Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry - Into the Abysseum | Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode | Episode 11

Episode Date: November 18, 2024

Deep beneath the ocean, the Terror Squad must infiltrate the deadly cult known as the Scythe of Aurelia and rescue their missing friends before they’re sacrificed to resurrect an ancient demon king.... What could possibly go wrong? Find out for yourself in a shocking new episode of Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode! Content Warning: This episode contains depictions of violence and body horror that some viewers may find disturbing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:58 that some people may find disturbing. Oh, and welcome back to Saga's of Sundry Goblin Mode. I'm your dungeon master, Amy Vourpal, and with me is your favorite, my favorite, The Terror Squad, played by... Hi, I'm Dan Casey, a member of the Terror Squad. I play Phibs, a skeleton wizard. I'm Danielle Radford, also a member of the Terror Squad,
Starting point is 00:01:50 and I play Busy, who is multiclasing as a bard and a robe. Okay. Hey, I'm Jason Wynne, proud member as well of the Terror Squad, and I play Tippy, a goblin artificer with a gun. Heck yes, and with all of this Terror Squad here, I think it's time to part the Vale of Reality. And as we do so, we are no longer on a set that is backed by wood paneling in a really modern and fun way.
Starting point is 00:02:22 Thank you. Thank you. No problem. No, we actually are deep underwater in the Earned Curfathom just yards away from the Abysseum where you are watching your rival and hated nemesis-kaya being taken to what seems like her sacrificial death. Meanwhile, in the slit that you see above, you also see tippy. Your crush, Pecara.
Starting point is 00:02:58 We're figuring things out. You're, regardless, you're definitely McGuffin. Who cares like objectively what the emotions are around it. She's who you came to save and also there's Crandall. And just a refresher, Crandall's in a bikini. They both are. The bikini made of mostly shells tied together with seaweed and some coral.
Starting point is 00:03:26 Wait, wait, wait. He's just wearing a clam on the truck. And with you to help out is Thresh, the sea spawn covered in barnacles, barbs, and with some extra tentacles at her disposal coming out of her elbows. She has suggested that you might be able to enter in scy the virilia garb, which Tippy, you and fibs you have chosen,
Starting point is 00:03:50 which are silver latticed mask and crimson hooded robes. that flutter in the water, and busy, you have opted for the disguise under the concessions caterers. What kind of concessions am I holding up? Dresch is going to outfit you with a collection of stone cups with different kelp and prawns, clams, oysters as well. And it's just kind of a smorgasbord of a checks mix bowl. E! Or underwater. Just a crustacea mix?
Starting point is 00:04:22 Underwater checks McPhil, nice. Shrimp tails, great. So Thresh says, all right, the main things you need to know when going in here, and I'll be around too, is the way that you get out is through the filtration system, which that will be around the bottom of the dome. It's gonna seem as though there's only sand there, more water, but against the edges, there's gonna be some openings and grates
Starting point is 00:04:52 There are some certain ones that are loose, but I'll be around once you have what you need to get us out if you come and find me. Thresh, why is Crandall and Pecora being held? What for? What are they doing to them? I mean, my sources say that Kaya presented them to the side of Aurelia as gifts that one of them,
Starting point is 00:05:11 Crandall knows a lot about what Unzuz's up to, and the other one just seemed like Luxia might fancy her. What? In what way? Well, that he, you know, I mean, the way that these things work, like, you know, he likes having her around, having a pretty, I hate saying this, but like,
Starting point is 00:05:31 something nice to look at. She's great, but, well, maybe it's a, I gotta get in there. Okay, yeah. To be, like, bolts ahead, actually. Okay, so. To go inside. Okay, so you're swimming in,
Starting point is 00:05:43 are you trying to get into the dome before it closes that slid at the top? Oh, yeah, what are my options? Options are. Right now, the dome is still split open as the cadre of Murphoke Security and Saitha Virelia are escorting Kaya in from the top of the Abacium, ideally to make a big grand entrance while everyone's, you know, looking up. But there are two other entrances at the base of the dome.
Starting point is 00:06:10 And are people like filing in through there or? It seems that no one is filing in anymore. Like everyone who is in there is already contained in. But is it, is it locked? Is there a gate or is it open? Oh, yeah, Threshold Thresh would know that it's not really locked. There are guards and things, but it's not locked. And where's catering? Yeah, Catering. Thresh would direct you to like a back area, back entrance.
Starting point is 00:06:35 And then this is that'll be easy to get through. Yeah, I mean, it's Thresh's best idea, best plan. Well, seeing Tippy, I guess, seeing the only people going in would be through the slit, right? Yeah. He makes his way towards the slit, trying to go in before it closes. Well, let me ask, are you trying to, be part of the cadre that's escorting Kaya?
Starting point is 00:06:55 Yeah, just Tippie knowing that Pecora is sort of like being held and captured and and sort of shown to everybody and knowing that like Luxier might be like fancying her. He is just full of rage and envy and charges straight ahead to this way. You're gonna move right ahead. I'm gonna definitely say that you're going to be able to get there before the opening closes and it's not gonna be without notice though, but it doesn't sound like You're trying to be stealthy. So as you zoom in, I'm gonna just say
Starting point is 00:07:25 you bump into this crew. And there's 20 of them, Murphoak Security, and those that are dressed like you. They don't say anything, but they're jostled by you. Realizing this is probably Tipi's only chance at like slipping in, Tippy's gonna try to trail behind without saying anything like at the very back of this cadre.
Starting point is 00:07:46 Okay, go ahead and roll a performance check. Okay. It's a seven. A seven. A seven. They don't do much of anything, but the back three of them all in the side of Aurelia garb do clock you and they look and they exchange glances with each other. Obviously they're on duty so they keep their eyes forward, but they have noticed you. That's what you realize.
Starting point is 00:08:13 Just to be clear, Thresh was saying there's another way in apart from running in the top. Yep. What was that way in the ship was saying? This happened so quickly. This did happen so quickly. So it's more of the entrance, like the audience entrance. Okay. Like where in a normal stadium you might exchange your ticket.
Starting point is 00:08:30 That would be if the dome is right here, at the base of the dome on the outside moving in, there are two tunnels that go into the abasium from the main thoroughfare. Okay, all right, well. Where are your guys? You're little guys. I have bolted ahead so fast
Starting point is 00:08:47 without giving orders to Robo Tippy and Gun Tippy that they're probably still with Fibbs. Or it looks like, I don't think Busy would let them out of her sight. Or with Busy. That's the correct answer. They're with the squad. Okay, they're with the squad still. Okay.
