Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry - Turbulent Skies (w/ Ify Nwadiwe) | Sagas of Sundry: Goblin Mode | Episode 9

Episode Date: November 4, 2024

What could go wrong when the Terror Squad gets their hands on an airship? It turns out quite a bit. Bizzee, Tippy, Fibs, and Captain Raetelg may have successfully saved Plixie’s life, but now they must contend with dark skies and ill omens. Plus, Tippy makes a choice that will change everything. Find out if they’re up, up, and away or if everything comes crashing down on the latest episode of Saga of Sundry: Goblin Mode with special guest Ify Nwadiwe (“Um, Actually”)! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Players and Terror Squad, please introduce yourselves. Hi everyone, I'm Dan Casey. I play a skeleton wizard named Phibs, who's on the verge of death again. I am Danielle Radford. I play Busy, busy is a cute old Skelly lady, and also a terrible bard. Worst Bard.

Awful Bart. I think she's great. She's awesome. Hey, I'm Jason Wynne, and I play Tippy, the Goblin Artifister, who has a gun. Come on. And our special guest. Hello, I'm Miffie Wadiwey and I am the Captain Ray Telg

of the Mart here protecting people with my hot robot. Oh, that's right, that's right. It is hot, literally figuratively so hot and everywhere. Yeah, spicy. Okay, well, with all of that said, I think it's actually time, oh yeah, it's time. Two, part the veil of reality, And you guys, we're no longer just like friends hanging out,

playing a silly game, loving each other, laughing alongside each other. No, we are friends up in the air in a cloud city known as the Wretched Cove among pirates who are also loving each other and laughing at each other. We're still friends though, yeah, we're so friends, yeah, we're so friends.

But we're loving each other more than I even knew that we were going to be loving each other. But where we find ourselves is in, in Captain Ray Talg's chambers. And this is a spot that is just decked out in everything soft. Curtains, velour, satin, pillows, tassels. Anything you can think of that is soft, he's got it.

A big circular pillow 10 feet in diameter that he's just able to lounge on. Yeah, so we did it. I'm proud of ourselves. I'm proud to have y'all as members. Fibs. Yeah. If we weren't jumping from battle to battle,

I would have mentioned it sooner, but that sigil on your back. Oh yeah. You know about it? Not, honestly, not really. Do I know about it? No, I think you don't. I mean, it was pretty smudged out the way you described it.

Yeah, I don't know. I just found these robes one day at work, but if you know what it means. Yeah, yeah, no, based on the color and the shape of the sigil, that's, you know, Ariadne. Is that one of the Sundari, I think, to my soul? or one of the champions? Yes, that good catch, Captain.

Yes. Yes. To answer your question, she is a Sundare, and she is the sovereign of wisdom. And the sigil I think he's referring to is the eight-pointed star. It's interesting, so you must have, they're not yours, you don't... Well, they're mine now, you know, possession is nine-tenths of the law. No, originally they belonged to some spellcaster that met an untimely end inside of Unzug's lair, and, you know,

You know, dungeon dollars only get you so far. They don't really have robes on sale very often, but a galatling fell into a pit, I fell into these robes and they fit like a dream. We looted the corpse. And as you take off your robe to examine, like see what she's talking about. Don't mind me.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Completely. Fibbs, come on. In this pirate place that's just a big polycule, no one's looking twice at you. Thibs, come on, nice. But as you just, take a look at those robes and the sigil itself,

you do stiffen, your eyes roll back in your head as you. Yep, do it, Danielle, you know you want to. Oh no. Experience a flashback. He's flashing back, don't worry. You, fibs are running, and this time you're afraid. And what is going through your head is what had just

happened. You were on a beautiful picnic with a lover and you ventured really far into a beautiful forest that you knew was dangerous and you paid the price. On the picnic something overtook her and changed her and you couldn't protect her. This is a flashback from before your adventuring days. This is well before you were running through the trees and loving life and you could barely protect yourself. This is a younger version of yourself. And you notice that around your neck is a jade pendant and a square shape.

And this was a piece of jewelry that both of you shared. She had one as well. And they changed her right before your eyes. She turned into something grotesque, just like drooping eyes, a mouth, gaping mouth. Her bones and body shape just morphed all into this ghastly form. You weren't there, because you were the romantic that you were

gathering flowers to make the picnic perfect, but you were too late when you saw what they had done to her and you ran and that is all you did. You promised yourself that you would not remember this and you would just keep running and running and running and you swore to yourself you would never stop running. And you snap back to reality. So what's a flashback?

Sometimes we'll do this thing, It's happened to like all of us where we'll be looking at something and be like, oh, hey, like, here's a thing. And then all of a sudden you just go, uh-uh. And like when they do that, you wind up seeing stuff inside your brain that, like, used to happen. For us, it's like stuff, because, you know, we were skeletons, so we don't really remember, like, our life before we were skeletons. Of course.

So did you, how did you, how was your, uh-huh? It was horrible. Oh. Interesting. What happened? I lost her. Uh, who? Who is she?

Luf is right. No, it's not luf. It's someone who was important to me, and I couldn't save her. And I thought I would never have to remember this. Not that I remember who she is. Sorry. If it makes you feel better, I think I got kids. Whoa. I know, right? I was like waiting until we could talk about it until later, but this has been a really busy day. I want to really emotionally connect with you, but you are naked. I mean, look, kids, look. Is it still attached to the wreath? That looks like a mark.

It's the dunce hat with the wig attached, perfect. It's not a dunce hat. It's a hat of wizardry that my dear friend can't be made for me. Smelly. I don't know how to respond to your story or your skeleton tears. Do you guys, have you guys, do you guys have any sort of skeleton compatriots in your polykeel? No, no, but usually when I take my clothes off and make that face something, I'm not remembering.

You're flashing back? Yeah, I'm flashing back. Flushing back, okay. I'm flashing back, yeah, we'll call it that. Maybe I'm the only one who hasn't flashed back yet. Well, but you remember your life because you've always been, you know, a goblin. Yeah, I guess I do.

So we didn't, we don't really know. It sounds as though, and I am not one to assume, but these things that they're experiencing aren't necessarily pleasant. Why would you want that for yourself? Well, it's just like my friends are doing it, so like, I feel like I feel like, I should do it.

You can make the noise if that makes you feel better and then just remember something sad. No, it just feels like a faker. I feel like a poser. No, just be like, ugh, my family abandoned me, ugh. Like that could help. Okay, well, calm down on that. Family didn't abandon me.

I got, I work for the ensued. That's it, that's it. Let's not talk about this anymore. Yeah, let's not talk about this anymore. Okay, what's your deal? Like, did you flash back too, or you seem so on edge again? No, this is,

your family abandoned you? What that, what? Huh? What? I mean, I'm a wear bear, so I think it's fine that I don't, I'm, I found my family. Quick question. Yes, you. Oh, thank you.

