Legends of Avantris

Beneath Dark Wings | Ep. 74 | Bargains and Broken Things: Part 2

206 min
Feb 3, 20263 months ago
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Summary

In this D&D campaign episode, the party ventures through multiple layers of the Abyss to collect body parts of the demon lord Ravanovia, negotiating with various Obyrith lords including Obox-ob, Pale Night, and Kibiri. The episode culminates in a vision showing a catastrophic bird plague sweeping across Avantris as an eclipse darkens the sky, with the successful reconstruction of Ravanovia leading to her defeat by an unknown force.

Insights
  • Strategic alliance-building with powerful entities requires careful negotiation and understanding of their individual motivations and grievances
  • Magical consequences can be unpredictable and dangerous—summoning a duplicate through song magic resulted in the duplicate's immediate destruction and vengeful curse
  • Divination magic reveals that external threats (the bird plague) may be more immediately dangerous than the party's primary objective
  • Sacrifice and loss are recurring themes in demon-pact narratives, with each transaction carrying unforeseen costs
Trends
Narrative complexity in tabletop RPGs increasingly involves multi-layered antagonists with conflicting goals rather than unified evil forcesPlayer agency in high-stakes campaigns creates emergent storytelling where unintended consequences reshape campaign arcsApocalyptic imagery (eclipses, plagues) serves as narrative escalation in fantasy campaigns to raise stakes beyond individual encountersPact-based magic systems introduce moral ambiguity and long-term consequences that extend beyond immediate mechanical benefits
Topics
Demon Lord Negotiation and Pact-MakingAbyssal Layer Navigation and Environmental HazardsMagical Duplication and Unintended ConsequencesDivination Magic and Future SightSacrifice Mechanics in High-Level D&DMulti-Party Antagonist DynamicsCharm and Mind Control ResistanceResurrection and Body Part Collection QuestsApocalyptic Prophecy and Campaign EscalationPatron-Vessel Relationships in Warlock Pacts
Quotes
"You are Lord of life. Do not taunt me in my own domain."
Obox-ob (speaking through Caprice)Mid-episode negotiation
"If your vessel will deliver the case of death, we have an agreement."
Obox-obPact negotiation
"I curse you! I curse you! I curse you!"
Caprice's Simulacrum (duplicate)Post-summoning destruction
"What do you wish to see?"
Kibiri, the Watching MasterDivination sequence
Full Transcript
Hey man, welcome to Legends of Eventress, I'm ToaKomaNui and you're listening to Bonifarq Wings. Felix, at this point that you realize in your studies that the bit of Aubuck's ob that you had not been warned about these flesh pillars, you had not been warned about his playing the Blood Shallows, but just these are the demons, the echolids. That these minions of the one known as Aubuck's ob, the Prince of Vermin, they descend upon you and the droning is utterly cofidence. It is now Lufti's turn. Seeing Toa drop down and seeing these insects above me, I would hop over him in a protective stance and ready my spoon for if one of these insects were to dive and try to attack him. Cool. No. Nice. Very nice. I'm just trying to get something. Dramatic music. Dramatic music. Okay, let's get some crotch. Mmm. I'm loving my life over here. Chocolate covered coffee beans, like a hot tea and a big tea cup. Let's work for like a creepy young swamp temple. Sure. Yeah. Okay, you were writing your action to attack. To, yeah, to attack anything that might be swooping down to her toe up. Okay, Caprice, you're off as these things are buzzing. You see the strange, the triple skull is kind of fused together as you see now they have these strange proboscis where a tongue would be. Caprice, you're off. I will step forward one square and I will. Oh, geez, my fiddle's all fucked up. Hold on. Who did this? Who did this? And I'm trying to match the sound of the buzzing, that pulsing, thumbing, thumbing that's happening. The buzzing all around us. I match it and I amplify it and focusing that magical musical energy. I create a sound here that hopefully is sort of like the antithesis of the buzz for the insects. I can cast a synaptic static. Damn. Five, ten, fifteen, twenty. How many are there? Basically everyone except for six and nine and one. I think I can hit all of these with a 20 foot circle. Here. Radius, yeah. Yeah. Two. What's this at? The DC is Intelligence 18. Nice. Nine on two, ten on three, three on four. Is five in it? Everyone except for six and nine. Yes, five. Eight out of five and one. I skip one. Yeah. And one. Four on seven. One on eight. Five on ten. Holy shit. They will take the full amount of eleven, fifteen, sixteen, twenty-two, twenty-seven, thirty-one, thirty-five. They will take thirty-five points of psychic damage and they have to subtract a d6 from your attack rolls and ability checks and Constitution saving throws to maintain concentration moving forward and they can repeat their intelligence savings at the end of each of their turns. Golly let out this coughiness droning that pierces through. It actually drowns out their own horrible droning. As you see is as this ignorant pouring out of the eye sockets of these strange skull-like heads as the ant scorpion fly like bodies are kind of gyrating but then they are redouble their efforts as they take in good amount of damage. They take the full damage from the sun. I'll kneel down and I will grab a toes back. Are you unconscious? Yeah. I'm going to shake you and be like Toa come on get your ship together we might be pregnant. And I'm going to give you inspiration. That's very fine. That's the end of my turn. Which ones did you hit? All but one. Everything in one, nine and six. Wow. Okay. Okay. So here's a d12 for that. Oh I would love to take that as a reminder. Would you like to use some aux? Aux? Yeah I've got a bunch of that. Oh I should probably find some sort of token. If you want the aux. Oh here dude all your beans. Come on on the d12. Take the bean of inspiration and I'll take my d12 back. I feel like I should eat that. You need something bigger though. I feel like it would be crumbly. Yeah and a new jack. Do you want me to use my glow forge to cut you out some wooden music notes? That would be fucking perfect. You have a glow forge? Man. That stuff is so cool. That's really cool. I bought everybody an inspiration token years ago. They're all probably going now. I have mine but it's in my dice bag. Mine's also in my dice bag. Mine's 5 feet from us. That's for me. Felix roll. Oh yeah. Okay. I'm going to cast fireball. So the question is I'm going to figure out the best way to get all of these guys. I'm thinking like that everybody but three is pretty close or I can try to do. So you're going to get all of the blood? Yeah three maybe. It depends on if I go this direction. It's going to be three basically no matter what. If you can turn it you can get nice. If you can cover at least half of their square it counts as them being in. Yeah. Yeah but you can get a little. It's pretty close. Push it that way just a little bit more. It's pretty close. It's pretty close. Alright that's good. That's good. Okay. I am holding the dagger in my left hand as it begins to glow with this arcane magic and this light blue magic quickly becomes a brilliant fire red as I snap my finger across my body and a small orange orb shoots forth until it's at the center of this room and then all of these bugs are absolutely engulfed in a massive amount of flame. Anybody who's close to me looks at my face can actually see that I'm being my skin on my face is turning red and being singed and you can't see but under my gloves my hands are being burnt as I am overcharging the spell at a fourth level to do 59 points of damage to anybody who fails the dexterity saving throw of 18. Oh you don't even roll. 18. No it's max damage. That's fucking awesome. I'm going to take 40-12 damage. Okay. I'm going to roll. Oh wait how many which numbers? I'll just roll down the line. Which ones? Nine. Which ones? Everybody but four and one. Okay. So take 11 points of damage. The dex you said? Nice. So it's plus five. Yeah dex 18. Seven on two. Seven on two that's a fail. 15 on three. Fail. That's a fail. Natural one on four. Fail. Five is a natural one. You got to be kidding me. You're rolling my fucking hot guard. Is six in it? Is six in it? It's all but one in four. So six is in it. Six. Six succeeds. Okay. That's a 21. Yeah that's a point. It's 18. Seven gets fails. Eight fails. Nine fails. And ten is done. Fireball. Fireball. Okay. One in four is not it. Oh my god. Ten is done. Six succeeded. So they all take 59 points of damage. That would be 30. I love it. Okay. The fireball. 59, half of that is 30. As you see the flames erupt and they are buzzing. As their demonic flesh, they take a good amount of damage. But they seem the demonic flesh seems to kind of seep in too. And they are resisting some of that damage. As they burst. If it's fire resistance, I have. You and I are elemental master? Yes. Uh oh. You. So I have elemental adapt fire. Spells ignore resistance to fire damage. Oh no. And but I took 19 points of damage to do this. You see this flame and necrotic take over a part of Felix's face as I win and let this fly. You ignite and even though they are buzzing. And there are some to be some sort of sentience as they are stunned as they are letting others as two, three, five, seven, eight and ten are incinerated. Two, three, five, seven, eight and ten. That makes sense. Wow. Wow. I'm gonna die here. That's my turn. And I rapidly running out of spells lots. Uh, okay. Well that was. I'm just gonna do. Maybe every spell fly count. Um, and so with that one, there are only four left. Yep, four left. I should just tell us like these down the dirt here. Yeah. They can easily get to everyone with their fly. So. No they can't Mike. You don't know. They can fly now. They fly now. They fly now. As everyone but Caprice, they're gonna go swarmed down. Would you say that these are, uh, that you could classify one of these as a fly with the buzz? Yes, there's a fly. Yeah, all of them are fly with the buzz. Okay, great. And also a scorpion with a buzz and a ant with a buzz. What does that mean? Are they swooping down to attack? They are swooping down so you can go and make your own. Yes, as they swoop down, I will, uh, ready myself and I will. You're attacking the ones going after Tau? Yes, so I will, uh, begin to spin my, my brewer spoon around in the air and as they come down, I will make a spoon attack on both one and. You can only use it for one attack when it's a reaction. Oh. Can I, and I can't use a key point for Flurry. It's just one attack. Okay. Then I will attack, uh, I don't know if that one was six or nine. It's one is the one attacking Tau. Oh, one is the one. But you also mean attack six if you like. Okay, I'll attack one. I'll attack one. They're both flying in. Okay, so I will make a, um, speed attack on the, uh, 20. Yeah, 30. You smack it with your spoon. 30. Uh, and a D8. And that is the first time that I've hit them, I think. Yes. Do I have the, I have the thingies? You have the zappies. The zappies. Hey, look at that. Almost max. Um, eight plus three Thunder damage. Eight plus three. So 11, uh, 11 points of damage. Add your, add your decks. Yes. Plus five decks, right? Oh, I'm sorry. Yes. Thank you. Um, 13, so 13 regular, um, punchy, punchy punchy damage and three Thunder. Okay. 16 total. Got it. Thank you. You smack into it and it continues to go in. As they all run the golfing drone, everyone needs to make a con saving throw as they're starting with the drone. This is where I'm test. Just kidding. I rolled a natural 19 for twice. What the ass? I have, I have, you're kind of plus seven. Eight. Um, income. Yeah. Are you a proficient? I'm resilient. Resilient company. 14. Oh, well you're already unconscious. Oh my God. Oh yeah. I'm going to spend a key point to, um, plus here's the problem. I've already lost this. I took a fee every single opportunity I could. I didn't take any resilience. We think a 13 would fail. It makes you proficient or 12. Probably. Okay. I'm going to use a key point to use my diamond soul and reroll my saving. I took infernal constitution. Do we think a 16 would fail? It's close. I don't know. Should I use the, I'm going to use the, I'm going to use the, Oh absolutely. You'll lose it if you don't, right? Yeah. That makes it an 18. 18 passes. Perfect. I got a 21. 21 passes. Toes are already unconscious. 23. 23. You all pass. None of you, uh, none of you, uh, fall unconscious as the, but the all fly in as they are going to, uh, they open their, uh, mouths and this horrible proboscis has come out of the three combined jaws as they're going to be attacked on, uh, on each of you. I believe a lift is a disadvantage. Correct. Yeah. And I'm a fan. You have your own. Oh, yeah. Um, disadvantage on, uh, I'm going to do the proboscis on, on a Toa. Advantage. Or vanished. Uh, oh no way. Seven plus 13. This is, I'm rolling the absolute ass. It's a believe their queens. I wouldn't, it wouldn't be believe their queens. Right. And then I'm going to get the virus. Oh, that's a regular. I'm just going to roll. I got nine. On Felix. That misses. Holy shit. 13. 13. Um, and then their stingers swoop down as they are the segmented old scorpion. And they are. And they each make. I'm going to get six sting attacks. And you have dreads. Don't forget. Yeah. Why would you do that? I'm going to use four dreads to reroll all of those. Oh, the proboscis. Yep. Okay. Felix misses. Thank God. Toa. That's going to hit. I'm going to get Perg and on anyway. That's going to hit Toa. Okay. Yeah. That's going to hit Iris. Perg and on. Uh, Lufty does an 11 hit. No. Okay. So, uh, proboscis attacks on both Iris and Toa. I've used four twists. Four dreads. Four dreads. And you have at least like seven or eight. Um, two, three, four. I have four left. That sounds right. I have four left. That sounds very good. Um, and so, uh, they are, uh, is the proboscis that is going to be, I'm going to roll a bit of damage. And I didn't rage. We're having a Jenner. Okay. Uh, six. Eight piercing damage and. Eight piercing damage and. Is that for both of us? Oh yeah. I'm just rolling the question. Eight piercing damage and, uh, uh, 15 Necrotic damage. Double for Toa. Oh. Is it a crit? Right. Oh no. Uh, it is a crit, isn't it? So eight is also double, isn't it? Yes. Damn. And your max HP is reduced by, uh, yes. By that. Oh good. That's good. Um, and then. Both of our, both of ours are. Yes. By the whole amount. And was it. Oh no, the Necrotic, sorry. Which was. Necrotic. Necrotic wall. 15, because I took 30. So mine's reduced by. Was 15. Yeah. So my E is now off and I do negative 10. Okay. Um, and now we have, um, we have a six stinger attacks on each person. Uh, so I'm going to do, it just, it's just straight on, uh, Iris, right? So all around one, two, three, four, five. Each gets six. Six. Yeah. That's just. What the fuck? He's, he's rolling 24 attacks. 16, 14, 20. 20 hits. 21. That hits. Uh, 14. Misses. Natural 20. That hits. Okay. You're a great player. I know. I'm keeping track for you. So that is. But I want to keep my reaction in case something like that happens to one of you. Yes, sir. Okay. You thought pretty party. Five. No, it's hard. Yes, I'm like. I'm pretty party. Nine points of piercing damage. Okay. And for all the attacks, I need, uh, for all the attacks and I need you to make a constitution saving throw. Just one. Uh, actually three. Dude, I thought it was 1d6 for me. I'm going to roll the, uh, the one that was called. What's wrong? Um, 20 on top. One passes. Then I got a 16 and an eight. Uh, both, uh, you feel as the stinger goes in, you feel something enter your bloodstream. Uh, as you. 20 hits for me. Congratulations. You're bugging natural 20. Oh, you see Gregman. Yeah. I don't understand it. I don't get the wise. What's great. What's a gene? Because that's how it was. Um, four of them hit. Oh, four of them hit and that's skull crits, right? Yes. I didn't do it. Pregante and Pergant. There's a. Six, uh, seven, uh, eight points. So 16 points of piercing damage. Okay. And, uh, four, uh, four constitution, uh, saving thrills. And then on lofty disadvantage, right? Cause you still hit me. Mass, uh, does an 18 hit. Nope. Okay. Three. A 20. Yes. Okay. And now you're. So now it's regular. Yes. So that was three. One, two, three. Uh, so three hit you total. Uh, and so I'm going to roll damage real quick. Uh, you need three constitution saving throws. Seven, eight points of piercing damage to you. What's as an 18 18 you pass all the fun. You are able to resist that. Uh, lifting. Uh, and then, uh, on Felix, we have your district, right? Yeah. 19 hits, uh, 23 hits, 24 hits, uh, mess. Well, what is it? Uh, 13 that misses. And then national 16. Uh, no, it's not. Okay. Regular hits. So, uh, that is just three hits. Four regular hits. Four regular hits. Okay. I need four constaving throws from you. Okay. I forgot that you can do six. I missed that. Yeah. That's a fact. It's 14 too low. Did I need any new constaving throw? No. Oh yeah, you need to make three. Three. Okay. Is 15, no, then I'm good. My loss was a 14. Okay. You take. Nine points of piercing damage. Oh, Jesus. Okay. So that one passed. Now you're fucked. You got double fragment. Well, I can spend key points. No, you're pregnant. For saving throws? Yeah. That was turn hits and a misses. Oh. For saving throws. Okay. It might be. It might be. It's my diamond solo. I believe you. I believe you. Okay. So eight and five is 13. And would you say 14? 14 passed. 14 passed. I don't know what the DC is though. I'll bet you it's 13. 13 fails. 