Dice Shame - 2-192 | 'Fall Through the Cracks'

Episode Date: April 30, 2026

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Doran, you've been talking about killing him for the last 10 minutes. It's like a saw movie. Does feel like knocking him off the ledge shouldn't be the hardest thing to do. He's full of shit, take him out. I want the red shatmy. I'm gonna dash. Look, we need to move. I think he was stolen. Please, please, it's just a color.
Starting point is 00:00:16 She fully paralyzed the monster. Maybe one of these days, I'll do the paralyze. What is taking them so long? No, not now. Not yet. And this is what you get for lying, you bit fat liar. I will use a banish arrow on you, so help me. I understand it now. I understand how this...
Starting point is 00:00:30 Power seems to work. Welcome back to Dyshame. This is Season 2, Episode 192, Fall Through the Cracks. MVP this week is you, the listener. That's right. Each and every one of you can redeem your MVP at a Dice Shame retailer near you. You get a free bingo bango for me.
Starting point is 00:01:03 And a free critical success. From me. All right, shall we do it? Yeah! I just want to say I feel really synchronized with all of us today. I feel like we're all really... Welcome to TED Talk. In lockstep.
Starting point is 00:01:27 Good. What is Ted? Is Ted a person? It's not an acronym? Yeah. Ted Talk? No, he's a guy. It's his talks. Hi, I'm Ted.
Starting point is 00:01:36 He comes out. He introduces all the speakers. I assume it's an acronym. All right, this next one is coming out to talk about. I love the idea that he's like really shy. The toll of social media. He's like really uncomfortable with it and they keep forcing him to do it. Ted, you got to do it.
Starting point is 00:01:51 It's not Ted Talks without you. It's called Ted Talk. You just got to project, man. Come on, Ted. Just watch the Ted talk where they tell you how to talk on stage. I can't. I got to introduce them and leave. Yeah, Ted.
Starting point is 00:02:02 I think it's, I think it's name is your Teddy Roosevelt, isn't it? Teddy Roosevelt talks. No. Not him. He's too busy. It's probably the education department. Actually, I think it probably is something. Don't Google it.
Starting point is 00:02:15 That's taking the fun out. It's the... Alex, I see you Googling. I know it. I won't say it now. You don't really acronymize the T and the, like, the, right? Sorry, what was that verb? Acronomized?
Starting point is 00:02:25 Well, because otherwise it's Ed talks. It's Ed talks. That just sounds ridiculous. Oh, you should use my brother, Ed. Well, I don't want to do it. Sorry, Edward Talk. Edward talks, yes. So, no, it can't be the education department.
Starting point is 00:02:41 No. It's got to be... Okay, I'm going to tell you. The theater education department. We don't want the real answer. I'm not going to tell you what it stands for, but I'm going to tell you some history, okay? Oh my God, you love this power. You hold over us.
Starting point is 00:02:52 It used to stand for this, but although topics now cover all subjects, including human sexuality. So I'm just saying. Dolphin sexual. Yeah. It previously is referring to only a few topics. Furniture sexuality. Yeah. Tour education department.
Starting point is 00:03:12 And it's about tourism. Well, maybe there, maybe it's like. to lock in E is education. I think that you're, I think that's right. Okay, but what if it's all, if it's topics, then it would be three,
Starting point is 00:03:20 it would be like a list, right? Topics. Education. Topics, education, discussion. Dentistry. Done. Done. This is interesting.
Starting point is 00:03:31 You go topics, education, done. Done. End of list. End of list. Nine more needed. Is this a bigger discussion to be had? What do you mean?
Starting point is 00:03:41 Bigger than what? Well, well, I can't, I start. Should we have a TED talk about it? We start to think about it, right? Like, we have, we literally have, like, the world's greatest encyclopedia at our fingertips, right? And yet we prefer to toss around the idea of what do you think it stands for? I totally disagree with you. Completely, right?