Starting point is 00:09:04 Fibbs is caught so off guard by Tippy running ahead that he's just kind of staring at the whole time at what he's doing and then Fibbs realized he missed his moment if he was going to go with Tippy. So he's like, I guess I'll go in the audience entrance and find him inside. Yeah, that sounds like a good plan to me. Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:09:31 Okay, so Phibs, you make your way to the audience entrance. You're not going to go in without any information. Thresh is going to help you there. I presume not. Yeah, so Thresh is going to give you the advice that the scythe of Arrilla, there's a couple of things that when they're in their mask, they don't speak. They do have a couple of signs or physical gestures that they can make to communicate. Yeah, thumbs down.
Starting point is 00:09:54 down is one. We also love hoots and chakas. And shruggy, shruggy. I don't know. No, that one of them that implies severe reverence is basically touching your head, your forehead as low to the ground as possible, and saluting from there, like tapping your forehead.
Starting point is 00:10:14 For yes, yes is tilting your head back. No, is slightly tilting your head down into the side. And pleading is moving your shoulder. to protect your chin. Like, yeah, like turtling yourself. Me? A little amazing. Oh, please, I'm just a little cultist.
Starting point is 00:10:33 Okay, oh, the other thing is when they're moving and swimming down here, it is impolite that anyone sees how many limbs you have, because different cultists have different amount of limbs or lack thereof. This is gonna be a challenge, because I envisioned fib swimming kind of like, you know when you pull a nutcracker and all of this, I don't know what?
Starting point is 00:10:54 We'll see. Great, and the implication here is that especially under sea creatures have many legs or no legs or few legs or some of these are oozes and they don't have any limbs to speak of. So it's more like we are all one and hidden by these robes. Okay. That being said, yeah, you make your way to the audience entrance. Of course, there's mostly Murfolk security that you recognize from before who began to escrow you before Thresh took him out. Got the Thresh murdered those two security that we were talking to about how they hate life
Starting point is 00:11:28 under the oppressive paw of the Scyth of Aurelio. Yeah, so as you approach, there are two stationed on either side of the tunnel, and then as you walk in, you see that the entire tunnel is lined with these Morpholk security. But the two in front have their lances ready to attack. Ready to attack me? Yeah, sorry.
Starting point is 00:11:49 They are ready. They are readied. Okay. Phibbs is going to sort of try his best to glide forward in the water a little bit, just try to like swim as elegantly as he can and not maybe splay like a loose baby. I think that'll be an acrobatics check or an athletics check. All right, two things I'm definitely.
Starting point is 00:12:10 Oh, that is a natural 20. Oh, okay. Nice. I was gonna say, or a performance check too. I remember a picture of a dolphin I saw one. Yeah, this is the most graceful you've ever been I'm doing it. Yeah, you're under the water.
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Starting point is 00:16:36 And one of them says, It's already started. And I go, pleading, bringing my arms and shoulders to my chin. And they say, they look at each other and he says, Oh, right, they don't speak these side of Aurelia. And I move my head down to the side a little bit to indicate, no, we don't.
Starting point is 00:17:02 If you interrupt the proceedings, it'll be our heads. I tip my head back to indicate yes, I understand. Or maybe they take it as yes, it will be your heads. Do you know where your seat is? I took my head back and say yes. They will be flaying the sacrificial human at this point. And I tilt my head back and say yes,
Starting point is 00:17:30 as though I clearly understand that and that's what I'm hoping for. Okay. I bring my shoulders up to my chin in my best, silent. Please. Sorry. Go ahead and make a persuasion check. Let the shoulders do the talking.
Starting point is 00:17:48 That is a natural one. No. Yeah, they refuse you entrance. They say, we are not one to say no to a side of Aurelia, but we do have our orders. You're too late. I put my head down to left on my shoulder to indicate, no, I'm not too late.
Starting point is 00:18:09 And they go. And then I point at the guard. What level member are you? And I'm silent. Okay, roll intimidation now. Okay. Okay, that is a 16. 16.
Starting point is 00:18:29 Two of us will go with you. You point us to your seat. What we're going to do is lead you there as if this was always part of the plan. So you go to where a person of your station deserves to be. And he signs two escorts to you. Okay.
Starting point is 00:18:51 What do you do? Nod my head. Back? Okay. To say yes and I will lead them through this checkpoint. Great. So you've got two people on either side of you flanking you as you just float down this tunnel, swimming expertly.
Starting point is 00:19:10 You find yourself inside the arena and we'll say that you do as well, but I want to see how busy gets in. Okay. So I'm at catering. You're at catering. You're in the back, and it's behind and beneath the dome. So there's just a kind of a natural cave made of stone, the little bubble containers containing different things, and you're able to have your tray with all of the cups.
Starting point is 00:19:37 Okay, great. Is anybody watching me right now? Yeah, tons, yeah. Everyone's like paying attention to me. Oh, not paying attention to you, no, but sorry, there are a bunch of creatures there. There are a bunch of creatures. Okay. And they're all different kind, you know, the same as before,
Starting point is 00:19:49 sea spawns, some beasts, some fish like, creatures, some turtles. They're mostly creatures of the sea, people who would be servants. I would say that you as a skeleton would not be out of place here. Okay, great. Do I see a team lead? Do I see anyone with a clipboard?
Starting point is 00:20:03 You do, yes. There is a team lead and she actually... And also, to be clear, Robotypi and Guntypiby are with Busy. Yes. If you'll allow it? Yeah, I'm gonna allow it. Oh, my think.
Starting point is 00:20:16 I'm gonna follow. We're hanging with these two cool robots? Yeah. Will they be your best friends forever? So she's the team lead. You can tell she's a giant sea horse. Right. She is speaking in common or whispering,
Starting point is 00:20:30 but she's not serving at all. Does she look like she's sending people like caterers or servants out in waves? Yeah, in waves. Yeah, in waves. Okay, so, Bizzy's just gonna go and kind of try to like meld in with the next group of caterers who are set to go. Roll a performance check.
Starting point is 00:20:46 Tight. It's a 11. She's gotta come up to you and go, Oh, hello. I remember that there's a skeleton on my crew. Oh my God, I'm so sorry. I actually came from a temp agency. One of the girls called off sick.
Starting point is 00:21:07 Oh. I'm so sorry for all of my choices that let us do that. That concerns me. Which one of them called off sick? You know, it was one of the girls. I think it was Gills. Oh, Gills. That could be any one of so many people's nick names are Gills down here.