13 is the DC. Okay. So this one passes. I'm going to spend a key point to re-roll this one. Okay. Oh, I see what you're doing. And I pass that one. Okay. Nice. I'm just saying, if you didn't know the feature was, I apologize. As you see these things, you are so grateful that so many of them had been killed. As you see the horrible droning and the angst and the danger of these things, they are swarming on top of you. With that, it is Toa's turn. You were unconscious. Re-roll, constipation saving, third form. Oh. Do you want to spend it to get you up? I can get you out of danger if you don't get up, but like we need you to swing. And I have a plus nine. I'm going to do it at the start of your turn. I'm going to do it at the start of your turn. Because you passed the last one. Natural 20. Bingo. You managed to get up. Because of natural 20, you get up and you get your turn. Oh my God. I leave up and let's say if Lifty's like there and I'm here. Are you okay, Toa? I think so. Oh my God. Don't get knocked up. I just be very overwhelmed. I will bonus reaction range. Not come out. I'll sort of squat down with my leg spread and my tattoos will glow as I just go in for a double attack to make it easy. Double attack. And recklessly of course. Obviously. I don't know what the AC is. Let me see here. Oh shit, that's my bank app. That's very funny. Actions, yeah. That is a plus 12. So it is five plus 12 is 17 net. That's true. Okay. So two attacks. And then that's one, two, three, four. We roll all three of these ones. Thank you. Feet. That's much better. 11, 12, 15, 16, 17. We're going to be at the bottom of your legs. Jesus Christ. It's pretty weird now. 22 plus 17 is. Probuscus in my butt hole. 39 points of damage to number one. Okay. Is it killing? It does not. No, then let me just double check to see if you're. One didn't take too much damage. It's not prog. It's not possible. That's my turn. It's looking rough as you smash, smash, smash. The other sicking crack as these horrible abomination demons. It is Iris's turn. I'm going to glow with a golden radiant light as I use, as I harness my divine power. And as a bonus action, I'm going to regain a third level spell slot. Okay. Okay. We kill the power of an illness from a broken end. And as Iris's eyes glow, she's just all over glowing in general. It begins to swirl into sand as I cast an aura. I'm going to cast. I cast aura of vitality on myself. So I take that spell slot away and now it's gone again. And it's an aura around me for 30 feet. Last for a minute. And I can do something with it next turn. So that's my turn. What does it do? I can heal. Oh cool. As a bonus action. Got it. You feel this, the warm sands that radiate around you as Iris commands the power of an illness. Lift your up. Can I ask a clarifying question? Yes. When I hold my action, so you said that I can only take one action on a held action. Basically if you do a held action and then use a reaction, even if it's a multi, if you have a multi attack, it's just one of those multi attacks when it's a reaction. So that's a trade off. So you don't get your full attack action. Okay. Okay. That's good to know. Are they still, have they flown back up or are they still hovering down? No, they're all on your face. They're buzzing around you. Okay. If you're anything, they're trying to slam them in the face. Yes, I am going to begin to spin the spoon and just double attack on two, six or nine, whichever one's in front of me. I can't tell. Okay. And then. Six is in front of you. Six is in front of you. Yes. So I'll make two spoon attack. Oops. That should hit. 26 and 23. Yep, that hits. All right. That was terrible. Uftah. Uftah. So that's nine and, there we go. Okay. Nine and 14 is what? Worst of her. 19 and 14 is 23. 23. Okay. So 23 damage to number six. Six. Yeah, you smash, smash and it's, it's a carapace is cracking. It's looking rough, but it's still live. And then I'm going to follow that up with two. I'll take my elbows and jab into one and then kick it. Okay. With two on our arms. Flurry. Flurry. Flurry. You got it, fella. Nice. Yeah, 27 and 26. And where'd they go? Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo. So that's nine and 12 is, 23. I can't math. Nine and 12. 21. 21. 21. What's the damage? You in a smack, smack. You smash it and smash it. You snap one of its fly like wings off and then you crash it. The three skulls crash and it collapses to the ground. Six is dead. Okay. Okay. With that is Karista. Is any of them looking particularly weak? What can you do? It's 10. One is looking weaker. Nine is a damage. Four is mid. One is weak. Okay. I will look at four and I'll sing as I continue to strum and do what I do on my fiddle. Path is hard. I knew a party that once, that wallops and flies, I know fucking why they wallop those flies. Perhaps they'll die. They need to make a, I'm doing vicious mockery, make a wisdom saving throw. Wisdom saving throw. Four. 16. That fails. I will do six, eight points of psychic damage and it has disadvantage on the next attack roll. On one? For the number four. Number four. Okay. I'm going for the one near Iris. And I'll turn to Felix. Strengthen up, brother. Just do whatever you can to make sure that you don't get the, uh, vibration. One d12? Yeah. Beautiful. Oh. Okay. He's, he's a very good guy. Yeah. With that, one, let's do a, uh, two, three, four. Uh, the moment that these attacks come in and I'm getting punctured and I don't feel like I've gotten any kind of like, you know, permanent thing inside of me. Uh, the, the, I'll hold up the dagger and it will glow and as a bonus action, I will blink 30 feet away as I cast Misty Step. I'm 10, 15, 20, 30. Okay. And as I land, I whip around snapping my fingers again, uh, casting the cantrip firebolt as I launch one at number one to save my friend, uh, uh, dumb. So I will roll a d20 to see if I hit this. Oh, that's a 19 plus 12. That is a zillion to hit, which is going to be 3d10. Oh, wow. Uh, fire damage. Four, uh, eight, five. Uh, I believe as an optional rule, I can use, uh, inspiration to add to my damage. Correct. Yes. I'm going to attach that. That's not optional. It's, it's just the rule. That's how that works. Uh, so that's going to be eight plus eight is 16 plus five is 21 points of fire damage to number one. They do not resist it. It blasts into it and you see that it hollows out a hole through very similar to what they do to the, their surroundings. It bores a hole to this bug and it collapses to the ground. I got you, Tom. Thanks, Felix. Uh, and with that, that's my turn. It's the start of their turn. Um, and Iris, you feel something grow and explode inside of you. No. It's a grub emerges from the air and starts to gnaw inside of you. You're going to take, uh, seven piercing damage and I need to be able to see if it gets deeper into you. God. And I don't feel so well. This is a nightmare. Caprice. Yeah. I would really like to have a bowl of ice cream and some pickles. Oh, but I just break your neck. Jesus, you're fucking Christ. Well, what, what am I rolling? Concentration. He's like, um, Probuscus misses. 15. 15. Oh, God. That succeeds. It does not get deeper. Uh, and while it's in you, you have a disadvantage on attacks, ability tax and saves until the end of, uh, until the next turn. Okay. Um, with that, uh, however, it gets a 15 to hit you with the proboscis. Uh, no. 15. Okay. Missed with the proboscis. And now we have, uh, I'm going to roll the disadvantage was on lifting until I hit. Miss. Oh, so now that they've been pregnated me, they can't. What? Can't get pregnant twice. You can't get double pregnant? I guess. Uh, 19. That hits. That hits. Okay. So now, uh, those were two. So I'm going to roll four on lifting. That hits. That's going to be a 20 to 20 hit. Yeah. Does a 19 hit. Okay. So, uh, so you're going to take 24 cons. I need four cons. Maybe throws one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do. 10 points of piercing damage to you. Okay. I'm probably going to roll that one. Yeah. Uh, that's a 21 and 18. Yeah. Everything except for the one. Okay. So, uh, three passes and I'm going to spend a key point for my diamond soul. Re-roll. Roll up for Iris. Nice. Roll like a diamond. Re-roll like a diamond. Natural one. This feels natural. It's 15. Feeling good on a Wednesday. For Iris, my wife. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 19 hits. For what? For the, for the stinger. Oh yeah, 19. 19, 19, uh, 21. That hits. And 16. Misses. What was the damage? 10 points of piercing damage. 10. And if you got under 13, every time you got under 13, you get active. Yeah, I did the cons, but I didn't take it. So then two attacks in Iris of the stinger. You take seven points and you get two cons saving throws. Little thing you got time for little babies. And those are at disadvantage because of that. Yes. The egg. Um, con. Okay, so that fails. Oh, they both died. Okay. You feel two more eggs enter you. Oh, you can't get pregnant twice. This is so fun. Holy shit, Iris. Why, why don't you know how to not get pregnant like Lusty? Just look into that point that shit. I feel full. You just got, you just got just a digit to con. All right, I'm going to be sick. Tell her you're up. I'm going to cast parvo myself. Cross-experts. I can't see better myself. I'm going to get two OS too. Yeah. Iris. Cats have litters. That's exactly right. And I'm going to take my, my totem and I'm just going to smash them twice. I thought you were going to hit me. Yeah, I think instead of just killing Iris, I'm going to swipe it off of her. Let's do two attacks. Those both hit. I'm hoping that this thing dies. Oh my God. Nice. That's pretty good. I rewrote both of these fucking go. I'm saying a little better. 12, 30, 25, 16, 17, 17 plus 22 is what? 39? 39, yeah. Points of damage number four. You smash it. Hammer and hammer and explodes into bits and pieces. As that same kind of guy that was in the squad. I got scared of that. And because I killed it, I'm going to walk up to this one and as a bonus action, I'll do one more attack. Nine is undamaged. Got it. Well, I'm still going to attack it. You know what? I didn't reckless those, but that's fine. I reckless this one and I probably miss surprising. 15, 16. I have a three. Then you're fine. Okay. I guess I barely hit. Holy shit. And then I'll do two of these colors and I rewrote the one. So one five, six, six plus 11 is 17 points of bludgeoning damage on nine. You smashed into it and it cracks. And I'm going to check for a wind fury proc. Like I'm in fucking Warsaw and Gulch in 2004. Let's go. Fail. That's exciting. A two. Fail. Well, fail. Okay. You feel now two eggs and one burrowing grub is getting bigger. The year was too fast. I'm going to use my bonus action to heal myself with my aura of vitality. How does everyone else feel? Just take care of yourself. You've got stuff, stuff inside you. I can feel it. Do you want me to end it? Engorge and kill me. I can polymorph the grub into a whale. I will look at you. Her face sad. Kill me. All right. And then I will think of it. I will also use a second level spell spell slot and cure wounds myself. Okay. And that'll be my turn. Reroll three. As you have healed yourself, you are closing up your wounds. And there's less room. Oh. But those are all a disadvantage because it hasn't been their turn yet. Grub inside of you. Yeah. You don't have to do what I'm saying. There's a grub inside of you. Get it all out now. I expect to never have the first one. The first one fails with an F or one of natural three. Okay. I'm still there. And the second one will pass, I think, with a 19. Okay. I can feel one of the eggs being dispelled by the magic. Oh. All right. You're okay? No, it's a little less tight. What? I think one of them popped. I hate you so much. I'm so upset right now. Look at your... I'm gonna... I can't believe you've done this to my friend. And I will viciously smack the one in front of me, making two spoon attacks down upon its nastiness. 22 and a... Gotta give it up. Gotta give it up. Oh my God. Gotta give it up. Oh, Rich, do you want to check on the food? I've been checking. Yeah, they eat something. They eat food. I remember they get here early. I know, but I've got a text. Okay. Mama. Where is my food? I'm gonna roll this twice for the crit. I want a pizza so bad. Yeah. Because of my... I would have killed for the pizza that... Wait, do you double the crit or do you roll twice as many days? I'll double the dice. Okay, so 10... 17 plus 12... Hold on, I can't do math when... 17 plus 12. Somebody just do it for me. 29. Plus... 7 plus 6. 13 plus 29. Yes. 33, 32. 42. 42. Okay, 42 damage. That's a senior problem. 2 number whatever wins left. It's looking rough as you hear the crashing of the carrot piss. It is closing now. Okay. The stingers didn't want you to come back again. And I will spend a key point to make a flurry of blows. Okay. It's looking rough. 23 and 17. It's... I can't do something like this. Okay, that's 16 plus 12. 28. Thank you. My brain is just not functional today. 28. I'm against. Oh, I want to... So after I've made my spoon attacks, I will just frustrated, drop my spoon. I drop my spoon on the ground and punch up and then punch my arm all the way through. It's like thick, nasty... Thorax. Thorax. Thank you. Bug body. You do. And you smash an explosion... Like a patriota. Into a viscera. Thank you. As you see, however, that there is still a grub infecting Iris. There's a grub and an egg. And an egg, exactly. Oh, God. So we can still keep you around if there's anything that Phelous wants to do. We'll keep initiative. As you annihilate this bug, it falls to pieces. Can I do something? I can breathe. Yeah, you're up. Sorry. Yeah, I can breathe this first. Hey, are you okay? Can I help? It's okay. Look, I move aside part of my robe and there's like this egg orb there and it's just like pulsing. Look. Is it disgusting? I'm gonna be okay. It's horrible. Oh, God. Iris wants a touch. Listen to my voice. Don't focus on it. I don't want to. God, your hands are so hairy and you're not even at the back. They're not hairy. What? Come. Come. What? That doesn't even happen. What? You know how it happens. I only use mate hand for that. For all of you guys that get carried, for all of you guys that get carried, she feels like oooooh. You know what? I want to be a part of this. I want to be a part of this. I want to be a part of this. I want to be a part of this. I want to be a part of this. I want to be a part of this. I want to be a part of this. You know what? I was going to help you and now I pass my turn. No, I'll sing a sweet song. I will lean in and... You're going to get me triple pregnant. No, they're not. No, they're not. Just listen to me. Okay? I'm going to strengthen you up. All right? All right. She knows how precious life and death and life is. Sacred dogma written on papyrus. Oh, this is a smile. That's why I love my sister Iris. Oh, God. And I will cast Enhanceability, giving you advantage on constitution checks and gaining you 2d6 temporary hit points. Oh, thank you. That was so sweet. I'll shave your palms for you if you'd like. And they don't need shaving. This is just blood markship. Now let's feel his strength. I rush over to Iris. The spell magic has a range of 120 feet, but for flavor, I get a touch range. And I attempt to dispel these much like I did the other bugs. I'm just adding my plus five, right? That's right. That's right. This is at a level three if it matters. Okay. Just so you know. Felix, before you do this. Yeah? If they kill me, protect them for me. No, no, no, no. Oh, friends. Of course. Flash magic. We see it. This works. Yeah. Dirty twins. Okay. Yeah, exactly. Iris, what do you feel is very uncomfortable, but eventually you hear a dead grub and the egg kind of explode. Another slide. And quiet turns. Except for rather not quiet. The droning is still horrifically all around you. But you see now that there are these bugs in various states of incubation all throughout these, these pillars rising up. And you see kind of the, the, all of the weird kind of flesh coating this a stone hole into the ground is kind of shaking and rattling. Oh God. Now what? Where do we go from here? Are we sure they're all gone? No. They're going to be more incest any second. Let's deal with that when we have to deal with that. Look around for a disembodied part of some sort. Everyone check a corner. I guess we could check this. It's probably down in that gigantic pit. Yeah, there's a pit. Oh, it would be in the pit, wouldn't it? Yeah, this is the pits. The only way forward. I'll go to the edge and look over the side and see what I can see down there. Is anyone wounded? I'm okay. Surprisingly all right. I'm going to be that, but I'm okay. Chawa. Yes. Come sit with me for a while in this bloody goo. Oh, okay. I'll sit down. Okay, I'll come over here and sit together. And I still have my aura of vitality, so I have five more charges of it so I can heal as needed. How rough are you? I have out of 181 hit points, I have 106. Okay. He'd be that guy, but we do have to know when eight hours passes. Yes. Because we will lose maximum HP. That's right. Oh, I hate to be the home one. You're so good. Yeah, I think we're still good too, but I'm just reminding you that eventually it will. I think you're still good. Be up. I'm going to be. Oh, wow. 10. 