Starting point is 00:03:58 Because I think... Call him a name. The reflex is to consult your phone and find out the answer immediately. Call him a name. And I think we are losing the ability to have a conversation where we speculate. Yes. You jerk? Well...
Starting point is 00:04:13 And we exist. in a comfortable state of unknowing and be able to just discuss our ideas without someone saying, I'm right because I figured it. I looked. It's true. I would agree and disagree. I think there are certain topics. Please.
Starting point is 00:04:30 Which I would definitely agree. Such as. But that's, but okay, but like you could speculate things, right? But like, you can't really speculate how to spell Ted, for example. Well, what the hell is this whole intro bin? No, what it stands for? Well, no. right? So like because it stands, it's like saying, well, let's, let's discuss what it,
Starting point is 00:04:49 what it actually means. So I guess I hear you in some topics. Topics. That's the T. I think that this, instead of saying, what does the Latin term of suffocate come from? Instead of jumping to your phone, like, you could, you could kind of, what? Here's the thing. If I told you, if I told you, if I told you a brain teaser and you looked up the answer, the whole point is the ideation. No, no, no, no, but I'm saying like, internal exploration, ideation, like, plumbing the depths of your memory. These are all actually skills. They're muscles that you have to keep using. Otherwise, like, you know, they just atrophy.
Starting point is 00:05:25 So I feel like I agree with Joe. Yeah. There is value in taking a moment, never. Obviously, we will eventually look it up so that we're never disseminating wrong information. But taking the moments. I'm so smug. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:40 That Nick agrees with me. You know what? Okay, fair enough. I agree with you too. Fair enough. If it helps your smugness. I mean, listen, I think, I totally agree. I think especially with like chat, GPT and like.
Starting point is 00:05:53 I think I also proved your point with my own examples. Yeah. It's like kind of like, oh, well, you know. But like even things like chat GPT, they take out the, the fair work of like trying to think for yourself. You know what I mean? That's a whole other topic. I'm talking about the definition of something. They're related.
Starting point is 00:06:10 What I mean to say is like, write me a story. You know, like, come on. No, no, no, no. What I mean to say is a lot of people use chat GPT the way we do currently and still use Google where you're kind of like, what's the answer to this? But like for slightly more complex problems. And it like cuts up the middleman of like having to take the journey
Starting point is 00:06:29 to your own finding. You know what I mean? If you're like, hey, chat GBT, I'm fighting with so and so. Am I right in believing da-da-da-da? And then chat GPD says, yes. It's like, okay, cool, well, I know. Rather than like... Resolvingly.
Starting point is 00:06:39 Take the natural human road of being like... like, man, did I screw that up? Let me think about what I did. Let me like question this approach and let me think about all that stuff. And as Nick was saying, that's, that road is humanity. Like, that's what gives us our ability to like exist because we learn as we continue on and trundle forward. That kind of trundle. That's a pretty interesting conversation again, an interesting conversation leader in itself. Yeah, that's what we're doing. That's what we do. That's what we do. That's what I'm saying, but you start going down on that path. And you start to wonder,
Starting point is 00:07:17 oh crap, I lost the thought, actually. Yep, yep. It was pretty far out there. Intellectually lazy. Yeah, another thing, my brother's going to kill me, but like, your mother? My brother is going to kill. He's a neurologist and he's like, really into brain shit,
Starting point is 00:07:33 you know, right. Anyway, usually neurologists are. They're also homicidal. What's what those neurologists are brain studies? He hates brains. I got into just to make a brain. fun of them. I want to know what they are so I could not use them.
Starting point is 00:07:46 Here's my new study. Fuck brains. Pay a review this. He's just grabbing his crotch. Got two brains down here for you. I guess the ball sack is the brain. The ball sack is the brain. Yeah, I did a badge.
Starting point is 00:08:06 I should have forgot. The balls are like the hemispheres, okay? Yes. Yeah, but it's got the same it's right there. Not the creed. Like the grooves. The Rugee. Yeah. Salcai.
