Dice Shame - 2-11 | 'Sweet Dreams'
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For when they pull them out of your butt.
Famously, people love it when you yell outside in the middle of the night.
I don't know how to celebrate this.
This doesn't make any sense.
All orifices!
Hey, I got bit by a bug and now I got them crawling all inside of me.
Want to say something cool?
Ah, how much of this have you planned?
They're just charging me more because I have fur.
Can't imagine how those assassins track Dorin' Down.
Just holding a fistful of pineapple witches.
More to enjoy!
Stop shaking your head, Tyler!
Man is that zero to a hundred of...
You met these guys seven or eight hours ago at a bar.
So clammy.
Welcome back to Dice Shame.
This is Season 2, Episode 11, Sweet Dreams.
MVP this week is Bill Dudney from Twitter, who is only on episode 22, hopefully a lot more by now, and cannot wait to keep listening.
Thanks, Bill.
Hope you hear this when you get here.
Thanks, Bill.
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them out don't miss it all right shall we do this yeah let's play some d and d who do you guys think
you are in the top one percent of anything in the world in terms of skills or knowledge or
yeah income you're in the top one percent Alex no I shouldn't say you should share I would say
All of us are, like, in the top 3% at least, even if we're not making very much money.
Of what?
Of the world?
The world income, yeah.
Of income?
I don't know if the actual figures, but it just seems right because there's so many people
and we make good money here in Canada.
But that's not what you're talking about.
Continue, go on.
No, I mean, that's absolutely a fair point.
It's honestly, I don't know enough about it to dispute it.
I wouldn't say 1%.
I would go 20% for sure.
I honestly don't know.
I couldn't even wager a guess.
I'm going to split the difference, say 10%.
So, boy, okay.
Top 1% of anything?
Yeah.
It's okay.
Rob's Googled it.
Let's find out.
Rob, tell us, tell us more.
Tell us how fucking privileged we are.
There's 8 billion people in the world.
And so 1% of 8 billion people is a lot of people.
This is true.
That's, this is my whole context for it.
7.98 billion people.
So you, you know, you're...
It's like, what's that?
What's what percent?
Is that?
79 million people?
800 million?
80 million people?
Is it 80 or 800?
I guess that would 10%.
80, yeah.
80 million.
What am I in the top 1% of it?
Or do you think you're in the percent?
I mean, we must be.
I just, I feel like you wouldn't know for some of it.
You know, like maybe you're the 1% of the people that have a mole on this cheek.
Hey, 1% of people who have moles on their faces.
Yeah, like I have a mole to the left of my nose.
I bet we're in the top 1% of people closest to the North Pole.
I bet there are not 80 million.
people closer to the North Pole than we are.
Put it this way.
Out of 100 random people in the world, you are one of those.
Just like a random sampling.
What are you the only person who, well, it's 1%.
Definitely 1% of the Harlan's in the world, probably.
Yes.
1% of the people with your name.
I got a book here written by a guy named Harlan.
I could easily just read, no, not Harlan, Ellison, a different one.
Harlan, Coburn?
Yeah, it is Coben.
this has been another episode of things that Alex has close to her computer
Rob what are you in the top 1% oh I don't know do you take checks you've chosen a very
I'm gonna say boring things so far people close to the I was looking for sure I love the
idea just trying to trying to you know I like my mole thing so far that's the winner the
mole thing is very good I like it thank you I feel like I'm in the top 1% of people who
have had like more than five hair colors total because I
I've had like, I've had like 15.
I think that's probably fair.
I used to dye my hair all the time, and I feel like I'm up there for just like sheer
variations.
But we can bump that number higher, Alex.
Let's get it done.
Oh, man.
Yeah, I miss it.
It was fun.
It was a good time.
And then, and then I got lazy.
It was the worst of times.
It was the hair color time.
Yes.
What was your most regretted hair color decision?
I had this, like, sort of like, weird.
