Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry - Deep Trouble | Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode | Episode 10

Episode Date: November 11, 2024

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Hi, I'm Dan Casey, I'm a proud member of the Terror Squad. I play Phibs, a skeleton who dabbles in wizardry. And I am Danielle Radford, another member of the Terror Squad. And I play Busy, who is a bard. Hey, I'm Jason Wynne, card-carrying member of the Terror Squad. I play Tippy, a goblin artificer with, you guessed it, a gun. Ooh, terrifying. And with that, it is just about time to part the veil of reality.

And we are no longer humans, souls and meat sacks, well fed, all surrounded by each other in loving company. No, no, no. We are falling. Oh, my fault! So what you're experiencing is being surrounded. by almost like a hug of pure magic energy that is transporting you from one area of the material plane to another area of the material plane. You are not planes jumping. Not yet. But what you are experiencing is this feeling of weightlessness, almost nothingness. The lights and the colors and shades do go by you.

If you close your eyes, you would feel like you're not going anywhere. But when you open your eyes, you get the feeling because the colors are slowly moving past that you are sinking down. almost like watching an elevator. So it's as if you're underwater, but you're not wet, you don't feel the sensation of being wet. You can breathe, you can talk to each of, oh no. Wow, actually pretty nice, but I'm not wet. Does anybody else feel like they're either falling or sinking?

Kind of both. It feels like a warm hug, but also, I should be wet right now. I should be wet, but I'm not wet. I'm almost too dry. You're always wet. You're wet all the time. Oh my God, it's almost like our planes jumping, but we're not.

Gotta be something different. Oh, I really hate all of them. An underwater world and this cannot be. This cannot be. We're describing how we feel. Sorry, I meant to say glub glub. But for now, time is also indeterminate, but I will let you take basically one turn.

An action, cast a spell, create something. Create something. You said, create something. I sure did. And I think it's worth noting that at this time, while you are being surrounded by all of this magic, you three all level up and you are now, Hey!

You are now level three. You've learned some new skills. You've gained some things. I think the biggest change for all of you is busy. So busy, having seen what is the, the highest of the century and having been a part of the highest of the century, and seeing multiple different kinds of love

while being embraced by pirates, some platonic, some not, imbued with a sense of like, gosh, that's cool. And loving how easily and how fun it was to lie as she was pretending to be Kaya. Busy is now multi-classing. I am now a barred rogue. Yes. I know what that means.

More bone stuff. And you're level three, so two bard, one rogue. Yep, two barred, one rogue. Love it. Yeah, so moved up with my bard stuff. Obviously, we made jokes about this last time that busy's charm stats and everything way too low because she was still of, not quite into the world,

but now she's grown, she's learning, she gets backwards on a chair like dangerous minds. And so that's just immediate charm stat course. Just right up there. Perfect. What does fibs look like? Phibs starts spinning around with his staff before him,

and it's almost like this magical girl transformation, like Sailor Moon style. But when he stops spinning and strikes a pose, he pretty much looks the same, but he just feels a little bit more confident. You see these little sparks dancing across his fingers as he feels this newfound magical energy pulsing through his bones. Perfect, awesome.

More wizard. And finally, we come to Tippy. So Tippy is going to, double down on his artificing abilities and his abilities to create things as he falls and in this weightlessness, he starts to black out from A, being scared and B, being pushed and falling. And C, being not wet.

And not being wet. It's too much for him. It's too much for him. Yeah. Ah, oh, ah, oh. Yeah. So as he passes out and comes to, he has this like sort of vision.

And in his vision, his gun talks to him. He goes, What's that? You want to live? You want to be alive? You're alive? Okay, I'll do it. And Tippy,

sort of in a trance, starts carving this sort of bigger version of his gun, but out of wood. But something weird starts to happen. It starts to come alive. And it starts to spurt little, little legs. And it has two googly eyes. on the side, almost like the happy face let, he's scrawled onto the gun.

And now he has an Eldridge cannon following him around. Excuse me, yes, he has an alive gun that's gonna follow him around. And a live gun. And a live gun. Little eggs. Little eggs. Can I be at the best friend? Of course you can.

Hell yeah. I was gonna say how does busy react to this? Because you're all able to witness each other's transformation. Oh, my God, that's the coolest thing I've ever seen. Oh my God, that's so cool, can you make it? I can only make one and I don't know. I think it's alive! Oh, it's alive!

Does it have a name? Oh! His name is Gun Tippy. Oh, it is... Gun Tippy lives! So you have Robo Tippy. Robotippy. And Gun Tipi.

And also his known alias Rippy. Yes. Rippy, my alter ego. It was just red tippie. Actually, so that's your action. That's your turn. You've created this little guy. Anything you all would like to do.

It's very clear that you all would like to do. It's very clear that you you will be shot out into a watery location. Well, Tippy's wearing a diving suit, right? Yes. Yes. Just makes everything he's doing with his level of artificerability even more impressive

considering he's wearing a giant diving suit. Yeah, some sort of like mittens, mitten hands, everything right now. Well, you're not doing this alone. In fact, Loof is assisting you because she is a little scared about going underwater, and she agrees to assist you in return to enter the diving suit.

Yes, Lufus in the diving suit with me. I forgot that spite is need to breathe. Yeah, yeah. I would imagine Lufus telling me where to, you know, put things. She's helping out, if you'll allow it, she wants to see what's going on, so she'll be up in your glass case,

and maybe covering one eye like an eye patch. Tippie will allow it. Okay, perfect. Be cool about this. Busy is using her great sword, which she like never uses, but she's using it much like an old dude would whittle something,

and she's basically just like turning her face She's giving herself a manicure, giving herself a little manny, and making the finger points on each of her fingers incredibly sharp. Oh, damn. Wow. Like super sharp, like talon sharp, like saber tooth sharp. Oh man, horrifying skeleton manicure.

That's awesome. Okay, perfect. What about Phibs? And Phibbs is just having a blast feeling weightless yet dry. As he's falling, fibs remembers that Loof is inside of Tippy's helmet, And he casts minor illusion to make a little version of himself to go wave at Luf in front of the helmet. Oh my gosh.

Two Unkies on it once. This is the best. Just keep it common here, okay, Luf. No, I'm so excited. Not a lot of room, Louf. I'm gonna web all over the place. No, Luf, do not web. Don't web in here.

You can't stop me. Louf, please, please, don't web. What would you do to stop me? I'll let you keep calling me Unkey. How about that? I'm cool with Unki. I was just going to do that revoke. Oh, no, no.

Loof, I'll make you a new thing. I'll make you a new thing. I made you your legs. Oh, I did like my legs. Yes, what would you like me to make? I'll try to make it. Well, I won't be the size forever. Okay.

I would like my own web gun. A spider with a gun. Spider web gun. My nightmare. I want it to be double as effective when I get old enough to really do some terror with my web. That is the most genius thing ever said to me, Loof, have you considered maybe a career

and artificing too? Oh no, that I would hire people like you to do it. Right, okay, yeah, I'll make it, I'll make it. I would delegate, for I will be the most terrifying beast known to the entire world. The second most terrifying, because you are still working with the Terror Squad, we're the most terrifying. Just the pecking order of things, Louf.

Doesn't matter, your kid. Yes, we don't need to get into who's superlative at this moment, but just wait until my final form. Have you seen my mother? I've seen a lot of your kind and you're- Unkey Phibs knows my mother. Oh yeah. When I grow up to be like her,

it's over for you bitches. Now when you say you bitches, am I included in the bitches? Are we bitches? No, just the general, the general, you know, it's just over for, oh okay, the general. It's over for other bitches. Oh yeah. Okay.

Yes. Yes. Growing up so well. I'm really proud of you, Luf. Keep up the good work. H1, H1, am I right? You know what? You should let off a web to celebrate.

No, no, no, Loof, don't do it. Louf, don't do it. She webs. She webs. Um, it's a soft web. Okay. No real damage. Okay.

You're gonna be uncomfortable for a while. Okay, I'm uncomfortable. Yeah, you're really sticky in your suit. But as you are falling, you feel more corporeal. Like you feel your physical form-taking shape. It's less of a fall. and more of a slide. The colors speed up.