Starting point is 00:08:17 Wait, I'm about to look it up on Google, but I just want to stay. Jairai and Salkai, I want to say. Jai, that's almost close. That's supposed to be left and right. Is that Latin? No, those are the grooves. Yeah. It's like the crests and troughs of the brain.
Starting point is 00:08:35 Anyway, you were saying about your bro. This is such a terrible way of talking about this. But in terms of like, when we talk about the mental journey of things. There's this like very, this is again a watered down way of saying it. Like the strengthening of synapses, the way that like your reinforcing memories,
Starting point is 00:08:53 the way that you, like, you have to travel, you have to traverse those synapses in order to like make sure that they remain intact. Right. So it's like, it's the same premise as like a muscle. Clearing a path in a forest. If you walk that path often, it's easier to walk than if you don't walk that path very often.
Starting point is 00:09:10 Yeah. Because you will be so. constantly removing debris from the path, cutting back the branches and stuff. Like the thoughts that you traverse often are easier to continue. Which works for and against us, right? Like you totally see that with rumination and stuff like that. Yes. Especially writing.
Starting point is 00:09:28 If you're like writing in a writer's block, you're like continually going down the same thought path. Like you can't get out of that. That could be similar to what you're saying. Sometimes you get in these ruts. Yeah. A little writer rut. A writer rut. Right, you're right.
Starting point is 00:09:42 I find it interesting though, you know, uh, no, lost it again. Wow. Oh, you need to get these paths. Are you medicated, friend? Like, are you, like, do you have been like, oh, okay. I, I have a lot on my mind. Oh, I can't tell if you're doing a bit. It's a long bit.
Starting point is 00:09:59 No, because a lot of stress. I had some lofty thoughts as you were talking and then I was like, oh, right, what did Ted stand for? And then I forgot the thought. And then I was like, oh. The forest of Alex's mind is full of shifting shapes and shadows. It's a dangerous place. It's an overflowing junk drawer. Sometimes I can totally forget what I'm talking about.
Starting point is 00:10:23 And I'll tell you what, really wild. It happens a lot at work. I'll start talking, completely forgetting what I was talking about. And then it hits me the last second and I go with it. And it's like exactly like that was the thought. Oh my God. I can't believe I. Wow.
Starting point is 00:10:39 Sometimes there's a stutter. What do you do in that? moment when you're searching filibuster. Yeah, how do you make people stay with you? Doren walks around and... It's called vamping, Joe. It's called vamping. Well, no, I guess what I'm saying is
Starting point is 00:10:57 there are times where I don't have to vamp per se. I start onto the topic and then I, it comes to me immediately and I can finish like the thought, right? And then if there's, are there are there times where I literally can't come to me and I'm in the middle of talking. I will, I'm an honest enough person.
Starting point is 00:11:17 I'll just say, you know what? I forget what I was just about to say, but you continue what you were saying and I'll Oh, right. You're fired. Sorry. I just left my head. Holy shit. Sorry, we have to let you go.
Starting point is 00:11:31 Alice, that happens to be quite a bit, except that often I'm finding more and more often. It's actually quite worrying. Sure. I can't refine the thread. Like my train. I will be in the middle of a sentence. It's not like I'm distracted. It's not like I'm going off on a tangent.
Starting point is 00:11:44 I am talking actively, and the train of thought just jumps the tracks and crashes directly into a small preschool. And it is just carnage, mental carnage. Is it because are you thinking about other things or you're like hyper-focused on the thing and you just lose it? Listen, I don't know the maybe my brain is just my, I'm so full of cortisol all the time that like there are key functions that just no longer, they just switch off. you know, mid-stream. How cool are brains, though? Brains are fucking cool, though, yeah. The idea that there's meat in our skull somehow that is perceiving the world around us
Starting point is 00:12:22 and turning those perceptions into memories and skills and the ability to convey things to one another, like communicate. Just thinking about brains on like a cellular level, how there are just fucking neurons that are like sending electrochemical impulses between each other. And that results in my mouth saying words that you are all hearing and interpreting and making memories about. Like that blows my fucking mind. Oh my gosh.