Starting point is 00:21:31 I know. It gets so confusing. I believe it that was Giles. She had gorgeous girls. She had a great fish face. Right. Okay, yes. This has been a really hectic morning.
Starting point is 00:21:42 Oh, I know. It's been crazy. So I am, I am. I am. Varsish. Hello Varsis, nice to meet ya. And your name? My name is Pizzi.
Starting point is 00:22:00 Damn it, as soon as it was, I know. Oh, it's a Pizzie. Pizzi. Pizzi. Got it. In which time agency did you say this was from? Oh my god, I believe it was with clammy girls. The clammy girls.
Starting point is 00:22:32 Right. Roller deception check. Could have also been clammy staffing. What was that? Deception? Deception. Eleven. Okay, you were rolling so mid, girl. I know, right?
Starting point is 00:22:43 So, why don't you hang back for a vet? So you don't have to go out just yet. We'll have a little discussion, and I just want to make sure that you have the skills required to serve the Oh, well, of course. I mean, I come with great references if you would like to see MisiV. Yeah, you just come over here real quick. Mzzi is kind of like, there's other people around
Starting point is 00:23:06 and now she's out of the thing. Yeah, she's not a strong that's moving on into the stadium. Oh, I still have spillslots. I am going to... Oops, still a bard. Oops, so on bars. I am going to, I'm going to cast silent image, and it's going to be the image of someone who is walking
Starting point is 00:23:26 towards the front and they drop their tray. Okay. Clank, clank, clank, clank, click. Oh, hey, Robo Tippy, make some clanking metal noises. Robotippy starts like hand-panning his own body. Good nap. Clank, clank, clank, clank, clank, clank. So all this happens, go ahead,
Starting point is 00:23:47 and this is with advantage, go ahead and roll a performance check. With advantage? Oh, well, okay, that was a natural 20, so that is a, um, a, um, 23. The seahorse moves into rage mode, and she goes directly towards the dropped tray. She goes,
Starting point is 00:24:07 Oh, Papa Tree! This is the sleigh there really are. Her eyeballs are popping out of her socket. She's fully distracted over there. Busy uses that distraction to get with the group and starts, like, taking stuff up. Oh my God, then let me help you with it. Like, like, makes it look like she's grabbing a couple of things.
Starting point is 00:24:27 That way, like, she doesn't, because it's fake. Yeah. Yeah. fake and so because if she touches it it's gonna go away but if busy looks like she's helping here I got it I'll just go ahead and put it on the rest of my things and go in with the group okay boy okay persuasion with advantage first one's 15 second one 16 so that'll be 18 she says after this round you owe me a conversation absolutely we'll go ahead and chalk it up as soon as I'm done handing out the clams
Starting point is 00:24:55 okay you're all able to be inside the against all odds. Yes. All odds. However, you're not out of danger. You are surrounded by four Murphoke Security. Four, I thought it was two. It was two on either side.
Starting point is 00:25:10 There were gonna be two, and then there were four. You were promised to, but given four. And then you know that the side of Aurelia are clocking your weird behavior. And yeah, your boss is a little suss. So, or thinks you are a suss. So as you move in, In the middle of the domed floor is that big sand dune, and on top of that is a stone slab that makes a stage,
Starting point is 00:25:40 and atop that stage is a table. Also on the stage are four scythe virilia members, and Kaya, her body is chained around the table, and the four scythe of Aurelia members are jabbing at her with the speech. whipping her with a big whip. They're grabbing at her. You can hear her screams. And the side members themselves, I mean, it is silent.
Starting point is 00:26:09 It is almost like this is the concert that everyone's been waiting for and listening to. And her screams echo throughout the chamber. It is really disturbing. One of the four that is around her does speak. The circuit! And the ring. That wasn't you, Kyle, was it?
Starting point is 00:26:35 And jabs her again in the calf with a spear. But you promise the chalice and the spear. Liar! And she takes another whipping and these four side members are rotating. While this is happening, all the members are just hanging out. They're floating in order up against the wall. up against the walls of the dome. And you do see the large creature
Starting point is 00:27:04 on his own dais with Crandall and Pecara, just sitting there watching it. Again, you can't tell body gestures, but everyone looks very, very still beyond the hazing that's going on with Kaya. Tippy, as the guards swam in and delivered Kaya to this state, I'm assuming you were a
Starting point is 00:27:27 among them, assisting, watching with the chaining of Kaya. After they finished, they moved into a circle at the base of the stage. You being there makes it not as equidistant, but you are able to be there. Tippy stays where he is, sort of looking around to see if he spots his companions at all. And not addressing the fact that he doesn't belong there at all.
Starting point is 00:27:57 Great. Roll a perception check. Okay. Come on, dice. All right, 21? Yeah, busy's very easy to see. I mean, she's a skeleton serving. Okay, yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:08 You would not know ahead of time what Fibbs is up to, and unfortunately he does look like another side member, so, but you do see a really important looking guy being flanked by former folk security coming down the tunnel. And can you tell me the geography of where everybody is? So where am I in, in relationship to my companions. Okay, this basically seats about a thousand members, right?
Starting point is 00:28:31 Ooh! Yeah, it's a huge auditorium, so it's 100 feet radius, okay? Okay. So 200 foot diameter situation. Then at the south are the two openings where audience entrance is. To the east is the dais where Luxier and his captain's guard and important people are sitting,
Starting point is 00:28:53 also where Piccar and Crandall are to the east. In the center is you and Kavar. and the torture to the southwest and below. Well, you wouldn't really know this, but see the southwest and below, that's where the catering's coming from. Torture, catering, yes.
Starting point is 00:29:09 Snacks and torture. And were you there when Thresh was telling you about the filtration system? Yes. Okay, so with the 21, you're able to see what Thresh was talking about. And those are, like Thresh said, little grates along the base of the dome. They seem pretty equidistant,
Starting point is 00:29:24 but it does seem like there are maybe 20, of them that you could have access to at any point. She wasn't clear about which ones were loose or preferred. But yes, let me see what you've got drawn. I've got the same thing. Oh yeah, we're right on the same page. Okay, we're on the same page. Do you want to see?
Starting point is 00:29:41 Oh, it's like a big fish. It's got little things. Oh, it's got little things. Oh, yeah, you're right, shoot. Okay, so first things first, I have sort of like a telepathic, like psychic emotional connection with my homoculus. Okay, I thought I was about to say, if you have that with Picara. All of a sudden, no.