It's like you're moving faster. You actually feel resistance as you're moving faster. And then you blink and all of a sudden you just find yourself. In this chamber. The way this chamber looks, there's no door. It's a circular chamber 15 feet in diameter, all made of stone, bluish stone, and it is lit but you can't tell where the source of the light is.

There are six pillars equidistant around the circumference of the room, and in the middle is one. one pillar that holds a bowl of stone square tiles. On the walls, there are two freezes, but they're identical, and they're carved to look exactly like this tapestry behind you. And you notice for the first time, you've seen hints and themes of this throughout your entire life,

working in Eun-ZUgs lair, but also outside in the world of Sundaros. And this does paint the picture of what the searing was. Is there anything of note that you would like, to just notice about this tapestry. Who are these people? I wanna know who the soldiers are. You notice that there are soldiers, plenty of them,

and what else do you notice? I'm not gonna tell you anything, I just wanna know what you know this. What do I see with my goblin eyes? I see apples, they're gonna look at a lot of fruit on that tree. Okay, fruit. That looks really delicious. Mm-hmm.

Well, anyone else? That's it. Yeah, I see, you know, these two huge, Mr. mouth over here with the big old teeth. Then obviously the huge radiant. I'm trying to figure out if that's a sun or what the light source for that is, with all of like the fire and everything bursting out of the kind of spires around it, okay?

Phibs is really drawn to what appears to be a group of cultists in the bottom right. That kind of looks like that Seith group that he was talking about. They're worshipping something, looking up with great reverence towards this force of destruction in the middle, which appears to be the source of the searing. It looks like on the bottom left, it might be,

I don't know if those are the Sundari or maybe some of their forces, but it feels like light versus dark from left to right. The other thing that I just wanna point out is that there is one large humanoid and one large beast-e fiendy guy, and there are five humanoids below them

and five humanoids below the fiend. Those are the freezes that surround the wall of this room. I want to see if Tippy upon closer inspection notices that five human or wizards and the bottom left are holding staves. Do any of them look like Eun-zug staff? Yes.

Yes, one of them does. And upon closer inspection, you also notice that the renderings of these humanoids, they're giving humanoid. They may or may not be human, right? So even though with beards, they may and they all look the same height, they may or may not just be all men,

and they may not all be human. I mean, honestly, I've never met Eun-ZUk. I've only heard of him. I mean, busy, you would know more, but the bottom left one, I think he has Eun-ZUk's staff, and could that be Un-Zug? I've only heard tales of what Un-ZUk looks like, and they vary from kind of person to person.

Sometimes you hear about how he's top, all with big, beautiful, floating orb eyes and just a menacing presence you can't escape. And then sometimes people talk about him being just all cloaked. Or I, now that I think about it, I don't know that I've ever heard exactly two people describe Unzug the same. That's why I've always been so excited to see him in person.

I'll admit, when I cast this guy's self on myself to pretend to be Unzug way back in episode one, I took a real shot in the darkest to what he actually looks like. I've heard of like these courtroom sketch artists in human settlements. I imagine it was kind of like that. But who knows?

I mean, the staff looks certainly like something he would wield. Do we notice as well any of the other five artifacts of the Sundari champions? Very good. You do notice that the five below on the bottom left are probably the Sundari champions and they are holding various artifacts. Like the circling.

or maybe the chalice of Kirkin or the staff of Rulbert? Ooh, ooh, oh, you're making me so happy. Yes. So a human is holding the staff of Rolbert. A male elf is holding the chalice. A dwarf female is wearing the circlet. You also see a human sporting a ring, and one of them is an Erakokokra.

A boy person? A real bird person. Yeah, sorry. There is a distinction. I'm not a bird person, but where bird? And I mean, this room, it looks like there's nothing really going on in it, except those six pillars and the bowl of square tiles in the middle and the freezes. I want to look at the bowl of square tiles. So Bizzy goes over there and starts examining it.

What do I see inside? Actually, maybe there's a couple on the floor as well. You see that these square tiles have carving. on them, insignias, little signs that are of little images. They just vary a spider web, a rainbow, a hammer, a horseshoe. Okay, so this isn't like when you go to your mom's house, she's got that bowl full of balls or whatever, like these are actual things that do something.

Popery? Yeah, I just know it's popery. No. So looking through the, I'm gonna reach in and start, like, really picking up the tiles and looking at them and examining them. As Busy takes the tiles out, she starts kind of a row arranging them on the flat table. So she can take a look at all of the images

and see if you put them together a certain way, would it form a fuller image, is what she's first trying to take a look up. Okay, so go ahead and roll an investigation check. Okay. Oh, Nat 20, 21. That's good. Oh, nice.

They do look like they would fit into a slot on the top of each of the six pillars on the. How tall are these pillars? They are about three and a half feet tall. Oh, okay. I was so, yeah, within reach. Yeah, and so the tops of them have a little inlay where

a square tile might fit. Seems like we gotta match these to the top of the pillars. Yeah, so everybody, like, take a tile and let's see if we put that in, and if nothing else, something cool is probably gonna happen, right? If something cool doesn't happen, we'd be so mad, you guys. I'm gonna be really disappointed.

I'm gonna be really disappointed. Okay, well, here, I'll take a tile. Let's look at what's on the specific pillar before we start putting them William, nilium, before. Since we came from a dungeon that was full of deadly death traps, I just worry that if we put them in incorrectly, Tipi's going to die. Well, and Tippy, you're like a master of traps or whatever. Is there anything that you? I don't know. This room looks so unfamiliar to me, and I've really only built traps in Unzug's lair, and this looks nothing like Unzug's lair. Would I know, would I feel or know, like, can I roll perception to see if there are any traps?

Yes, and you would be looking for traps, so this is an investment. Investigation. Investigation, okay. 14? Yeah, you look around, you look at the freezes on the walls and the pillars themselves. You notice no traps. There are two things you do notice, which is the floor is starting to get about an inch of water at the bottom. Where you're standing, nothing's moving yet, but the other thing you notice is that each of the pillars has a name written on it.

I'm going to give you these pieces of paper just so you have them. They're names on the pillars. They're names on the pillars. And Dan, will you read the first two? The names on each of the pillars. Arsina, the sovereign of grace. And Ta, the sovereign of valor. Next we have Ordimf, the sovereign of healing,

and Saadif, the sovereign of nature. Then we have Ariadne, the sovereign of wisdom. And then we have Euthis, Wanderous Fortune. All right. So we also have here a giant list of all of the tiles in here. So many tiles. Yes, you have 36 tiles. 36 tiles.

Each with a different image on them. Tipi starts, even though he's wearing a wet suit, he starts rubbing his temples on the outside of the diving helmet, being like, there's so many tiles, there's so many tiles. Think, think, think, think, think. Well, all of these have to coordinate with something, right? Like we've got here, Sadaf, sovereign of nature,

we've got like a leaf, we've got some nature stuff. Maybe that coordinates with that? Ordemp is the sovereign of healing, and we have the chalice, which makes healing potions. Is there a chalice on here? It doesn't look like, oh man. But I do think you're onto something busy. I believe they're the Sundari,

so I think we should probably try to match them. Well, aren't they on the freeze? Can we go and look and see if, are they the Sundari? I believe so. If my notes have not betrayed me, I believe they're the sundari. Well, let's take a look, so I think we all go back over to the freeze

and try to match up what we can see, on the freeze to the items. Awesome. Everyone roll an investigation check. Okay. Let's go. Hey, another Matt 20. It's 20. Oh, my gosh. She's killing it.

I got a 23. Oh, hey. Yay, okay. I got at 20 as well. Oh, what's going to be? Let's go. It's all downhill for me. Yeah, we used them all.

Okay, well, as you're examining the freezes, they do cover the whole room, so in doing that, you're also examining the pillars themselves. And you notice that even though the freezes, the carving is so minute. It's actually really difficult to tell what the insignias are. The items are easily recognizable.

But as you're examining the pillars, you notice that on each one of the pillars is a small riddle that is carved on the back. I go and read the riddles. The first one is Arsena Sovereign of Grace. And the riddle says, My hat can harm you, whether dancing or still, my body for structure, a source for your seal.