10. And four. Four things. Thank you, Arsh. That's very pleasant. Your help is the least I can do. And yes, to answer chat, that was Sabrina Carpenter. Thank you. Well, I don't know the meaning of the word. What do you guys see? Yeah, what do we see, Mike? Wow, look at this pit. I reference home alone too. And I look down and I go, wow, what a hole. I want to use the book. You got that reference? He's a perception. Yeah. Are you sure? Yeah. 15. That's a good. You're looking too. He's a still lucky. He's got tons of points. You got it. Okay. You look down there and you see that it's stone. This is a ruined chamber down beneath the earth. You see the wet walls of the swamp kind of sliding through the cracks in the stone. These high pillars growing up along. But you see that it goes down for probably about 50 feet and then continues deeper into darkness as you kind of see the pulsing and the shaking of these hives. And are there any, it's just a straight fall. There's no like outcrop, like bloody outcrops. You, I think there are definitely, yeah, there are stones rough. It's earth. You would be able to scale it down. Okay. That's what, yeah, that's what I'm getting at. If I had to just jump, trust fall into the pit early. Looks like that we might have to go down into the, oh my God. There's a, oh, there's a bath. There's a bath. I got him. Don't do that to me. Sorry. That was just, it's just very scary. Anyways, it looks like we might have to go down in the pit. Yeah, I think we're going to have to. Bexha, you agree, yeah? Before I jump into the fucking hole. Animal handling check and advantage. Batatouille. Batatouille, Batatouille me. Oh, I'm a mother of my parents. Honest. Do you need help getting up? Yes. I'm not terrible. Let's go. Don't roll me. Roll the other one. Push back over to the darker one. He bites you again. Damn it. With all this mention of Batatouille, I'm sad that I canceled battle three. That's very funny. I think that's all right. Well, as all right as one can be when they were recently triple pregnant. That's pretty dramatic. I hate to admit it, Felix, and don't say this anywhere where lufti can hear. I wasn't even sure how one got pregnant. I will never let lufti know that you told me that. I can't believe that that's how people have spawned. They get bugs in from the pits of this place. When you're really unlucky, yeah. That's how you were born, Felix. That's what they say. It's awful sweet. It's not fun. It's not fun. We shouldn't think about it any longer. Lufti always said making babies was fun, but having babies wasn't. I don't see how any of this could be fun. All of that checks out. Is that what she does when she sneaks out at night? I couldn't even begin to guess. We should join our friends at the edge of the forest. So many from boss guy. It's too many. It's just too many of them. Too many of them. It's frightening and horrific. Cranking me. Never tell her. She doing rich. What are you doing? I'm trying to get it off camera. Oh. He's like Ouija Boarding. What are you doing? There are encounters with closed kind. I'm trying to make it a mashed potato mountain over here. We join our companions who have been gazing off into the abyss. No pun intended. Wow. Did you see the fleshy pit? From what we can tell, there's a fleshy pit. And? We can see about 50 feet of disgustingness and unknown disgustingness beyond. And I think we do need to go down there. I have a lot of respect for you and the things you have gone through. Thank you. You're so strong. Thank you. That's so nice. You're welcome. Oh. Sweet girl. Oh. I love you. That's so nice. It looks like we can climb down there, you say? It's going to be fleshy and it's going to be pic-ular. But we can go down. What did you say? Pic-ular? You said pic-ular. I don't know. I don't know. I don't want to. I think we have to. I suppose we could all make a suicide pact right now and just die. And then we wouldn't have to do any of this. I cast the ninth level spell, Master Cinegration. What's somebody else doing on that? Surely there's some other party that can be dealing with these problems. We're not uniquely doing this, right? There's someone else in some other layer of the abyss being like, surely there's someone else dealing with these problems. And they're probably, you know what? They're probably the ones who aren't brave enough to go down there. They're the ones who are going to fail. We're going to succeed. Are you ready? Wait, are we killing ourselves? No! No! Forget what I just said. Let's fucking do this. I'm ready to get into the fleshy pit. Me too, Caprice. You can smile at me. I'm with you, Tala. Let's do this. Alright, Caprice. Does it look like we can just jump down? Does it look like we're going to have to climb? I'm going to jump down, not like in, but on the side and start kind of climbing down if I can. I'll jump and slow fall to one of these outcroppings that I can see. I'll attempt to climb. I will cat climb. Ew, so fleshy. It's going to be fun. I'm going to just grab these large polyps. Ew! Ow! It's great speed, boys. It's all buggy. It's all very buggy, like grub. The anus returns. And the droning. You feel as your arms are climbing down. You feel skittering bugs kind of crawl across your hands and brush past your legs and it's gittery and it's awful. And the droning gets so bad as you're descending, I have everyone to give me a competition saving. I would be staying right below Felix. So what a chance it is, Carrie's time share. She's... Carrie! This isn't for modern day life. What a choice. I'm rushing. Jesus. What is this? Con. Con. Con to your time share. 17. 20. 2 and 2 and 5. No! I swear. You're the one who's rolling cold today. 14. It's devastating. Oh, 14's enough. Oh, thank god. Oh, the brooch sure is a four-lotter. No! A sword was way off. That's very funny. He's so important. It's a talking lotter day. Gosh. I didn't know my readers all. You know what I mean. Oh my god. Oh man. What happens to Tela? Oh. What, nightmares? No, sorry. 15 is enough. How was the game understanding the throw? I got 14. 14 is enough. And that fails. Because I've rolled a five three times now. Yeah. Tela. Just a little bit. It's gonna be nothing to laugh at. It doesn't affect you. I can't wait. As you release your grip, as you feel and you fall and fall and fall. I should not have slowed for the game. I have nothing. Pumsimmer starts playing. How, can we see the bottom? No. As Jeremy Irons says. We can see about 50 feet down and then it's just blackness beyond. Do I have the ability to cast? I have a plan. Nope, we're stuck. I have slow fold. Do I feel like I can react fast enough to jump off after Tela? I think make an acrobatics check. Oh shit. And see how, I mean you know, you guys gotta drop. It'll be low DC. I cast slow on Tela. It doesn't do anything. I've been extending the amount of time and fear that he has to experience. Is that what you call a piece of? Acrobatics? Yeah. 17. Dread was a good movie. I basically like nose dive after him. The moment that I feel like I can grab onto him, I wait to see the bottom. And when I'm with the 500 feet I dimension draw is supposed to be the bottom of the pit. Okay, it comes up relatively fast. You go down, it feels like 50 and then another 50. And then at about 200 feet down, you finally see the stone blocks as the buzzing is cacophonous now and you immediately blink with Toa, pulling him, breaking your momentum and landing safely. Oh God. Jesus. Ah! Jump! Jump! And I'm like, not slapping him hard, but I'm like, you know, pat him on the face trying to like, row, step up. I have to check for caprese. My fragile psyche can't take this. Are you slamming down? There goes all my spell slots. Oh no. Thank you, Felix. I'm keeping one silver bullet in my back pocket that I don't want to have to use. Yeah. I'm wrong, I'm wrong, I'm wrong. I'm wrong, I'm wrong, I'm wrong. This is rough. This is brutal. I'm going to... She looks like she's a nail. Take a nap. You can see that I'm definitely like athletic. You look okay. Yeah. But I'm like, can I use acrobatics? I'm sweating and like, I'm running out of stamina. You have circles under your eyes. Yeah, okay. I'm running out of stamina. Are you acrobatically jumping down? Yes. If I acrobatically do it, it's 18. If it's not, then it's 10 and I would like to use a feature. So it's up to you. Whether it would be a strength or a deck. If you are scaling, that'll be athletics. Okay. If you're scaling. I'm scaling. I mean, I'm just climbing down the wall. So it's a 10, which means that I'm going to use one of my bardic inspirations to add a d12 to my own shiz. And I'm feeling very 16 or late. That is enough. As you feel your foot start to... And then you give yourself a little bit of a pup talk internally and you're going to just scale yourself down. Each of your hand holes, there's something crawling underneath it. You feel that the droning is getting cut off. Get over to hell. And you finally... I didn't give a shit. I'm just driving ahead of the fucking... I make my way down with that motivational tune in my mind. Go down. I don't give a shit. You descend and you all land and you see the tunnel going deeper into the earth. And it does not seem to go very far though. As you can see that the walls are starting to close in. As you see this strange hive is grown all around. It's all buzzing. There's tiny insects all over the place. I would have been spending the entire day at this time doing my best to wake up. Did you take damage? No, no, no. Once I reach the bottom, I'll race over. Felix, is he alright? He's out again. He's out cold. I don't know what's going on. It's his place. He just keeps passing out over and over. We need like a third or fourth time. I'm starting to worry that you might have anemia. Yeah. What? Blood level, says Iron. He's passing out. Iron? And anemia, did you say? Yeah. Did he land on his knees when he fell? I don't think so. I think I timed the spell pretty well that we had a pretty soft landing. Oh, alright. What about his knees? I don't know. Why, but why, that specifically? Because Felix said he had anemia. Does anyone have a banana? That's very funny. A little potassium might help toe out. I don't have any bananas. All I have are these potassium supplements. Oh, shucks. I scattered them into the blood. I don't, I don't have a banana, but I have the rotting corpse of one of those grubs that was inside of it. I don't think that's going to help either. Are you sure they could be high in potassium? There's only one way to find out. It certainly could be. I am certainly no grub-neutrologist. Alright, open toe his mouth. Okay. You know, I do not do that. I do not do any of that. Do you think I should heal him? How does he look physically? I'm, I'm over half, for sure. I'm fine, like, physically. He's quite fine, physically. Yeah. I don't, I don't know, I don't know what to do about this. I think he's mentally unweb. It's this place. It's this, it's this, this, this plane. This is, it's, it's affecting us deeply. I mean, we, we have a low constitution today for some reason. Where's Lutty? She's right here. She, she's still like Mary Poppins. Yeah, yeah. I think it's because I watched the ring last night. I matched the little shake and stuff. You watched the what? The ring. I guess we wait until like, wait, was it 10 minutes? 10 minutes. We would just converse amongst ourselves and like, I guess like, I'd be still be trying to wake him up, but like, there's not going to be a speed up the process. I would harness more divine power and give myself another third level spell in the time. That's it. Okay. You all wait until like 10 minutes later, you were just climbing and suddenly feel yourself falling. It's like when you're laying in bed and you, you're suddenly, you're suddenly, you're suddenly, you wake up, you sit, you feel like you're falling. Hey, hey. Oh, are you okay? You're all right. Yes. Maybe we should get you some like ear plugs or something. How do your knees feel? Oh, my knees are okay. I think. I stand up like my leg is like this. Oh, no. You look like a flamingo. That's the wrong way. Where'd the puck go? Oh, I found it. Oh, it's on the back side. Oh, jeez. I hate the session so much. I'm so comfortable. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me. Me? That's���������������� We're on stone and what do we see around us? Did you already say that? Make every step to check an advantage. Okay. I think I have one for perception. I think it's like a 12. It's like I opened my eyes, but not that far. You go down and it feels like the tunnel's getting narrower or it is not long to reach the end of this chamber. Okay. Presumably we don't see any eyeballs or anything floating around us. Okay. Let's keep going. I don't want to be in here any longer than I have to be. Yes, the sooner we can leave, the better. You make your way deeper and the buzzing is so cacophonous, but you've been around it so much, you're finally starting to get some sort of resistance to it. As you make your way deeper and deeper and finally in the darkest depths, the stone, the leaking blood water oozing up through the stone to the wet earth. As it's dripping down on you, the skittering insects are all around you, as you just feel like there's something crawling on you at all times. And finally I see ahead this strange potmore pie and it wraps around and you see an enormous potmore at the end that is larger than, larger than even General Furman had been when he transformed into the battle. Jeez. As you approach, you see something stir within. And suddenly massive millipede-like legs emerge from this huge hole. As you see what looks like almost a humanoid skull, a top millipede with two humanoid skulls underneath it. As this massive abomination skitters out and you see at the end, it has three bulb-like scorpion stingers at the end of its millipede. And from its mouth, a large, it almost is a combination of an esophagus and at the end is a massive blade-like needle. From it, as it looks at you with two glowing pits of eyes in the humanoid skull, as it, as you hear a horrible, shittering voice call out a horrific language that only Felix and Caprice could understand. And he can hear. I can understand it, Tim. What? No way. Yeah. I have tongue of the sun and moon. I understand all spoken languages and any creatures that can understand a language can understand what I said. Yeah. 400 years to be able to learn that and you just, oh, yes, you have to learn this. Also, she's been holding her breath this entire time. It's crazy. Oh, yeah, that's wild. The amongst are fucked up. Okay, well, all right, welcome to the party. I also don't need to eat, so. Someday he'll stop getting old. That's right. But not today. And you see beside a handful of pot marks in the walls, beside, and you see hanging out these small humanoid leg of what looks like a, what did it say? A little bit. Check if you can check out. Oh, we don't have it yet. I check it once with a quarter. We'll make a circle for the check mark. Oh. We found the leg. As it specs in this horrible, shittering voice. Well then I gotta come back here and retcon. And it says, who sakes the true kingdom of demons? This podcast is brought to you by our Patreon. Become a patron today at patreon.com slash legends of Avantres and gain access to tons of exclusive perks, including a monthly movie night and a weekly Patreon exclusive campaign set on the high seas. Shroud over salt marsh. You can also go to thecrookedmoon.com to pick up your own copy of our first published supplement, The Crooked Moon, a folk horror tome for Dungeons and Dragons fifth edition. And don't forget to snag all the extra goodies like dice, miniatures, plushies, a tarot deck, and more. Thank you. You see, after this shittering voice comes out reverberating, the whole millipede like body shakes as do these stingers. They clatter against this strange hive-like structure built into the wall as it just stares at you, waiting. And you see that its tail is slowly moving, almost poised to strike, but it seems curious. I'll leave in Caprice real low as an aside, and in comment I'll say, you gotta talk to it. Don't say his name, and we gotta make it mad at the other guy. Yeah, everybody, this is the big, the big guy. This is Cornon the, just don't, don't say anything. What did you say? Just let him do his thing. Cornon the. I'm sorry, who's Cornon the? Let's do the season, don't say it. Don't say his name. Oh, is this another three times when we summon it kind of thing? You never know. And you see that the eyes of the primary skull of Allbox Orb is staring directly at you, Caprice. And there's a, make an inside check actually. Oh boy. Thanks for playing the game, Derek. We'll see you in the next campaign. You don't know. He knows you, and he knows your soul is marked and owned. With the three heads, he's gonna bite him. 32. 32. You see that there is a sense of quizzicalness and recognition. For sure. Jesus. I will walk forward. And I will. You die instantly. As I am approaching, I'm going to very subtly sort of whistle the tune that I used to pump myself. And I will cast a glibness on myself in doing. Isn't that like a crazy high level? Yes. Yes. In Abyssal, I will look up to the demon prince. Greetings! Myself, Caprice Ode to Cesto. I don't know if you've heard of me. You can call me Caprice. And my companions seek the leg that you are holding. And we are willing to negotiate. How are you, sir? Can I bow? Thank you for saving me, guys. How have we fucking glibness for it? You need a varnish? Or did you just say? It's a three, but because of glibness, I get to treat it like a fifteen. It's actually insane. It's actually insane. A persuasion you say, thirty-one. The lowest-dicken rule is a thirty-one. That's incredible. Amazing. Unless it just doesn't work on D. You see, as you hear that, as the dozens of legs skitter around the ground, and in a shockingly swift motion for how enormous this being is, its skull is directly in front of you. Anachronistically, or rather out of character, it's identical to the code of fate you say. I was about to say code! I love code! Go to my fucking favorite! It is identical to code the face stealer as he leans in this massive skull that's three, four, five times the size of your own. That's the thing. As the tongue that is this tubular esophageal-like tongue slithers around mere inches from your person. And you hear, once again, those words in a bissel. Or rather that language in a bissel. And he says, What is wrong, Lord of Lies? Has your bargain been befouled? And there's a bit of a... As there's a centipede could laugh. You can't do really physical pale at all. What do they say? They said, Nothing is wrong. No, nothing, nothing at all. In fact, everything is very right for the way things are going. We may be able to turn the tide if we work together. Also, can I interest you in an Altoid? May as a session, Shag. And just there, he said, It's a 14, so it's a 31. And I'm just imitating the noises that I hear. Oh yeah, of course. I'm so scared. The Awebox Awe, or perhaps the Avatar of such. You need the sense that it's an incubating chamber. There's kind of like pus oozing out of the side of it. And it's kind of dripping off of this caribass. As the skull gets closer, looming over you. You see Capri's absolutely dwarfed. As there's a moment of a pause. What do you suggest? We are assembling the pieces of the creature, whose leg you possess. And we are rallying, rallying to take down the king. Or the king to be. We just need you to wait for our signal with that leg. Oh, there is much power we could both possess. Make your second turn. 31, with a natural one. Let's see that that is a thing. We're going to hour at least three hours. It lasts for a fucking hour, no concentration. And it's my only eight level spell slot right now. Yeah, that's insane. As the esophageal toad, feeler, spear of this Obereth