Barfee green.
lavender like sort of was like a bluey lavendery kind of color that like I've seen in other people and I like quite a bit but then on me I think just with my complexion I just looked really red and I didn't or just kind of ruddy all the time and I was like oh I don't look good with this and and the worst thing was that it was a very similar color to the grad robes when I graduated high school for some reason rather than doing like a like a colorful stripe they were like what if the whole rope was like a weird bluey purple and you had a matching mortar board and I was like a
This seems like a choice, but okay.
Do you say motorboat?
Motor board?
Woo, yeah.
Let's go.
Let's go to grad.
But like, did you have your hair done for grad at the same time?
Was it like a weird coincidence or were you just like one weird color?
That did happen to my grad, but it did happen at a wedding.
I was in a wedding.
And I had dyed my hair teal and then I got the dress.
And I don't know what happened, but I was like, my hair.
matches the dress, and that wasn't planned.
It had been, like, ordered ages ago or, like, made, like, made ages ago, and I got it.
And I was like, oh, fuck, my hair is the exact same color.
Does the dress match the curtains?
Oh, my God, yes.
There was a lot of photos where I was captioning with that.
I bet we're in the top 1% of hours of role-playing games played.
Maybe you guys are.
I'm in the top, maybe 20% at this point.
I'm catching up.
Come on.
Well, yeah, actually, that's true, because the role players are so few in the world.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, I'm with you.
Not to mention the fact that you and I, Harlan, at least, I mean, Alex has been on a lot of the Invictus stream, but that's been going since 2015.
That's true.
I got, I got hours under my belt of role play.
I think I might carry the title then for most amount of time playing a game that I don't really know how to play.
That's probably true.
You might be the top of that order.
The list zooms in and up the 10 people of the 8 billion in the world, Alex is like second to top.
hours of this game.
He still doesn't questions
about how to play the basic rules.
Least understanding per hours
plays.
There's an amazing Venn diagram
when you zoom in really close
and you look and there's like two circles
and they overlap at one point
and it's like people who play this obsessively
people who have no idea what's going on
and in the middle it's just your name.
And you're like,
we found it.
He should know by now.
By Job, he's found it.
Joe, what about you?
Oh, I'm just going to say a boring thing
about work, probably top 1% of people who know stuff about transfusion science.
Boring.
Yeah, it's pretty boring.
That's okay.
I love how you said, well, your answers are boring so far.
I've only got boring.
I'll show you boring.
You want to hear boring.
Rolls up sleeves.
I'm the top 1% of insurance brokers in this freaking world.
Hey, sure.
Joe, you could have said something like, you're in the top 1% of people who could like
really effectively be a vampire on like a pincawl.
Like a sudden notice be like, hey, you have to be a vampire, and you're like, I can do this.
I know what to do.
I feel.
I know how to get blood.
I feel like there's some strange skill that I may have that I just haven't discovered yet, you know, that like I could be among the top 1% of.
Vampirism.
Javelin the throwers.
But I've just never gotten my hands around one of those long poles, you know.
It was good to feel like you're not done learning then.
Yeah, I have untapped potential.
I'm waiting.
1% of ice sculpture carvers.
I'm just waiting for the day that I'm like walking through a field and a javelin shoots by
and then like all of a sudden there's just like, it's like a movie and there's like an Olympic coach
and he's like, it's that girl.
And the next thing you know, you're just like at the Olympics and they're like, you're like,
I've barely trained for this.
Yeah, like he comes up to it.
He's like, let me see your triceps.
Let me see those triceps.
I've never seen such.
And then it makes perfect sense.
Top 1% of people who.
died at the Olympics, Joe.
What, it boomeranged back?
Shunk!
It does when I do it.
What if it's something that shouldn't exist?
Like, your top 1% of people
that can telepathically communicate
with a Brazilian aunt, that's very rare.
Speaking of things that Alex has close at hand,
she's got a boomerang.
