High Rollers DnD - Call of the Champions | 10 Year Anniversary Special (Part 1)

Episode Date: January 20, 2026

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Okay, so we've got a lot to get through today. So today is our 10th anniversary. We've been doing Highrollers for 10 years. Oh my, wow. To celebrate, we not only have a very, very special one-shot adventure today, which is going to be celebrating all three of our main campaigns, but also available on the merch store. We have some 10th anniversary merch. And Kim is going to tell you all about it, because I'm I didn't write my notes. We have 10th anniversary merchandise

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mushy and emotional stuff at the end, because I don't want to cry until the very end. So, just as a quick reminder, This is going to be a very special one shot that will contain some spoilers. Miles Swilers. For both Lightfall and Eroas and Althea, if you're not caught up,

but it's also gonna be a celebration of those campaigns, so we hope that you will enjoy it for that. Shall we begin? Let's us, this begins. Let's roll that intro and then jump straight into H.R. 10. Roll out. Hello, and welcome to High Rollers, Call of the Champions.

A Crystal Palace. residing between worlds, between time, and even between realities. Glistening crystal strands stretched throughout its infinite halls, crisscrossed in geometric patterns, each line of silk-like material glistening and glowing, pulsating with destinies both fulfilled and failed. Scurrying along the ceiling of these immense eternal hallways, is a woman with dark purple skin, glossy white hair

dressed in robes made of silver and mist. Her lower half has the body of a diamond spider. As she effortlessly moves from wall to floor arriving at a crossroads of these hallways, where a knot of the strands is breaking apart, a dark power glowing around them. More figures follow from behind, two more dryders, similar to the first,

who immediately begin to channel magical power into the strands, forming runic bindings along each one. That looks bad. A young woman dressed in purple, black, and silver. Her dark skin glows faintly from within, whilst her hair pulses with different colors and floats about her. Valor, goddess of time and space from the world of Eroes.

What is that thing? A half-elven woman with glowing golden hair, dressed like an eager adventurer. Avandra, goddess of change, luck, and travel from the world of Iraq. Nightreth, the current guardian of the Eternity Nexus, one of the three widows of fate's answers. It is a great threat. more shall be explained in time, but for now know that it threatens numerous nexus realms,

including yours. But no fate weaver, God or goddess, can interfere with it. We all exist beyond the touch of fate and destiny and would be unable to stop it. No, mortal champions are needed here. We have won, but more are needed, and more still will be found. But now, goddesses of Eroes and Arak, call those you trust so that we may tell them more. Vala and Avandra both nod. Vala is the first to stretch out her hand, and the glistening corridor is filled with the light of a nebula. Multicolored light and mist and geometric shapes form like panes of glass, each one showing a different hero. The heroes of Eroes hear the call.

Who steps for? A tall, beautiful-looking elven male steps forward with very pointed ears with distinctly different coloured eyes. One is a solid orange and the other a solid blue. His sports a very fashionable goatee right now and has very long platinum blonde hair. He is adorned with stunning fashion sense,

a deep purple covered in filigree and all sorts of different colors, gems, and accoutrement. And he steps forward with a grace of nobility. Who steps forward alongside this handsome elf? Another elf, but a wild elf. She has long red hair that's very wild with a few braids through it. She is very muscular. She has lightning scars up and down her arms

and great abs. And she is holding a very large warhammer with a blue gem shining in the middle of it. As this mighty warrior steps forth, who else joins her? I think close behind her, a tall, armoured figure steps behind her with green vine-like hair. stone face plate with purple gemstone eyes glowing out from it.

She has a green tabard on, almost sort of wooden detail of her skin underneath it, and she's carrying a warhammer, not a warhammer, a hand axe, a sword, and she has a little bundle of twigs with a glowing eye following her, going, beep, boop, beep, boop, and he steps through. As this heroic paladin construct steps forth, who else may follow?