Starting point is 00:12:53 I could geek out about this because this is actually the part of brains that I do like. Shut up, Nick's brother. Shut up, Nick's brother. His name is Neil. He's great. He's brilliant. Shut up, Neil. Don't you say that.
Starting point is 00:13:03 I can tell him to shut up. You guys can't tell him to shut up. I take it back. I take it back. Sorry, Neil. We love you, Neil. We love you, Neil. the way in which brains break down.
Starting point is 00:13:12 You're talking about language and language processing. Ephasias are fucking fascinating. I can't remember which one's Broca and which one's Vernankees, but there's a kind of aphasia where in your mind you're able to conjure the words and form the sentences, but there's something about the pathway to the external translation where you just start spitting out gibberish. And then there's the other one where it's like you actually can't process the incoming information.
Starting point is 00:13:36 And it's just like, what? people that don't have when you can't recognize faces. Oh, face blindness or whatever. Yeah, like a, the idea that there is some sort of complicated process that's happening that allows us to like put together
Starting point is 00:13:52 human faces, which is why we often see faces in like tree tracts or tree nots and stuff like. What do you mean what did you look like? Yeah. Obviously you look like a blob like everybody else. You can see eyes and nose and mouth that you cannot recognize face in the way that I can say your face is Alex's face and that's Ireland's face.
Starting point is 00:14:11 True, true, true. And there's Joe's beautiful face. Beautiful. Wait, why are we beautiful? Thanks a lot. And I just feel like brains are. So do you guys want to know? What?
Starting point is 00:14:23 Oh, what Ted starts? Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, please. Technology, entertainment design. Hey. Entertainment, not education. I was so sure it was education. But tech, I can't believe we didn't.
Starting point is 00:14:35 That makes a lot of sense. I would have put money on that. education was in the, in the acronym, but I would have been wrong. A lot of the TED talks are like, here are fonts I like. So it's like, yeah, okay. I guess that's fair enough.
Starting point is 00:14:47 Because there's a difference between Ted and Ted X. Like, Ted is the original and it's like, it's got the whole organization behind it. And then Ted X is something. The cool older brother that's the cool. So there's Ed, Ted, and Ted X. And he comes out in intro. Hey, everybody, welcome to Ted X.
Starting point is 00:15:02 He's got cool sunglasses. Watch me do some chin ups. Max Head. I was thinking more like he. He's a gimp. What? He's a Gimpsuit. Oh, he's X.
Starting point is 00:15:12 Ted X rated. So it's Ted sex. It's Ted sex. Oh, like in a gimp suit. Yeah. Hey, everybody. My safe word is banana. You know, like Pulp Fiction.
Starting point is 00:15:24 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Orbia life. Well, should we play D&D? Yeah. Yeah. Hey. We got it. Gimpy.
Starting point is 00:15:34 Did you just call your DM Gimpy? You catch a moment of panic. And he's like, Yes. I have a daughter. Red does not let it known that he catches that. He says, fair enough. And he turns to the others.
Starting point is 00:15:59 He's lying. Devon and daughter is already heading to Silvery Moon. He's just trying to buy time. What's her name? And as Red is like, you know, reaching for his bow, he's just signing behind his back at whim. Jar Jar.
Starting point is 00:16:15 Jarr, beautiful name. He's full of shit, take him out. I think that's a beautiful, beautiful name. Your daughter's name is Jarre from inside the arm. My name's Jarous, so it was like... An honor-found family. Yes. That makes sense, really.
Starting point is 00:16:31 You know, I really love that we got to meet the first fire giant willing to sheathe his sword and speak to us common small folk. It's really, really nice to me. You got something. I think it's really warm. Wonderful. Dora's like doing the cartoon thing. He's like winding up in his spot because all he can do is run.