Okay, a hat that could harm you whether dancing or still. Hat, hat, hat. Okay, well, you're thinking I'm gonna read, Fibbs is champing at the bed. Oh, Shibbys wants to answer. Okay, well, let's see if, do you wanna try to solve it yourself? Yeah, I'm gonna solve it myself. Okay, I'll read the next one.

Dan, this one's for you. This is under Ta, Sovereign, of. of valor. Okay. You found me in nature and then wove me round, embracing a victor a coveted crown. To me, that sounds like a spider web. Okay, what do you do?

I find the spider web token, and I place it on the top of the pillar. Okay, you place it on the top of ta, and go ahead and make a dexterity saving throw. I hope that's a good thing. That is a unnatural 20. Ooh. Okay, you do save.

You take two points of piercing damage. Ow. It's not a spider web. Not the spider web. What was that for? Taa. Okay, Tad, not spider web. And the water in the room starts filling up very quickly now.

You can actually see spouts, about 10 spouts, around the edge of the circle, as the water starts filling. Looks like I was onto something about there being traps. I looked for traps and I didn't see some. I gotta focus on my trap discovery skills. Okay. This one's for you, Danielle. And then we can go around and have you guess again

for these three. This is for Ordemp, Sovereign of Healing. Made of many dead, I help sail and swoop a crucial feature for those with a view. I'm gonna grab the telescope. Okay. So I will take the telescope and Visi will put that on top of that pillar.

Okay, make a dexterity saving throw. Damn it. Ha ha ha ha. That is 16. A 16. A 16, you do save. You take one point of piercing damage. Okay.

The water is continuing to fill. So what wasn't that again? Give me that one more time. It wasn't a telescope. It wasn't a telescope for who? Or then. For not telescope. We're back to you, Jason.

Do you want a second riddle or do you want to solve this one? I want to solve the first one. Okay. Okay. My hat can harm you whether dancing or still. My body for structure, source for your seal. I don't know. Okay.

Fibs, you were like, oh, I know. I think it's a crown. I think it's a crown too. I had that idea first. That's a hat that would hurt you. And also the seal, it provides the source for the royal seal. Oh, that's what I was thinking the whole time.

You just validated my theory. I take the crowd and I put it in the pedestal. Okay, roll the textury. Shit, damn it. 14? Maybe a more of a crossword puzzle guy. 14. 14 says you take one point of of piercing damage.

What hurts me? What's the thing that pierces? Oh, yes. So you actually do feel that darts are shooting out from the sides of the wall, not specifically the pillar, but the walls targeted right at you. So the darts that pierce you and do damage to you actually are able to pierce through your armor despite being a diving suit. That might cause some issues later on as the water fills up.

I immediately look at Robo Tippy. I'm like, Robo Tippy, you don't have to do. And Robotypy cast bending on my suit. So I can do other things while my suit's being fixed. It shakes little patches of fabric. And remember, you do have Loof inside. And Loof, can you web the inside, please, Loof where the hole is?

Okay, she's fucking up holes too. Very cute. Okay, do you want to go... You said, who was your idea? I know, I was lying! Do you want to go around one more time, or do you want the other three riddles? Oh, should we solve these or should be the other ones?

Let's try the next ones. The next one's great. Because maybe one of them will be like easier, and we can do process of elimination. It looks just a little. to make sure it looks like only one tile would fit in on the top. Only one tile. Okay, we're gonna do the next three. I'm gonna waddle over to the other.

Tippy, yes. What's this saying? Sodif, sovereign of nature. Sodeth. Green to gold of trees, but not wood. Falling when old, gone, not for good. I don't know why I'm reading so fast. I think I gotta read a little bit slower.

Oh, sorry. One more time. Okay. Green to gold. Okay. Of trees, but not wood. But not wood. Falling when old, gone not for good.

Not for good. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. It's an acorn. There's got to be an acorns. Acorns go from green to gold. When they start, they're ripe and they're green and they turn gold and when they fall, they're gone but not for good because they become a trait.

Interesting. I think it's an acorn and I grab the acorn and I put it in the couch. Roll the decarity saving. Damn it! We were thinking Leaf when you read that aloud. Oh no! I didn't even see Leaf on this.

It's actually on there twice. That's why I thought about it so much. Oh, no! Wait! I rolled it, six. I rolled it too. No, that's six. You take four points of piercing down.

Rocking and fucking pinned to the wall. Okay, okay, okay. You didn't save. Sorry. Okay. I swore to God it was an acord. MC's tip you just get shot up full of needles. He's like, oh, that looks painful.

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Even in shade, you can count on my light. Oh, oh. Go on. I think it's the stay pointed star. That's what I was thinking as well. Okay. Since I placed this last one, would you like to place this one? No, you could place it.

You should? Okay. No, you can place it. You don't want to feel the sting of victory? You don't want to feel the ecstatic joy of getting a puzzle correct? No, no. I think you should do it. Okay, cool.

Phibbs is going to take Tiffy's advice and put the eight-pointed star on top of our And that is correct as you do feel the satisfying crunch of the stone against stone as it sinks down about a foot into the ground. Let's go. The water's still filling. It's almost at your knees at this point. Busy. You read Uthus's.

Uthus Wanderer's Fortune. I'm humble, small, and low, but indeed I swear to grow. A cap I wear upon my head, but under earth is where I spread. This has got to be leaf. leaf. Wait, we did that one. This gotta be a... Well, there is a second leaf, so maybe we could try that one. There's two leaves.

Or we could try a acorn. It's an acorn. It got a little hat. Yeah. Are you sure you don't want to... You don't want to just put it... Okay. Yeah.

So busy, who was fully ready to feel the joy of being right, puts it inside the top of the pillar. Okay, once again, you feel the satisfying stone-on-stone friction as it sinks into the ground. Better than other people? You still... We'll, however, have three unsolved, and they are the ones from the beginning. You have Arsena and Ta and Ordenv. All right, so Arsena is like hat, dancing still,

body structure, something, something seal. A source for your seal. A source for your seal. My hat can harm you whether dancing or still, my body for structure, a source for your seal. Why are hats harmful? That just sounds mean. What would I put on my head as a hat?

A laurel wreath, perhaps, maybe, But why would it hurt me? But if you were winning an award at a film festival or you were some kind of a film festival. Do you want me to read the other riddles? Yes. Okay. So, Ta is Sovereign of Valor. You found me in nature and then wove me round, embracing a victor, a coveted crown.

Oh, maybe that's a laurel wreath. That's the one. Yeah, let's do that one. You should do it. You should put the thing. All right. I will put the laurel wreath atop. Ta, sovereign of valor.

Perfect. You do the laurel wreath. that and it sinks down once more your victory complete on that one. You have two last pillars left. This is Ordhav, Sovereign of Healing, Made of many dead, I help sail and swoop, a crucial feature for those with a view. Could that be a map?

I was gonna say a map. I think that's a map. A lot of people had to die to get this information. A lot of people have died to get that. Plus, you could give you the view and it's also for whether you're flying or whether you're on the sea. Exactly.

Tippy, do you want to? Oh, wait. No, I'm gonna work on mine. I haven't solved mine yet, so maybe you can put yours in. Hat, hat, hat. Danielle, you do remember, I mean, you got it right, that Or Demp, the Sovereign of Healing, is the Sundara associated with the chalice,

and you have the chalice. Okay, so I'll, this is gonna sound wild. What if I like take out the chalice and like rub it around? Yeah, if you rub it or wrap it around. Yeah, if you rub it or rub it, Roll a dexterity saving through. Roll a dexterity saving throw. Oh, thank God for that good, good decks.

So that is a 13. Yeah, that saves and you're gonna take one point of piercing damage as a dart shoots out to greet you. And what you do notice though is there is an insignia on the chalice itself. What's the insignia? Wings, two outstretched wings. Oh, perfect.

So then, hey, so it's the two outstretched wings. For which one? It looks like that is gonna be for the, or demf. Or damp. Okay, let's try it. Great. Busy.

Okay, and so you sure, okay. Busy puts that into the top of the. And you are successful. As you do that, you remember that feathers like hair are dead. Oh, that's fun. It's so sad. So there's only one left, Arsina. Arsena, sovereign of grace.