I think I'll follow him behind. A brown feathered outer coquera. Very, very cute, very, very charming, the best boy. With orange tabards, lots of gold clothing, but also, yes, a big, where his eye once was is now a swirling storm of mist and lightning. He's also holding a staff, and on his belt is.

a very, very radiant book as well. And I'll follow up behind Century. Yeah. One more figure steps forward. So probably unlikely as a champion, as she's currently fussing over her bird friend and fussing on his wing and the fastenings to it, is a blue-skinned Ayrgynasi.

She's dressed in kind of almost, I guess, science-labby-type blue and gold coats, and she has a scarf tied around her waist. that has multiple colors on it. Her hair, it kind of flows and wispy, like clouds, just disappearing and shaping at will. And at her side is a sword. But again, if you look at a certain angle,

you almost can't see it. It disappears with the light, but then you see it, and it seems to contain galaxies within it, shining and shimmering. But she's definitely only fussing over her friend. As you all step through, you hear that young woman, Valor, the Garland. My friends, Lucius, Sentry Nova, Ayla, Quill,

thank you, thank you for answering the call. Lucius will run up to Valor and swoop her up if possible. Oh yeah, like big hug, like wraps her arms around. It's so good to see you, Valor. Oh, good, we don't have much time. Let me, there's a lot to explain, and I think there's another group, and as she looks over, you see that stood beside her

is this quite tall half-elver woman. She looks like another adventurer, but you have been in the present. of gods and goddesses before. And you notice that that golden raiment around her, that golden oar and her hair almost glitters like it's made of liquid gold. You know that you stand before. Another goddess, but not one of Eroes.

She nods her head and smiles. And you can almost hear faint music coming from around her. And she says, hello, my name's Evandra. I'm really sorry about this, but could you make some room? I need to call my friends through. Sorry, sorry. Nova, back up, please, I need all the space I can get, Nova.

I need to write this down. Okay, right away. And as you step to say, you now also notice that you are in a place, and I think it would be a place that Quill and Ela, you vaguely recognize these halls and these strands because you had met one of the widows of fate long ago, and in fact you had met Duskwillow, one of the others who gave you a certain coin, Ela, which became very prominent.

Thanks for that, by the way. I used it really good. You can see that Dusk Willow is concentrating heavily on this, not of dark power. I know you're really busy right now, but if you have any more of those coins, really great. Yeah, Hela did a great job with the coin. I just used mine to reclass from Baird.

Lasse, do not have any more of the coins, my friends, Mr. Saan. As this little aside is happening. Do you want some coins? I've got some coins. Don't spend, stop spending money. You see that Avantra, this other goddess, begins to sing this beautiful kind of walking song

and a golden light now fills the room, along with the warmth. of a hearth and the smell of good food, the laughter of a tavern, and the light shifts, and a road begins to form in the space, along which five more heroes make their way through. The heroes of Iraq hear the call. Who steps forth?

Walking forward with a very confident stride is a red-haired mustachioed man dressed, not dissimilar in colors to a bumblebee, you could say. Wearing this resplendent armor now and holding a sword, but his main weapon is his crossbow. Raynard Ferrellhorn enters the fray. So leading this group, the Ranger, the traveler leading the group. Who steps behind Raynard?

pushing his way through past Raynard is a guy that looks like a washed up Pirates of the Caribbean Jack Sparrow Jack Sparrow, but he's got a green hints of color instead of red He looks like he should be a rogue But he's not, he's a cleric

He's a cleric? He's got a like cleric? He's got a huge amount of daggers You can see at least nine around his body. He's got just a regular leather jerk in. He's got a really interesting purple-striped scarf around his waist. Weird. He's got a green cape.

He's got a bandana, a green one on top of his head. He's got a nice big beard and mustache. And he looks a little on the tubby side right now. Following behind this interesting character, who do we see? I think he could only ever be a purple-skinned teafling with two broken horns. and she is rolling her eyes so hard it is probably going to the back of her skull.

She is dressed in beautiful, flowing red and gold robes and carrying behind her this kind of long guan d'ao with curved blades and cute little hair clips as well. It's really similar. Yeah, yeah. And she just has a look of just, oh, my patience has run out, but here we are. rather stern face on this warrior who steps forward.