Starting point is 00:16:49 He's like, I'm going to dash. Here's a question. How do we get this guy off the edge? That's it. Yeah. If we could figure out a way as a team to just get him a few feet over, we went. I can banish him for one round. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:00 If someone has the strength. Gives everybody up. Let's do it. Like gets everybody up there. And that'll let everyone prep an action. What's the banishment check? Charisma. Tamil will just start walking forward and she'll just start walking forward.
Starting point is 00:17:12 And she'll just start. start whispering. She just trusted everybody understands that this is the go sign. So she's just whispering that black smote starts pouring out of her mouth and kind of rushing towards the sky. And I will cast bane on him. Okay, fabulous.
Starting point is 00:17:27 That is a 12. So failed save, correct? Yes. So yeah, he fails. So he is he's bained. Oh. So now it's a 1D4 against any saving throw that he makes. Okay. And attack, actually.
Starting point is 00:17:42 And with that, I will say let's all roll initiative, please. Uh, red. 17. Doren. 19. Temeal.
Starting point is 00:17:55 15. Whitted? With advantage a whopping nine. Look at you. Oh, no. Support spellcasting. Debuffs. Dreams of debuffs.
Starting point is 00:18:05 Dreams of debuffs that will never happen. Uh, and the giant rolled in 18. So we could do Wim, Doren, and then it's a giant, and then red. So Wim first. She could do Hold Monster. That might be the best call. So, okay, if we banish him and then all rush up, he can't come back to his space.
Starting point is 00:18:32 He needs to come back to a nearby unoccupied space. Is that the case? Yeah, that's what happens with banish, which means if we spread out. You guys just take all the spaces. He respawns in the open area. Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's... I was also thinking, how funny would it be?
Starting point is 00:18:51 If it wasn't an unoccupied space, if literally we, we like banished him, we're like, all right, let's go, we walked by. And in his space, all we did was we left the immovable rod. And then he warps back in, and this rod is inside of him. And he just, like, it's eviscerated by this...
Starting point is 00:19:05 It's like a saw movie. Yeah, yeah. He's like, you're order to move, you just got to remove the rod. Or rather, you move yourself. Not the voice. Where the rod is. The sadist in me, though, loves the idea of hold monstering him because then he is paralyzed
Starting point is 00:19:22 but still conscious. We all get for all of our attacks, we get advantage. And we can just be talking at him and saying nasty, bad things at him as we fight him. Oh, my God. This is sick. Yeah. I actually don't feel very good about that. Yeah, and you have a last moment to interrogate him.
Starting point is 00:19:41 potentially before he is gone. That's giving me a psychopath murder vibes. If you prefer the, yes, it's definitely psychomac. I feel like there's got to be another, like there's got to be another. Like Dimension Door the guy,
Starting point is 00:19:53 you know what I mean? Like, oh, what do you need to mention Door? The guy. Push him in and then open it over the chasm. Dimension Door doesn't function like Arcane Gate, unfortunately, because I'm going to end up in the same spot, but I mean, I could just burn.
Starting point is 00:20:09 But I can just. What if I open the portable hole beneath him and then close it? The hold monster open the portable. It has to be like knocking him off the ledge shouldn't be the hardest thing to do if that's what we're fishing for. That's what I mean, right? I just want to grapple with them kind of, yeah. Maybe someone just needs to knock his block off the edge. Yeah, I mean, it goes whim and then Dorn.
Starting point is 00:20:31 Listen, those are our choices. Hold monster and then pushing them off, I'm in for. That's a combo. Yeah, that's a fun combo. What's Wim's strength? Seriously? What? What's Wim's strength?
Starting point is 00:20:41 No, no, you wouldn't be doing it. Doren could be doing it. You would be pushing him, my friend. Wim would hold person and you're the... I thought you said Wim and then Doren as an order of strength. That's really? I'm like, sorry, that's a good Duren moment. We look at the 16-year-old in a cloak.