Hey, it must be an Alex thing.
She just got one.
The enthusiasm, which she disappeared off screen
and came back with a boomerang was very good.
Big smile.
Oh, no.
Double Alex Boomerang.
Both Alexes have boomerang.
You guys are in the top 1% of Alex's with boomerang.
Hold them both up.
Top 1% of the Alexes during a die-shame recording session that both have boomerangues.
Do you guys know how to throw them?
No.
No.
I do you know how to throw a boomerang, you just throw it.
No.
Oh, you mean do you not to throw it so that it comes back?
Well, yeah.
Those are two of questions.
Certainly I let it fall from my hands.
I mean, that is like a child's plate or whatever the, what's the charity stream?
Like the idea of doing a scavenger hunt where the audience gives you an item and the first one to go find it in your house and come back with it.
Oh, for extra life.
For extra life.
Sorry, that would be a great extra life charity thing.
Did you go to a child's play?
Child's thing.
I said child's play because that's the other charity.
Chuckie.
No, it's the.
There is a child's play charity.
Really?
That's an awful name.
Let me catch you.
Is it?
My brain goes, is it Penny Archie?
It's the penny arcade one where they
They started bringing like video games to kids in hospitals to help them
recover and it's become a whole thing
Are they not aware child's play as a horror movie?
I feel like that's inconvenient
And they have a great mascot who they named Chuck
And it's this nice little red-headed child doll
Who murders everyone
It doesn't seem to have held him back so
I guess I never heard of it
Bullshit I'm just kidding
Good good on you for helping kids
Well good on both of you
for having boomerangs.
Good job, Alex's.
You did the 1% thing.
Congratulations.
Should we play some D&D?
Let's do it.
Yeah.
Let's do it.
One percent of the shows
on the Rusty Quill Network.
Hey.
The Temple of Saloon
is a place where
navigators pray before setting out on
voyages.
And as the goddess of the moon,
it's certain that it will be open
to all visitors into the
the dawn hours. The temple has a roof set with panes of glass that somehow magnify the
moonlight that streams down from the clear night sky. The glass must be carved with light etchings.
You can see as you walk in the shafts of light produce faint images, almost too indistinct to
identify the prow of a ship, a pregnant doe, a pair of shifting eyes. The images caress the smooth
stone steps that lead up to a central altar space, and rows of benches radiate
outwards from all sides. As you enter, you're approached by a human woman whose dark hair
hangs in pools and waves. She's dressed in a white cloak. Welcome visitors to the house of
saloon. Some of you are badly hurt. What services can we provide you? I got bit by a bug and now I
got them crawling all inside of me. It was in the sewers. You got bugs in the brain. All of us
feeling a little worse for wear but i think your main concern is is the bug man pretty sure they're going
to hatch in less than before dawn anyways it's it's going to be bad if we don't do something and i don't
know what to do she takes your hand and sort of palpates up your arm a little bit yeah that's a big one
and notes with a wince the places that are moving under your skin i am artemis a priestess of saloon
but lack the powers that are requisite for this.
Please follow me.
She leads you down a few hallways into another chamber set with these skylights.
Moonlight just streaming in.
There's another woman there who appears to be doing some prayer work in front of an altar.
I guess we'll follow.
Would you mind if I sat inside and just prayed?
Of course.
are welcome.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And Doren kind of quietly mumbles to himself and walks in and sits at one of the pews.
Interesting.
Yes, some depth here.
Mari and Redd, you guys are going with Jack, supporting him.
Sure.
Here, uh, bite on this and Red pulls out a piece of dowling and hands it to Jack.
For when they pull them out of your butt.
The cleric turns and examines you, Jack, and then shakes her head and says,
This is some evil, this sorcery.
Sure feels that way.
What happened to you?
A creature, I don't know how else did it, tentacles and looked kind of like a person but transformed in the sewers and struck me with something and pushed something inside of me.