Starting point is 00:30:01 Psych rapport. What about the sending stones? Do we still have any of those? I trucked mine. Three years, I forgot. Also, Picard did tell you the sending stones, at least the power that she was able to do, those last said 24 hours.
Starting point is 00:30:14 Oh, yeah, okay, yeah. It doesn't matter, because I threw mine off the ledge. That's true. Off the ledge. First things first, I want to mind warg into my maculus, and I want it to tap Busy's thigh, almost as if it was like pulling the hem of her dress or tapping her thigh, and sort of like gesture to the robed member that is me, sort of being like, huh-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h.
Starting point is 00:30:40 Okay, real quick, busy, when you're serving your food, you're able to mimic what the other servers are doing, which is very, very subtle and slow service. And really going around, it's not like a big show concession. it's more like a cocktail party situation where they can pluck off the food as she's moving around. Oh, perfect. It's... The war is over and both sides lost. Kingdoms were reduced to cinders,
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Starting point is 00:33:08 just like kind of gliding through. Yeah. Tell me where these robots are in relationship to you. Right now I've kind of just got them scurrying, kind of right at my heels. First of all, will you roll a performance check? Damn. That is a nine?
Starting point is 00:33:26 No. You are moving around, but you're just in the this kind of character, like, it's just a little obvious that you're watching what other people are doing and trying to mimic it and be polite and be, and look, you're still busy, like you're still, you know, newly out of a dungeon. You think you're doing great, but... Stop spilling shrimp on me. But at one point, a Sithe of a Ralea member, grabs your arm and actually does speak and says, You're being distracting.
Starting point is 00:33:54 Oh my God, I'm so sorry I didn't mean to disrupt everybody from the big scary torture. I'm sorry, I'll keep my mouth shut. Shut in my trap, my big gap trap. And you see that that person does leave their seat and go down to where you came from, the catering. Hmm. Okay. But meanwhile, the other thing that happens
Starting point is 00:34:18 is that a robot tugs on your proverbial skirt. Ow, what the, ow. And is able to nudge and point where Tippy is. In the circle of Caltus. at this moment, find Tippy. What it looks like is equidistant about 20 people, 20 Scyth the Borrelia cultus, all around the base, very equidistant from each other,
Starting point is 00:34:41 except for one guy who's like kind of squished in between two different people. So I'm just gonna like, oh, that's a good baby, just like kind of tap the robot. And just like look at Tippy and just like, okay, like a little wink. Yeah, when you, with your telepathic, you're able to clock this.
Starting point is 00:34:58 I receive the wink. Now, the scytheiralea, are they all different sizes of people? Mostly medium, but yes, all different sizes. Fantastic. Through my homunculus, I'm gonna cast Disguised Self. Please tell me if this is possible on my Eldridge canon to make it look like a smaller Scyth of Aurelia cult member. Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:35:23 What? Okay. Because the homonauticals. The molecular allows me to cast spells through it. Is, okay. We're gonna, okay, fine, look. With something called channel magic. Dear Lord.
Starting point is 00:35:37 And, and, and so, I like this. So we're gonna mess with ranges. We're gonna say that, because of the magic, because I don't think you'll be too far away from your- The molecularis must be within 120 feet of me. So it's quite a large range. Okay, I'm sorry, that's so broken. That's so broken.
Starting point is 00:35:58 What it does. I know, you're level three and you're busted. You're so busted. So we don't even have to come out with logic of why this works. It just works because artifers. It just works. It just works because artificers. Well, I guess you just do it then.
Starting point is 00:36:16 So out of nowhere at your heels is a, and you want it to be tiny or small? I want it to be small. Small, like a goblin size. Yeah, gobble-sized. Yeah, like a two and a half foot. Like gun tippy. Like, a guy.
Starting point is 00:36:27 So out of nowhere. where one of the robots at your feet turns into a side of a really hooded figure. Oh my god. And my homonculus is going. It's okay. You're not talking, but it's going. Right, right, right, right.
Starting point is 00:36:43 Okay, it's okay. Rolling to see if anyone around notices. Uh-huh. And that robot, which I didn't question for some reason, just turn into us. You're not gonna be able to know but nearby you, you're going to feel eyes turn towards you. Okay.
Starting point is 00:37:06 And one person is gonna kind of reach out and try to touch the new formed cult member. As they reach out, I'm going to reach into my bag of snacks and just put like a clam in their hand. You're welcome, thank you so much. Okay. Next time don't reach around. You can just grab one from me directly.
Starting point is 00:37:27 Okay, uh, clam. The worst thing to get handed. It's a loose clam. Okay, okay, persuasion check. Come on, busy. Come on, baby, come on, baby, come on. I am pretty hungry. Sorry, busy.
Starting point is 00:37:42 Oh, thank God, okay, that is a dirty 20. Let's go, big biz. Big biz. Okay, yeah, this one accepts the clam and directs their attention. A little cowed, also you can tell, really also terrified, not necessarily. necessarily of you, but there is decorum in this,
Starting point is 00:38:03 so they take the clam and return to stasis. Is there anything else you wanted to do? No, I want the new, the disguised self-Eltritch canon to find like a spot, like that it could sort of just blend in. So it's going to file into where the gap was made, where the person you were serving left and take their seat. Okay, you said it's not weird that there's a sky Are there any other skeletons that I've seen so far here?
Starting point is 00:38:33 Oh, that's a good question. This will be a stealth check and we'll do DC 13. There are some skeletons. It's a fiends union. Okay, it's stealth check. That is a dirty 20. Nice. Here we go.
Starting point is 00:38:47 You said she was rolling mid, now she's just rolling right when it matter. So yeah, that stealth just means that you are blending in. There are about five other servers who also are skeletons of varying genders. Busy's gonna presuppose that. that if there are a bunch of other skeletons, if I move, that dude's not necessarily gonna know
Starting point is 00:39:04 that I'm the skeleton that he's looking for. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there are others, yes. Yeah, so I'm just gonna like kind of slowly, like very chill, move away from the spot that I was at so that maybe he'll be like, which one was that darn skeleton? Okay, are you going- That darn beautiful skeletons?
Starting point is 00:39:22 There's the sentient gun in my seat. Okay. Okay. And you're gonna leave the cannon behind. Well, actually, I, hmm, because I want to keep the cannon, but I don't think it's the worst idea to have the canon in that spot. Because if Tippy can just like grab it at any time, having more coverage around us, I think, and so that, like, I don't necessarily think that's a bad idea. Okay, so you leave the canon there. Yeah, I'm going to leave the canon.