Hmm, here's what I'm thinking. My hat can harm you whether dancing or still. Which one of these bad boys could dance? And as you're still thinking of this final solution, the water is getting higher and higher. It is now waist high. There's still plenty of room in the room, but you get the sense that it's just going to fill up.

Oh, no. Okay, so regardless. Oh, um, candle. Candle. It's probably a candle. My hat, little flame, whether dancing or still a can harm you, sometimes flames dance, a wax steel, body for structure. It's a candle.

It's a candle. I had that thought the whole time. Honestly, I had that thought first, but then I didn't want to say that out loud because I didn't want to be too cocky. You know what? You should do this last. You should put that one in.

That. We're just letting the water rise up. Yeah, you should talk. I'll do it. I'll do it. Robotippy, put it in. And I have a Robotippy grab. Wint, right, right, right, right, right.

He puts the candle in and kachun, kachun, kachun, as the pillar just sinks into the ground. Oh. As these stones are all sinking into the ground, A seal breaks forth from the wall as a stone moves forward and then to the side. And Busy, this actually triggers a flashback. Uh-oh.

That's right for you. Busy, you are being reprimanded by your superior. I hate that in any life. This is a dwarf. You can see a little more clearly in this flashback. something about a man who you've been chasing as part of your job. It's taken you so long. You attempt to explain yourself,

but your station in this group is being highly questioned. You've been one of the leaders, one of the superiors, someone to look up to, a prodigy really. This is the only life you know, but part of you knows they are right to accuse you of not trying hard enough, being unsuccessful. Your superior reaches out with a dagger

to under your chin cuts off one of your braids that grows from your chin, leaving you with only three left. It is a huge mark of scorn. And you are left questioning to something and you want this person you've been chasing, this male, to actually stay alive, despite what it might mean for you. your livelihood and your job. And while you are questioning that,

you're back into this. Busy, busy. Okay, are you good? Remember, and the seal has separated. The water is rushing all the way in. This is salt water, your packs metal, everything is getting ambushed by waters. You're getting buried.

We gotta get out of here. Alright, yeah, out of here. Do we see an exit anywhere? So the seal is circular, it moves forward and rolls to the side, and that is where you can exit. It leads through a stone tunnel, but at the end of it, it does seem to come out

into a bigger chamber, a room. Phibbs is gonna try and help usher busy out of the room towards that exit. Okay, you notice that there is in this water, all of you are casters. You all channel the weave, and you just feel inundated with magic. Like there's just magic at your fingertips.

Oh, it smells like magic in here. It does. It does. Oh yeah, you're right. But it's overwhelming. It's like, feel it on my fingertips. At the very end of the tunnel, you actually see a huge bottom feeder catfish face.

The head is as big as you all. And it swims into your purview. And it looks like it rears back, and it kind of sneezes or spits all the way down the hall at you. Ew. It all lands on top of you. This kind of gooey, grayish green snot-like stuff.

Most of it seems to be targeted around your face area. And you can tell pretty immediately that, well, you guys can't, actually none of you can tell because you got a diving suit on, huh? Yeah, I finger squeegee my diving seat. This just looks like an inconvenience, to be honest. Gross. Will you...

What is this? Anyone who touches it, will you roll an investigation, or a nature check? Or an arcana check. Nature or Arcana. Can I roll a... even though I'm in the diving suit or no? Yes, yes, yes.

It's a 24 arcana. Okay. Because I got an eight. Okay. Oh, bad. This is almost a magical substance from a magical creature. You can tell that if you just let it go on your face,

if you weren't a skeleton and you needed to breathe underwater, this would help you breathe underwater. It just also happens to be getting everywhere else. Hey, this is actually a beneficial catfish goo. If you smear it on your face, it looks like it might help you breathe, like plug up your holes. This is good goo. Okay, let-o.

That good, good, good goo. Take your suit off, we'll rope the goo all over you. No, no, no, keep the suit on. Let's-suit off or on? I want to pull out a little vial from my pack and just scoop some of the goo in there. Okay. For later.

How much goo do we need? Yeah, how much go do we need for like square foot of Tippy? How much gole do you talk about? And what's the value in dungeon dollars? So if you wanted, I'm not, I don't know. I don't know. Tippy, what's just, what's just, what's just

square footage if you were guessed the square footage I'm a square foot of goblin surface area of goblin skin I don't know but you yes you there's plenty I mean this this guy obviously naturally generates it and he swims off he he's off thank you gross fish bye gugu guy disgusting goo fish goodbye I'll always remember you the current seems to move away from the room now the current is pushing you out of the tunnel And you come to this enormous, large underwater room. It looks like a huge atrium, a receiving room

where other beings are entering from other tunnels similar you think to the one that you came from. They're being filed to the center of the room, just like you, and as you enter this room, you realize that your pathway is curtailed by an iron cage that makes an archway hallway for you to walk down, but that the cage-like nature of it lets you be able to see the rest of the room.

The center of the room leans downward, and it does seem as though there are checkpoints, and then people are funneled out across the room in one area. Are we seeing other people or like other creatures? Both. The main humanoids that you see are murfolk. Oh, okay.

Their bottom half is a fishy tail, and the top half is also fishy. How many more folk do we see? It seems to be. fairly slow so in the hallways in the gates you see about maybe 10 others across the atrium and this is a huge place so it actually seems like very few but you also see murfolk wearing makeup not unlike myself ooh that could be barnacles or just the way their skin goes they're running security with lances and tridents swimming around there's also other big bottom feeder

catfish creatures that make their way around doing security as well and the beasts at the checkpoint seem to be the catfish creatures as well The other type of humanoid that you see is not quite a mur creature, but it's almost like a A humanoid an alpha halfling a dwarf or a human who just lived down here for too long and their skin is covered like the hull of a ship that's just underwater covered in barnacles has grown things, tentacles, spines, little plankton swimming in and out of their bodies as well. And they just seem to belong here, but it does look like maybe they weren't formed here. The Murrfolk themselves are beautiful and really fierce, terrifying. They don't have any joy around them. What's going on with these joyless fish people?

They're just all floating around being very serious and very hot? Yeah, they look hot and serious. I mean, I feel like that's kind of what hot people do. They don't really smile that much. They're just dower. Dowerness is part of being hot. I'm attractive and miserable. Tippy makes a mental note of that.

Are they armed? Anyone outside of the cages, you can definitely tell that they're armed. Also the beasts at the checkpoints. They don't seem to be armed, but they are massive catfish. If they opened their maw, you would fit right in. And are they armored at all? So they have weapons?

No. But they're not armored. They're just wearing. Not armored, no. Fish clothes. Yeah, like a little hat. Scales. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Scales are clothes for fish. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Scales. We've always said this. What about the Barnacle people?

They do give a semblance of clothing. Yeah, they do have little shirts, little pants and stuff, but you can, not little. I mean, sorry. Little shirts and little pants and crop tops. Yeah. And the Murpho also have clothing made of shells and, particles and coral. There is another type of being that you see. And you only see a couple of these and they are in cages across the room from you making their way to the checkpoints fairly easily. They look like they know where they are, where they're going. They are humanoids. You cannot tell their shape or their size. They both look identical. They're wearing masks that cover their face made out of a silvery lattice design really detailed. They have not been blasted with the catfish goo. And they are Nothing.

Go on. Nothing. Of note that they're wearing crimson robes that are hooded and the robes themselves are flaring out almost like jellyfish legs. And because of that, you cannot tell their shape underneath it or their size.

So where is all, is this like a meeting? Is this like a cafeteria? Where are we? I feel like we're in some sort of like fish office, like law firm. It feels really official. I don't know about y'all. I really want, whatever this fish meeting is, or like fish official business, official business.

It's right there. It's right there. Maybe it's like a council meeting. Yes. It seems like we're invited. Well, hold on. We did solve a dangerous puzzle to get in here. We did get blasted with fish goo.

So maybe we are meant to be here, but it seemed like they put a lot of methods in to keep people out. I think we have to see this fish to re-through to its bitter end. Yeah, I wanna go see the fish meeting. I wanna see Fishlaw. Okay, should we be sneaky about it?