And then I've been feeling these things start to hatch and crawl around.
And I've taken copious notes.
And I think with my friends, we could reconstruct a pretty good timeline.
but she shakes her head and begins to mutter a few quiet words and you feel the spell crackle lightly over your skin like static she reaches to the sky almost to grasp a shaft of moonlight and nothing else really happens the spell is subtle except inside of you jack you begin to feel immense pain as you start to revolce and expel the spawn of this creature from the sewers you have
heave and a few disgusting tadpoles flop to the floor, milk white and streaked with your
blood, spasming tentacles angrily around their mouths gaping and working at the air.
And they start to sort of crawl around like beached octopye.
Oh, God.
Question for scientific purposes.
Yes, Alex.
Which orifice is he expelling them from?
All orifices.
I'm going to say mouth, mouth.
Just for palatibility.
Just for podcasting.
Fair enough.
Red goes to pick one up and then stops.
He's like, not this time.
Mari just grabs his arm.
Do not touch that.
But Shale needs a little brother.
Yeah, she's the daughter of Eldath.
Oh my God.
What?
That is disgusting.
Well, my name is Red.
Who's Elder?
I don't, you never met my parents.
What are you talking about?
The priestess says,
if you need a place to rest
you can be here for tonight
and some of tomorrow
the illness might continue to
expel itself during that time
you can have a clean room here
and someone to check on you regularly if you need
yeah
maybe that's better
but we can tell Torin where you are and he can come visit
yeah can you do that I'm gonna
of course lie down
Artemis comes and takes your shoulder
Jack and she starts to lead you off and then she turns back to you red and marie and she says
the church will accept a donation of 300 gold pieces for our services what the what
fucking scam god i could have taken those out of you
i got a corkscrew it would have been fine classic scam do the work then ask for money
pay him mary and red walks away oh no do you do you take checks
Fantasy checks
Guess who's paying this
I'm going back to Remy's
Now Red pulls out
300 gold
And drops it into the
Scatters it on the floor
Want your money
Pick it up
You want it, go fishing
No Red will
We'll pay the woman
And say
Thanks for helping our friend
Sleep well Jack
Sleep it off
See you tomorrow
She leads the invalid away
And Red heads back out
With Mary to Doren
Hey Donnie you done praying
And Doran meets you at the door actually
Your voice echoes in this serene space
Did you hear something back?
Red is a hammer to a pane of glass always.
Can I just grab his snout like you with the dog?
Just roared.
No, don't.
I just want to do what do is darned.
Shh, shh.
Well.
You can yell on her outside.
Famously, people love it when you yell outside in the middle of the night.
Doren, are you done?
Brian.
I'm done. I'm done.
What's happening with Jack?
Oh, he's going to stay here tonight.
I want to hit up a bathhouse down the street.
Anybody want to wash off with me?
I'm smelling rank.
Oh, I could go for a bath.
That sounds like a great idea.
Says Doran for the first time ever.
No, he had a really nice bath at the high forest.
Yeah, six months ago.
A hundred episodes ago.
Mary, bonding in a bath?
Okay.
Well, the bath we want to go to as a bar, you can drink while we bathe.
All right, that's better.
Let's go.
Oh, fun.
Hey, and I can drink while you guys bath.
Two.
To generous.
To adventure.
Is this a place where you guys have been before?
Yeah, of course.
Are you sure they're going to let you back?
They'll let me back.
Knowing Doran's proclivity for ruining furniture,
your entry fee is a little bit steeper than it was last time.
It's a gold each instead of a silver each.
I mean, a gold each.
Your permitted entry.
The guy at the window's like, I don't know.
Jason, we known each other for at least six months.
There's clearly, like, a poster up on the back wall that says, like,
have you seen this guy?
And it's like a shitty drawing of Doran, like, running away with a bump blushing.
Well, that's, uh, that's from when I was here last time.
I was fixing their cabinets, you know, in the, in the change rooms.