Starting point is 00:39:50 Okay, perfect. I'm going to keep going. And you keep going. You make sure that your path crosses with a couple of the skeletons so that ideally what they're thinking is they all look there. I mean, yeah, these don't sound like good people, so we're gonna go ahead and play on- Pretty hurtful to hear you say that. Okay, okay, um, okay, so you're doing that. And trying, as I'm doing that, I'm trying to like inch closer to the stage, but still keep it super cash. Okay, you are able to get closer to the stage, but only if you go to the
Starting point is 00:40:21 base of the stage. Okay, um, then yeah, I'm gonna start walking toward the base of the stage. Great, you are able to serve a little bit more. The next turn I'll say you'll run out as people are taking their treats from you. What is Fibbs up to? Where does Fibbs go? Since time immemorial, mankind has looked to the stars and ask themselves, where does Fibbs go? Fibbs looks around, he's walking very silently
Starting point is 00:40:44 and elegantly but confidently, like he knows where he's supposed to go. Inside, he's like, uh-oh. Yes. He's looking around to see if he can spot. He's looking towards the front. He wants to see if there's anything that looks empty or there's something that's not filled in towards the front.
Starting point is 00:41:01 Okay, and this is by Luxier? As close to Luxier as he can be with something that is like empty. Okay, so hold on. Oh my God, okay, I rolled a 20, and I think that means it is extremely regimented up on the dais where he is standing, the stone dais that's jutting out of the dome.
Starting point is 00:41:21 And it's basically him, the three side of Aurelia people, Crandall and Pekara, his number two, it seems like his assistant, and then 10 guards or 10 Scythe of Aurelia members that could be guards or high counselors, people who are important, spaced out behind him in very regimented spaces. But it would be 10 except there are only eight, and so there are two vacant spots right behind Luxier.
Starting point is 00:41:49 Fibbs is going to do the most confident glide of his life and try to lead them directly towards there. And, oh, the most confident glide of your life. I wonder what that looks like, roll a. Yeah, I wonder what that looks like too. I think, I mean, that's either, yeah, it's either athletics, it's either athletics or performance. Okay, two things I'm definitely good at.
Starting point is 00:42:19 Okay, that's a 17. 17, y'all. I'm so tense right now. I'm so, I'm also tense. Okay, so you, Get close and as you get even closer, the Murpho, they just cut bait and run, basically. They're not gonna get any closer to Luxier.
Starting point is 00:42:36 But you float very gently towards one of those two empty spots. You pass right over Pekara, right over Crandall. Do you do anything approaching Luxier? As I approach Luxier, I bow my head as low as I can without like tipping my hook and pause for a moment and then continue my glide. Perfect. Yes, you do.
Starting point is 00:43:03 And you see Luxier barely turn their head towards you and then turn back. And you are now situated at the very top dais as the others accept you into that station. You have witnessed this from the ground that someone might be returning from an errand. Yeah, I have no idea that it's fibs done. Absolutely have no idea, sorry.
Starting point is 00:43:28 But. Can I tell that it's Fibbs? Just. Would you know that Fibbs is coming in from the? I don't know that I would necessarily. I don't. Damn it. Did you already gone to the,
Starting point is 00:43:40 had you already gone to the entrance by the time I was? I think that you guys have this like relationship that you would have made a plan. Like Thresh was there helping you, but even though we took the turn separately, that the decisions were made at that time. I think Fibbs was always under the assumption and probably would have relayed this
Starting point is 00:43:57 busy that we're gonna go in the front. Yeah. And you go in from the back. Yeah. And Tippy went rogue. That's right. It went from the top. Yes, I think we can safely assume
Starting point is 00:44:07 that it would be very strange if you had separate plans and didn't relay them to, I mean, there was a time when that happened. So yes, you can tell that Fibbs has made the bold choice to stand right behind Luxier. Okay. So Fibbs, does he clock either busy or Tippy? Does he have any idea where they are? Maybe next time you'd be able to look around,
Starting point is 00:44:29 but this is intense. Okay, okay. Like, that role was really important. Like, you spent all of your time pretending to be a top level luxier. Then I'm just, I feel a bead of water tripped down my skull. Yes, a little more wet than normal.
Starting point is 00:44:48 Okay, so perfect. You're stationed there. At this point, the leader calls out again. We celebrate. The yester dusters, what do we do with weakness? And the entire stadium starts humming like this. Muh. Muh.
Starting point is 00:45:10 Muh. Muh. What do we do with failure? And the humming gets louder. Oh my god. Performance, Chuck. Very correct review. That's gonna be 12.
Starting point is 00:45:33 That'll be 12, huh? There'll be 12. Busy starts doing that thing if you've ever been in choir and you can hear that somebody is off. You just start singing a little louder to do pitch correction. Hmma. The
Starting point is 00:45:48 The uncertainty of not knowing if Tippy's doing it right, it right is causing Tippy to anxiously speed up his cadence. Mm-hmm, man, mm-hmm. You see the two who are on either side of you, the side of Rilia guards look and do subtle gestures with their mask and head tilts, and you can see, because you've noticed Tippy, that four Murpholk swim up to you
Starting point is 00:46:19 and are gesturing for you to follow them. I'm pretending like I don't, I don't, See them. The scythe virilia member who is next to you puts his hands on you and pushes you into formation. As soon as the hand touches me, noticing their sort of subtle movements and can I do the equivalent of whatever it is
Starting point is 00:46:43 in Scyth of Aurelia talk, on hand me, you dog, sort of. You can do what you think might be. Okay. But you don't know their language. I don't know their language, but I blast it off. I swipe the hand off. and then I point to a random scyth-oferiali member across from me, and I mimic the exact same motions
Starting point is 00:47:04 that I saw them mimic about me, about the person across from me. Okay. So I'm like. Okay, performance check. Okay, okay, okay, come on, come on, please. Okay, 17. 17. Okay, so the entire saying, mm-ma, m-ma, and now you have two Scythi-verrilla.
Starting point is 00:47:28 is hands on you and they escort you with the former folk and they are headed out of the arena kind of where Dan came in where fibs came in that didn't work okay all right perfect they're leading you they're leading you out of the stadium busy you were able to see this as this is happening can you describe the dais to me a bit more like where is Piccarra and Crandall in distance in relationship to Luxier yes Okay, so the circle of the dome is about a hundred foot diameter. The top of the dome is a little less, 75 feet high. So the dome is a little flatter, right?