Do you usually have your business meetings in the captain's private quarters? All the time, yes. Okay. Yeah. All right. There's not even a desk here, it's just a big bed. Yeah, yeah. Debrief and debriefing.

Well, he is who he is. He has his own way of doing things. I have my own office. more sterile, I'll tell you that. Yeah, what's the problem? Oh, there's no problem, I was just for it. You'd probably be more comfortable if you just come laying this with me. You know, you're standing over there.

Okay, you wanted, no, I'm all right. I'm gonna stand here. In fact, I'm gonna stand maybe a little over here. No, no need to worry. I still think you're a baby. I want to eat you. I don't want to romance you in any way. I know that.

That's why I don't want to get into the bed with somebody who wants to munch of my friggin' gobletears. Anyways. This isn't about me, except I will say the one thing that kind of gets on my nerve sometimes is my real name is Smilorel. But like that was ever gonna hold up. Everyone just calls me Smelly. Look, Smilero, if that's what you wanna go by,

I thought you like that nickname. So I just kept using it. All the crew was using it, but I could kill anyone who calls you Smelly. Oh. No, that won't be necessary. I like that that's the option on the table, but, yeah, what name would you like to be called by?

Because I won't say that name. Smillerow? Smillero. Smillera. Smillera. It'd be great. It's very pretty. Well, now down to business.

Look, it sounds like Captain, you and I have something, we'll talk about this later. Yeah, we'll have a, yeah, you guys need to. We'll do look, yes, of course, that conversation. Yeah, I just. We should leave because they're gonna make out. No, no, no, we have some business, yeah, yeah, yeah. We have business with you too.

Oh, they want to sidebar and platonically make out. Yeah, well, let's, I mean. They call that a corner conversation. Oh, that's a corner conversation. I'm not gonna insert myself this type. Okay, so. Millerell does lay down with the captain and, in all intents and purposes,

that she's snuggling him, but for real, you can tell she is still guarded. She's just doing protocol at the moment. But yeah, so she's leaned down and is like, you mentioned something just after the battle that I just wasn't aware of. It sounds like, are you saying that we're all a family or we're all what?

Yes, we're a family romance. Yeah, like, That's what I felt. I felt that, you know, like our ship, everyone who's on our ship, we're all dating, correct? Okay. We're gonna go have a sidebar over here.

You don't go too far, we have any experience. We're not, we're- You and Snugglerel figure out what's happening. We're gonna have our own corner conversation with a sidebar over here while you can talk this out. So does everyone know this and I just haven't been made aware? Yeah, I feel like everyone's kind of made that assumption.

I thought you knew. I over-were- So, so is, You can be, if you don't want in on this, I don't understand. Well, no, hold on, I didn't say, no, hold on. Just, I have questions. Okay. Is Pekara technically in a relationship? Pekara, no.

Pekara opted out. Oh, Pekara. Yeah, Pekara opted out. Oh, okay, okay. Yes. But Plixie seems like she. Definitely opted in. Opted in.

With an option to opt out at a later. Well, everyone, yeah. Yeah, yeah, it is always, yes, exactly. Okay, okay. Okay, you mentioned something specific, a memory from the past, me snuggling you as a wear bear. Yeah, yeah. And there would be more of that?

Yeah. Oh. If you want. Oh, but if I want. Yeah. What about snuggling not as a wear bear? Well, yeah, that's totally, yeah. What if I had a preference for what form you would take?

Oh, totally open to that. Really? Yeah. Should I tell you? Yes. Okay, I'm really nervous you're going to say baby. Don't say, I'm really nervous. Please, don't shape-shift into a baby and kiss.

I'll throw up. We were trying to be real quiet in the corner. No, no, no. Oh, sorry. If you were listening, it was definitely. I'm sorry, I wasn't listening because we were in a sidebar and that would be crazy.

Yeah, I've been an elf my whole life and I just was going to say T-Fling. That's it. Oh, yeah. That's it. I don't know why you thought baby. Yeah, was baby the first thing on your mind? Well, because that was the first thing you transferred

Because you're a baby, so you're attracted to other babies. I'm not attracted to other babies. I'm attracted to Pecora. Okay, all right. I learned something about Pecora. Pacara. I learned something about Pecara, and she is single, very single. Oh, that's crazy. Me too.

Okay, well, now that we got that out of the way. Interesting. Yeah. Anyways, we'll let you guys go back to. No, no. We've transitioned. We've locked that in. We've locked that in.

We're going to transition into the things that you get, so that chalice, which, by the way, has it always been able to do that refill thing? I just thought it was just a regular cup. You've been using it for your ale? Yeah, I thought I was filling it up. I didn't realize that it was doing that itself. Yeah.

Whoa. Should not have gave them that away, but no takes backseys on this . And we are great rule. No takes spaxies, unless you're tabaxi. I just made that one up. That's a poem. That flows off the tongue. We just got the similar policy.

It's so cool. I want to put a, like a busy, just start to drumming, and it's like, oh yeah, oh yeah. Oh, man. That won't be necessary, but you're improving. Actually, this is the chalice of Kirkin. It sounds, you all are going to be given it right now. I will say, protect it.

I'm not just giving it to you, just toss it away. It's because you seem capable. Most of you held your own back there, but you can only get stronger. And we have a business to attend to after y'all leave. I should clarify, like, official, like capital of the business. I picked up with you with you.

But yeah, no, we, I'm gonna have to connect with the other kind of figureheads of the mark to really talk about this whole scythe thing that we just figured out. That's a problem. And you should know that's a problem. And you should know that if you are near them, Just know that you have things that they want.

Okay. So be careful out there. Work together. I do have a gun. And who wouldn't want that? Yeah, yeah. Don't let your anger take you over in battle. You get too focused on anger and revenge.

You don't get to do cool things like throwing a glave and then calling it back with your magnetic arm. That was incredibly sick. I just have a hard time controlling my emotions. No, I don't. I could tell you exactly how to do that. Don't feel. I would argue that you have a very hard time controlling your emotions.

Based on all empirical data I've witnessed. I kind of want to agree, Phibs, because... Well, you don't have to take lessons from me. That's fine. She does hand over the chalice of Kirkin to the most responsible. And you see that the sign on that is two outstretched wings. She tells you that Kierkin was the champion of Orden, who was the Stundari, the sovereign of healing.

All right, the chalice of Kirkin. If people be lurking, we gonna save it. He got a murkin. That's it, right? That kind of sound like, it's kind of... Yeah, yeah, no, I like, yes, I like your poetry. Very swift. Merkin. I also, despite any of your preconceived notions,

I mean this from the bottom of my heart. You all, all three of you, are so much more powerful, than you're giving yourself credit for. Oh, thank you. That's really nice. Very sweet. And you are, honestly, genuinely, I have met so many people from like fiends unions

and so many other assistants. You are, bar none, the second most qualified assistant that I know, like without a doubt. Like, so I'm the first, first mate. You're the first, first mate. You are amazing. And if I had a gold star, I'd give you one. Thank you.