Yeah.
I don't know them.
Can I get in for one silver?
Yes.
Yeah.
Hi.
Oh, I'm Jason.
Thanks.
I can't imagine how those assassins track Doran down because think of all the businesses with
his picture on the wall.
They're actually really shit assassins
They know bum first Doris
They're just charging me more because I have fur
You're not allowed to do that
You're charging me more because of this
Have you ever tried a nice conditioner?
What's it, what's it?
Whatever, let's get a bath and a beer
So we see the three of you inside
Cannonball!
Oh, that was a big one
jumps into the bath next to Doran
and splashes all of the sides against the water
the wooden walls that aren't meant to get wet
And you now realize why they've been charged more to get in here.
And he's shouting to the room next door.
There's like a cut window where he's like,
and anyway, after that, Doren went swimming back naked into the pool after the wedding.
He's like shouting to Mari.
He was like sitting in the adjoining bar.
I picture it's like a Water Davian tiki bar.
Yes, it is.
There's a harried-looking green dragon-born who is serving you, Mari.
And the cocktails here are superb, if a little bit maybe overly garnished.
Using Druidcraft, he freezes like a little disc in the water to put her cocktail on like a table.
It just floats beside her.
Oh, that's cool.
Very cool.
And that wasn't even the first time Doran got naked in front of us.
He's been so naked so often.
It's quite nice.
I mean, that's not surprising, but also.
Anyway, you should have seen him go toe-to-to-to with Mogil Flame Tender.
Doran went like shirtless in the rain, toe-to-choped him down.
and that's how he got that fancy breastplate.
Please, please, please, red.
That's enough about me.
No, it's true.
Look, Mari needs to be caught up on 150 episodes of content.
This is coming from the guy who shoots one arrow
and takes out a whole league of orcs.
Oh, my God.
You should see the marksmanship on this literal puppy.
You should see this puppy in action.
I got good aim.
Yeah.
So this is just what you guys do.
What do you mean?
No, not normally
We're feeling especially festive
We don't normally talk about ourselves
For this long
Well, Doran does
I don't talk about myself, Redd
I talk about the stories of the adventures that we've done
Well, yeah, of course
Look, we tend to try to celebrate every moment
I mean, well, you saw Jack back there
He was floating in the water for a few minutes
If I hadn't pulled him out at the right time
Hell, there wouldn't be any Jack here tonight
Yeah
Yeah
scary to think about it
I mean there's not any Jack here tonight
but we know he's safe and sound
well thanks thanks again
Red and Mari for
you know all of your efforts
and me too obviously
and Jack for what he did but
I mean hell we worked as a team there
I think that deserves a high five
Hell yeah
Red swims over and high fives
yeah
look the point is we try to celebrate
every success because the truth is you never
know when the next day is gonna come
or when the next day will be
you last. I don't really, I don't know how to celebrate this because I don't really feel like I
like did anything. I feel like I just kind of survived. I feel like I survived and I put a hole through
a ceiling and I nearly watched someone die and a big thing tried to weasled its way into my brain
and now I'm, now I'm drinking. I mean, I know I asked for a beer, but there's just so many
pineapple wedges in this. I'm shocked.
Dora, asked them to put extra in the yours.
This is most
of a pineapple, but you know what?
I think I like it.
Yeah, we do. You would.
Look, that's all adventuring is. It's
stumbling and moving forward.
Yeah. Look, Remy got home
tonight. Yeah. Yeah, I guess
we did what we
did to, we did what we meant
to do, but it just, I don't
know. I just, I don't feel like
I don't feel like an adventurer.
I feel like someone who's just kind of wandered into a room and died.
Mari, let me put something in perspective here.
In your life so far, how much of this have you planned and how much of it has gone along to plan?
Well, I went to college.
I said to Juilliard for five years.