Lord. Kind of isn't your inches from you? Almost as if it's sensing you. Says you are looking at the king of demons. I think you know that there were others who would. Uh, it's challenge that claim to try to usurp your kingliness. And you propose. That I no longer buy my time. Very foolish Lord of Lies. No, no, no, no, no, no, you're misunderstanding me. I'm saying buy, buy, buy, buy. I I'm here to to just take if you will be kind enough to grant the leg to myself and my four servants. That we would be able to rally our power and then together take down all foes who oppose us together. We would be a strong combo. And immediately the stingers rip the leg out of the hole that is in and scatters across the room and falls at your feet. That means nothing to drink it. That's the trait again. I drink it to you, given your many powers. But for me, an opportunity for me to match and join. And a command. Oh, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. He disgusts me. As it skitters back away. And it slinks towards its towards the incubation pod, so to speak, as it speaks out again in a vessel. Oh, you came all the way to the bloodshed for a leg of a child. If you can understand the value to me is more than you know. Floppy. And you are planning to do what? What collaboration? Very soon. There will be a sign. You will know it when... The one that you might call the angel of four wings. If he should fall, the opportunities would make themselves obvious. I give him a little wink. No longer shall you hide behind this peon. Make a Christmas saving throw. It doesn't matter. Is goodness a sign of saving throws? Nope. Disadvantages? Well, fine. Okay, okay, okay. I'm not gonna get from here, but this is mad as fluff. Dirty twenty. With a nine. Probably not enough, but I feel good about it. We should, we should fix that. You step back and you begin to speak. And you do. But a different voice emerges from your mouth. The nature of my deal that my vessel proposes is the same and more. You are Lord of life. Do not taunt me in my own domain. As you see, these eyes now are glowing pure white. Is this all still in the vessel? Yes. This is so mad. And Caprice is speaking and he's standing completely rigidly and not moving whatsoever besides his jaw. Do I, given that I've seen Asma dance in the flesh, and I've heard what his voice sounds like. I can tell that it's his voice speaking in the vessel. Yes. I still do that. Oh, God, what did they say? Oh, well, you are Grumps Grumps. Grumps? Grumps? The only one here that doesn't speak a bit of soul. I mean, they're just speaking and he's repeating it. Yeah, basically you just need to know that he's calling down. The bargain. Once the obrits descend upon Tazuzu, you lay in wait to not emerge through your portal and win. The queen raises her trident against her king. They will all be destroyed and you will all, you will be all that remains. You continue the blood war, I continue the blood war, peace, never to be acquired. Annihilation, never to be sought. And do not cross me or what will befall the fallen angel. Of the four winds will befall you tenfold. Caprice, I need you to make a persuasion check at the manage. Well done, Caprice. Oh, wow, good job, Derek. That was some brutal shit. That was some brutal shit. Dude. How do you come up with all that on the spot? 35. Oh, God. I did. Yes. Joe19. Yeah. You see as the avatar of Albox kind of snakes back and forth a little bit and returns as the lord of lies speaks through you. And leaves in he says. You'll never convince the queen of chaos to turn on a new king console. She yells. I trust in my servants. They can be more persuasive than you might think. I know there is nothing you want more than the death and destruction and humiliation of the queen. Depose her and you shall be a king once more. Once more. What was robbed of you by the wolf spider. And then by the flock. Who'll be yours once again. And we shall maintain balance and feast upon and endless flood a torrent a deluge of souls. I'm going to go to the van for a reason. God, Derek, you just you're on fire. I know. Unreal. 29 this time. Oh, I'm sorry. That's a possible. Sorry. I can't get lower than 31. Wow. Well done. Gotta give it a really. You know what I've been planning. What is there that I do not know? If your vessel will deliver. The case of death. We have an agreement. Does your vessel have the constitution to survive the transfer? Transfer. There's a pause and you feel like you can speak. Have I been with the scene? Am I following the plot? What? I'm sorry. What? I mean, thanks for giving us a leg up, buddy. Then you accept the gift of all box on. Oh, good grief. Yes, just take the altoi, please. Very well. You don't have time to react as the belated tongue of all box all whips around in pierces Caprice in the abbey. And you see a thickening, a sickening tear. I would immediately hold up my hand so that they like know like it like I understand what's happening and I'm like it's okay. Got it. Is it okay? There's no way we intervene here. Absolutely no way. I would stop trying to stop. My lice is into your abdomen and you feel it wriggling. And. Drop the bike. You suddenly realize that the wound has closed behind you. The entire length of that seems to have borrowed inside of you. You feel it wriggling as the avatar of all box all skitters away. When you say. Send the Queen of Chaos, my God. And skitters back as he goes back into the party here. As the strange pulsing a hive, the opening conceals around him and begins to pulse. Oh, shit. You okay? What happened? Why would you stop us from protecting him from that? Using my superhuman intelligence, I recall the conversation poured forward and tell him everything that's happened. Whoa. It's crazy. I don't think you've done anything. You've done any of you. It's so unfair that all of you speak a bit of English. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's fair that all of you speak a bissel. I don't speak a bissel. What are you talking about? He was trying to translate for me. He was just doing it in a bissel. He was just kind of gargling and spitting all over the place. He sounded exactly like him, though. Yeah. The inflection was wrong. The grammar was all over the place. The words weren't even the right words. Some of them was just gibberish. I need to work on our dialect. We'll work on it. Oh, right. If Caprice can teach me, I can teach you. I thought it was really good, Tower. Guys, I think I'm quadruple pregnant. I don't really know how to go about this, but I guess you don't have any idea what this person who looks over you and speaks through you was talking about. I mean, is this the first you're hearing of any of this? Well, I mean, this is the first I'm hearing about it. But any of this, I make sense that he must look through my eyes. He's perhaps more benevolent than the bitch that owned my soul and my family's soul, but I'm still not free. How do you even deliver this thing when we find you where we're looking for? Do you have a proboscis? You can stick in someone and spittle that thing out into them. Yes, and I'm also quadruple pregnant. That's what I'm talking about, the thing you're pregnant with. How are you going to inject it into this queen? The only way for me to save all of us is for me to lose my virginity. We're not going to do that, please. It's the ultimate bard trope. Guys, are you a virgin? The last 24 hours have been really weird. Wrong novel. Yes, wrong novel. Must become a coming-of-age story for the rest of the world. Thank you so much. Oh yeah, no I knew that. How did you know? We had this conversation. Did you lose this memory in the Forgotten Voice? No, it might have been. Was I drunk at the time? I don't think so. We were eating sandwiches. We love sandwiches. They're so good. I haven't had sandwiches in a long time. Does that mean you can see when you're pooping? Oh, that's disgusting. He knows when I'm sleeping. He knows when I'm awake. That's fine, but when you're pooping? He knows when I'm pooping. Oh, it's okay. He knows when I'm doing weird shit. He says, I'll use your hands. Use your hands. He's a warbook. He's a talent. He's a natural body. Good thing, though. Yeah, everybody poofs. Thank you. Yeah, I think you need this. I pull out a pyre of everybody poops. Everybody poofs. You should read this sometime. Ask Felix to read it to you. It's an ancient sekesh, and I'm sure he knows language. Wolf, do you make it hand-in-hand with a check of the damage? I should use this one. What a hand-in-hand. She's about to get bad at two. Oh, finally. You're looking at 21. Oh, by that. I forgot he was in my head. Suddenly, you see Lufty immediately turn, and as swiftly she starts running away from the chamber. Oh, legs are not her own. Lufty's got a two. There she goes. All right, we need to talk about this. Let's follow Lufty. Okay. Did you make your way to the make-up? That was pretty funny. Come on! No! I thought so. We race after her. Lufty, you feel compelled to scale this. This climb battle. After your experience being in the presence. I didn't have to scale it. You run out of the wall. You feel this, and the drone you've been experiencing, it's almost like you don't hear it. Hearing the voice of Abok Ab has seemingly made you feel completely at peace with this drone. As you are guided towards a small hollow in a chamber where none of the hide has crept in, and it's completely sealed off, and it's completely pitch black. As you wait for your friend. I guess I'll begin the climb and fall six or seven times. Here we go. I start climbing. Athletics check. I'm probably going to unconscious again. No, you're going to be fine. The virus is good. Hopefully we don't hear it. We don't want to hear this anymore, right? None of us hear the drone. You all hear it, but it's not nearly as... We're all good. Yes. Oh, wow. Well, that was due for a bad roll. I got a six for athletics. I fall. Ow. You fall 20 feet. You do. I'll say you're five. You're 10 feet up. You take 10 points of blood and knee damage. I'm going to start climbing again. 12? What? 12? Oh, no, you fall two. You get 30 feet up. I got an eight. But you got a six. Why don't I get more damage? I fall harder. You got a four. You got to fail just the right amount. You failed, right? So now I got an eight. Rolling higher. Nine. I got an eight. Okay. I'm going to do a little blood knee damage. Okay. Felix. 10. No, no, Tories. I can do this. Okay. Six points of blood. I got a four. Ow. Four points of blood. I hope my tentacle baby's okay. I twisted my ankle. I hit it. Are you okay? No, no, no. I can do this. I got this. I got this. Is this how he plays? Natural 20. Let's fucking go. This is how we lose Felix. No, my knee. I twisted my knee. I get okay. I get okay. I twisted my knee. I get up 10 feet and I grab two polyps and then I stretch them back. And then I watch myself on the top of the tent. Have a fucking yard. Fucking yard. I got an 11. 11. You did all the damage for his last four by the way. No, no, he told me. He told me. I got a little bit of blood. I'm taking it. 11 is not enough. 11 is not enough. Oh my God. Eight points of blood genetic. My ass. Are you okay? You are falling and falling and falling. I'm taking it. I'm laying on my coccyx. Felix, just grab two polyps and stretch them out and whip yourself up here. How far? Just back like 10, 50 feet. As soon as you think they're about to snap, just launch yourself. You're either going to smack it in the wall or you're going to make it up here. Oh God. A 19. A slingshot polyps. Yeah. You use slingshot polyps your way. Oh God. You know, kind of a kite-ness bug thing that actually you fall off the bug. You manage to find your footing. You stick your hands in and you're like, you know what? No, no, Mikey. It's a terrible place. I make it up finally. Are you up here? Yes, I was up here right at the... Oh Jesus. Right up in the middle of the... I'm a kitty. I have claws. Oh, that must be very handy. But yes it was. I enjoyed washing my hands. I'm a kitty. I'm a kitty. I'm a kitty. I have claws. I enjoyed washing you four on your ass. It hurt. Felix, I think we ought to do some sort of like... I don't know. I don't know what like athletic training for you. Yeah, well... I mean like... Stare master. We are worried about this when it's all over. Are you okay? Yeah, I'm just a little tired. I could have just carried you through. No, no, I'm tired of... I'm sure somebody had rope. You just have to ask for help. I'm relying on everybody else. I can do it. Okay. I made it. I'm gonna help beneath your fingernails. Yeah. Gross. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. With that, you feel the weight leave your head and immediately... As Escher is standing in the darkness, Keepe and I have to make sure that there are no bugs staying vigilant. And he immediately goes over to you, Caprice. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, this... You are a butcher. And he draws with his finger again a portal and he throws in the leg. Oh, it's just one leg. I'm asking, where's that portal going? The... The anus? The arm. Into a safe pocket dimension. What did she say? Oh, arms. Well, she can hopefully be made whole once we have everything. You have a safe pocket dimension for her? I'm gonna say that. I have a massive portal now. That's the last one. And we had to spend our time in the forgetty void. Thank you. Couldn't we have all spent time in there? Go there now, right? Relax. Get some R and D. R and D. R and P. P. V. R and R. R and R. God. Love you needs to breathe. Animated everyone would have said R and R. All right. It's more of a case. That's fair. That's fair. That's fair. Just asking. So just loot tea. Yeah. What? Only they had to breathe. Need to. Need to. To survive. Well, so what? That was easy. We just had to do it 11 more times. I don't think I got 11 more of those in me. No, no, not 11 more times. Three more times. Yeah, sorry. 10. 10. We have head and a leg. Head, leg. That's right. We all have shoulders and toes. I'm telling you. Silly me. Other layers of the Abyss should be less oppressive. I hope so. Obox Arb has been regaining his strength for many millennia. The other Oberoth Lords were beaten back as brutally as Arryx. The Bricks of Vermin, he seemed tough. He was the Prince of Demons before the Wolf Spider. Oh, why was he, was he going to be king? That was the plan. Settled it out so. He was spurned by the Queen of Gales. Cast him out to make Misca the Prince. He must be very upset. He is. Could you not help? Do you speak a little? No, no. I just like the way it sounds. I feel both French. Really rolls up the tongue. It's a beautiful language. Oh, my God. Well, the others should hopefully be easier. Was the other place is going to be as disgusting as this one? Most of them, shockingly not. Well, what's the next one? They go to Andrew in the domain of Pale Knight. Oh. Andrew what? As he draws his rapier and curves a circle, and immediately you see a white ice balloon as it opens in a cold blast. It's here as Nessar steps into the portal. And what is this place called again? Androlyn. Androlyn. A-M-D-R-O-L-Y-N-N. Oh, you lost me. Androlyn. Androlyn? Oh, Androlyn. Oh, I'm not close enough. Yeah, I was really good. Thank you guys. That's weird. That's right. Too old? Oh, yeah, absolutely. You follow and immediately you are in the middle of miles and miles and miles of snow as far as you can see. Absolutely bitter as the wind is howling and snow is pelting your face. You see incredible great mountain tops disappear into snow veils all around you. You see great buildings and structures in various states of ruin that seem to have been damaged by wars for perhaps thousands or tens or hundreds of thousands of years as you see great these ruined fortresses made from boats. And you now are all in basically knee deep in snow as Escher holds up his cape around his head to kind of block the wind. And he says, okay, I think my little bass years are here. Oh, just like both of them kind of flipping around? I don't know the state of the ring, so I'm kind of weird. You sort of picture a head floating around with a leg lying there, but like two years it's sort of... It was a valid question. Thanks, Fiends. I'll look around. So do we see anything in the landscape? Any like high points, low points, anything in the snow? Yeah, you see a... Top of the hooker. Once again, in a similar to the Blood Shallows. This is not nearly as massive as the ruins of the castle, but you do see although there are some ruined towers, ruined walls, some are still standing. You see a castle made of bone itself. As it's a large looming citadel that spires upwards, basically rows of enormous... They could perhaps be giant bones or bones of enormous creatures as they stacked on top of each other, rising into the sky as there are... Across the lights, across the snowbound land, you see a strange, brilliant curtains of light that shimmer in all manner of pale colors as they dance back and forth and they are absolutely hypnotizing. I think I still got 30, 40 minutes left of my extremely charming demeanor. What do you guys think? Can we make it there in time? I can still maybe use this on Pale Night. Who is Pale Night? What is their deal? She was once a physical form, now she is little more than a sheet in the wind. She very likely will only be able to barely communicate. Does that mean we're also not under immediate danger? I should still not be seen in this form, lest we arouse suspicions. And if she is truly deeply allied with my master, we would prevent her from loathing him. That's a good point. If we reveal our hands, so it speaks, then we can spring the trap too early. It wouldn't be effective unless it all happens at once, right? Yeah. Yes, we want to empower them. We want to, as we've seen from our exile and we've seen from our reeks, that these Obereths are no better than petty lords squabbling, grasping for power. We grant them a shred of it in their domain to make them ready to stab the Pusuzu in the back. They will be more than willing, especially if we persuade the Queen of Chaos. Well, we have at least one tool. Do you know what your patron meant? That's what daddy know. By persuading the Queen of Chaos. I don't know what he meant. I know what memory we all share. I'm not the smartest person in the whole universe, but you