Or should we just walk this? Let's act like we belong. Yeah, yeah, act like we've been here before. Okay, okay, easy. Okay, so you two skeletons and a diving suited goblin, make your way- and a gun tippy and a robo-tip-y. Yeah, they're, they're next to me.

They're next to you, they're maybe riding on top of you. They're, yeah, you're moving through this, This Kate, what? No, she was just so excited by the prospect of Robbins. No, this is entirely appropriate action. This is the light bulb. She was blasted with a jolt of excitement. Right.

Oh, okay. I'm gonna do say tiny robots. I'm blasted by excitement as well. I'm so excited. I can do. All right, you have to cut that out. I don't think we do. It feels very official.

That's correct. As you travel through this caged archway, you're kind of directed to move left and right and meander, but you're still heading straight towards the center. There is one of those barnacled creatures swims pretty close to you just above where the cage is and whispers to Phibbs.

What are you doing? Turn your cloak inside out. Turn my cloak inside. And just swims along. Oh. I guess when in fish rules, maybe. Maybe it's like fish rules that we don't want to draw negative attention, so Phibbs pulls off his robes.

Oh, because the logo. Turns it, turns it inside out. They're probably freaked out because of, something with my sigil. So as you're walking down or swimming down, that same creature comes up and kind of pauses a little closely to you and says, give me that, I can tell, give me that magic item.

Give me the cellos. Hurry, hurry, you don't have much time. Why? Okay, don't. And swims off. Oh, well, I, oh, okay. I just got, was that a question? Or was I getting robbed and it just didn't work?

That was a weird mug. Maybe that's a fish mugging. Maybe that's how they do that here. So I get your hook line and sinker. I mean pretty smart because if I was under duress, I would have handed it over. You are getting a lot closer to what looks like this checkpoint and a big bottom feeder.

I mean, this is, at length would be kind of a 10 foot large fish guy. You're getting closer and closer. The creature, barnacled and everything swims by one more time. Less chance, less chance. What does it do? What happens if I don't? You're gonna wanna give it to me.

I'll get it back to you, quick. Okay, if you don't, I'm gonna take it back. Tick-Tock. Here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here's a chalice, but just sign your name here on this clipboard. No, absolutely not. She, she grabs it. She grabs the clipboard.

Oh, did you just get fishmills? She grabs it from you. Don't get me the chalice back. You need to check it out. We were just talking about getting fishmugged and then you're fish-mugged. And she just swims back. Do not raise your voice.

Don't do it. Chill out and swims away. What? No, I dropped, I gave her the sign of sheet and she was checking out. You can't just go anywhere without getting fish mugged these days. I just got. So as you approach this fish,

he looks at you and says, what is your reason for being here? Guys, I think you guys should do the talking because I'm in a diving suit and it's very clear that I don't belong here, so I'm gonna pretend like I'm a robot, okay? A fish just stole my chalice. We have been mugged.

What is the nature of the chalice, you say, that was stolen? It's for drinking. It's a big cup, I'm thirsty. Club, glove. It's a family heirloom. Our family mug has been mugged. Describe it.

It's a cup shaped. It's got, and it's got like cup designs on it, but it's just like a cup. Item. Would you like to report this? Who do I report this to? Me. I would have to report this.

Okay. Stolen chalice. Mm-hmm. Where did you get this chalice? I got it from my family. Roll a deception check? 15. 15.

And he goes, I don't believe you, but that's okay. Why would you report a stolen chalice in the Murfolk security against a Merfolk? See, We're new in town. I know. Right. We came in because we heard of all of your fabulous pouting and posing and wanted to see it for ourselves.

And so I came in and someone swam up to me and was like, give me your cup, see? Or give me your cup. I'm gonna- Can you point out this person? Yeah, they're holding a cup. And Busy looks around to see if she can see. Does he see the Murr that took it? Go ahead and roll a perception check. It did happen very fast.

E! That's a 17. A 17. You see different people swimming in and out through the main entrance of this. They could have gone out through there, but you no longer see this creature. I don't see the person that took it, but... Can you draw this chalice? I am very interested. We are all very interested in chalices at the moment.

At the moment. Why are you... Are you interested? I'll draw a chalice, and while I do that, you can tell me the wonderful story about how chalice has got cool here all of a sudden. No, I don't do any talking. You answer the questions.

Damn. Any identification? Yes, and I produce my membership card for Fiends United. Ah, yes. So you are here for the summit? Yes, of course. Well, the side of Orelia has almost already

begun, you are late. We did make a note that it did take you very long to get out of the puzzle room. Oh, I'm sorry. Maybe you should come up with puzzles that maybe don't have more than one solution next time. Maybe you should know more about the Sundari, your makers.

I'm more of a more of like a word, like a crossword guy. Yeah. Like a word search. We love word play. What is this? This is our Goblin Automaton. I am a goblin automaton. He's our best friend.

I just have to tell you, I'm so sick of the Fiends United. The absolute disgusting things that you create are defouling our entire underwater. It's like blasting goo on the Sundari's creation. We suck. Well, as long as you know your place, but there's nothing I can do against the side of our reale-out. Does this guy have a identification?

Yes, we both have identification, and busy cab. silent image for two cards in each hand. She just like holds them up. What is the name on his? The name on his is Pippi. Parentheses, a totally normal goblin robot. Okay.

And then it has like his stats. Perfect. You are late, you are not in the appropriate attire. That is not my concern, but you may pass through one second. I need to look through your. items. Great. What items? Do you still have your big fat? The large bag of a big bag? That's just powerful. All right. So he takes it out, dumps it. Those are my things. All right, Tippy. Please stop. What do you got? Oh God. I have my locket, which I think I'm wearing,

but like, yeah, all my stuff. Okay, the thing he takes of note is your Unzug Spike and he says, Oh, interesting. That is my spike. Unzug. to my robot grandma. Eun-zug, Inc.? Yes, when- Your relationship to Unzug now. Oh, I, uh, I don't know. I am just a robot.

Let me see your thing. Busy Lake takes off her pack. So Fiends United, we went in after Unzug's Lair had already been taken over. So we are taking over Unzug's Lair now. And in doing so, we got to have a couple of interesting things, like this cool spike. Deception with advantage.

Okay, so with advantage, that is 16, pluh, 21. Ooh. And he goes, yes, I've heard of you taking over different overlords. He goes through you, he said, another Eun-ZU spike. Yeah, they just kind of gave him out. It was like a congratulatory gift.

Like, oh, here's your spike, and here's yours. We'll be keeping these. Why? No, can I have that back, please? No. So rude, that was my stuff. This is why people don't like cops, you know that. Well, what are you going to even do about it?

Nothing, because I don't have a spike. What you got? I've just got this little, well, you probably wouldn't like it. It's, it is fish food, but you wouldn't like it. And I'm holding up one of the beads of course. Oh, ha, ha, ha, can I see it? I really don't think you'd like this. I would like to see it.

Okay, just be careful with it. That is highly magical item. Yeah, it perpetually creates fish food. Okay, deception check. Please don't take our fish food maker. Oh no, oh no. Oh no. No, no.

Oh no. What is it? That's an eight. Oh no. He says, that is meant to do me harm. That's why I'm saying, don't take it. I am doing my job. You are right.

I'm sorry, what was your name again? I didn't tell you my name. Why are you being KG? We're gonna call you B because you're being KG. Whatever lines you're drawing, I'm not following, but fine. KG B. Oh, I see. Oh, that's.

Busy takes out her pet and clicks it. Oh, man. Oh my God. Okay, inspiration, Dan. Oh, finally. I know if someone gets inspiration. I never remember inspiration, but dang. Okay.

All right, you call me B. I think you're good to go. I don't want your crazy magic item. I will keep it safely holster. it safely holsted and stowed away at all times. I do want this drawing of your chalice. Great. So busy hands over the drawing of a chalice.