Starting point is 00:48:08 A little hemisphere that's flatter. The dais that comes out to the east is fairly massive. It's about 50 feet by 30 feet. It is about 40 feet above the seafloor. Okay. And the people are floating in that area on top of it. And Picara and Crandall are on top of it. On top of it.
Starting point is 00:48:28 and you would be able to see that they are chained to something on that. How close are they to look here? Pretty close. They're on the same dais? Yeah, they're on the same dais. Have I noticed what's happening with what's clearly tippy? Oh yeah, I'm gonna say for sure.
Starting point is 00:48:43 Yeah, why is someone being freaking escorted if it's not tippy? Okay. Yeah, this does seem abnormal. Other cultists are kind of looking and noticing. I have another question for you. So the spell enlarge, reduce. It says you can target an object.
Starting point is 00:49:00 How large of an object does that entail? You're thinking of a creature? No, I'm thinking of an object like a dais. I'll allow it. Okay. I'll allow it. That's an object. Okay. So just to be clear,
Starting point is 00:49:13 Fibbs and the important members of the scythe of Aurelia are standing on a large dais, correct? Yes, yes. And Crandall and Piccar are there as well? As well, yes. Okay. Phibs, guessing that it seems like Dear Sweet Tippy is being arrested.
Starting point is 00:49:30 And worrying thinks it might be time to create a distraction. And so he subtly reaches into his robe, pulls out a pinch of powdered iron and sprinkles it by his feet and casts reduce on the dais to reduce it in size. Okay. And you just are able to do that.
Starting point is 00:49:53 So. Says choose either a creature or object that is neither a war nor carried. Yeah, I mean, and your goal is to just make it smaller, huh? So make it smaller, so suddenly everyone drops. Your dais does shrink. It causes everyone to look down an alarm.
Starting point is 00:50:11 The speaker says, Ah, Kaya, looks like maybe you planned a rescue mission for yourself. Who here is loyal to Kaya, the leader of the Fien's Union? And the humming and the chanting completely silences. And he goes, Correct, Kyah, if you would be so kind and point out, who is your ally here? And he grabs her by the neck and just forces her
Starting point is 00:50:46 to look at people in the crowd. Point, Kaya. Point, point. And he starts jabbing her, actually stabbing her with a dagger and making her point. And she's crying, you can tell. and she starts pointing, and he nods, and a side of a Rilia member goes up
Starting point is 00:51:01 and lances one of their members. Yes, today is a ritual sacrifice. Ring the body to me. Point, Cullen. She starts willy-nilly pointing at people. Okay, so far only. Woo! Okay.
Starting point is 00:51:15 How far is Busy from the dais? From the dais? I would say, like, as close as you wanna be. This is, yeah, right now this is. So, pretty decently close. So Busy is going to duck down down in the guise of picking up a piece of trash. Oh my god, everything is so horrible,
Starting point is 00:51:31 kind of ducked down, it's time. I'm gonna go ahead and like try to sneakily toss a dart at looks here. Hi. Yes, yes, yes. This is perfect. I love that either. Your face right now is incredible.
Starting point is 00:51:54 Not necessarily even to kill, but just to like, make him like stop this with the torturing and the killing all the people around. Oh my god. So even if it's like it hits it, anywhere that it would hit him in like the knee, anywhere on there is like good for me.
Starting point is 00:52:08 My knee. My God, me. Roll to attack Luxier. Oh my gosh. Well, that's a natural 20. Oh, my gosh. Oh, we're creating that's 24. Yes.
Starting point is 00:52:24 You blow his knee clean off. She throws a dart. It decapitates hands. Okay, that hits. So that is, but it's not a lot. I mean, so that's a one, 1d4 plus two, so that is a seven piercing. But I don't know where it landed yet on hit,
Starting point is 00:52:46 well it critted, so probably some were pretty good. Okay, roll a slide of hand. Okay. Okay, so seven. Not great. Not great. So you throw your dart, it hits him in his robes. Lux's ear looks right at you.
Starting point is 00:53:08 And he nods to his second in command, and this being swims towards you. And though it is improper for folks to see beneath the robes, you can tell that this creature has eight tentacles, basically. Make a wisdom saving throw. Winston? Oh, no. 19.
Starting point is 00:53:32 You feel a surge of energy attempt to wash over you and control your mind, and you withstand that. However, as this being is floating towards you, others of the side of Aurelia are pushing you towards them. You are not supported by them. They can tell that this being is coming towards you. There are about five other dead members that they made Kaya point to, and they just killed and they're being brought to the center of the stage as are you now.
Starting point is 00:54:04 Okay. By this, a tentacled creature and they are beginning to chain you in the way that they were chaining Kaya. Okay. In this moment, I want to channel magic once more to my homoculus, and I'm gonna cast alarm. And at the same time, I'm going to, you know, under my robes with one hand sort of fashion a little device with magical tinkering to as the alarm is going up it's going to bea-le-le-le-le-le-le-le-dha-d-d-go this is the Fing United we've got you surround it and it's over and over again okay and this is just
Starting point is 00:54:55 yes in the echoing as resonating as loud as possible so it's the chaos of the alarm and the sound is now as loud as physically possible okay you are chained You are chained now. There's no, ifs, sands or buts about it. There's too many people. You're chained up to where Kaya is. But everyone is looking around. You see Luxeer float forward as he is looking around
Starting point is 00:55:20 what could be causing this mockery of his summit. All the servers are moving back into the holding area. And you have just a ton of Murr folk security moving in. As this is happening as well, I stopped concentrating on reduce so the dais rockets back up to hopefully disorient some of the people. Um, okay, absolutely. Yeah, that'll, that'll at least do something. And I pretend like I'm jostled as well, like, oh. Okay. Slight of hand or performance. Okay. I just want to see if anyone's noticing you casting.
Starting point is 00:55:53 Sure, sure, sure. Yeah. Do you have to use inspiration before you roll? No, you can use it. Yeah. Then I'm going to use inspiration. Okay, okay. Feeling inspired to not get kind. Okay, that is much better. So you said performance or? Or sleight of hand. Or sleight of hand. It's a 15. Yes.
Starting point is 00:56:09 So people are too distracted to notice who's doing this, but it doesn't affect Lux Ear. He's just floating forward. And yes. In that distraction, the people who are trying to arrest me, are they distracted at all? Did they look away for it? Did they unhand me at all?