And you're incredible at keeping yourself away from love. You nail it at. Just killing it. I feel like that is not what I'm doing. You're so good at it. I'm being exactly who I am. No, close those valves. Yeah, you don't need that.

I understand. It hurts you. Love can only hurt. Love can only hurt and maim and kill. She's looking at you and as she looks at you, you can see that she's like, her eyes are filling with water. And just as she's about to let a tear loose, she transforms into a wear bear.

Okay, and we're back, and we're back, and we're back. Okay, is that a big old cuddle session about to? No, no, y'all go to your airship. And that's when Raytale goes and hugs the giant, bear bearer's like, hey, it's okay. You got love right here. Yeah, it's okay. I know, I know.

Yeah. We should let them get. He's a baby, he doesn't know him. Okay, yes. So you do leave, you do leave Smilorel and Raytel get to whatever they're up to. Business. Business.

Business. You hear like one of those like muted kind of like cry size. And we both walk out and was like, okay, let us take you to your airship. Oh wow. Airship. Airship. Airship.

And so you do approach this airship that is very similar in size to the one that you rode up in. That one was obviously the Staggshorn. This one's a little more beaten up. This one is called mischief. You see that Chab and Dapper are already there. You also see Plixty in a much better state waiting to send you on your way.

Smilerell says that would be the ship, that's your ship. In this instance, Dapper and Chab are acting as your crew, but they are still in the marked as are you and so their allegiance will be to the ship. ship itself. Wait, so if they have to choose between us and the ship. If you tend to make any choices or allegiances with people who work directly against us, you will no longer have the ship.

Yeah, that seems fair. Yeah, that's, yeah. Yeah. But we hope that even in your allegiance to Eun-ZUgh, you will always remember that you are also part of the mark. Yes. We just understand that you're on your own journey and we're here to assist you. Torn between two lovers. Mm-hmm.

To the amount that we can. Before you do go, remember Captain Rytel, you offered them a lichenthropy of your choice, and you being just bones, wouldn't really apply to you, but Tippy, would you like to turn into something? Turn into what? Whatever you want.

Whatever you want. I would like to be bit by a bird. I would like a bird. Wait, for real. I'd like to be a lycanthrope, a goblin, and a bird. and a bird. Okay, so to be, oh, okay, to be clear,

you would not gain a full body of a bird. A bird would just bite you. No, no. No, you would become a ware bird. And we do have a wear eagle, but like you can see, Plixie here is a wear bad. I'd like to be bitten by a bird,

and that's final. Oh, goodness. Not by a wear bird? I mean, Yes, by a where, I want to like a bird, but I'd like it to be a bird. Flicanthropy. Yes. Okay.

I'd like to be bitten by a bird and that's final. I won't yield on this. I'd like to be bitten by a bird immediately. Okay, well. We could get, um, uh, fug. Yeah, yeah, fug. That's a worse name than smelling. Yeah, that's a terrible.

He's a wear bird you have. Yeah, he's a wear eagle. Yeah, okay, sure. So yeah, fuck it, get on over. Yeah, fog, come on down. Hi, fog. You look exactly like your name is. Oh, wow, oh, fuck.

Oh, fuck. Okay. What are you gonna do? So what is fugg look like? Please describe fug does. Fug is really round. Everything about him is round. Everything about him is round.

He's just got a round head, his arms, everything. If you're gonna draw him, he's just circles. Circles are very easy to draw. He is pretty. He technically is a, he is a human. And he just kind of wanders over and goes, Anyone bought in, you? Ah!

Ah! Ah! Yeah, and you feel the tingle of a presence in your blood. It gets warm, prickly. You are overtaken by the need to run. You are very scared. You're very brittle. You want to flap your wings and...

And you also need to put rocks in your belly to... Do you do you do. Wait. What sort of bird is he? Rocks in my belly. It's all birds. All birds. All birds are rocks in their belly.

This is a common bird. This is cannot be a bird fat. That's how they digress. They be squawking and rocking, Jason. Oh yeah, birds, they have rocks in their stomachs. Rocks in the belly. Clovis where pee, poop and eggs come out. Rocks in your belly.

Yeah, I feel rocks in my belly. You run. And you release that and all of a sudden you're back to tipies. And then Fug goes, or give you a shot. And he transforms himself into a, honestly, he transforms into a swallow. They have been telling him it's an eagle. So it's a tiny little bird.

And the wings come out like his head neck. And they're pretty useless. On you, it would look like goblin ears. But they do have some use. they warned you. It's just not gonna be what you think. But he goes, oh, how I look. Fis, fiery.

Okay, there's more to it, right? You're gonna expand or something? Because there's gotta be an advantage to this. It has to be. You're in the mark. You're in a very insane, big pie-king. He switches back and he goes, terrifying. That is terrifying.

I will say, that is one of the scariest things. the scariest things I have seen. Irreversible. Irreversible. Oh. How come you can turn it to a whole bear, but he's just... Yeah, how come that feels like not fair? Well, she does turn into a wear bear.

She is furry. It's not a full bear. Like, she's still got some humanoid features. But that's just how flying animals work. So, with lichenthropy. So yeah, your friend, Plexie here, when she's a wear bat, same thing, the wings just. Come out of the head neck.

If Tippy were to transform, would he just look like Tippy's big old head with like his ears as wings? Yeah, you'd lose a bit of your neck, yeah. Greetings adventurer. Spring has sprung here in Los Angeles, and that means it's a brief period where it's only 75 degrees instead of 95 degrees. I'll take it.

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Yeah, you're wearing. Like you would get in the spots that don't have feathers, which some of them are. You'd get pretty vainy and hulked out. Ah. Yeah. As a reminder, your choices were like wolf, baby. Yeah. We have a wear, we have a where, alligator.

Alligator and you went. This is the one. I imagine, I just, I thought. Well, we were trying to explain to you. Yeah, you kept, you kept cutting us off. I think you said, I want to get bitten by a bird. Yeah, at the time it seemed awesome. You said period.

You put a period at the end of that. Let me just try it really quick. Yeah. Look at the eagle and we're all, everyone's trained and they go, wow, look at the eagle. The eagle's so. I'm disgusting. No!

You, I, I, I, you. What am I done? Tippy, Tippy, calm down, calm down, come down. What am I done to myself? Hey, tip, tip. I've ruined myself! Hey, big tips, big tips. Look at me, look at me.

Hey, I turn back into Tippy. Hey, hey. Hey, buddy. Hey, you're a good eagle. Is it like that every time or does it get easier? You know, it should get easier. We don't know, we'll find out.