And it looks like what would be the Sundari version of those collectible cups you get at medieval times. Those collectible cups you get at places where you might watch someone joust in case we can't use the name. Of course. So Ait takes it and says, all right, I'm just going to keep this then. We will be taking your ID cards. As this fish guard is being cagey and rude

and preoccupied with my friends, I want to communicate to Robotype, I'm gonna go, get this, get the spike back. And Robotipi wants to stealthily take the spike from the fish. Okay, so that'll be a sleight of hand. Okay. And it'll be versus my perception as I'm,

but I'll be at disadvantage since I'm so distracted, by magical chalises. So actually, I got a seven. I got it at 20. Let's get it. Oh, right. Okay.

Romotippy. So he has said the spikes kind of to the side in a bucket. Robo-tipi just kind of claws his way up into the bucket. Takes one out. And did you want both of them or just one? Both of them. With that, you're able to take both of them out. Well, I've already got the image up of the IDs.

And so I just make it look like they're like melting under the water because I'm like, Oh God, I forgot to laminate these, and they just start, like, crumbling in my hands. You saw them, though. They were right here. I've had enough. I've had enough.

I'm going to get the Murpholk security to... Escort us? To escort you to the Abysseum. Thank you. Thank you very much, and Busy just does like a deep bow. I mean, thank you. I think he bought it. He turns and is waving the next person in,

and you are escorted. You have now two Murfolk. one with the lance, one with a trident, swimming right by you. They grab one of your arms busy and one of your arms fibs. Thank you. And you are swimming outside of the atrium,

along with where everyone else is going. Some escorted. You notice that the two people with the crimson robes, they are actually not being escorted. And you are brought out into this magnificent underwater city. Wow. And...

And... As you're swimming out, swimming out, looking up and all around, you see that the water is very bright and very colorful and currents and little shoals of fish are swimming in front of you, lots of different colors, towering spires of different colored coral, reach out from the sea floor. Those things that are not made of shells and coral are actually reminiscent of dwarven stonework, and it is reminiscent of a city on a cliffside, lots of buildings and apartments stacked on top of each other with carved out holes for windows. It's man-made, it's beautiful. The themes of the tapestry and the

freezes that you saw in the room are everywhere. I guess most notably in the distance is the stone and coral castle that seems to be about half a mile away and you are going in that direction but they seem to be leading you towards an enormous dome made of stone, and that veers off a little bit to the left, still on the way to this big castle. Hey, what is this place? Well, this is the Ernker Fathom. And what's your name?

I am Naida, and this is Norca, and it seems that we're escorting you to the abyssium. Voice modulation, in progress. Hey, figuring I'd change my voice, so I sound less like a robot. So like, who made this place? Like, what's the history here? Like, we wanna know, you know.

What's the vibe? What's the vibe? It's our first time visited. Yeah, we're big fans. First of all, you are talking way too much. Oh, okay, you don't like talking. Well, that's good to know. But yeah, can you tell us about the vibe

and we'll maybe talk a little less? The vibe is that the side of Aurelia holds all the power here. Okay. You answer to the side. Okay. Just like I do. Yep.

And Luxier. Oh, okay. So does the scyth like talk? Like how are we answering to the scythe? Like is this a meeting to like find out what the scyth want? I thought you were invited to the summit. We were, but. The invitation was light on details.

Yeah, it was mostly just like, hey man, cool Summit alert. Do you know what the side is? Yes, of course. Yes. Oh, yeah, but do you know? Because I've heard people explain it weird. Well, how would you explain it?

It is a death cult. Yeah. Death cult, yeah, love that. No, they were involved in some pretty major stuff back in the day. Uh-huh. Right. The Earned Kerfathom is newly under their control

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Silent. Obedient, eyes down. Worshiping's the scythe. You don't sound very happy about that. It is not my place to be happy or unhappy. Is that why everyone here looks so miserable and hot? People do look hot. What's that second part?

Miserable and hot? We all think you're really hot, by the way. Yeah, like all of y'all are so hot, but you look so miserable. In that moment, you see a Trident fly through Naida's sternum, and her eyes go glassy, and the Trident's pulled out and thrown right at Norca, who dodges it, but quickly comes into contact with a club of course. club of coral and he goes glassy too and you work face to face with the sea spawn from earlier who took your chalice and she's got a short pixie cut that's blue her

face seems pale blue she's covered in barnacles out of her elbow actually grows two tentacles with barbs on the end of them and everywhere else around her is is covered in barnacles and barbs and she goes, you can't go to the abyssium, come with me. You straight up did a fish murder. Why did you do that? We have to go. We have to go.

Why did you kill them? I'll tell you in a bit, are you with me? I guess we don't got a choice. We gotta. Let's go, but you're not gonna fish murder us, right? No, and I want my cup back. We do want the cup back. Absolutely, yeah, you got it.

Let's follow the cool seed spot, thiggy. Yeah. And she swims, anytime she swims swimming, she goes behind, she looks behind herself, she goes to the next opening or another coral reef really quickly. You're welcome to follow her, but she's kind of tracking everything around her. There are being swimming, no one's really taking note of her at the moment. You're swimming away from the abysseum at this point, and you do see more and more people in those robes swimming towards the abysseum. The crimson robes. The crimson robes with the latticed

mask. So she takes you to what seems like a more of a mercantile part of town. There still aren't very many people out, but she swims in between different structures, and there is a current that sucks you very strongly into a cave, a natural cave entrance. Before you go in, you realize that this cave is actually... It's hard to tell if it's natural or man-made.

Er-man-made. M-man-made. It is of stone, but it seems to... if it were a place on land, it would have three stories and bubbles are releasing from the top of this. It's almost cone-shaped and comes to a point at the tip. When you're sucked in, what you see is, like, what? No, I'm just busy needs things to stop sucking her in.

I'm sorry. Like, you wait this whole time. We're just like, ugh. Yeah, it's kind of controlling you. Before you entered it, you saw that the sign on the outside said that the Tide Keeper's Terminal. And when you are inside, there's a big display room that has little glass bubbles floating and moving around each other.

And inside the glass bubbles are different specimens of plants, maybe creatures inside, little baby aquariums, that kind of thing, artifacts even. And it seems to be this floating museum in this room. But your friend or your guide does not stop there. there, she takes you to the back room where this looks more like a geologist scientist's studio, a workshop, lots of different workstations with tools and more of the specimens, but stacked against a wall in categories. She doesn't stop there either. You can tell that there's a way up

to the floors, but she takes you to this corner behind one of the shelves and dives even deeper and takes you to this tunnel that is, that you swim underneath for a while and it turns into an underwater cove that is all natural grasses, little natural fish. It is a lot darker as well. And she relaxes and goes, okay, I think we're safe here. Do we go back to that aquarium for babies you mentioned?

We like that. A little baby aquarium. Oh, you wanna go and see, you wanna go and see the tidekeeper? The real tech people have this time. I know it is, it seems like there's some- It's really impressive, I mean. Seems like there's a cult in town, so we can do it, maybe on the way out.

Yeah, I mean. I would love to do some sightseeing while we're here. I've never been understood. Gagongan has a really great spread. Wait, did you say Gagongan? Yes. Gagongan, where did we hear that name before? Didn't he make something that was very important to you?

Oh, he made a lot of things. Gagongan is the person who Kaya pay to turn her from a skeleton into a humanoid with skin. Do you know him? Are you guys cool like that? I do. Yes, we're cool, but look, Gagangan is, he is both part of our organization and he does services for Shu and the Monarchy.

I'm detecting an accent. Are you from Kalea? I don't know if I'm from Kalea. I just kind of woke up one day talking like this. I think you're from Kalar. Kalear. And how would you spell that if you had to write it down in some kind of a notebook? I would say it's C, apostrophe L-E-R.

Oh, I already screwed up. I started with a K. I started with a K as well. No, no, it's a C. It's a common mistake. C-A-R. C-A-R. Oh, it's so Kalar to me now. I get it. Cala. Yeah. You're saying I have like a Kaleri brogue?

Don't I have a Kaleri brogue? I don't know. I do. Okay. Oh, you kind of sound a little similar. A little bit, yeah. Well, anyway. Was I a sea spawn?

And I look at my bones and I'm like. No, no, you're from Calais, which is not under the ocean. Where is it? Landlocked? Yeah, it's on, well, it's not landlocked, but it's on land. And you're from Calair, but. Yeah, I was. I'm sorry to point this out, but you're full of barnacles

and squid thingies. I did adventure a little too hard. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Was that the cause of this tentacular transformation? Yeah, I mean, you stay down here the Earnker Fathom long enough, you're gonna transform. And now I can't even be on land

for more than an hour without having serious side effects. How long have you been down here? Hundreds of years. Wow. Oh. Oh. Wow. You know what?