Starting point is 00:56:28 Yes, I think the entire stadium, I mean, the water got sucked out of the room when Lux Ear got hit by a dart. So in the distraction, I want to slip back into the circle and pretend like I'm also shocked by the distraction I've just caused. Okay. As if I wasn't just arrested. Ooh.
Starting point is 00:56:54 That's so funny. Okay, yeah. What? What? This is gonna be a disadvantage where you can still do it. We'll just see what, uh, either, either at, Stealth or performance. I will roll stealth. Let's see.
Starting point is 00:57:12 Okay, well, hold on now. All right, are we in turn order? No. Okay, pretty cool. That's gonna be a 10. A 10? Yeah, yeah. That's gonna be a 10?
Starting point is 00:57:28 Of course. Speaking like Tom and Jerry. Yeah, yeah. So you're just kind of hamming it up. You're overdoing it. You are able to get back there, but once again, they just come and grab you one more time, maybe a little more roughly this time.
Starting point is 00:57:43 All right, that's it. I see that I'm out of options because I'm now afraid for busy, because I can see busy's been grabbed, right? I can see that she just made an assassination attempt on Luxier, and I've made such a commotion. Tippy sort of, time slows down for him for a second, and he goes, I have to save them.
Starting point is 00:58:05 I have to save them. I have to. I throw off the robes and reveal myself. And this little moment of heroism for Tippy, knowing he's out of options. He's tried to be selfie. He's tried to hide. He's trying to be cool.
Starting point is 00:58:22 But he realized he didn't have enough information before he rushed into this situation. So now he's going to reveal himself, and he's going to go. Look's here, huh? Well, here I am. This could all end peacefully if you decide to release my friends. Okay. What's your armor class?
Starting point is 00:58:55 Oh, what is my armor class? Oh, what is it? Oh, it's 16. 16, okay. So, one. How many, two. I think we're messing with the wrong person. I think you're rolling so many dice.
Starting point is 00:59:12 How, okay, that's a lot of dice. Five. That's too many dice. I mean, what is he attacking me with a skyscraper? Seven. Seven dice. Seven hits. Seven hits.
Starting point is 00:59:30 And. Okay. And. So he's got, I might have a gun, but he has an AK-47. And, and, and, and then, and then a big one. Okay. So seven hits. every Murfolk and scythe of aureli member is attacking you.
Starting point is 01:00:00 Okay, yeah. Who is surrounding you. Right. Them. Those guys. I'm not even gonna roll it. I'm not even gonna roll it. I'm used the average is 48.
Starting point is 01:00:13 48 is going to be above my max HP. So actually you die. Oh. Okay. You definitely take more than half of your hit points. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And, yeah, I mean, you're taunting Luxier. You go down, they bring your body up to the stage with everyone else who is dead.
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Starting point is 01:02:11 It's, that's what happens. You see this, Phibs? And Luxier moves towards the stage. You can tell he's had enough. and he motions and the chanting begins again. So it is Luxier's big performance now. Your friend is dead and your other friend is chained on the center of the stage.
Starting point is 01:02:52 We're gonna go into turn order. And so at this point, Jason, I am going to ask you to leave the stage. Okay. Let's take stock. Busy, you are, chained up alongside Kaya and among several dead people. They're bringing, they're bringing Tippy's body up to meet you as well. And Phibs, you are still on the dais where the dais has shrunk and grown,
Starting point is 01:03:41 the source of which seems to no longer be important. What Luxeer does is he, He floats all the way to the center of the stage where Kaya is. He doesn't say anything, but he scatters the rest of the side of Aurelia people. He calls his second in command to him. And the second in command hands him a horn, shaped out of a conch shell but wrapped in some sort of skin. a monster's skin.
Starting point is 01:04:21 And he blows on it. And as he does, the slit of the dome opens back up. And all of the light that you remember seeing in the Earned Kerr Fathom, coming from the water, shining in from above, reflected everywhere, it goes dark. And all the cultists are looking at each other and looking up. And you can tell there is confusion, even though no one is speaking. Fibbs, roll a nature check.
Starting point is 01:05:02 That is a 18. An 18. By nature of what the light is doing, you can tell this is a, some sort of amphibious creature, but a large, gargantuan, ancient creature. Enormous. It's the classic Leviathan situation. And Luxier, begins pummeling Kaya, breaking her bones very easily.
Starting point is 01:05:32 You still don't know his true form, but you can guess that it is thick and beefy and strong and just so full of evil. And he starts grabbing her and pulling her to pieces. It is a horrendous sight. Blood is clouding where he does this. And soon he gathers all of the pieces up and swims up to the top
Starting point is 01:06:00 and basically feeds them to this massive beak of a maw. And the spokesperson yells out, The side of Aurelia has allied with Naxara the dragon turtle. And the scythe of Aurelia starts chanting again. Now we're going to go into combat mode. No thank you.
Starting point is 01:06:36 Yeah, we're going to roll initiative because what happens next is Luxier moves back to his dais and the scythe of Aurelia people move to the center and begin attempting to rip a part part the dead bodies, the way that Luxeer did, and feeding the dead bodies to this beast out of the dome. So go ahead and roll initiative. Why every time must this be the role? What did y'all get? After you? 13. Oh, okay. I got a nine. Okay. And I'm going to attack, Jason. I know, I know. When I see him. I know. Oh, in real life. Yes. Okay. Out of initiative order. Okay, so the first thing that's going to happen,
Starting point is 01:07:33 we're going to say at this point there are 10 bodies that are already dead. One of them is tippies. They are less interesting to this death cult. So for three turns, they're not going to be focused so much on the dead bodies. They're going to be almost infighting, warring with themselves, and there also is going to be massive clouds of blood. So it is going to be a, at least a lightly obscured area. You all are going to go, Thresh is going to get a turn.
Starting point is 01:08:10 Okay. And for the most part, we can assume that you don't know what Thresh is up to, between the blood, the actions, the distractions, what's going on. The have never will. You, Fibbs, are able to see some barnacled hands start working on the attack attachment where crandles chains reach what it's attached to on the dais.
Starting point is 01:08:31 Okay. For three turns, again, the main side of Aurelia folks are going to be infighting and trying to rip each other to threads. Are going to be infight- I'm so sorry. I'm like really shook. Like this is actually crazy to me. But I just have to breathe. Ah ha ha ha. The side of Aurelia for three-turn, I'm so sorry. It's okay.