I'm really comfortable as a wear bear. I think the more you discuss it, the more it does become a little normal. Sure. I see its uses. Yeah, that's normal. We'll normalize it. Yeah.

You look normal and nothing and nothing else. Thank you. I looked scary, right? Terror. You looked terrifying. Captain? Yes, very, very, very terrifying. Thank God.

Terrified. I was so scared. Okay, well, at least I'm scary. And the more important thing is, I can fly the ship now, right? Because I'm a lichenthroat now. Yes, that bond would be between you and the ship. You have access to that now.

Can I ask anybody to teach me to fly the ship as we're flying around? Dupper would be the best option. He's going with you. Okay. I wouldn't really ask Chab. We don't really let him fly ships. Oh, man, it's Chab.

And Fug, what does he do? Yeah, what does Fug do? That's the chef. That's the chef. That's the chef. It's the chef. It's cooking. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. Okay. You know, Dupper's gonna get you set up on the ship, but you can go ahead and board. It's laden with what you'll need for your next part of your journey. And I think we do need to have that meeting, Captain, about the Seith of Aurelia.

He grabs a sending stone. He's like, hey, let's get all the figureheads of the mark together. There's something very important we need to talk about. In your chambers? In my chambers. Stagger. 10 minute intervals, everyone bring water?

Okay, and you see Smilerel wave? Captain, you're not coming with us? No, no. I got my own ship, my own crew. And Fug's not coming with us either? No, Fug's very happy being chef here. And if we ever need help, we just blow this whistle. Yeah, and as a matter of fact, I'll make sure a Fug is the first one. Maybe you should come.

No, no, I'm in fog. Okay. A good captain knows how to delegate. Yeah. He's the cook though, but all right. I guess this is goodbye for now, right? Yeah. Hey, believe in yourself.

I love. When you find that person you have a crush on, remember everything that you did here today? Yes. You capable? Yes. You're smart? Yes.

You did make a bad choice. I am now part bird, yes. However, at the very least, you always have the marked. Well, thank you, Captain. And you remember to drink a lot of water with whatever you're up to. Yeah, yeah. Captain, thank you again for everything you've done. And you...

Thank you. You're cool. Tight. Thank you. And yeah, drink water. Don't forget to stretch. Yeah. Captain, I don't have any advice for how you conduct your meetings, but I just want to say it's been an honor and a privilege, and we will take care of the mischief as though we're our own. Mm-hmm.

All right. I guess we gotta figure out who's our captain. I guess Tippy probably. No, it's not me. I can't be the captain. What did I just give you a speech about? Oh, you're right. Yeah, I'm sure, I'm the captain.

Or busy, or fibs. It depends. We'll take turns being the captain. How about that? And as you're discussing this, you actually do see the captain just throw an arm around Smileril and y'all, the captain's on his way back to his chambers.

I'll figure that out. I'll never forget you, Captain. I'll never forget you, Captain. Oh, Captain, my Captain. Oh, Captain. I'm a bird now. Amazing. So you are all left with Chab and Dupper,

and also a small plixie by mischief. You haven't boarded yet, but Dapper goes, well, seems as though, well, We're adding to owned Kerfavum. Is that right? That's what Kaya said she was going. Whatever they took, Pecora is where we're going. Yeah, we're going for-

Yeah, and Pekora with. And Pliqi goes, I just want to say that that's really brave of you to go rescue me sister. Sorry, I'm taken, so. Don't want any trouble. He's been taken by the spirit of the swallow. Yeah. I saw that.

Yeah. You and Pecora are gonna have a lot to talk about now that you're, what you are. Oh, no. Picard turns into a web, marmot. Marmot. I know what that is. It's a chubby squirrel.

It's a chubby squirrel. Like looking thing, gerbil hamster looking thing. That's adorable. Right. So it seems like you're in good hands with Chabin Depo, and I just wanted to say, thanks for rescuing me. I was, I mean, I was going to go off on my own after Valen's heaps. So just.

Well, you did go off on your own, and you stirred up a giant robot that almost beat us to a pulp. But that's okay. You were worried about your sister? Yes. Totally get it. Do you need my help? Guess is my question. Well, what can you do?

I'm like a you, but not as powerful. Is there anything healing you can make? Like a potion? Oh, sure, yeah. And she very, very quickly, she says, yeah, you know, Smelly. Oh, she doesn't like that. She doesn't like that.

Right, right, sorry. Smilerel gave me a few things to pass along to you. So you each now have two potions. of healing. Great. Okay. And you each have two beads of force. Oh. I'll explain what those are in just a bit. And you're going to a place that's underwater, but the mischief has two diving suits, too. We're going underwater. I should have picked fish. Oh. Like, there's no way of where bird's going to be any effective underwater. It's not you're going to spend your whole life there, is it? You're right. But I will spend my whole life part bird.

It's pretty cool. Yeah, only like Anthropes can fly these airships that we've built. By nature, by design, Captain Ray Tal was very clear about that. But beyond that you've got your whistle, you've got the chalice, you've got the beads of force. There's nothing much else that... How long is the journey? Are we able to go to sleep for a little bit? And that's when Dipper comes and goes, yes, you could definitely rest.

I could give you a lesson in between. Yeah, I'd love that. Let's continue this on the way. I think, you know, time of the airsets. Let's get on the ship. Let's get on the ship. You want to be captain first then? I'll be captain first, sure.

Okay, you'll be captain, but how about I am in charge of driving the ship? You're the pilot. I'm the captain. Where does that leave me, I guess? I'll be first mate and, uh, and, uh... Sorry, busy's first mate. Yeah, so I'll be bozin. Oh, no, that's fibs.

Okay, fibs is bozin. I'll be, um... Cook? No. I'll just be matey. Maity. Maity. I'll be matey.

I like it. All right, and Chab can be hearty. Hardy. Hardy. Me Hardy and me, matey. All right, sounds good. We've got it all figured out. Let's get on this boat.

And so you're able to get on the airship. It launches. When you're at the helm, you are just part of the ship. You feel the essence of the ship. The other thing you're able to do with his guidance is put yourself in your consciousness anywhere on the ship at any time while you're trying. I'm over here. I'm in the bell.

I'm in the storage. You're like this omnipresent thing. It's not like other people would know where you are. They might be able to be able to be able to be able to be. to feel, oh, like, Tippy's looking at me, but for the most part, it's just your consciousness. You kind of have eyes everywhere. As you take off, you do kind of commune

with the elemental that is guiding this ship. The circle appears around it, and you zoom off. And the elemental is where again? Kind of the same thing, like anywhere, everywhere. Yeah, but like if you had a source of it, it would be in the lower stern cabin. She's having the time of her life. Great.