I wouldn't have pegged you for like a day over 100. No, everyone says that, but there's a lot of There's a lot of us, and it's the magic here. So just a quick question. You know, in your 100 years here, did you perchance see maybe a human woman who looks really mean, potentially holding a beautiful little goblin lady hostage named Pecora?

The woman he's asking about is named Kaya. Are you here for Kaya? Well, how do you feel about Kaya? Kaya is part of the side of Aurelia. And we hate that. Kaya has taken one of our friends. Yeah, Kaya kind of sucks. I want to take Kaya and I want to stuff her

into the cannon I just built and shoot her against a brick wall until she either goes through it and dies or explodes and dies. I think the site of Aurelia is one step ahead of you. Wait, she's gonna. Is she gonna be sacrificed? Yeah. Is that what you're- Because I would love to watch that.

My sources tell me she was coming here for a progress report type thing. The whole side of Aurelia, the summit drives me. It's awful. They're horrible, horrible people, and they do not care about the nature, not only of Sundaros, but this entire plane. I don't even think they know the ramifications of what they're trying to do. But Erdeka Fatham has become their home away from home, I think because of all the magic and the access that we have to all the...

after all these portals and different planes. My sources tell me that Kaya, when she was supposed to be getting promoted and accolades from Luxia, well, that just didn't happen. And instead he's changed his mind for various reasons of failure from Kaya has failed him. And there's gonna be a ceremony where she's sacrificed.

And I think that's happening sometimes a day. Oh, is she the only one getting sacrificed? Or were there others? What happened to the gob? I can see any of this. I'm not part of the site of A Relay. I just have sources. The Goblin, she's part of the Fiends United.

There's all kinds of creatures. You can't miss her. She's beautiful. We'll get back to Pecorah in one second. We have a couple other questions that we should get out of the way first. Firstly, what is your name and what is your organization? I think we've been a little remiss and some details. Yeah, we'll introduce ourselves.

I'm Thresh. Thresh. Thresh. And me and Gaghanion are part of the obligation. we are specifically trying to stop all of these factions from merging together the five articles of the champions of the Sundari. Oh, what happens if they get merged together?

By the way, here's your article. Thank you. Thank you for not stealing it. Yeah, that's really nice. I don't want it, are you kidding? Have the sight of Arrilli on my backs? Oh, yeah, I guess we didn't really. Well, why help us?

You don't know anything about us. You just saw us and decided that you needed to help us. You've murdered even for us. I knew you had the chalice and I saw your eight-pointed star on your robes that nodded to the sundari Ariadne and I knew I could trust you. All the Sundari paraphernalia is completely banned and I figured there's no way you knew that.

So on some level you were attached to them. We tried to keep up a semblance of continuing to worship them. But ever since the site of a real Eulia came in, we haven't been able to do any of that, and I figured you were some version of a stand for them. Look, we'll just take the help where we can get it. Yeah, no, we're not associated with them.

We're here to rescue our friend. You gotta help us, Ms. Thresh. Then you gotta help me. The side of it really is trying to bring back Fraxas. But in our lore, it says that the Sundari, Five of the six of them merged together to form one being that fought Fraxis. Why six, but only five.

Why six, but only five? The other name that she mentioned before was Luxeer. Luxeer is the leader of the scythe of Aurelia. So they're trying to merge these artifacts together to bring back Fraxis. But Aralore says that when he brings back Fraxis, something happened during the searing where Fraxis and the Sundari all merged as one.

All of them. They called him Annoya one. Annoi one? A annoying one? Shoot. What's it? What did you say? Oh, I said, Anoa one.

I owe you one. What if I done? I was like, could you spell that one? Anoia one. So Annoia one, and so what do they do with this Anoya one? Is this like the captain of like this planet? It became the Sundari. that fought Fraxis.

Oh my God. Everyone knows the searing happened when they battled each other and everyone died, I guess, or whatever. But our law says in battling Fraxis, Fraxis and Anoia One became one, and then they disappeared. So there was the merging, but then there was a second merging.

A second merging. Perhaps that the force of them coming together resulted in the sort of magical explosion that became the searing? Yes, and so you've got the crater of sorrow, with all the big bones. So the bodies, the corporeal forms of the Sundar are gone. They're still, I mean, they're here, they're dead,

the bones are there, but their souls, their essence. They're on another plane maybe or something, but I think there are factions trying to get the five artifacts to bring back the Sundari and the side of Aurelius trying to bring back Fraxis. However, I think our lore says that no matter who brings back what, they're gonna bring back every one. So everyone comes back like de-merge.

But not even in their bodies, like they're just their essence, which we don't know what would happen then. With gods without form, without limitations on our material plane could be the end of the entire. Yeah, I'm sick of this. God's, demons, lords and cults, they don't care about us, about goblins, about skeletons, the people who are just working. Everybody just wants to do their big old merge or unmerge. merge or unmerge. I don't care. I want to save Pecora. I don't know who that is. It's the most beautiful goblin I've ever seen and you cannot literally miss her. I mean how many I haven't seen a goblin here at all. How beautiful is she? She's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. Roll the wisdom saving through.

Um, that's gonna be 13. Okay, a 13. Go ahead. She's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. Her skid by acne, soft, smart, goggles well made, hands well calloused from crafting and making things simple as well. I feel like if we, if we were to maybe kiss, maybe back out, smooch for a long time, it'd be great. I can tell you're in love. I'm not in love.

I don't know what love is. I do. And you're in love. Well, whatever. I don't need that lame love stuff. I just want Pecora to be safe. Is there, and this pains me to say, if Kaya gets sacrificed,

that means we're even close to the breaking up of this merger monopoly thing. No. So it's okay if she dies? I mean, essentially. I mean, it has to be okay. It seems like everyone is redundant except for Luxier and his perpetual quest to bring back Fraxis. Okay, so if she dies, that doesn't mean that Fraxis comes back sooner since she's being sacrificed.

This is just like a fun and game sacrifice. It sounds like more like a punishment. I think she's being made as an example of other people's failures. Oh, cool, cool, cool, so she can die. Well, we could probably leverage, you know, hey, we'll save you and you can help fight our way out if need be. You know, Kaya, not my favorite, but she is powerful. But if she hurt Pecora, she has to tie. I'm not just helping you to help you.

What do you want from us? You never really articulated that. I mean, we're just a scrappy organization, even with Gagongan's ties to Shu and the monarchy. Like, we're doing the best we can, but there's one being that's acting completely on his own accord. He's just an opportunist at heart.

We don't know if he's got the world at large in his brain, but he does have an idea that is separate that could trump the side of Aurelia. And we think it's pretty random that he's got it, but also he seems to be acting on a whole other level. And it is Unzug. You said what? Unzug.

He's here? The elf necromanza. Yes. From the desolation, Unzug. He's here. He has been here, but he's not here now. Where'd he go?

I don't know all of that, but I did see your robes. I clocked the chalice, and then I did over here, the checkpoint officer found some Unzug spikes on you. Yeah, he tried to take him. And so I got your, I took a right back, maybe. What? I took those spikes back. Can I see them?

Yeah. Here you go. They're real. These are authentic. Yeah. Busy like takes out. bed sheet. It is like, it still smells. She has a bed sheet. Are you have a connection to Eun-zug? Yeah, I'm like, Eun-Zug's like top guys, top guys. Deception. Well, this is self-deception.

We want to. Yeah, she lied to. She's lying to. This is, she's manifesting. Um, 15. 15. Okay, I mean, yeah, you believe it. So he's clocking the side-eyes that you're giving. Maybe, okay. So short answer, yes, right? Your connection to Muzug. Yes, yes. Well, we are so connected. But yeah, so here's, I don't know if this helps

with whatever kind of Unzug. I don't need his bed sheets. Look at it. There, no, I just know it. Did he just look on it? Do you smell it? Smell it. Try to smell it.

