge, a dirge of ash, a dirge of cold, a dirge of the long night. And that is where we'll end the session. Let's fucking go. Well done. Great fucking sessions. Thanks for running the session, man. Appreciate it. Ah, what a day.