Starting point is 00:20:57 It'll paralyze him, and then we just need to knock him over the edge. It's like, but Wim's not strong enough to do that. It's like, Doreen, that's where you... Doreen, you were talking about... kill you for the last 10 minutes. Oh, me. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Good idea. No, I definitely like Doran taking the kill. Plus, there's a really nice
Starting point is 00:21:17 Bumbles Bounce moment where he, like, puts him up, pushes him off the edge. I love it. It does require both parts of the plan working, though. That's true. Okay, well, let's bring it back in. Let's do it. Okay. Wim is going to hold this monster. Nice.
Starting point is 00:21:35 Attempting to paralyze him. She doesn't even need to move forward from where she stands in the rear of the party, as you should. I'm going to give her my advantage. Oh! Well, so the monster is making a saving throw, but we can impose disadvantage. And then we're also going to do the minus 1D4. Okay, it's a very important saving throw.
Starting point is 00:21:59 It's a wisdom save. The fire giants, not terribly wise. First one's a 19. Uh-oh. Oh, that's... Second one. Smarty pants. Eleven fails.
Starting point is 00:22:15 That's good. Yes. Good, fucked. Streams of air billow out of whims, outstretched hands, and they weave themselves around the fire giant. He is paralyzed in place for the duration of this spell, and it is now Doran's turn. Doren, what do you do? Doren takes deep breath and runs up and checks the ghastly beast with his shoulder. Yeah, Doren, you brace your dwarven feet against the grate of the catwalk
Starting point is 00:22:49 and setting your shoulder against this giant, you almost think for a second that it's not going to move. He is like seriously big and extremely heavy. The giant's eyes bulge out at you. movement it makes as it watches you and realizes what is coming next and setting your feet against the ground and pushing with all your might, he
Starting point is 00:23:15 topples off the catwalk and falls into the churning gears below. And this is what you get for lying, you bit fat liar. God, I really hope I didn't read that wrong. His gears are just mashing of it.
Starting point is 00:23:35 Well, if you did then in, I don't know, 10 years a young giant named Jarl will be coming after you, so it'll all work out. Wouldn't be the first one. Look, we need to move. I think he was stalling. Ultimately, we know where this thing is going to Silvery Moon, and he just bought himself a good couple minutes, so if this arbiter even is real, we need to talk to it, hella quick. Let's move. He also wanted us to flip these switches, so should we definitely not do that, or... That's a great question. He said, if he was to be believed, that these switches would allow us to have
Starting point is 00:24:07 direct contact with the arbiter, no? That's what he said. Wooded? Whitted, it's your call. If you think it's wise to flip them, we'll support you. Yes. I need to know. I need to know what they do.
Starting point is 00:24:20 And frankly, if he was luring us into a trap, better to know that now. If it's, as he said, then we will have access to potentially exactly what we need to get this device out of Zolto's hands. Fair enough. I'll go for a minute.
Starting point is 00:24:36 I was just going to say. That's a minute. Stritching towards the red gem. No, no, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. I want the red show. I will use a banish arrow on you so healthy.
Starting point is 00:24:45 I want the red gem. Like, fighting over each, like, clying over each other, like, siblings. Like, I'm, like, tackling your legs. Initiative. Widd is, like, a new homeowner where he's like, I need to flip all the switches just to know what they all do. You know what I mean? This one turns on the fan upstairs in the Vondad.
Starting point is 00:25:03 He's trying to get full completionist knowledge of Every floor, very frustrating these we're moving through, which is not feasible. Find all the collectibles in every corner. Vets popping at events. Like, I fadding noise. Get all the fog of war exposed. It's not for the rest of the group. Witted would be in the bug room currently, still just documenting stuff.
Starting point is 00:25:27 Like, I'll get to the giants later. Frankly, whatever's going on outside is fine with me. Like, no pressure. But everyone wants to move through, he gets. it's fine. Who wins? Unfortunately, I am much faster. Yeah, but I also do like the idea that you just
Starting point is 00:25:44 full tripper. Like, you just fully like reach out, grab her like. Eat ground! Oh, that's good. Please, please, it's just a color. It's an arbitrary. There's no association or liquid. Shut up, it's not a color.