can see in the eyes of a... Beeman. You can see the treachery there. If there was a way we could share that, put that into the mind of the Queen, maybe she would finally understand what his whole deal is all about. Perhaps. I, from what I know, but it is from the perspective of Puzunia. If she is to be convinced, it will not be without a fight. She will need to be beaten into submission. Do you have any idea what the fuck happened to me down there? I know I am a foul demonic creature, but the parasite you have inside of you, I have no fucking idea. That makes me feel just the best. Did he say you were going to survive it? He didn't mention that. Let me switch to music. Let's think about this logically. I don't think Caprice's patron would let that happen. I hope not. They talk about war constantly. It's this weird, bizarre version of their own balance. No side is ever really going to win. At least that's where I was gathering from the conversation. You talked about balance. Space is an important part in all of this. Whoever that being is is not going to just let him die. Not to the hands of a demon. Oh, and if P-man wins, then he ends everything or whatever. He wins the war and there's no more war. No more balance. Whoa. So that means that your patron is on our side. He's on his side. I just think that we happen to be useful. Maybe we just got lucky and chose the right team. Well, we'll see what happens. You should give it a name. Yeah? I think it would make it a little more pleasant. How about Greg? Yes, and then you really can't be pregnant. Exactly. It all comes full circle. The cycle of life is beautiful. All right, well... You can't be seen. Is there anything else we should know before we go bonecastle it up? The... being known as Pale Knight loves and gains power from taking prisons and sacrificing them. Oh, wow. You may need to... assist in order to release... whatever to release the ears of my daughter. Is she a demon princess? Is that right? She's a demon lady. A demon lady. An Oberith. Okay. Does she have a word, like a theme, like vermin or... What was reeks? Memories, I think? Forgetfulness. The Prince of Vermin, she's the White Lady. The White Lady. So she's all about cold? And there's no, like, don't say her name or... lift up the sheet or any of those minerals? She may... I would not survive trying to lift up the sheet. She literally, like a ghost sheet. Did I miss that? We don't know. That's just a breeze. Cool. We speak goofy, we don't know. But now I'm getting the feeling that there might be some sort of, you know, parallel. Okay, okay, okay. I'm sorry, did we get another name while I was... Pale Knight. Pale Knight. White Lady. Nothing else. And we're in Anderlin. Anderlin. Right, okay. There's a bonecastle. Sacrifices. Sacrifices, prisoners. Oh yeah, sacrifices are prisoners. Could you help me? This used to be a place of beautiful dense vegetation. She had a garden. Oh. And after the crushing defeat, it froze over, killing all plant life, all life that was here. So it's very sad. She must be so lonely. Perhaps that's why she keeps her prisoners. Let's go kill some prisoners. We're not going to necessarily kill anyone. We just said we have to, and at this point let's just help her. All right. We just have to... Pezzer, thank you for your guidance. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. You know what to do? Batter it? He flies and eats that of two of his on the feet. And you see a large bonecastle in the distance, and there's a bunch of snow. Are you ready to go to the bonecastle? Yeah. Are you ready to go to the bonecastle? I'm cold. I'm 40% cold. You might be warmer in the bonecastle, but... I feel fine. There is a lot of snow. Forethoses, hello. You look really warm. Wow. There is a lot of snow, huh? There's lots of snow. That's what he just said. I'm not that tickled. Felix, can you do something to keep us all warm? You're like 90% fire. Yeah, maybe. I go through my things, and I don't know if I have any kind of torchlight. I can create fire, small amounts of fire. Control flame? No, I don't have that actual cantro. Probably not enough to keep us super warm. Idris? Yeah, have some of this. What is this? It'll keep you warm, I promise. Do I drink all of it? As much as you want. This is awful. Absolutely terrible. Yeah, but how do you feel? It makes me starting to like it a little. It's never going to stop. I guess it never will. I can't take it anymore. Felix. You're cheeky. What are you doing casting mirror image? Take your decounter. I don't have an event to even do that. Can you give all four of you fire and just walk around to me and keep me warm? Okay, and I will just like hold my finger up to create like some light basically from, but it's not really enough to keep us warm. And I would try to like light the way as we go, you know, holding my finger up. Thank you darling, and darling, and darling, and darling. I just like look at Tella like, all right. You see above you as the flame that feels keeps you warm. As you see the strange hypnotizing sheets of the curtains of light above you. It's like aurora. Yeah, it's like aurora. It's like pale. Yes, it's very, it's like a cast of nails. It's a very pastel. There's almost no color at all. It looks nearly white. You can see the very string of hints of color where there perhaps had once been great color here in the garden that is long since frozen over. As you see this, the snow banks arise up and it is absolutely frigid and you trudge through the snow and it takes you shockingly a lot longer than you expecting even, you know, with providing the time to make a track in a very snowbound land. And I need everyone to make one constitution check on the journey there to see if you get exhausted. If we have holders of death, do we need to make the plan? You can get an advantage. I will make it a bit. Gonna say my need to. If I am... I'm gonna re-roll that with a key point. Thank God. I think I'm okay. I'm a higher. If I'm mountain born. Yeah, you're an advantage. Okay. It's a 15. It's a good pass. That's great. I'm gonna get a 7. My roll can drink. I got a more 1-1. 26. You all resist the cold as you trudge and trudge as you go higher into this mountain top where this castle sits veiled in snow and the sheet with the sheet of the curtains of the Aurora rising in the snow falling down almost looks as if the castle itself is wearing a pale veil. As each of the mountain tops looks like they're wearing a white veil. As you make your way to the top as you find not ruined by war, not destroyed, but just an empty nearly abandoned fortress of bone. As you stand before gates that are left open, the snow banks piled up high on either side of the door into the castle as the sheets are now directly above you. Their color is absolutely enchanted. I hit a wisdom saving. Oh, this is where I fail. This is where I'm toe. Oh no, wisdom's good too. Never mind, I'm a liar. It's strength, dex, and chaw that I suck at. Chaw. Wisdom, there's no. Chaw. Killed it. 16. 23. 10 minutes. It's like an inspiration. Yeah, I just RPed that it's been like 30 minutes into my glibness. You're getting destroyed here, bro. This is not your day. 16. 16. You're going to come alive right now. Oh, I am going to spend a key point and reroll. What didn't pass? 16. I'm good with a 23. I got a 24. Well, that didn't pass either. I fail. I fail. I... I fail fairly, do we fail? Everyone fail? If everyone fail. We've got at least two. Two passes, two passes, two fails. I haven't made it. It'll be natural. There's still a chance that I could fail if I use my part of inspiration. So you know what? I'm just going to fail. I just feel good. You three goku-ku-bananhas raw off into the snow. We're not going to be alone. She's drunk. I'm free. Oh, dee darling. Yeah. Do you see the lights? Yeah, I see fans of beautiful, huh? So look out the roadies. I got a 14. I did. You all see the beautiful colors. Wow. And you feel a sense of admiration for the white lady. Pale night, you want to be her prisoner. Uh-oh. You immediately see the three of them start just walking in a tree. They're not sprinting. You're kind of just walking slowly forward. As you see now, as your eyes adjust to the large castle, uh, anti-chamber, you see that there are numerous cages hanging from the ceiling, chains along the wall. This looks like every inch of this castle is a prison. You see skeletal remains of all manner of creatures from Celestials, humanoid, fey, um, demons, and devils as they are, as you feel compelled to get yourself into a cage. So I'm just like, help myself? Yeah, you're just like, fine, fine, fine, fine. Yeah, how far away are these cages? I would say one of the 15 in this castle. This looks nice. So you basically see all three of them wonderful. Do you want to share one or should we share? Hey, let's share one. Hey, where are you guys going? What are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? I'm just going to be in here. I need to be in here. Why are you ignoring us? Guys, what's going on? Look at the pretty colors. Look at them, guys. Don't you see that we need to be here? Don't you want to lift up the sheep, bro? Come on. I mean, it's beautiful, but we need to get inside the castle. We're going to get inside of the castle via this cage. All we have to do is get inside here and wait. We'll stay here. We'll always be here. It's part of the plan. It is as written. Oh, did Asmedeus or whatever his name is speak to you a little bit? Yes. I don't believe you. With a 31 at least. I believe you. Let me know when an hour has gone by. Oh, no, that was a whole walk, right? Glymph is faded. Yeah. I don't believe you. Are there colors? Is it like, what, yes? With a 26. We're just not in the trans part. Outside, when you're looking at the castle, the Aurora was directly above you, and then you walk past the Aurora, and you still see kind of that hypnotic Aurora in your eyes. As you walk forward. And what I'll say is you see Escher as a bat, like with his wingtips, like hanging down in front of your face, like trying to grab onto and trying to bat it to you, and it is not working. Yeah. I'm so happy. I hope he wants to play. Do I get the impression that something is wrong? They are absolutely wrong. It is not at all hard. Oh. The moment that I think. I can't be charmed. Oh. The moment that I'm vibing then. The moment that I realize this, I would essentially use Prestidigitation with the flame on my finger. Yeah. And attempt to burn Toa, like in his rinse. Yeah. Like, you know, somewhere it would hurt. Yeah. Not enough to like cause damage, but to like try to shock him and like, like, like, you know, wake him up. I think if he takes at least one fire damage, he can reroll. Like I have a question. Yeah. So I have stillness. Stillness of mind. I can use an action to end either charmed or frightened of myself, but if I'm charmed, would I think to do that? I think if you have a mind that is powerful enough to still it, you would then like, you're like in your mind prison, you're able to get out of it. Right. I would say you would be able to. Feel like I'm a cage. So I would, after, you know, getting in the cage, I would maybe sit there a minute and be like, what am I doing? And then get myself back out. You mean. Did you not see the colors? I don't have a mechanical way to do less than three to 10 fire damage to him. Like just trying to bring him slightly under your like, receipt. It is where it would be like, to see if I can like jog is like knocking out of whatever's gone here. I'm really sorry. I do one point of fire damage. Don't you see fields? Did you see the colors? I mean, she is the Lisa of Rakeem. Lisa of Rakeem, ass. Okay, we roll. I saw the colors, Tor. It's beautiful. It was, but we can't listen to her. She is the chosen one. I'm in the cage. I'm blocking myself. Okay. Yeah. I'm going to get to the doors. No, no, no, no, no. I reach forward as soon as you close the door and start to hold it. I'm going to reach through and I'm going to thieves to unlock the actual. I'm going to engage the mechanism. We're in. It's done. You guys got to go find your own cage. This is Toa in our cage. We, you can't come in. You had your chance, everybody. She is the rider of the bone dragon. Which is the queen that was promised, Felix. Are you sure you don't want to ride the bone dragon? Whoa. What about you two? Do you want to ride the bone dragon? Not right now. We've got to break them out of it. It was a charm. I felt the same way. Every time I looked to the left, everything's so slow. I was, I feel so warm on the inside. All right. I tried to jumpstart Toa up. I just bring him a little bit. I think I should try it on Caprice. I don't feel like Caprice doesn't really have much place to go. The chubb. I'm in like a tiny cage with Toa who would take up most of the space. I'm like pressed up against the bar. It's like the water world. I find where you are and I take five, like one big step back some five feet away and I fire bolt you. Don't fuck with me. Oh. It's three ten fire damages you should be resistant to. That's what I don't hold back. I do three ten fire damage. What's the giant Luton's bird that like stands right behind people? You know what I mean? Isn't that Tweety? 25 to hit. That, yeah. I know what you're talking about. I re-roll my two. That's fine. Why not? It's still a two. I have to keep it. So that's a 15 points of fire damage which you would take half of. I will take half of that. I'm really sorry Caprice. Wake up. Oh shit. I like, I like, like, to be in the flame. Um, can I re-roll my uh, wisdom saving? An advantage because you took a full fire bolt. Do... Nope, 14. Well, I'm out of ideas. And I'm not going to inspire myself because it's funny. Well, we think they're sick. Well, I think they're sharp. I'm just being sick. Just get it out. Oh, you don't, oh. Close your ears, bud. No. No, be fine. I'll be fine. Oh no, we'll get you. I'm inside of a cage swinging. He's like swinging. I'm in a cage right now. But eventually I would like to try and touch him and cast less restoration. Yeah. Oh, that's easy. That's easy to do. And you're immediately de-charmed. You come to your senses. As you hear, uh, and as this is, uh, happening, you hear, uh, some shittering laughter above you as the cages shake. That's a hell. As there's all sorts of voices from the dozens of hanging cages. I'm going to lift up the sheet, Iris. I'm going to lift up the, oh, shit. Fuck. Sorry. Well, Jesus. Hold on. Who's that? It's a friend I knew in Galtica. Just a minute. Since you're in there with Toa, maybe you can do something. No, why are you all getting here? We're not going to get in there, Toa. There's no, one, there's no room in two we don't want to. Why not? You're being magically influenced to become a prisoner. I'm not. No, you are all about freedom, Toa. Not right now. I'm not being in a cage. I want to be sacrificed. She's going to lead us to paradise. You're going to feel so embarrassed when you come to. You're going to have to give him the Bernie, Bernie again, but let me sing a song as that happens. I can, I can. Let's stop burning our friends. Would you like me to ritually prepare you for sacrifice? I hope. I mean, if anyone was going to do it, Iris would be the best. As long as it's the Lisa of Frankie that's sacrificing me, then sure. Of course. As long as you don't sacrifice me first before she gets it down. I would never. All right, you could prepare me for sacrifice. Lisa Frank. Lisa Frank. I'll leave. Lisa Frank Eve, I mean. Right. I'm doing reference. Can you help lift me towards the cage? Like a touch. I'm in this cave with no mind. Felix, lift me. I got you. And I'll like kneel down next to the cage and like make it so that you can like step up onto my knee, step up onto my shoulder if you need to help get you up higher. All right, so you need to come to the edge of the cage. I need to put both of my hands on your face so I can start chanting the ritual. Can I start with a quick thought and give him a little bardic? Make me like the best human sacrifice in the head. If it says to work. Yes, it looks like Pale Knight would allow it. But don't go like, shut up up there. Shut up. I'm going to battle the cages. I'm going to battle the cages. Hey, hey, Toa? People are angry. I know this doesn't make complete sense right now, but it's important for the ritual. Yeah. Way stronger than a conscious blow. Bask in the warmth of his kind aura. That's why I love my brother, Toa. Inspiration. Oh. Did you feel that? It was like the glow of the lights outside. The lights. Grab his face and I immediately get less pressure, Aisha. You're immediately realizing you're in a cage as you realize that all of the laughter has stopped. And all of the flames that you have produced have gone out. And all you hear is this faint rattling of cages and the trembling as you feel the presence above you. Oh, God. All right, I think it's time to get out of the cage now, guys. Look and you see an enormous woman in a shape. In a veiled ghost. It's basically a feminine figure in white with a white veil and just the faintest feminine body beneath a billowing drape, like the curtain that you had seen. There are no eyes. There are no faces. There is no face. You just see. You can see through this thing, but you feel her stone or her ice cold gaze on you. God, I don't want to be a sacrifice. I don't want to be a sacrifice. Stop moving. I'm trying to get the walk. I'm trying to get the walk. Oh, this isn't good. You hear a very melancholy voice just so faintly. It's very similar to a reek. So in the back of your head, sacrifice, sacrifice. You see this looming specter and even Escher in his bat form climbs back down behind and tries to get out of her sight. Lofty. So I have an idea. All right. It's a little scary. Does it involve me getting out of this cage? Well, eventually, yes, I hope so. We sorry. Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. We sorry. I'm trying to unlock the lock that I like. If we need to sacrifice one of us. Whoa. I do have this pendant and I hold up my ankh that would stabilize me if I died. So as long as we only need to die for a second, you could technically kill me. That sounds like a fucking nightmare. Oh, yes. You have to die. I have you. I would have to trust that you are not going to pummel my body into paste once I was dead. If any of us were going to die, the last of them should be you. Thank you. Because you're the only one who actually knows how to fucking life death this bitch. Yeah, killer, killer, killer. You hear it in Abyssal. Shut up. This is my favorite episode. You hear in Abyssal. Yeah, fucking killer. Hey, nobody asked you. Yeah, get him. Shut up. I yell back in Abyssal. You can't see. Basically, you just see. I shout from where I heard from. Yeah, yeah, this cage is very large, but you can't, whatever is in this thing is not showing up. So it must be small. Now, I understand that it is not ideal considering my abilities, but none of you, if any of you were to die, I have no way to bring you back presently. Now, why are we jumping to sacrificing one of us first? What else are we going to sacrifice? I don't know. You've been guys shouting from up there somewhere. Yeah, there's like 100 assholes hanging in the ceiling. I just bring fire on all of them. I just hear disembodied juries. Sacrifice the cat. Hey, hey, shut up. You see, finally, a small head poke over, and it's demon-like. It's got big bulging eyes, large, almost like vermin-like fangs, but there's actually a bit of a bullsnout to it and horns. Oh, that sounds good. I don't want to kill it. I can see too small hands. It's like this greenish skin that looks over, and he says, Wait a minute, are you guys going to kill Lord Baphomet? Sacrifice him. Fucking kill him, guys. Oh, shit. He has suckers. Hey, fuck you, fuck up. Fuck you. He's like shouting back at us. They're all shouting in the cacophony of voices and cages. I would say both of you make an arcana check of the damage. 28. 28. These are very clearly closets that are of Baphomet. Oh. Yeah, we did that, and we do it again, too. It was fucking nothing. The whole thing, Ty, just sounds like, Yeah, I want to do that. We're like packing. Yeah, you're lucky. I can't get out of this cage. All right, she wants a sacrifice. I'll give her a sacrifice. Fuck Felix. And I fire a fire bolt at this thing, and I try to keep him in this cage. Yeah, yeah, yeah, make him tackle. Please don't mess. Ooh, it's a 14. Let's see. It's a straight shot at the quasi-attacks between the bars. The easy is 13 in roll damage. Yes! Yeah. He can't resist either. That's 10. 22 plus 5 is 27 points of fire damage. He's not resistant. He's in 7 points. His head just gets fried off his body like a liquid wobble hot shot just takes his head off. Here, die! I'm Lord Baphomet! Does the fire at Luginay, how many are up there? Oh yeah, you see the cages, there are dozens of hanging cages, and they're almost all- they're higher levels of demons. They seem to have- You need to admit that they are from various demon lords, but most of them seem to be of Baphomet. There, I sacrificed it. Fire doesn't hurt me. Nice try, idiot. And you hear a- and then you see a tiny soul get ripped out from him and break its way through the air and make its way to Pale Knight as this aspect covers. And she's nearly motionless beyond the moving of her veil. As she does one final sacrifice and she shimmers and fades away. And in this last moment, you hear a clang as a cage overhead that's very small, drops down and the impact on the snowy stone breaks it open and you see two small childlike ears scatter across the stone as you feel a veil. As this aspect of Pale Knight leaves the Anarchic Chamber of this castle drifting away from the sacrificed quaza, you all feel that same kind of shifting veil on top of you and it hangs and it lingers the very faint colors of the coldest winter amidst a sheet of ice and all of your AC increases by one. Whoa! Okay, I'm glad that worked. I'm gonna be honest. I'm apologizing for losing my cool. How do you do that? You click on your armor class and then you can customize it and you can add additional magic bonus. You hear in the bis- He killed three legged z! He let a kid see. And I fired back. Good luck! You're all struck and caged! Come on! Come freeze, how's that block coming? Come on, we gotta get out of here. I'm not gonna lie to you. I thought that I locked it with the thieves tools, but I think it was just already locked and then I closed the door and I don't know how to fix this lock. What? I don't have a key. Fix it! I can't. Fix it, fix it, fix it, fix it. The DM hasn't allowed me to make a roll for some time. Oh, can't you just bend the bars? You're like huge. Break out, you can roll inside. I tried to break it open. I didn't know that. No, no. Tell it leaves a shoulder and crushes Caprice to get out. Uh, give me a... How did you say to do this? Which one here? Oh, you click on your AC and then... A digital whistle and hit one. And then you can just do pale knight so that way you're okay. You're 22, you're able to pick it. Oh, oh, oh, oh! Shit, I just smashed it in the air. We tumble out community free. There you go, BB girl. Oh, snowy stone. As the stone would be smelling, your throat would be stopped in your chest. As you, when you first looked up at that huge, unfulfilled world floating above you, as you were chilled to the bone, but you did whatever presence has gone, she basically disappeared further into the castle after her sacrifice. You get the sense that perhaps she's unable to physically harm these captives, and all she can do is charm them to uh, enter the cages and must require other hands to commit the sacrifices. Wait for them to die. Chemies obviously quality are immortal. Huh. Okay. Damn. I'll walk over and pick up the ears. You do? It's very easy. They're, they're shockingly warm. A little bit nippy to the touch. Yeah, it's weird to hold ears, you know? That's what I was saying. I mean, they are just plainly. I've never seen inside of my own ears before, but I've heard good things. Anyways. Caprice, as you hand the ears back, as your, as your perks up as a back, and he hears perk, the kind of, or his bird-like eyes in that is just watching them. Obviously too afraid to shift back into his normal form. Let's get you somewhere safe. And as you feel, Caprice, this is the last time you're going to see snow for the rest of the campaign. Yep. It's all that coming. Can we find a place to like lay low for a little while? I know we've got a lot to do and probably very little time, but I need 12 hours with this snow. That's cool. Why? I have an idea. And I do, do you think we're going to give you 12 hours of snow for an idea? Yeah, you guys trust me and I don't have to cast glitters to convince you of the most radical ideas. You know that you've lied to our faces, but we trust you, but that trust only goes far. That was like four or five years ago. I mean, it was a while ago. I've been totally upfront with you. Someone... Don't put them on the ground. Hey, Justin. He just flies down and tries to scoop it up with his little bat wings. I help him, I pick him up and I put them up next to my bun so he can nest with them. He nests very pleasantly. I need 12 hours. But what for? We couldn't even afford more than one for a quick rest, let alone enough time for me to get my energy back. I'm on a tour this year. Think about how many pieces you guys have to go. Can't you even just tell us what you're trying to do? You don't want to ruin the surprise. I know how this... No, no, no, no. I could use a sleep. I mean... We have time here. We're going to freeze the death. You could continue on and you could... You could go get the... I mean, there's fucking nine more of these bitches. We're not going to leave you here. Are you still mad? You still mad? The reporters can... And then I... It makes perfect sense. Caprice, you just got yourself out of a cage you locked yourself into. You're not leaving. You can't be trusted by yourself. You can't be trusted. I just need like a little cove. And then I'm going to give the performance of a lifetime. The camera zooms way out and you hear... I feel like the hell... Waaargh! And it's completely flat. Because no, for the bazillions of infinite miles. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're not going to stay here. She doesn't mind, do you? Stay... Sacrify... I can't... I can't... I can't say yes to this. They killed Zyka's. Fuck you guys. Right there. Fuck you. Stop! Shut up! I can't give you the performance. I got your sword. Look, there's just no getting around it. It takes twelve hours for me to sing every song I've ever written. From beginning to end. All of them. And you need to do that, why? Because... With snow like this... I could... make another me. The world can't even handle the one you let's go. What? No! Think about how important that could be. For everything that we're going up against, wouldn't you want to have two caprices and not one? And then what happens if both caprices get turned against us with some kind of charm? And then instead of going up against one caprice, we've got two caprices. Then the way that you will die will be so magical and gentle and just... Yeah, well, I'm sold. You know, when the base drops, you guys are going to be like, ah, you know, I'm going to have to... Is there a reason you need a second to you? Because it's... A question, would that second you also have... Be pregnant? No! Wow! Could we kill the current to you and keep the second to you? Would that make any difference? Well, you could do that, but I'm pretty sure that the second caprice... We have to think of a name for him. The second caprice, he would be, ah... Unable to heal. He would have very short fuse. He's just... Whatever magic we put into him, that's it. No long rest for him, buddy. He's going to be very grumpy. So let me get this straight. Walk me through how this works. You want to spend 12 hours with the snow. And then what happens? And then another me shows up. And how long does that last for? Forever, until he dies. We have to go. We have to go. I have another question. During this 12 hours, when I'm assuming the rest of us would rest, you would not be afforded rest. So there would be a second you. Yeah, he'd be full tank. And I would be admittedly diminished. However... Oh, you know, I just had this idea scroll through my brain like a text message. This would be your caprice son. Oh yeah! That's very funny. I didn't think about it. Alright, so we're all agreed. No! We're not even room only in agreement. Why not? Thank you, architect Heather. You're going to freeze to death here. I have cold resistance. I'm going to be fine. I'll be fine. I'm going to be okay. Fuck you! Fuck you! You killed Zyka's! We cannot leave Caprice here. We have this one opportunity. Wait, bring the snow with us? How much snow do you need? I need about... $25. What is a what? $125. I need $125. But how many orcs is 125 pounds? I don't know. I used the metric system. Is it like a pound of snow per pound of ice? I have this. Strength score of eight. 0.63 worse. Alright. Thank you. You're welcome. That's not a lot of orc, but quite a lot of snow. We can take some with us, right? I don't think we can take a partial orc with us. Maybe. Oh! And how would we keep it snow? What if... What if... Badatouille can make a portal to some snow domain that we can... Some cold box realm that we can keep it in. Keep it nice and chilly. Badatouille. The snow? Do you have access to a snow portal? He looks like you like that's what I've been trying to say. Isn't this a snow portal? Please, Escher, go rapid. Alright! Well, if Badatouille is Escher, then we can wait for an easy 12-hour window, and I'll be able to give you all the best performance you've ever seen, and you'll get a second to pre-sat of the deal. Alright, well let's get away from the castle, and he'll open a portal, and I'll help maybe, but I can lift 125 pounds of snow easy. Sure. We'll get it in there, and then you can use it at your leisure. Okay. I have a question. What is heavier, 125 pounds of snow, or 125 pounds of orc? 125 pounds of orc. Are you sure? Yes. Why? Because it's orcs. Orcs is heavier than snow. Alright, I want you to think about that, and we'll check in, okay? Keep thinking about that. Okay, no, I'm very confident. Alright, well just think about it. Is the orc alive? Do you think that that matters? I think it would be harder to carry. That's not the question, Caprice. Someone's hanging on to it. It's just which one's heavier, and everyone knows that orcs are heavier than snow. I'm sorry, I'm all fucked up. I like myself on a cage like five minutes ago. No, fuck you! Fuck you! I said shut up! He's screaming, he sounds like Eddie from Eddie and Eddie. Alright, well... You've convinced me. Can we get the fuck out of here? Let's go. We walk just out of I Shot of the Castle so that Escher can transform back. You, Escher immediately takes into the sky and he tries to fly out and immediately... He gets carried away and then he's... Grab him, he'll fly. Grab him and then you take him back. And as soon as the snow, the lizard completely shields you. He ships back out, he says. I told you that these would be easier and less grotesque. Nice shot, by the way, Felix. Thanks. I'm trying to kill the rest of them. Yeah. It was very pleasant having to kill one of those little guys. To be fair, it was just a demon. Johnny was really annoying. Yeah, they said a lot of really vulgar stuff. I'm not going to hear what they were saying. I don't speak of this or also have no idea what they were saying, but it seemed like they were being quite mean to Caprice. It was stuff that I wouldn't be comfortable repeating. Man, I... That's all the best. He'll have his ear, he'll look at Romanovis ears. Yeah, take these, yeah, please. One step closer. He puts them in and then... Do we need to store snow? Otherwise? If that's possible. I assumed we would get wherever we needed to when we would have a 12-hour window and you'd be able to open a portal to a snow place, but if we can put the snow into a place where we can store it, that's much easier. That's what I was trying to describe. That's fine. However we can get the snow. You see as he takes his rapier and draws a circle and a light chill comes out and he says, well, you're too it, I'm not going to very climb back to show him where it is. I take my spoon and I start shoveling. Thank you. I try to. I would use my shovel. I don't move a lot of snow, but I help. This giant veal. It's so funny. It's like a shovel. Where do you keep that thing? You know what I know. And you've never played it once this entire campaign. No, no, just my fiddle. Man, they would have been much more thematic the whole time if you really lead into the whole devil fiddle thing. Oh, shit. That makes sense. Yeah, well, if we ever animate this. We can lean into that. Okay. The year was 2035. Wow, you were kidding. This thing's huge. It's like a tiny cello. The veal was the living meme of small bulls. What's the smaller than violin word? A smaller than violin? Like a contra minor. There's a violi or it's a viol something, I think. The viola is still bigger than a violin. So violin is really like a viola. Viola and violin. No, it says finally is violin. Yeah, violin is smaller. Violin is the smallest. According to the accordion, just the internet. The internet's never long. The internet's never long. It's in fact much smaller than a full-size violin. It's just 30 centimeters. Okay. But like, what's a smaller violin called? The poochette. Oh, that's cute. Poochette. Poochette. Look up Oswellite again just to be sure. Okay, babe. All right. Oh, it's French for small pocket. Oh, poochette. Pochette. Pochette. If this does pay off and these oberists turn on each other, the more that we help them, the more powerful they will be to destroy Pazuzo and then destroy each other. Okay. We might actually win this. Okay, all right. I hope so. What if they all just team up and beat us into the dirt? Well, it's like you said, they don't really get along. Yeah, but what if they kill us first and then they are fucking amongst each other? Well, then we fail. We just have to make sure that that doesn't happen. They're very focused on one thing. You, I don't really want to focus on the negatives. You're not really wanting to focus on what happens if we fail. What's gotten into you today? I'm just, I don't know. I've gotten unconscious a lot with talk. It's been a scary day. I know. Don't go to sleep though. Definitely have a concussion last night. Okay, well, let's just... Yeah, I shine a light in your eyes. I try to love your eyes. Oh, we need you. You're like Mr. Positive. All right. Your Mr. Bright side. Exactly right. Yeah, that's very good. It's funny because you're out of your cage. Now you're doing just fine. Despite all your rage. Still just a toe in the cage. No, no, you're not in the cage anymore. You're out. Oh, no. It's snow. Apprentices, hey-oh. Skimadoo-dup, d-wadoo-dup, d-wadoo-dup, California. No, he definitely has a d-wadoo. He's like eating different foods. Every, yeah, that's all. That's the entire discography of Chubbubbers. How long does it take us to get all the snow in there? Tom, you were able to get it. Okay, and Escher closes it. Where are we going next? They're going to the Whispering Cam. Sorry, the Whispering Cam. At the Whispering Cam. Care. Oh, Cam. C-A-I-R-N. The Whispering Cam. What's a Cam? It's like a stack of stones. Oh, it's like a, yeah, a big pile of stones. A place where you mark something, usually. So then it's calling something a lonely can of stone redundant? Well, it can be made out of different things. Stone is just the most common. It could be a pile of... Because they don't weather, yeah. It could be wood. It could be bones. It's kind of like a sign of books. Bones, stones. But you can store stuff in it. That is true. Oh, I know, I read. The can that they says. You could read. Yeah, I could read. I speak like eight languages. He's like 40% reading. That's right. He's reading the character. And who's the honcho? That is K'zhar Videxus. Very good name. Wow. K'var Zidexus? K'zhar Videxus. K'zhar Videxus. The Honed Duke. K'zhar Videxus. The Honed Duke. Oh, well, a Duke. That is lovely. Duke of what? The Duke of Owl. He's the Honed Duke. Duke of what? The Honed Duke. The Honed Duke. The Honed Duke. K'zhar Videxus? The Honed Duke. Jesus. He's got horns. And he's a Duke. That's quite the name. Duke, Duke, Duke. K'zhar Videxus. Isn't that what she said? Yes. Oh, that. Duke of Honed. I don't name the other ones. Oh, no. It's a nice name. I'd love that. Duke of