My point is, you know, I think, you know, adventuring is just like life.
sometimes you you plan it and it goes along to plans and but most of the time you you stumble through it and
thank god you're you're alive you know by the by the hammer of more than i'm standing here today
thanks to uh you know the luck uh the luck of my um well the luck just luck not the luck of anything but
just luck is that who you were thanking tonight in that other temple morridan well yes
Yes.
Just because you're in a different temple, doesn't mean you.
Sorry.
Mari uses shape water and creates a cube of water appears over them.
And she's just thinking about what Doran just said.
And she's like, I've never planned these things out.
And I've never had to because life has always been simple.
It's like the cube.
There's just a couple of sides.
And you look and it's all flat and simple.
But right now, everything, there's so many more edges now.
and I'm trying to feel them out
and then it just drops back into the water
right on Red's head
well
you know
that makes me want another drink
more than anything
bartender
and you know
something to consider
with that statement there
Mari is that
you know
I think with more
edges
comes more excitement
and more to life
and more
to enjoy
more to be afraid of
and more to be
concerned about
but that's life
look look look look look look
you're both wrong it's not about
being a shape with edges and more excitement
because the whole principle is wrong
and Red casts minor illusion
and he takes your cube originally
it's not water this time it's just fake
the bartender is just shaking his
head like oh my god
magic users in the battle
stop shaking your head Tyler we pay you enough
Yeah, and some more pineapple wedges.
And he paints this cube and he goes, look, here's the principle you got.
You got this cube, right?
And then you're saying it looks like this.
And he changes it to sort of the multi-edged cube.
He's like, right?
But it's not this.
Or what Doran's saying, it's more like this.
And Red spreads it all out to like a bunch of floating dots everywhere.
It's just chaos.
It's like randomness.
It's just nothing.
It's like a sea of frozen snow.
And he's like, this is what adventuring is.
It's just trying to find a path through all of this.
and whether you want to deal with these little dots
as danger zones you want to avoid
or these are the things you're trying to connect between
you can go a better any way you want
there's no perfect way it's not all one
whole piece
it's just a minefield of chaos
and we are doing a damn good job of it
Mari turns
she can't control those dots
but she does turn all the create little like water droplets there
and then she re-arranges them with one way
overhand into a star map.
Even in chaos, there
is order. And even
in this order, there is a path
and there is a guide.
Exactly. That's what I'm saying.
That's the path we're taking.
But it's not smooth.
We can't follow something straight.
We've got to jump from that one, into that one, into that one,
into that one. And us meeting
you? You meeting me? That was pure
random chance. Not smooth
or shaved off edges. It was
a weird burst.
And then we followed it to that star.
And now we're here.
Waiting on a beer!
He comes by with, like, a ton of pineapple and beer.
Ah.
Want to say something cool?
And she pulls one of the beers up,
and then she just, like, floats it near her face
and just sucks the whole thing back, like a jello shot.
That was mine.
Mari's actually got the soul of a frat boy.
She really does.
Tucked all the way down there.
And Red swims over and picks up his beerstein
and holds it up. We celebrate every day. That's the rule. Whether that be through prayer,
and he points to Doran, whether that be celebration through the love of a good person and Red sort
of gestures vaguely to the front door to Jack beyond, or whether it just be having a swim with
some friends. We celebrate every day we're alive and Red holds up the Stein to toast.
Well, Mari just chugged that beer, so just holding a fistful of pineapple witches.
Toast me with your pineapple wedges, girl.
Squish.
Cheers.
Cheers.
Cheers.
Inspiration.
The three of you slowly, after last call, make your way drunkenly back to the copper
cup.
Torren's weighted up and you give him some news, I presume, of how Jack's been doing.
He's concerned, but he knows you guys take care of him.
The life of an adventurer.
I'm sure he's like.
Either Jack is fine or he's not.
Well, I mean, he goes to bed most nights, not knowing if Jack is safe or not.
So he assumes that he's well taken care of.