Her name is Arsenium. She introduces herself to you. She's in charge of powering the ship. She doesn't have as much personality as like a Palacius or anything like that, but she's loving life. This is what she was born to do. Do I know what kind of elemental? It's a pretty generous description of Palacius. She technically isn't air elemental, but you can tell that her element is air, and then

the power that she's able to provide is more force than wind. That makes sense. So there's no wind, it's just this energy. She's also partnered down in the stern of the cabin with another gemstone similar to the heart core in the shear. which you can feel yeah and it glows a blue of a deep deep azure and she is kind of wrapped around that gemstone as well so there you go you've got arcinium and azure stone and omnipresence around the ship but that's only when you're really at the home and communing with it and Duppers not gonna let you do that the whole time as I'm in the pilot seed I go this technology is amazing I can feel myself and I start falling

asleep because it's just been such a long day yeah yeah okay so really quick Dupper takes the helm from you and urges you all to go down. I'll take him to the cabin. To the cabins. It's been real monster hours for many hours. It has. And you are very easily able to take a long rest, if you would like. Lizzie and Fivs, you are up at the helm with Dapper in the cabin, just as you've put Tippy to bed.

And Dupy goes, I haven't really done this yet, but yeah, we wanted to throw something your way. Each one of you is going to get one percent cut. I think that's one percent. Anyway, you get 300 gold. Oh, right. Oh, thank you. Thank God I- Each one of you, so-

I would have accepted any amount that you gave us. Oh, that's nice, but it's the least we could do, you were very instrumental, and you continue to be part of the marks, so there's some little spending money. Thank you. We've got some more materials on board, but that's just for you.

Since Phibbs doesn't really sleep, he's just gonna find, like, after tucking, Tippy in to one of the bunks, he's going to find a quiet corner and start trying to See if he can successfully transcribe the scroll of a movable object into his spellbook. Okay, perfect.

Phibbs excuses himself and just goes to find sort of like a quiet corner where no one else is and he puts his spellbook before him and unfurls the scroll of a movable object. And as he stares at it, he starts to think about everything that's happened today and especially that flashback and just a shutter ripples through his body as he thinks about the implications of everything he's done, or rather didn't do that day. And he looks at the scroll and sees a movable object

and thinks, that's what I need to be. And he starts transcribing that spell into his spellbook. Okay, and you do spend a hundred gold pieces. I pour it into a hole in the spellbook. You pay the spellbook. Where's the gold go? That's where it goes. You just, yeah.

Magic is everywhere, including in the money. It just evaporates in my hands. Yeah. Damn. Busy is just like chilling as like a pile of bones, because that's kind of how she does is her relaxing. And she is counting to make sure all 300 gold are there. Yeah, absolutely.

One, oh, more, two, three. Very restful for busy. Very restful. Chab actually comes to where you are and nothing really to do on the ship, and he just kind of sits down and says, I like the sound of your voice counting. It's really nice.

I knew you had something going on for you when you started, I don't know, I seen that song during the junkyard. Oh, thank you. Thank you. The captain was so cool and he did that really cool, like, rhyming thing. So I think I want to combine that with maybe some of my drums. So it's just like, but um, bum, bum, bum, but um, yeah, yeah. What is happening?

And Busy just like starts like trying to like drum and it's like, Oh, I love that. My name is busy and I'm here to say I really like flying in every way. Up to the boom, bach. Oh my gosh. Right? That's so good. Yeah, that's what I thought because, you know, I like to do spells.

I am, you know, I've got a flair for performance and so just a da-da-pah-pah-tah-tah-tah. Will you just do a performance check? I just want to see. I really hope this works out for you. Yeah. It's a nine. It's a nine. Yeah, you think you're doing great.

I think... And he's telling you, you're doing great. I just don't want to stop you from counting. It seems like you were on like 125, so you just don't have to... Oh. You just start from there. A one or 20. Okay.

I don't know what I'm doing. I've got to go, I've got to really, really do... I've got to wrap a rope around with something. So, oh, that sounds, that's rap. A rope. Busy's head just like starts going to move. Great, okay, so Chab, poor busy at every turn. Yeah, okay, so Chab's off to the races.

You are all able to take a long rest, and when you awake, or I guess, get out of your reverie, you are awoken by the sound of a screaming, violent windstorm. You know, I just, you said you were gonna be my recruits and then you just off and left and now I'm not gonna get my quota. Oh no. Oh my God.

Tippy wakes up and tries to shake the sleep off of him. Busy, Phibs, to the bridge. I run to the bridge to see what's going on. Yeah, and Dapper is holding it and goes, oh, thanks, Indori, you'll hear this elemental from nowhere just starting a storm up. I don't know how much mischief can take of it. Oh, what are our options?

I don't know much about ships. What can we do? Can we outmaneuver it? Well, we've got different attacks for the ship. We could outmaneuver it. Yeah, we could blast it. We've got a cannon. We've got a cannon.

We've got a cannon. And that's like a big gun. Yeah, we could do some serious damage to this elemental. It would take a minute to make it work. I mean, these cannonballs are magic, they're heavy. We could also charge right into this. Can you outfly it? I got you.

Outfly it, me, matey. and send me Hardy to prep the big gun. Okay, he's gonna take more than one person to prep the cannon. Okay, can somebody help you? And I'll see if I can talk to the elemental while we're doing this, maybe I can also get her. I can use-

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Dirty 20. Dirty 20. Finally. I'm going to help prep the cannon. Okay, okay, so anyone get a 16 or higher? Okay, anyone get an 11 or higher? Oh, Captain. Okay, anyone get a six or higher.

I got a 10. Okay, great. What did you get? Yeah, what did you get? I got an eight. An eight, okay, awesome, awesome. Okay, so once this is happening, it actually seems as though staying in this storm

is gonna do more damage to the ship at large, but you can tell that it's not handling it very well, and Palacius's power around the ship is just growing and growing. So, Phibs, what would you like to do? I am going to listen to what my captain's orders were and run down to the cannon and help our Hardy prep the cannon for blasted. So this is gonna take both of you to do this.

It actually takes three actions to load the cannon and then one action to fire it, but that can be done on similar turns, okay? It is plus six to hit. When it does hit, it is 16 D10 damage. Oh my God. Bludgeoning. Cool, so Fibbs, you get Chab on board with you

and Chab goes, he's the cannon. What do you want me to do? I'm no canon doctor, but perhaps you could, load the powder and prep the balls. You gotta, I'm gonna load the cannon, load the powder, I'll aim and prep the balls. He takes an action to pack the powder. Palacius, it's his turn.

He swirls around and you can hear it whistling around you as you're flying. Busy, where are you? Are you on the deck? Yeah, we went to the bridge. Yeah, so I think I'm still on the bridge. So Busy and Tippy, go ahead and make a strength saving throw. Uh-oh.