Starting point is 01:08:55 Cry, hold on. Uh, no. No. Um, for three turns. The scythe of Aurelia is going to be infighting before they turn to the already dead people. So that is their turn, busy, it's your turn. Okay, then since I can like move,
Starting point is 01:09:15 because I've got like locks on the chains on my hands. 100%. That I'm gonna use my bones to pick the locks on my hands. Let's go. Let's go. Okay, that's sleight of hand, baby. The perks of being a skeleton. Oh, did you just, did you just level into Rogue?
Starting point is 01:09:32 She planned this whole thing. Damn it, no. Okay, that's a 10. A 10, not gonna do it this turn. Not gonna do it this turn. Okay, I'm gonna keep trying. Okay, okay, perfect. Fibbs, what do you do? Where is, okay, okay, where is Piccarra?
Starting point is 01:09:53 She's near Crandall. She's near Crandle. Yeah. Okay, so the Piccar is right there. And you do see the barnacled hands. I think at this point you'd be able to have at least a small communication. Yes.
Starting point is 01:10:03 And where is Tippy's body? Tippy's body is amidst the bloody cloud in the middle of the arena. And where is the drain? There are many filtration systems around the base of the dome. Okay, can I see busy from where I am as well? Yes.
Starting point is 01:10:25 Okay, I have three turns, correct? Yes. Fibbs is going to run over to Picara and try to use his bone finger to pick the lock on her chains. Okay, side of hand. That is a 16th. That'll do it. You and Piccarra are now free.
Starting point is 01:10:43 Okay, Piccar and I are now free. I'm going to whisper to her, it's me, Phibs. Oh, it's you. Get to one of the drains. She points to one of the drains? Yes. Get to that one. And she says, I've got crayons.
Starting point is 01:10:56 Go get your friends. Okay, I'm on it. Great, that's your turn. What you see with the guards is some of the members are just being really chaotic in the center. All of the Murph folk are going to take up stations on the outer ends of the domes, as well as the entrances, close the doors into the dome,
Starting point is 01:11:16 and then others of the side are going to also take up stations on the outsides of the dome. So it's like some of them are coalescing in the middle, while others are spreading apart, and they just look really still and watchful. Meanwhile, some people are swimming up to this dragon turtle to feed it and getting chopped up themselves. It is a mess.
Starting point is 01:11:40 Yeah. Okay, it's Thresh's turn again. Are you still there? I'm going to run towards the ledge of the dais so I can keep an eye on busy to see if she frees herself. Yeah, cool. Okay. I know what Skelly Hand can do,
Starting point is 01:11:56 and I know that Busy is a very, she's the best of us. Yes, so you actually are able to see that Thresh gets in a tussle with one of these people on the dais and successfully shanks them before removing Pekara and Crandall from the dais. Great. The side of Aurelia is going nuts on each other.
Starting point is 01:12:19 The blood cloud is getting bigger and wider. Busy, it's your turn. Okay, so I'm gonna try to pick myself out of these chains again. That's an 11. An 11 is not going to do it. Is there anything that you have that could grant you advantage?
Starting point is 01:12:38 Because I am on your side. I do not want two people to die today. Me either. I almost will accept anything. I don't know if the homunculus is still alive or- Am I? Oh my God. And there's also the gun in the audience,
Starting point is 01:12:55 but I don't know if that's alive anymore either. Oh yeah, I don't know what happens. I don't know how artificers work. Well, I'm gonna have to say, well, I have the rings. Is it possible that can use one of the rings of control to be able to control the little guys? Oh yeah. Oh yeah, yes, ownership of the homunculus servant.
Starting point is 01:13:13 I'm gonna say the canon itself, like, that already was broken. The robes is superior. Oh, the illusion is completely, yeah, done. But yes, the homunculus servant is under your control for sure. and he's already near you. Okay, so then yeah, now I'm gonna have the homuncular servant just come up and get me out of my chains.
Starting point is 01:13:28 Okay, Robo Tippy is going to provide the help action and go ahead and roll with advantage. And with my sleight of hand? So that's 21. You pay on the scene. Okay, Busy, you are free of your chains. You are in the middle of a bunch of carnage, but you would be able to move out of that.
Starting point is 01:13:48 Okay, we do have dark vision for when it's dark. Does that count for blood vision? for when there's blood. Yeah, because I think dark vision counts for like heavily obscured stuff. So yeah, there you go. So if possible, what I would like to do while everyone is distracted, since I can see Tippy's body, I want Robo Tippy to go get it while I'm going away.
Starting point is 01:14:08 Okay. He is small and tiny. He's about a foot in length, and so swimming with Tippy's body isn't going to work, but he is able to go to Tippy's body. Fibbs, it's your turn. I see what Dizzy just did. And I give like, that a girl, let's go. And I point down to you, busy, get to the drain,
Starting point is 01:14:31 get to the drain. Okay, then yeah, I'm just gonna go like swim dash over the drain. Phibbs knows exactly what he has to do. He swims over to Tippy's lifeless body through the clouds of chum to find his chum. And he grabs his lifeless body, and I'm hoping this works because Tippy is currently
Starting point is 01:14:51 no longer alive, he's just a large, meaty object. Fibbs is going to hold him tight in an embrace and hopefully get his arm around Robo Tippy as well and look at the drain and a silvery mist envelops them as he casts misty step to bam
Starting point is 01:15:08 to the drain. So you disappear and you reappear right next to busy next to the drain that Thresh pointed you to. It's now the guards turns you see them almost like closing in, moving away from the sides of the dome. It's Thresh's turn. She's going to meet you down by the drain
Starting point is 01:15:29 with Crandall and Pekara. They are shook. They're silent and just watching. And she's going to remove something, tinker a little bit, and then all of a sudden she's going to place her hand on the wall within where the filtration system begins and a huge current begins. And it starts sucking. And she throws Crandall in, and she throws Pekara in, and she goes, yo, you're next, you're next. One, one second. And he looks at Tippy and just says, Loof? Are you there?
Starting point is 01:16:09 Terra. Oh, thank God. Oh, thank you, and Zoof. He looks to Thresh, and Fibb says, you can cover our escape? Yeah, I got you, you gotta go. All right. See you on the other side. And so I jump in.
Starting point is 01:16:27 Yeah, and I just go ahead and I also join in the deadly terror water slide. Okay, and that is all you know as you are being sucked somewhere with your dead friend's body in Phibbs' arms. And that is where we will end this episode of Saga's of Sundry Goblin Mode. Thank you so much for tuning in.
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