what? Duke of what? Duke of what? Duke of what? Duke of what? Duke of what? Let's say it in French. Duke of what? Duke of what? Duke of what? Duke of? Duke of? Oh my God. Oh my������������������������������ There are many demons that lurk here. Zarbidexus is dead. Unburied and the Tenare demons that had risen up against the Oberus eat it as flesh eternally. Is that like a punishment thing? I think it's something where as long as he remains unburied, there's nothing he can do. That's why they have killed their lord in with Pazutin. Wait, is he dead or undead? When you're a demon, the lion is very blood. So, okay. And he draws a circle and you see this gray glow around him as he steps forward and you see immediately he poofs into the back as you all are able to step forward. Can we go through him? You see the whispering cairn and you see jagged rocky landscapes all above you. As you look into the sky and you see billowing green clouds and you can't tell if it's night or day. There is no sun, there is no moon. It's just dark and ashy as there's pools of green liquid pouring down the mountains and filling great pools as far as you can see. Green strikes of lightning across the sky. Music. Oh, thank you. What does it smell like? It smells like eggs. That's a really tricky idea. It smells like eggs. How about eggs? How about the eggs, Kumu? Hey, Phoenix, what about those eggs? We could go steal a picnic basket. Jesus, Lord Almighty. What's the real answer? That was a serious question. I wasn't trying to be like, gee. It does smell a little sulfur-y. Damn it. It definitely smells a little sulfur-y, but it's a bit earthy too. It smells... It's definitely very earthy and lomy almost. Lomy. You see the soil going out as you see these large green pools and these green rivers pouring down and it's slowly moving. You're not really sure what it is, but you see these flocking demons. They're very elongated and gaunt with sharp teeth and hollow eyes as they fly through the sky on bat-like wings. As you see now that there are these bits and pieces of flesh that are just scattered out about this landscape, many in pools as a flock of these demons are just gnashing and ripping in and just eating it. You see that no matter how much they eat, it never really fully goes away. As you see as Escher in bat form flies on top of your little buns. This is a terrible place. Anything's better than the vermin blade. I'm here for it. This is definitely a huge improvement. As long as whatever's doing its thing over there turns its attention to us, we're good. So that's stuff they're eating. That's him? Allegedly. Him all over. Are we standing on him? Are we looked at? No, basically there are chunks and positive bits of bone here and there. You see down into this large valley with rocky ravines, you see a very large pair of horns that are connected and as if they've been snapped out of a skull as they are rising up almost out of a ravine. As you see kind of the green sludge going in that direction as you see bits of them, you see a bit of bone as there might be some of these chittering demons on top and eating it. But you are standing on rock and soil. Well, given the name to the horns. Yeah, I think so. Oh, because he's the Duke of those things. Yeah, he's the horned Duke. Which would still make him the Duke of those horns. Does it? It doesn't necessarily mean that he lords over horns, it just means that he is a Duke that has horns. Oh, now that's a fair point that I hadn't considered. Let's go. You make your way down as you go into a ravine and you see the large aspiring rocks and they move up very unnaturally as they almost have a spiral design and you see the dark hands of these tall gaunt creatures staring down at you. None seem to bother you. They look at you and as soon as you get remotely close like a flock of pigeons or other birds and they immediately scatter away despite being not much smaller than the rest of you. As they go and they find another place to feast. As you make your way deeper and deeper until you see this, a river of this green slime gets smaller and smaller as the passageway gets narrower and narrower. Toa, you actually have to kind of step sideways to get through a little bit as it gets tighter and tighter until it opens back up and you see amidst, as with two large spires either way, almost forming a rock formation of the horns, you see the large, the looming shape of these black horns attached to a darkened skull. Little tight, little tight, little tight. Let's keep going. Make your way. You approach and quiet fills this little chamber, this little, this quiet place. None of the demons of the night descend upon you. None are even flying overhead and circling as they had been tailing you almost like vultures this entire time as you all hear similar kind of in the back of your mind a mournful, melancholic voice. Very me. Very me. Oh. Very me. That's no easy task. He's all over the place. Where are you? Could you maybe just list like one piece we could bury? I mean, look in front of you. This is him. Maybe we could just bury his skull. Maybe he wants berries. No. No, like bury me, bro. Yeah. And you throw me like a berry flavored sense of vodka. Mmm. What is wrong with you? That's what a bro would say, isn't it? Well, I have the ability to move some earth. I don't have the spell prepared that would let me do that a lot faster. We're serious. We consider burying him. We don't want to make him go to jail for a little bit. Right? We had to make a sacrifice. It was one of those... How big is the skull? Basically it's just the horn. Oh, it's just the horn. The fragment of skull. It's attached to a bit of skull. Like when you see an antelopes. Yes. It was massively enormous. It was probably about the size of this room. Okay. It's a megaton mountain size pair of horns. I mean, I don't think we can bury all of it, but like... Well, let's just start and see what happens. Maybe we'll get a good answer here quickly. I look around and I look at what we're standing on and I look to see if there's like dirt and or stone that I think is loose enough that I might be able to move with mold to earth. What are the rules on mold to earth? I choose a portion of dirt or stone that I can see within a range. The range is 30 feet and that fits within a 5 foot cube. I can manipulate one of the following ways. If I target loose earth, I can excavate it and move it along the ground to posit up to 5 feet. I can literally just move earth. This movement doesn't have enough force to cause damage though. I can cause shapes, colors and or both to appear on the dirt if I want to draw stuff, spell things out. It changes the change last for an hour. Or if the dirt or stone that you target is on the ground I can cause it to become difficult terrain. So really I am trying to just excavate and move earth. As you think about mold earth, I want you to make an archonage. From what you've experienced on your way down. It's 23. 23. You look around and you absolutely feel like all of this type of stone although it's so strange in this layer of the abyss you feel like you can mold it. You had seen these large boulders and stones that had been scattered around this area. There are some scattered around the antlers or the horns. Some are along the mountain side. Some were scattered out back by other pieces as if there perhaps had been a cairn here. As the wind howls through you and you kind of hear a as the wind whips through this little gorge. Thank you. That's what you experienced. Well, here's the thing. What? I can move this stuff around but it'll take a long time. And quite frankly, I should have realized it sooner. I say look over there and I start pointing out the different portions of these stones that are kind of scattered all over the place. It looks like we could probably rebuild the cairn. Oh! Someone removed this cairn that was covered in the top of his head. And now if any of those boulders are bigger than you know, five by five really I'm gonna have to use something else to do this. And I was saving my one... Oh no. I don't know if I can upcast that. I don't think I can. Nope. The only other spell that I had to do that could make quick work of this is gone. Done. I can't use telekinesis to move the really heavy stones. Okay, okay. So let's think. We might be able to do it but I can't do it alone. How big are these stones again? They're like big, big, right? They're big but like you know, I don't think they're bigger than five by five. Could like Toa and me strong mana? Yeah, you absolutely could do the stones. They look like they're more heavier than 500 pounds. I would say some seem heavier than 500 pounds but some would be lighter. I could help with some of them. I could lift probably more than 500. Well, between all of us we should be able to get it done. I would be happy to watch and give directions. Oh, tell me which one to grab first, Aris. That one over there. Alright. I'll start any stone that I think I can handle strength-wise. I will start picking up and moving. And I will use Mold Earth to do the same with the ones that I think I can manage. Is anyone else besides Toa Well, so what I would say is I put out a little backpack that has like a seat with a covered awning for Iris like Eastmont. That's amazing. That's amazing. Directs me around and I just Yeah, exactly right. You see now, as you begin to do this It's like that scene in the birds where you look and you see one of these night demons. Oh no. And then you kind of go back to your work and then you look and you see four more. And then suddenly you're entirely surrounded and as soon as you have the largest rock the largest rock that you have as these spells are cast you hear a cacophony of voices as these creatures shriek into the night and everyone to make an intelligence saving throw to see if this stuns you and breaks your concentration I am using five twists 21 16 Okay Has it been ten minutes since Do we all have to roll What kind of intelligence Intelligence What What's going on with you Almost every single one It's just the dead What were you doing to assist? Oh, I was just picking up any any stone I think I can lift on my own I'm picking up and trying to hear The psychic shrieks of these demons as they the other world the shriek of of the dead and anyone who got less than 15 stumbles and falls back and the stone crushes on top of you Oh no I would say dexterity saving throw to see if you could get out Would you consider that caught Oh that one's caught, yeah I thought you rolled that one No, I rolled this one No, no Like a cat Dexterity saving throw 24 Your hackles are raising you You know how cats The second toa till at all You are immediately out Toa you immediately lock up as your mind is fried by this horrible shriek and you fall back Just carry like an atlas stone stone on that As it crushes down on you It's 800 pounds, no it's like 1200 pounds 16 points of bludgeoning and you are pinned beneath the rock now I'm just going to be doing my bow which allows me to cast levitate and I've been literally singing one of the songs up but I will fail with a 13 and the entire time I'm not even paying attention until a scream occurs I'm just watching the stone directly above me and if I could lift 500 pounds and I could lift 500 AHHHH Dexterity saving throw It still drops on you I'm going to drop my stone and try to shove this boulder off of him It's a temporary thing It paralyzes you but it basically is dropped Make an athletics check or if you want to help Toa If I now have the agency to do it Toa! I can't I'm heave Toa I got a 17 Oh that's pretty good Better What does the strength save? Athletics check Or acrobatics 22 Oh if you're assisting me 22 With Mufti's help you're able to use all of your strength to lug this back and it rolls down to the top to next to the car that you're building as you see the night creatures circling around you now I don't think they like this Did I succeed? Oh you do Sweet Christmas Those clothes Why were you carrying it right above your head? Why would you do that? It just seems... Come on I'm still just trying to move as many of these stones as I possibly can I'm noticing that these creatures are moving in and slowly gathering and I'm trying to work faster You do that Let me get however you're contributing I need an ability check So a skill check So you can arcana So you can athletics however you choose to do it Iris if you're persuasion or intimidation A charisma of some kind If you're here to build a stowa I'm gonna play Iris I'll use an entire And Wrong! I guess my ability athletics is faster That was literally I'm lucky there I'm a new group That was terrible Seven No, eight No, seven 24 Nice Oh, god 27 Escher is trying to bat a two Bat a two of you And it's not going very well He's not going super helpful And he tries to chase off some of these things And even a small bat They let out They almost really don't have mouths And then as soon as it appears A mouth opens out of nowhere And you let out a shriek And then fly away And then just return back And once they realize that you are succeeding in this They seem to leave you alone and give up hope As the wind picks up And howls through I'll say that you're You're helping do the foundation And Felix you finally are able to stack That final last stone with your magic And that lands As you Hear A You hear whisper As the wind whips through The camp As you Hear with the wind whipping There's a rumbling of stone As one boulder falls away from the side And in a little crevice You see deflated And then inflated And then deflated And then inflated A pair of child's lungs And as the wind whips through As Escher flies down And stops And looks at you As As you feel As you feel The wind kind of whips through This area And as you breathe Feel a sense of A Strength Feel you And you all get plus two strength So you can do the same thing Kelsey if you click on the strength You have the ability to Add other modifier I have dies I have muscles Is the other modifier going to More than you did, yeah Override score Just do other modifier and do two Boop Oh my God Oh, even stronger than usual Wow Check it out I don't know how to do something There we go Plus two And And The jacket's falling apart, Caprice Yeah, we haven't been to like A tailor or anything this whole trip But it's just the jacket I left Galt again Yeah, it's pretty big though If we live through this You should get a new jacket You know, I think that's right I think I will get a new jacket If we live through this Guys, look My flex a little bit, there's like a tiny muscle I like it I have some memory of time with you, Felix You're coming off, Monty You're getting so strong, look at you Gosh, you could pick up one of those bulldozers That I was carrying You point to a very tiny bubble Yeah, that's not this big I feel like I need to jump off the ground Okay I turned to the side And you can see my tail And it also does this Did you grab the lumbar? He is too small as a bat He flies down And he is kind of just sitting there I'll go in gently It is soft and a little wet But surprisingly warm You pick it up And you're holding A pair of lungs Can we get out of here? Please, quickly Let's move away, right? We need to make sure that the The batterina can show up Escher flies and you see You see him dive over a ridge And down into a ravine And you see a large cave mouth That he's able to guide you towards As you are out of view Of the night creatures That had these carrion demons That had been feasting upon The remains of The horned duke And you manage to get out of sight And he immediately shifts back And he says Pazuzu is sick He's sick He reaches out for Maybe He's gonna be able to breathe one day It's been so long And he opened the portal And places And he closes them And He says All right We're getting there I feel Even though I'm staying out of sight I feel the effect of these places Are you okay? I will survive I will be fine And he pulls out his rapier again And says Now we go to the wells of darkness The mayor Of Kibiri, the watching master I may not be able to Avoid his gaze But we could certainly hope What happens if You don't avoid it? Then we pray That the word of Ob-O-Box Ob-O-Box Ob-O-Box Ob-O-Box Ob-O-Box And The others Has spread to them In their dissension Let's go And he opens the portal And you see kind of a faint Almost a pinkish Purpleish glow As he transforms into a bat And flies in What was this? The wells of darkness with Kibiri, though? Kibiri, C-A-B-I-R-I The watching master The watching master The watching master The wells of darkness The wells of darkness He's like a master of watching So he tells watches Oh, like the time Yes Or I How do you have a piece of time? No, like You know, like a pocket watch Watch is our timepiece Why are they called timepieces? It's just a language unit that means the thing But why not something about like a clock In your pocket I don't know You mean like pocket watch You know what I think? Clock in your pocket It is way cooler than pocket Why not clock in your pocket? I actually agree You're gonna have a whole jingle Clock pocket That's really good, Felix You really do have a concussion Your brain is melting, Toa I'm really... Caprice, I'm worried about Toa I know, I'm worried about him a lot You step into darkness But moats of color all around you As you once again float It is no longer that inky void But you see giant Plumes of colorful gases Starved Plumes of colorful gases Stars all around you You see a veritable sea of stars And nebulous shapes Stretching as far as you can see As You are floating In this This place that hums Of energy Who? Even those of you that don't cast magic And fuel the magic crackling in the air And the energy arcing all around you Not too dissimilar from the arcing green lightning That you had seen in the previous layer As it arcs all over the place As you see it forks out into purples and pinks And a brilliant arcane blues As it then shrinks back down As you see off in the distance Always present Orbs Orbs Orbs Orbs Orbs Of Color Just one over there There's another over there Everything else, the gases, the arcing energy Is all moving You see these large Colorful orbs Just Staying still Completely transvexed And you feel a similar sensation To what you had experienced In The inky void of the forgotten lands