12. That's gonna be a five. You both take four bludgeoning damage as the wind just hummles you. You were tossed to the deck. You also see some creaks happening in the ballasts of the ship. You're prone right now, and you're a little bit further

from the helm than you started out. The other thing Palacius does is yells out. Kaya says that it doesn't count and she left us to die. She just went off without all of us. But I'm thinking if I could bring y'all back, then maybe she would reinstate me into Feene's United. Hey, you don't have to do all of this. We're actually going to go find Kaya right now.

So why don't you just come with us and then... I'm too angry! Okay, you sound very reasonable, everything you're saying. I just think since we're already going that way, we could just all go together and then... Oh, we'll go together, all right! I'm gonna knock you right out of the sky and in Chicago's loving arms!

He is going to actually make an attack on the ship. You could try. So he's causing this enormous storm, but you can see his eyes and vacant mouth forming in the negative space around some of the air. And he comes in and humbles the... hole of the ship. You hear a crack, but nothing's really popping just yet.

Okay. It is now Duppers' turn. Dapper is going to speed up. That's what he does. He's going hyperdup. Yeah. He's moving the boat faster. He's dumping it?

That's why he's called Dapper, because he speeds Dup. He speeds Dup. I understand. The other thing he's going to yell out is, Chap, when you get a moment, we're going to need some work on the hole just to make sure and chab goes just a little busy boss it is now busy's turn okay busy's gonna stand up can I as my pre-bonus action can I give inspiration to the

ship you can yes you absolutely can so for my pre-bonus I'm just busy going to be like you're good girl oh mischief who's the best ship you can do this you can hold together don't let this mean person do this to you and then I am going to to use the beautiful gift that Big Tips made for me. And I'm going to disguise self and disguise myself as Kaya. Amazing. Are you doing this any version of surreptitiously? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like definitely like I go behind a column. I'm like, good girl, good shit. Okay, okay. And then come off the other side of the column of Kaya. And you've seen Kaya right up close. So yeah, you're able to disguise yourself as Kaya. We'll see what that does next turn. I love it.

Tippy, what would you like to do? Before I do anything, I'm gonna yell at. Belacious, why are you doing this? It's probably because we try to blow up your headquarters, but other than that, why? You're trainers, your trainers, and Kaya kicked me out. I've gotta bring you back to her. And I wanna roll deception, but I wanna say,

you've got beef with a different goblin name, Rippy. I wasn't even there! Okay, roll this section. Okay. Unnatural one. Oh, what? I gotta throw these dice away. They're horrible.

Rippy was just you turned red. Okay, you have a point, but if you don't let this up, I'm gonna sky blast you. No, you're not. I've seen these shifts before. They can't hold any metal. All right. I send my robo. I go, Robotyppy.

Go help fix the ship, go! And I give a little kick. Oh, nice, okay. I give it a little kick and I want it to run off to whoever is attending to that crack. Yes, as a bonus action. Perfect. And then as an action, can you describe me

what Palacius looks like? Like, is he bigger than me? Like, can I see? Is there a target? Yeah, so the target would be this like, the gaping holes of what look like the eyes and the mouth. And other than that, it is white,

almost like white walls of clouds, just swirling about you. a big windstorm, but in a cyclone, you're just not caught up in the movement of that. It's swirling around you, but the target, it does kind of move back and forth, but his eyes and his mouth are just kind of holes in that. Palacius, I warned you.

Tippy draws his gun and fires at what he thinks is the eye of Palacius. Okay, perfect. Shooting a cloud. Yeah, shooting a cloud man. Young man shoots a cloud. Go ahead. Florida man shoot.

A potential baby shoots it loud. Will you? Leave us a lot! Yeah, roll to hit. Okay, roll the hit. All right, that's not bad. That's an unnatural 21. Oh yeah, that'll hit.

The damage that your pistol does, is it magical? I know that you tinkered with it. Yes, so technically, yes, because of my infusion. Infusion, yes. It's magical damage. I love that it is. I mean, I rule that it is.

Okay, all right. Let's give you a magic weapon. Because the bullets magically reload. So I would imagine it's magical, but you can tell me. Yeah, there's something going on with it, so it's freaking magical out. There, I'm ruling it. Great. Okay, so how much damage?

Let's see. That's gonna be a eight damage. Okay, perfect. You shoot the air. This should not work. However, you blast this bullet that you've magically fabricated to appear into your pink gun.

Lance is right through the head of what you perceive as Palacius's face. And you see like the clouds leave that area. And it's almost like you can see the blue of the sky beyond that area. And it does look like it's starting to crack around there. His eyes and mouth are still intact. But that spot where you blasted it is just free and clear as the magical force like pops it away. Cool.

Tippy. Awesome. You actually aren't holding onto the helm just yet, right? No, because I was blown back a little bit. So I just all I did just stand up and shoot this guy. Okay, Fibs, you and Chab. All right, Chab, we gotta do this. Okay, help me hold this cannonball into here.

It's a huge enormous like- Oh my god, I get eight strength. Yeah, big ton of cannon ball. You lift it up into the cannon, pop it in, spin the cannon to face outwards, and next turn you- Oh, that's the very important spin the can to face outwards. And you'll be able to light it and fire it next turn. Okay.

All right, well done. You gonna do this next time? Yeah. You got it, all right. I got it. All right, in just a few seconds, we're gonna light this on fire. I'm gonna yell up to Dupo and get us positioned correctly.

All right. As Chab runs up, you see the wind has blown some rigging away and it looks like it's violently swinging around. But no problem, Chab catches it. I mean, he's an old hat, and he almost launches himself off the ship to ride it back to the ballast where he can tie it and just jumps down back to the deck and barrel rolls into where the helm is,

and he gives the order to dupor to renegotiate where the ship is pointing, so the cannons aligned correctly to fire right at Palacius. The other thing Palacius does, after being hit by a bullet, he slams down on the deck, trying to break where the helm is. Oh yeah, it totally hits.

You can see him just slamming on the helm. The wheel is taking damage. Nothing is rocked off of it, but he is targeting the helmet at, It's up her. Dupper isn't hurt either. You can tell that the wind of Palacius is trying to disable the ship. And he goes,

You're eviler than evil! I thought you liked that! No, you're eviler than evil. No, you're evil. I write to street evil. I am evil. Yeah, well, you're eviler because you stole Pecora and you're going to hurt. I didn't steal Macora!

Well, I don't care. You're getting blasted. I hate your gun. I hate your guts. Really mature. both of you. And- That's our captain.

Okay, now it's Duffer's turn. He's going to expertly turn the ship so it's facing, is Port left? Port is left, yeah. Port is left. So the Starboard side is facing directly into Palacius, which happens to be

where the cannon's on. With this, he has slowed down a little bit. Okay, Busy, you're up. So Busy is now dressed as Kaya. Palacius. What? What are you doing? Well, I'm getting you down out of the sky.