It's probably pretty wet right now. So, yeah, the way smell works under the water, there's just gotta be a lot of protein in the smell for me to actually get it with. How much protein do it? I'm gonna roll for protein. Excuse me? I am gonna roll for investigate.

I cast a dark light. Izzy, quick, how much proteins in the sheet? Okay, so I rolled for history. I'm at a 13th. There's gotta be so much flight that keep trying to bite at it. Fresh needs to smell the sheet. You have to find the protein!

It's gonna be chock full of protein in the sheet. I'm just like sweat. How many loads of protein in the sheet? Flakes, like, oh no, what I got. This is what I meant, when I said tone shift. Absolutely filled up with protein issue. We also have Eun-Zug's sock if that helps. And we have Eun-Zug's teddy bear, too.

I'm, I couldn't be less interested. It's got a weird rip at it. No, no. Bresh, are you okay? Yeah, I'm, it's just. I'm, it's just so beautiful that you have a connection. Hey, honey, it's mom. Did you know if we switched to Verizon, we can get four phones for $0,

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To this guy that we've been trying to fall for so long. Busy just like takes Thresh's hand and her bone hand. I think it's beautiful too. The bed sheets are fine. No, I cannot smell them for so many reasons. Well, you shouldn't live with that because we probably have like a cold or something. Yeah, all the senses are. Yeah, a little goo in the nose.

Yeah. So, very clearly you're connected to Eun-Zug. What do you know about his actions upon the surface? The Darkest Lord, how powerful, powerful. Everyone shop out of him. Specifically, like what he's doing right now. Oh, well. Spreading fear.

No, no. Terror. He fled the dungeon that we called home. The only life we haven't knew because he had advanced knowledge that we were going to be attacked. And he's probably out somewhere figuring out how to get the layer back. But we just know that he's like gone

and he packed his own bags. It's not a big deal. He just happened to leave when all the gallant things came and killed everybody we knew, including my best friend Maxwell. Yes. I think he left with the circlet. Yeah, he took everything important,

which I believe is to die. No, the side of it really has a circlet because the yester dusters gave. Are those? Are those folks here? Are the yester dust is here? The yesterdestis are here. Right now.

They're here? I think they should be in the summit, in the abysseum. Are they also followers of the side? Yes. I hate them, I hate them, I hate them, I hate them so much. I hate them so much. They've been more effective than Kaya in securing things. They brought the side of Aurelia the circlet,

and they brought the side of Aurelia the ring. I don't understand. Why, why the facade? Why do the yester dusters? Why are they at odds at the Fiends United? Because they're not. They're in line? Yeah, it's a whole shell thing going on.

The site of Ruralia, created Feens United. The Fiends United hired the yesterusters. It's all the same thing. Basically, they're all the same thing. So they're not, like, gallantlings, like evil lings. And what is this word gallantlings? You know, disgusting vile do-gooder who comes in and murders innocent oozes for no reason.

Yeah, we were just like hanging out, like doing their own ooze thing, and these dudes come in. Adventurous. A group of air duels. Yeah. Oh. Yeah.

I feel like I used to be one of those. What do you mean? I mean, I'm from Kalaire. It was full of all of those people. We would just go out and loot through. And if you were to come across an ooze, what would you do? An ooze? Yeah, an ooze with a monocle and a top hat

and said maybe a couple questionable things from time to time. Dead in a second. What? What? Yeah, don't blame him for it. He was never taught. What are you talking about? He says things that he doesn't mean.

That's what I mean. No, I just say, Ouses don't even talk. They're just out to... Well, this is did. And sometimes he would say things that just made the hairs on the back of your neck stand. He's upset about Picora.

Look, we've been talking for quite some time. You mentioned we need help, but you mentioned that you need help. What is it that you need us to do? So, Kaya brought with her a source who she gave up to the side of Aurelia as a present. And that source is Unzug's second hand man. Crandall?

Crandall Grecoworth. Crandall P. C stands for piece of shunt. Oh. And if you don't know what a piece of sh**, it's poop. Crandle poop, crackle. Exactly.

Well, that's who she sent to Luxier as a present. I don't know if he's given up any information yet. Anyway, I need your help to get to get Crandall. Do you know where he's being held at the Abysium? He's being treated a bit like a pet. A pet. If they ever seen pets before? That's cute.

I would, Crandall is not pet material. Yeah, he doesn't stand for a pet. Remember, it stands for poop. So we've already been told that we don't look the pot for getting into the abysseum. Do you folks have access to some of those crimson robes in the silvery lattice masks? Cause I could get you in as that.

I could also get you in as more of like me, like sea spawning. Another heist. The heist of the millennium, stealing crandal. Stealing crandal. Under the sea and under their noses. Well, Thresh, we're gonna need a couple barrels of slog swash.

I don't think, what, I don't know what that is. Well, we're doing a heist. No, what? We're doing a heist. Yeah, we can detonate the Iveseum. Of course. Wait, this firework under fire, we'll figure it out. So, which would you prefer to go in under the, as?

Maybe we should do a mix. Yeah, you know what's traditionally worked really well for us is splitting the party up. Let's put the party up, baby. I think I could go as one of y'all. I'll go with someone from Claire that just go in with like a little snack tray, like cigars.

So just so you know, not everyone has to be from Claire. Like it's just, if you're from the surface and you stay down here too long, you turn into something like this. But I think she's gotta be from Claire. I think she's pulling off Claire pretty well. I think she's saying. Hey.

I'm walking clear. Is that what they say? It sounds, I think it would be something that we said if we walked. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but we swim, but that's great. You're doing great, okay, well, set you up, and then the rest of the other team? Well, going, I was Roby McGee's.

I think I would be better suited as a cultist. And speaking of suit, do I have to stay in this thing, or do you have a way for me to just exist down here and... Oh, I got a vial of this goo that we can smear. Is the goo good enough, or do I need this? Yeah, the goo's fine. I mean, I use the goo for... Use the goo?

You used the goo? Oh, yeah. I used it. I don't need it anymore. Blast me. All right. You can't take the suit off. I shake up the vial. And I'm like, take off the suit

and I'm ready to get blasted with goo. And Loof, you see eight legs just splayed out. Blast her too. I'm trying to blast both of them with some goo. Okay, you easily can blast or blast them with goo. It doesn't really blast, so I have to just take a bony finger and kind of smear it on them. Very cool.

This is great. Because I was getting sweaty in that thing. So yeah, you do have a mask of grayish-green liquid that's just sticking to you, so does luf. You can tell that you can speak and breathe as usual. I take my diving suit and I roll it up and I put it, I re-put my packs back on. Okay.

You have a second diving pack in there. Yeah, you are able to breathe now, talk now. You guys are outfitted with Peside of Aurelia, silver lattice mask, crimson hooded robes, and Thresh swims you out. to above the abysium. And above the abysseum is a bunch of iron bubbles with spikes on the edges of them,

chained up to the sea floor. And it seems as though they could float up if they weren't chained to the sea floor. And there are hundreds of them. Thresh tells you that this is their prison and there's a person in each of those. She takes you to the outskirts of one of these balls pretty high up,

and you see you see that. as 10 Murfolk security and 10 robed figures come and get Kaya, open up her cage, and take her down. And as they take her down towards the abyssium, the dome of the abyssium splits open to form one slit where you can see down into what's happening. And you see that there are upwards of a thousand robed beings, lining the walls as an audience, at the bottom center of the dome is a sand dune that culminates in a pillar table-looking stage with a ritual table on top of it.

On the far side, up against the dome wall, shoots out a platform where a massive being in the robes and the latticed mask is swimming with some other followers, and next to him, are two beings that you recognize, and one is Pekara with the goo on her mouth, and one is Crandall with the goo on his mouth.

They are chained up. They actually do not have any facial coverings. They are in shell and coral bikinis. Both of them? Both of them? Both are? Okay. Hell yeah.

Yeah. But I'm gonna need to make you roll a wisdom saving throw. Okay. All right, I rolled a 19. Crandall looking like a snack. Snack. A 19. Yeah.

Okay, great. Nothing happens. Okay. I don't get a nosebleed. You have emotions. Yeah. But you don't get a nosebleed, no. Oh, whoa.

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