Starting point is 00:25:56 It's a whole identity. I like orange and starts floating slowly his way in that direction. Nice. Not even a primary color, you loser. All right. So, Tumul's by the Blue Jam. Yeah, Wim trails behind Doren.
Starting point is 00:26:13 She's been, like, looking for a high five this whole time. Yeah, Dorn, like, totally catches it right as he gets to his gem and turns around and gives her, like, a stiff high five. Yeah. She does, like, a boo-ya sort of arm after as well. Maybe one of these days you can push over a giant. She fully held the monster. She fully paralyzed the monster. Wait, maybe he rephrases it.
Starting point is 00:26:35 Maybe one of these days, I'll do the paralyze it. And you can do the pushing. That's cute. That's really good. Point that out of it, actually. Widdid does this double take where he leans out to check on Wim and Duren and then does this double take and then even Reggie? Whiffoops his head out and they see that Wim doesn't have a gem to press. And he goes, Wib, Wib, would you want to operate the Ardijib?
Starting point is 00:26:59 It would give me more of a vantage point to see what's happening from the central chamber. Oh. I was just about to suggest that with it and how perfect because, you know, I think most of the action is going to happen out where that orb were that fire giant was talking. A much better objective vantage point to see what the others can't. Meanwhile, Red and Tumulah, like, what is taking them so long?
Starting point is 00:27:24 Tumel has snuck over to the red alcove and like, get out of here! Try to, like, tried to wrestle right away from it. Oh, fine. Just, just keep shouting now. It's like, no, not. Now, not yet. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:37 Whim does the generous arm, like, if you don't mind. Like, are you sure? Kind of. We did this very dramatic, like he is being very gentlemanly, this bow in his armor, and allows her to go to the gentleman. Cool, cool, cool, cool. Why don't you be the one to just give us a holler for everybody to flip the switch once you get to the center? Whitted nods very graciously and says, I shall be your orchestrator then.
Starting point is 00:28:02 And as he turns around his armor to float away, his look of utter delight is palpable. This was Widdid's play. This is exactly what he wanted. He wants all of you guys operating the gym. And under his breath, he says, and I'll form the head. And he is heading right for that orb.
Starting point is 00:28:25 And very much thinking, like, he's floating to this orb. And it's probably not, like, the seat of authority that he's envisioning it is. based on the architecture of this room, but it's very much like Picard sitting down in the seat for Witted. He's floating this gem. Everyone ready? He like booms out in the armor's speakers.
Starting point is 00:28:44 Yes. Engage. And Red throws his switch. Jamil throws her. Slaps Timile's hand away. Just Doran. I know. Activating each lever simultaneously.
Starting point is 00:28:57 First, brilliantly turns each corresponding large prism to its gem color, and then all of them glow a blinding white. The room's red ambient lighting all turns off. And then all of the lights turn off. Except for the glowing blue orb in the middle of the catwalk. It has dimmed to a bare glimmer, but witted you are able to see that behind you, that huge blue crystal is reacting strongly. Yes.
Starting point is 00:29:38 It begins to arc lightning to pylons on the ceiling that you hadn't seen before. And the control orb in the middle of the room is just dimly pulsing. Tamil will use her devil's sight to first collect red and then guide him out to the main room. Witted, what do you do? We did, I just feel obligated to highlight was definitely within 10 feet of that orb when you mentioned lightning crackling to some unexpected and unseen pilots above.
Starting point is 00:30:09 No, I mean this far orb, like on the far left side. There was an even bigger orb that I missed. There's always a bigger orb. I thought, really looked. Oh, dang, that was. I love this image of him floating at what appears to be the master orb, and then this like center orb lights up.
Starting point is 00:30:29 And then, like, he missed. Oh, that orb. Oh, okay. And he starts, like, floating towards it. Yeah, he floats. Yeah, he floats. Towards it is what I will say. The super dangerous, electrically charged orb.