You, Vormant. Why are you getting me out of the sky? I thought you were trying to impress me. No? But I'm Kaya. Oh, shit. Dude, yo, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.

Yes, you are. I was like, I was like, I was just called her a varmament. Police shit does not care about Kaya, I guess. No, no, no. Okay, he says, oh, well, what? What? and I came aboard this ship because I was hoping that I would avenge everything that terribly happened to you.

What are you doing up here? And now you are attempting to throw me out of the sky. Oh, you sound just like her. Okay, I mean. You sound just like yourself. He's gonna make, he's gonna, he's gonna. He's gonna make, oh gosh, he's not very smart, he's gonna make an intelligent saving throw

versus your disguised self. Oh, versus my disguised self. Does that be a spell save DC 10? Okay, he does see through it, which is a 10, right? So he does see through it, but he doesn't understand what's going on. Okay, so he's going to think, Kyle, is there a copy of you here? I thought you were in the earned car fathom. Palacius, you better than anyone else should know, I am everywhere at once.

I can see everything and I saw what you were doing it. It is naughty. Oh, okay. Are you gonna try to do anything? He seems cowed a little bit. Yeah. The wind stop blowing just a little bit. So now that he's a little cowed, I'm gonna cast Unseen Servant.

Okay. Yeah, this ghost just shows up. Okay, we're in, oh my gosh! What are you doing? Hello, ghost who is part of the Fiends United. 100%. It is me. me your Vaskaya's image.

And what I need you to do is you need to make Palacius stop. Go and spread some of your ectoplasm. Just point him out and he's gone. Palacius is the cloud with eyes. Oh, Palacius, I'm an ectoplasm sneeze all over you. She's going to do the horrifying visage attack. And what that is, is she flies right up to his sky face. She expands herself and stretches herself.

And it makes this huge mouth for herself. It just looks like she's swallowing blackness. And she's just trying to scare him. So he needs to make a wisdom saving throw. Again, he's not very wise. Let's see. He does fail. He's terrified of, specifically Ronnie.

His face, even though his prehensile air and clouds were slamming on the helm, you can see those prehensile clouds drifting back into where his face is and his eyes go wide and he goes, no, no, anything but that. And this is only but one of the many fiends I can set upon you, you know my power.

Oh, Kyle, I've never met this ghost in all my life. Are you kind number two? Are you a copy? Are you a twin? What's going on? And you've completely confused him and scared him. That is going to be your turn. Tippy.

So Tippy sees that Palacius is cowed and scared for a moment. And I go to Me-Mady. I'm like, Me-Mady, which side is the cannon? It's all starboard side. Starboard? This right? No, starboard. Right side?

Cannon side. Yeah, it's face in Palli. Hard to starboard. Really? Yeah. Cannon side. Oh, go to turn. Point that cannon right at that cloud.

You got it. You got it. You got it. You got it. And I want to hold my action until the cannon can fire. And so what I do is I scream down below deck, I go, Phibs, get ready to light that sucker up. Aye, I, Captain.

Amazing, and next time it is Phibbs and Chab's turn. Okay. One second, your. I'm holding my action to be able to fire knowing as soon as the cannon's ready to go. You're homunculus little guy. Oh, yeah. So he's, Robo Tippy is down in the hole and he starts patching it up.

Okay, good. And you see him doing some good work. Good job, Robbo Tippy. Or you can feel him doing some good work. Fibbs. Okay, Phibs is going to hold his action until he hears his captain give the all clear signal until he sees the whites of this cloud,

mother-hickers eyes. Awesome, awesome. Okay, so it is gonna be Palacius' turn before that. Let's see what Palatius freaking does. Everyone needs to make a DC 13 decks save. Okay. You can feel the source of the ship. Arsenius get a little scared or try to leave the ship

or get just pulled away energetically from the ship as it starts kind of communing with this storm too, getting lost, she loses herself a little bit. What are your saves? 18. I got a nine. A nine, okay. You crit?

Yeah. Oh, wait, wait, wait. Kaya. Kriot or bad crit? With that, okay, so it's five. Bad crick. Bad crick. Five.

Okay. The ship does drop by about 10 feet. It's almost like an elevator just lurching. But everyone is able to stay standing except for fibs. You do lie prone right up against the cannon. No big deal. It does seem like Arsenius does need some assuaging or persuading to just get back into her groove. That's what Palacius does. I think also while he's scared, so he goes, All right, I just need a little bit more information. I've got a whole thing going. And I know you're actually not Kaya, but I don't know what is going on.

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Oh, okay, all right. So where are you right now? You don't get to know that. That is for more important people. Well, who did you go with in the carriage? Well, in the carriage, I've got with me a goblin prisoner. Okay, and? And also other carriage people, you no longer have the clearance.

You want to, do you want to earn your way back into knowledge? I'm about to do that. If you would just let me, I'm going to deliver these beings right to you. But I'm already with them. We're going to where I am. You are superfluous. Oh no. You have been rendered redundant.

Oh no. And if you are not careful, you will be laid off without severance. Oh no. Oh no. Oh, no. This doesn't do. anything good for the storm, but he is going to just stay still.

He wants to attack you, but won't come any closer to Ronnie the ghost. And so you can just tell that the storm is confused, but still whipping about. He's not gonna take an action this turn, which leaves the ship and Dupor. Dupper yells down to you two in the cabin. We're lined up, just go ahead and take your fire when ready. It's all right, it fell over.

I'm getting there, one second. And Chab goes, well, if you're not gonna do it, I've got it then. Wait for my command! Oh, right, Captain. Hey, fallacious. Eat cannon, fire! And Chab lights the cannon.

Fibbs, will you go ahead and make that attack? Okay, plus six, you said? It is plus six to hit. It's an 11? Plus six, plus six? Or is it 11? Well, the ship has a Bartik inspiration. Oh, that's right.

Thank God. Oh my gosh. So is that an extra D6? That is an extra D6. That is an extra D6. It's the most clutch. Okay, so that is a 15. A 15?

A 15? Just by the skin of your teeth makes it. Oh my God. You hit Palacius. This ball of just heavy metal smashes into Palacius's face. Will you roll the bludgeoning damage, Dan? Yeah, with my 16D10.

16 D10. D10. Is that really, oh, my 16 D10. Look at the math. How many more do I have of this? You tell me. 98? 98 cannon damage.

This is bludgeoning damage. It actually does take half damage, but it does not take zero damage. So you know how your pistol to be when you shot it just opened up a view to the blue sky beyond it. This cannon wipes out an entire wall of the tornado. And this, the whirlwind is reduced to wisps, but you can see the entire landscape and horizon

in that area, all starboard. All you would have to do is zoom past it. He's severely, severely weakened. You hear him go, no, I- Maynie, punch through. I just want to be friends. And he's just like whimpering and whining. And there's no problem at this point.