If we never came back tonight, it would be no different than how'd we come back tonight.
You'd be like, I'm sure Jack's on a three-month adventure.
He'll be back when he can be.
You head up to your normal rooms in the Copper Cup.
Red starts walking up the stairs and he says,
Ah, we'll take the same old room, Torin.
and his red leads to the top floor
and opens the door.
Mari, you see it's just one room
with three beds.
And Doran's like
already in there and he's like
full on arms outstretched.
He's pushing the one bed
and it slides across the room
into the second bed
and then those two beds
go sliding into the third bed
to make one massive bed
for everyone to sleep in.
Dwarven way. Dwarven style.
I still don't,
I still don't understand
why this continually
to separate these beds?
Like, this doesn't make any sense.
Is it easier to make them or something?
Oh, Mara, you don't need to join us, but we usually sleep dwarven style, which is to say
separately, but with all the beds close together.
You guys sleep in a puddle of each other, you know.
It reminds Doran of home.
Do you mean that normally you guys all sleep separately?
I don't.
In separate bags and everything?
I mean, I lived with my sisters and no, we did not share beds.
Okay.
Cool.
Well, I get the one on the inside.
And Red runs in and dives into the furthest bed.
I had sisters, you know.
One of the headboards has all these notches from Doren putting orc splitter every night.
This headboard's taking a little bit of damage.
I'll just reuse a notch.
So courteous of you.
Blow out the light before you fall asleep, Mary.
I'm going to cast your woodcraft to create white noise.
Nice.
Like a fan.
Man, is that zero to one hundred of, you met these guys seven or eight hours ago at a bar.
She pulls the bed away a little bit, but not all the way.
that's cute
I like that
Red
you're in the room
at the copper cup
when something wakes you from a deep sleep
there's something in the room
you can't see anything
but you sense the presence of something
watching you
you try to move
but you're paralyzed
frozen in place
You don't see Mari or Doran.
It's just you here.
The ceiling darkens and starts to bend, sinking in the middle like a sail caught in the wind.
It starts to fill the room and claustrophobia sets in as the space between your face and the ceiling diminishes to feet and then inches.
It presses down on you, suffocating, and its surface becomes translucent.
But instead of seeing the ceiling above you or the night sky, you see a deep darkness capped with roiling blue, the bottom of some great trench, and a vast shape moves on you so close that you could touch it if you weren't paralyzed.
No matter how you struggle against the force and the void and staring at you through this deepness, an eye whose pupil could swallow you whole, you are transfixed.
Your lungs screaming for air, blood pounding in your head.
And in a blink, you're free, thrashing to wakefulness on the floor of your shared room, drenched and painting and smelling like salt.
Oh, my God, what's going on?
Oh, my God.
What is going on?
I just had a dream, a terrible, terrible dream.
Oh, God.
And Red gets up off the ground.
Sorry.
Hold on, do you smell that?
Red runs over and Marry and he sticks his hand under your nose.
Do you smell salt?
God, you're so clammy.
How are you clammy? You're furry.
Do you smell anything?
Yeah, you smell...
You smell like the sea.
Why do you smell like the ocean?
Why do you smell like the sea?
I don't know.
What were you dreaming about?
I don't think I was dreaming.
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Oh!
Turns into this, like, multifaceted.
cube it's basically a d20 and uh symbolism and uh feel like i've seen that before in my dreams
in my subconscious sometimes when i when i'm doing something i feel it rattling around of my brain
um and she's like and there's there's so many more edges would you roll marie
one t four nice that's going in the song
Would you roll, Marie?
24.
You climb the ladder and exit the warehouse.
Twenty-four. Four.
Starlight casts a dung-glom.
I'm older.
It's all in corporate snouts, and I think what my friends may have to construct a pretty good timeline, but...
24. Four.
Pushed something outside of us.
24.
The only of these things start to hatch and crawl around.
24.
The tentacles and looked like a person that transformed in the sewers.