As you feel like you're being watched Can he see you right now? The bat just kind of Strings behind, lifting He seems nervous Let's make this quick Let's figure it out In and out What are the chances that she has? He has Her eyes Oh, because he sees all these watcher If he already is a watcher Why would he need the eyes? I mean, that's sort of on brand But at the same time, superfluous I don't think any of these Lords and ladies need the body parts I think Pazuz was the one that distributed them In a vaguely thematic way All right I like your idea We can straighten And do what we can Straight into what? To the horrible glowing Presumably eyes Oh, I thought there were more than one Am I crazy? Yeah, they're all over There's like orbs of different colors ever Different colors They all seemed to be in various directions But they all seemed to share the same gaze Is what you feel Oh, interesting Is the gaze on us? Oh I still don't hate the idea of getting closer And trying to check this out See what this is about Let's find one of the orbs as close as we can And we'll go from there Is he gonna try to stop us or what? Who knows? Maybe he just watches You try to move your You try to swim through And you're unable You just Leave it on Flowing Come on, Felix It's not working Okay, all right Maybe we can talk to him Well, if all of the eyes are on us And It's paying attention Maybe we don't have to go anywhere Oh, that's true Maybe he's trying to speak to him I could try getting more attention Hey! Yo! Camiri! Hey! Hey! Ha! You see all the eyes turn to a bright, electric blue As you see bitmotes of Of gases and orbs As they all It's a shimmering Archean blue As they As they all Where they had been multiple colors They all turned to the same and then suddenly You see a dark circle emerge At the center of each one Like an enormous pupil As they're all around you Hello! Hi! Greetings! Greetings? Hello? Hello? Hello? Uh, Camiri? Just Masterful watching Just Great, well done Oh, magic? Magic I mean Magic What does that mean, magic? Maybe a display, maybe some sort of Oh, this is like that episode of Fitzrauma Where Bendameet's called Maybe we can glean this That's exactly what you're all about You were doing very well Oh, God, why does it sound like a burp-burp? We got magic coming out the wazoo I mean, I guess I won't help You got some magic in you I got some magic in you Look, look, look I will show you the most amazing magic Have you got 12 hours and some snow? That's very funny There's a tiny... What spell slot? It's the seventh Um, the Makeup persuasion check Oh, no What are you allowing, Mike? I bet it doesn't work, it just eats the spell slot I hope so And the materials? No more snow Oh, that would be... Oh, but that was put into a... Yeah, we don't have access to it Persuasion, you say? 24 24 Um, you feel as if You suddenly feel a shock As the eyes of this thing And that faint of voice here Magic As you feel almost electrified Of this crackling arcane blue Like, as you feel as if You can test any spell Without material components and instantly Oh, my... As an action Oh, my God I can't believe this is about to happen I will... Feeling this I'll begin to sing Start to sing Yeah, buddy Should we pause the music? Yeah, yeah Oh, my God You have to name it's You Me and Duprize That's too funny I didn't play it a far ahead enough I didn't think I was going to get this far Did you just think it's not a best turn? You Me and Duprize That's very funny That's amazing The eyes are still this crackling arcane blue And they look towards you I've been playing music here By your side Me minus you Is such a lonely ride The music we share Makes us such a good pair I realize I love you Cause you got my flare Hey, hey And you hear another voice Suddenly out of nowhere A perfect chorus I've been spent the evening Made of dust and snow I'm alive now Thanks to your show Your music was such A way of learning so much I know now that I love you Cause I'm your construct Hey, hey Simulacrum It feels so good It's a perfect harmony Simulacrum Just cause we could There's one for a perfect bit And Caprice, this one is it We'll fight for the best outcome Cause we're Simulacrum Hey, hey And I'm like holding hands With all of a sudden a shaped Caprice And we start spinning around each other Like floating in the arcane magical air Amazing And you are, he's holding your hands And then as this large gashes form Looms over you To get pulled away And he looks very scared Oh no! You're gonna be okay Wait, wait, wait, what? Which hand please? Oh my god! Okay I love you, honey I love you, it's gonna be alright I just want you to stop it now I just wanted to murder my husband What do you mean? What's happening? What is the duplicate of Caprice? What are his last moments in the world? Cause he's into this arcane Devouring magic, devouring gas And he's ripped away from you You brought me into this world! You brought me into this world! I curse you! I curse you! I curse you! Oh my god! It's the funniest fucking ever! Oh my god! Oh, Caprice! Feels, feels, stunned and looks horrifying! Looks like some of the virgin tears! Oh my god, darling! Tell us, drugs, tell us, Sonic! It's okay, it's okay! It's okay, it's okay! Darling, you can make another one, right? It's okay! Yeah, it was okay! This is usually the funniest thing that's ever happened! Ever! Ever! That didn't go as I expected, exactly planned, but... Caprice, that was, that was horrifying! But also very impressive! And I'm gonna be singing! It's okay, it's okay! Your harmonies with yourself were quite lovely! That's what I was trying to tell you, it would have been worth 12 hours! Well, you got it done in an instant! I know, it's the magic of this place, it really thrums! Yeah, he seemed, he seemed quite vengeful! Yeah, he really gave it... I'm worried, it's old, the next time you summon him, you're going to have to pay the price! Yes, he's the same guy, or is it a new one? I don't know, I guess we'll find out! What if he comes back and he's just mad? Derek is doing the first Indie Fire Ever to get murdered by a civil agrarian? A civil agrarian shows up with an eyepatch in a month's time! This is your fault! You do this to me! Oh my god! It depends on whether he's been killed horribly, or if he's just been sucked to another dimension! Perhaps he's with Kabeeri now! I've said that before that looky can suck to another dimension! Is that true? The bat's like... The bat's like... You... that was the seventh little spell? Yep, and I spent it, so I should probably break it off, I'm like, never appreciate it! And then you hear your voice, it's a bit louder now! Man, I'm really capped out! Oh, that wasn't a note! He's swimming in a toxic medulla cloud! Fortunity! He's branded, he used to turn into magic, and he's like, Ah! Be a piece! Well, please god! Do you think we need to give him more? I mean... That was a lot! That was a lot! We don't really have much more! Is anyone wounded? I'll use a little bit of juicy juice. I don't think you're going to get any of it, and I reach over and I cast Cure Wounds at a first level on Toa. You reach out, first level? Yeah, that's all I got. You reach out and the Wounds sand goes out of your paw, and you're expecting to cover the wounds, but you see immediately a sand in the wind, in a sandstorm. It whips away in another passing gas cloud, as it consumes and it lights up a more... lights up more the eyes glow with a golden light now, as you... You're doing a spell slot. Do we feel constrained by our normal cast now, like Caprice was the only one that was able to cast? No, no, no, no, it's all the same rules, but you're limited by just my spells. I think mechanically, maybe it needs like ten levels worth of spell slots or something like that. So I still have to have the spell slot available? Yes. Okay, I'm saving my seven. I really don't want to bore this. No, no, I think that... it's always right that it would be ninth being the highest level of spell. The one, seven, and we're at eight. All we need is the first level of level spell. And if that doesn't work, then we'll just fucking... I see. Okay, hold on. And I sit down and for ten minutes, I cast Alarm, like right in front of me, then after ten minutes gets up, I stand up, I look at the eye and I walk through it and everybody hears an alarm and it's all off! Beep! Da-da-da-da-da! Ta-da! It's written on the tree! It's waking up! Well, imagine! I've always wanted to do this just for, you know, all the times you kept me awake all night long and you're singing so early in the morning and your perpetual chippiness and I cast a bane on all three of them. Oh, what? Could you ask? It's first, that's all I've got left. What if something attacks us? Channel the curse mummy bindings blast out of you and immediately they are whipped if they are caught in a hurricane and they spiral around away from all three of them and they circle into the gas and get disintegrated and evaporated as the eyes turn to a deep dark green as that is nine spell slots. And you, and immediately. That could have really hurt me. We knew it wasn't going to work. We didn't know that. I've seen perhaps several dozen eyes and then suddenly like twinkling stars coming in the night. Shit. You see eye after eye after eye appear as they all circle around you as all of the eyes turn to this bright pink light and suddenly as the eyes don't move blinking into existence directly before you are two small child size eyes. As you hear in your voice, what do you wish to see? Oh, what do we wish? Just maybe they're going to grant us a vision make a sight, young sight. I don't know. We could peak it anywhere in the mortal world or we could find out what it's doing. That's not a bad idea. I'm certainly good. Do we each get to see something or is one coming in with vision? Do we each get to see something? And then you realize as their eyes all over you, the cluster that is near you turns on you, feels the cluster that is near you, turns you and you all see clusters of eyes as they turn to the respective colors that are on the overlay and on the miniatures that respond to the colors of the characters. Wow. As color coding. As the eyes shift to that color and you hear once again, what do you wish to see? My color is blue. Well, I guess Felix already took red, that makes sense. That's cool. If we all have a chance, then I know what I want to see. Well, who could? Can you do that when you're unknown? I mean, you all just saw nude Caprice get sucked to hell, so. Oh, we must not get you, love. That's another caveat of its own. He didn't have any of my magic items, he's not a perfect clone. It's really cold in here. I guess as my dance watches you poop. That's not all he sees. He sees everything, so he's seen it all. What board is there? Kabiri, we've got a lot of important stuff to see, but I want to see someone I care about a lot. Her name is Hercet Anvilard. I just want to make sure she's okay. The eyes pulse and pulse. What do you wish to see? Was that to you? All of you here. Oh, I think we all have to register or get in the queue, I don't know. Oh, we all have to decide now before you've seen what you saw? I want to see Prada Gruba, I want to know that he's okay in Kerstine. In all amongst, but mostly Prada Gruba. What do you wish to see? What? What's so funny, Toa? What? Spit it out. I just can't stop thinking about Andrew Prescott. I love shit out of him. Has no food in there. I hate you, Prada Gruba. Oh, poor DePriest. Do we think that this vision is going to give us a glimpse of the future? Oh, I don't... Even if the master was watching again, looking at the future... You're pretty smart. Not a master at all. Can you think about that? Well, I have an idea, but... I don't like it when we're playing. Oh, yeah. What do you wish to see? Be careful who we speak to. Okay. I really don't know that. I'm worried if I ask for my vision, it might mess things up. Well, don't risk it. Okay. Play it safe. I think I have to see home. I've seen so many terrible visions of what could be of the doom that's to come. Yeah, take a drink. It'd be nice to know what it actually is like right now. With Makuchu defeated and the wind spirit safe. Either that or... Maybe we can see what happened in a brief space. Maybe he's in a bit of a place. I will know if he's dead. I have no connection or anything. He could still be alive. He probably got fucking killed or thrown ragnarok or whatever. Maybe it was like in a stable. He goes in the black hole, but he survives it. Okay, yeah. And he's watching us right now. In a bookcase or something? He's somewhere in horrific pain and agony. Do we want to know that? Because we can't unknow it. He knows everything that I know, so if he finds himself in that position, he could triple P his way right out of there. Oh, no. Oh, god. He better be dead. He better be dead. I want to be real more. He better be dead. I hope he's dead. I hope he's dead. We just created the new BB&G. We just hijacked this whole campaign. After four years of planning. Shit. Well, if he doesn't have a soul, maybe he's useless. It's a P-Mem. That's fair. This is too much. I would like to ask you as the god of this world, do I feel like we're winning these demons over, or at least they're going along with what we believe our plan to be? And then I could ask a question without like making our comments. Make it our comments. Make it our comments. Make it our comments. 15. I rolled double fives. I'm a liberal. I would say that there with the... At which you had communicated with Pale Knight, with Xarva Dexes and with Kaviri, you get the sense that the parasite inside of Caprice is something that they are registering. Okay. And you're getting the sense that this is something that they are appreciative of whatever you're doing. Fuck you. I want to ask like something from the future, even see if they can do it. I was either thinking like, what happens if we successfully rebuild Robinovia, or what happens if we successfully deliver this? Yes. What's my two ideas? I don't know if that's like two. I'm asking from a medigame right now. I'm curious what you think. I think those are both wonderful ideas, Felix. And we all going to role play this. No, we can't. I'm going to role play. I'm just, I don't want to fuck this. We don't have to. We don't have to. You have to actually have to say, we don't have to RP this. We don't have to RP this. We don't have to people who are playing bingo get that. We don't have to RP this. I don't care about that. Okay. I want to know. I want a vision of what happens if we successfully retrieve all of the body parts of Robinovia. Is that sure? Yeah. Sounds like a pickman. That's my vision. That's what I want. If you can do it. What do you wish to see? Did you already go? I did. I'm from the islands. I just want to see how they do it. Right. I would like to see little Thomas and Zikett. Want to make sure he arrives safely and that he's all right. And daddy? Too? You could have asked for that. You chose not to. Keep your eyes out of my vision. I'm probably daddy. Just turn this way. Dorothy. She's coming when we dial them on. What do you wish to see? That's all of us. That was the final. Oh no. Batzy boy. Come on. What are you doing? I'm just going to get a little closer. The Mccomie islands. Oh. Geez. Just kidding. Do we get an extra vision if I come back with a huge barrel of vicing? What? Vicing. Vicing. Vising. You say that weird. Vising? Vising. Vising? Like magazine? Is it vising or vising? Vising. Vising. Vising? I think it's vising. Why would it be vising? I guess it could be either. It is spelled S-I-N-E but it's said visibly. But they say vising. The one rule of English is that there are no rules. That's right. It immediately. Oh, it works. The eyes all flash. And your vision is completely blinded in these wells of darkness. As Kibiri, the watching master, fills your mind. You see now as Persia and Torval in the Grizzlpaw Mountains looking up at a black sky with a roaring eclipse above. As dark wings are taking to the sky, descending upon them. You see as eagles, hawks, all manner of birds are descending, attacking the other townspeople. As people are running through the streets trying to take cover. You see Persia whip her flail around. She manages to smash several of these birds as they begin to grow and mutate and get larger. As they start to sprout through more eyes. As the vision shifts. As you see a servant with holding a crying Tommy. As running through the palace. As the doors are barred. As you see the windows overhead, the enormous eclipse. As dozens of ibises but with extremely elongated bills and large talons where their webbed feet are flying towards until two Tabaxi garter are able to slam the window shut. As you hear loud slam and a crush. You see as the Stoutman Highlands of Kierstein, the monks are in a ring around the monastery. As these, as standing beside him is Amos with a sword standing as these savage bird monsters fly in. As they are slicing them down. You see Brother Gruber as an enormous golden eagle. Twice as large as one should be swoops down and he whips up and breaks its neck in a single motion. As you see the monks attacking. As you see Toa across the sea a plume of a billowing rolling storm cloud of seagulls and seabirds. Descending from the sea, descending upon the Mekani Islands with the eclipse raging overhead. Monstrous and shrieking as the sea shell horns are being called. As the drums are banging. As people are grabbing weapons and going to fight. And you see that across all of Avantris, the sun is eclipsed as the birds of Avantris are being corrupted by the power of Pazuzu. The peoples are trying to defend themselves and they have not turned into demons yet. But this is a war perhaps the first sign of the apocalypse. The second sign I guess the first one being the eclipse. The second one being all of the plague of the birds. And you finally see a fully formed Ravanovia. And as the Ravanovia, her black ringlets maintained her eyes open. Life returned, not a vampire's life but that of a child. As in one moment you blink and you see an enormous, bloated, blue-skinned woman with horrible tentacles. And eyes filled with pain as a spear of flesh and carapace pierce into her. As she sinks beneath a hissing, salting sea. 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