Dupper is, well, there is, well, there is. is a problem. Dupor goes to double the speed. Palacius is no longer doing weird stuff to the ship, but as he goes to double the speed, he says, Arsenius needs some cajolin or something. We can't get speed. I'm on it.

How do I commune with Arcinius? Where do I need to go to do that? The helm. The helm would be fine, except Duppers on the helm. So I would say, you know that it's kind of in the proverbial engine room, so it's the back bottom of the ship. Busy, your first mate. You're the captain now.

I run down to you the end. in room. Okay, so you just pass on the captain ship to busy real quick, no problem. And yeah, you're down with Arsenius. What you see is this glass structure in a cylinder. Arsenius is just air. She's more beautiful than Palacius. She's more like cumulus clouds, more like cotton candy. I put a hand on the glass and I go, Arcivious, there's a time and a place to be storming. But just like a buff, beautiful captain once said to me, you have to learn to control your emotions. Will you make either a native? check or a persuasion check.

I will take the nature check. Okay. Nature, here we go. Ah, not bad, that's gonna be 22. A 22. And you hear in your mind just this musical voice going, I understand, I understand, I belong with mischief. This is where I belong.

You belong here with us. This other air elemental. He sucks. Kind of stiff, right? stiff, right? He's terrible. We want to blast him out of the sky or soar right through him because you're the better air elemental. You're the only one we care about. More of that? More? You're the best air elemental I've ever seen. You are, oh my gosh. The hottest most blue, most cotton candy-like. Fluffy? Fluffy, very fluffy. Fearsome. Fearsome. You know what? I'm going to

let you in a little something, but I think you might have a spot on the Terror Squad. That's how fearsome you're... The ship powers through the gap that the cannon made. You are completely free of Palacius as you zoom on, and he follows in a tiny little cyclone behind you, just going, wait, Kyle, wait, uh, kind number two, we're going, wait, I can be better. Hold on, hold on, hold on, wait, I'm still here, I'm still, wait, guys, guys! And you are free and clear and free sailing as you cross over land. And when you look down below, you're zooming over land and you encounter and see a big blue open sea.

And Dapper goes, we're going to be landing on an island here in a bit. And then it's on to the Earned Cur Fatham. I've only heard of two ways down. On this island, there's a portal. And the other way is... just succumbing to a whirlpool, so I've chose the island. Yeah, that's a good ball.

Yeah, I usually prefer not to succumb. All right, so he gives you a lesson on landing, and you land on kind of a glorified sandbar. It is an island, but by all rights, it looks like it could be easily covered up with the tide. As you disembark, you walk out and see a really big pool, like a 20-foot diameter puddle, that swirls with blue and purple energy.

I'm guessing that's the portal. Yeah, but it looks like a portal to me. I don't know if I should be coming with y'all, or if I should stay here and wait for you to come back. Why don't you stay with the ship? Yeah. Protect the ship. Yeah.

No, we did have two diving suits. I don't know. Since we only have the two suits, that's fine, because we can just go bones. I'm gonna need one. But we need to put a second one in your pack. for Pecora. Right, for Pecora.

Yeah. That's right. I'll put it in my pack. Right. The only thing I want to do is I want to roll religion to see if there's any way or anything that would have created a portal of this pure, of pure magic. Was it man-made or was it made by the gods? Yeah. Okay. Roll in religion.

What do I got? Actually, you all can roll religion. I think religion is a really good role right now. 16. 16. Okay, cool. Fifteen. 13. You'd be able to do the math that this portal was completely natural and magic made,

but you also know that the Sundari seemed to be natural and magic as well. The last thing that you can discern is this portal is a first step. It's like a beginning in the sense that if you imagine all the planes of existence, stacked on top of each other, that this portal would be a spire going through all of them and getting down to the Earned Kerfathom would be still on the material plane,

but just going deeper, almost like a quick, jaunting elevator ride, going to floor number one, floor number two, floor number three. But taking this step would be step number one, going from floor number one to floor number two, basically. Okay, so there might be other portals that we need to drop down. Yeah, you're not just gonna drop it,

oh, all the way, but this area is packed with this additional form of Sundari magic. Do you don the diving suit? I don the diving suit. Okay, you have a round, bubbly head of metal. Okay. Wait, look like fog. Oh.

Take that back. Sorry, you don't look like fog. Take that back. It looks like fog. It looks like fog. It has a glass front that you're able to see out of, but the rest of it is made of bronze metal. There are heavy screws holding it to take.

but everything still has your points of articulation. It runs a little big on you, but yeah, you're able to maneuver pretty well. You can breathe in it right now, and you're convinced that you could breathe in it underwater as well. I think this is gonna work out. You guys are sure you don't have to... What am I saying? You don't have lungs.

So, I guess this is it. We'll be here again. Something happens to us, just use the whistle. I have a message for Plixy. Right. If I perish, then that probably means that Pecora has also perished because I'm not leaving her in case I'm dead. It is a dark place in your brain.

Well, I'm just saying if I perish, tell Plixti that I think Pekora is cute, but just have Plixty pretend to be Pekora for a second. All right. Mihati, I will do that. And because the ship will be without captain, first mate, and Bosen, you're the captain for right now, but don't let it get to your head. Oh, thanks. Aye, aye. I'll take good care of mischief and austinium.

And also, oh, what? Before I would relinquish captain, captain, I'm the captain for a second, Captain Hat, no polycules, okay, while we're gone, please don't start a polykele. You, it's already started. No, no, I hasn't. No, hasn't.

Not for us. That's our brand of mischief. Wait, hold on, you can't just. Anti-polycule ship, no polycules. Oh, you listen. Monogamish ship. Well, okay, so if me and Chab wanted a thing, that'd be all right. Great, but we're not getting in that.

That's you and Chab. No one asked you. Okay, but that's what a pollock you would be. Well, you can't put limits on myself. I'm not putting limits on anything. I'm just saying we're not talking about what happens on the ship. Oh, you're saying that you are not part of it. You've opted out.

Yes, we're opting out. Well, we've already opted in. Great, that's cool. Yes. But we won't, of course. I'm going to opt in with Pecora. With just Pecora. We know.

Okay. We know. We get it out of clear. Not her sister, because that's so weird, so not her sister. It's fine. You just don't have to put so much judgment on it. Okay, new message. If I were to perish, please tell Plexi that I think she's cute if she was Pekora

and have her pretend to be Pachora, but then have her flip back to Plexi and also say that I am not into her being part of the pollicule if Pachora lives. He pushes you into the floor. Oh God, we're gonna go after him. And as our terror squad disappears beneath the surface of the ocean, that is where we will end this episode. Oh, boy. Thank you so much for tuning in.

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