Starting point is 00:30:40 Uh-huh. I am floating directly towards that charged up central main orb that seems to have activated with the lightning, crackling down from the pylons. Yes. Yes, the power. When it don't! It's fine. He waves his gauntlet idly behind.
Starting point is 00:30:59 He's not. paying attention. I understand it now. I understand how this power seems to work. And then you hear from all around you. New pilot detected. State your name.
Starting point is 00:31:21 You know, I can't help but feel like reading the names of the Patreon supporters is becoming longer than the episodes themselves. So I'm going to try something a little different here and use some magic. We would like to thank our Patreon supporters. Lita J. Christopher. Colin Burkhard. Merlin.
Starting point is 00:31:43 Adam Frey. J.D. Liz. Merrick's Moon. Rithan Rehn Rehn. Scottie. H. Lerlidane. Nerdherry. Nerey. Moodenny. Miserrae. Wanderer-Refin.
Starting point is 00:31:53 Venn. Rutherford. B. B. A. K. Trash Panda. Luke. Oakland. H.D. Ami.
Starting point is 00:31:59 Shadow O'Haven, Zill Street, Axel, Isy, Repita Nazchease, Danny, Cyrou T, Minty, Aaron Lightning, Ayrill, Ayrill, Fely, Starlight, Karen Duley, Amanda Nicole, Clockwork Phoenix, Lickrott, CLAEP, Nebhaeguja, Been, Sparks, Aligha, Neycey, Neycey, Knowsy, Stab, Sunny, Ceeley, Ceeley, Hespeon, Cajon, Hounso Comet, O'O-N, Cajas, Cey, Clickner, Kite, Ron Hayden, Immortal Dragon, Urika,
Starting point is 00:32:22 Marse, RAN Gilles, Veritas, Kara, Veritas, Cara, James McGinley, Joshua Cigalusha, Tell, Talley's Inferior, Bucing, Snick-Sak, Chiquet-Ome, Ted Begets, Jegar Manjensen, Lapsk, D'EEy Margin, Arsie, Margin'Rosie, Rosie Tomi, Edy Jones, Pry, This Guy Could, Wingshurt, Wattis Dice Dicey, Dicey,
Starting point is 00:32:40 D'EEEEEE, The One and Only Namke, Wett Reade, Salamander, Ray Silvertone, Saratowne, Ae, Aeo, A-W, A-Manda, A-Manda, Gapsnix. Jill Farrington, Sweeney, Shanna's Ditchler, Cat Rooney, Harry, Leiforink, Ratt, Buried in the Archives, Carrot J, Crettercester, Kee, Cajorke, Hatt, Ace, Creaturee Featured, Decoe-Lews hair,
Starting point is 00:32:53 Jane, Jain, Rhin'Naz, Lynn, Red Wing Rising, Helena, That Drumbot Person, Breyer von Roes, Bamboy Gavre, Crosh, Game Boy Gavre, Dead Pixelfish, Sugar, Pogar Myl, Sonny, Don't Patricklose Me, Mitch, Nitch, Knob, Knob, Moody, Trixi, Zonga, Maldi-Ey Plans, Just a Bunch of Romporee, Wormpriste, Bronwyn Moore, Rabbical Raven,
Starting point is 00:33:13 Lina, Jonathan Lipinski, Sunflower, librarian, Connor Deville, Taylor, Kefer, Zonon Hexa, Jules, Robin, Tony, Joel Liff, Benny, Burger Valentines, Dan Melsheimer, ERA, Indiana, Lunarca, possibly Eden. Oh my goodness, I don't know if I could have done it much faster than that, so I'm gonna go lie down.
Starting point is 00:33:30 We'll see you next episode. Bye-bye. Doran takes a deep breath and charges forward right up next to the giant. End of turn. You got to... I push him, Doren. Push them. Doren. Push them.
Starting point is 00:33:50 Let's try it from the top. Okay.

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