Another figure perhaps? You see a moon elf, an elf with sort of pale, bluish skin. She has very long purple, flowy hair. She's wearing a sort of turquoise tunic and she has a little circlet around her head with the symbol of the moon in it and she's carrying a glowing silver bow and she will probably be hurrying behind Juto.

Just out of, probably habit, just conjures a flower and tucks it into her hair as she walks through. A literal princess, an elven princess. A little princess. And is there another figure that walks behind them? Perhaps a little separated from the group, but one who has traveled with them?

It'll be like a beat, and I guess like almost like a shadow just like slipping in. Yeah. You see like this kind of like this haggard mess of like a young human sort of girl. She has like black scraggly hair or like pinned up and all flowing out in different directions. She has dark black face paint over her eyes. And she has this almost like like this armor that's almost kind of so black. It doesn't really reflect light.

It sort of absorbs light. And then she has like these light blue tabards underneath, potions by her side. And she has a long, quite. creepy looking long sword at her side. It's quite spiked and like encrusted with gems in the hill. And she'll sort of just creep around the corner, like a cat that's done

something wrong. Am I supposed to be here? Well, Aousra, you've heard the call that champions were needed and that your realm, your world, is in danger. Cam, Buckland, judo, Jutsi.

Thank you. It's been a long time. I'm out of practice. Raynard Farahorn, of course, and Alora. Galanadale. Galanadal. Thank you. I nearly did the Rian. Do not ruin my girl. Thank you. You all step forward, having heard again your god call to you, or this goddess Evandra, called to you.

But you now see, sort of stood on the other side of this incredible, you know, expansive, eternal hallway of glittering stone. You see five other adventurers stood opposite you. Hey, we have heeded the call, us champions of Talifal. Oh my god, do you guys just talk at each other all the time? This is really confusing.

Just one, pick one, go. Me. The champions are, oh my God, okay, okay. Fine, Juto. Does your group of travelers have a joker amongst you? I've been told by my human companions that every group needs a joker. I'm no joker

Do you want one? I'm hugely delightful and an absolute joker as you can tell. You are the joker. Yes. Yes, I'd say maybe Yes, Ala, you do do very good jokes but birdies have some good ones too.

I've told some, yes, I've told some good. I think I've told some good ones, right? You have, yes. Actually, I wrote them down there. You did. I wrote them down. Is that a bird? Raynard, I've got it, don't worry.

Exactly what I want. Lucius will step forward in this very confusing situation. We should probably introduce ourselves, everybody. This is very confusing. That's a good idea, yes. Century is always good. I am Lucius, Virian, Eloin, Eleonastow. Pleasure to meet you all.

Virian Eloin Alawin, Eleanastro. Eleanor. Lucius, yes. Absolute pleasure to meet you all. Can I just call you Lucius? Is that okay? Yes, you could call me. Are we doing a salute? What?

Oh yes, this is our, we have a salute. And it is this. Well, in Talis Vowl, that means something very different. Oh no, that's, what does it mean? Let me write it down. I should make a note. Talis Vowl you say, tell me about it. Talis Vau.

Oh, this is Nova the YouTube. Hello. She's very keen to learn about you. Nova is the smartest person here. Hi! I love that. Hi. Let's make to you.

As you are doing these introductions, these three, Dryders will step forth. And for the heroes of Talasphal, for the heroes of Aron, this, you've, you have seen dryders and drow, you know, that dryders are these, you know, horrific curses placed upon drow precesses, but these do not look like the drow you've encountered.

Their spider-like bodies are made of diamond. They are radiant, full of light, and there is an immediate sense of calm and peace and joy being around them. For the heroes of a rose, you have met at least one of the widows of fate before Dornweaver. they will step forward. Now we must call our champion forth. A child of destiny that we rescued from the hells

and granted our power. As they stretch out their hands, they begin to weave them back and forward and a cocoon of silk-like magic forms in the center of the room, which begins to turn translucent and break away, revealing a drow man And would Trellamar Elite come and join us? Yay! Why is there a chair here?

Why would there be a chair? Hello, Matt, well, our 10th anniversary. Thank you for joining us. My pleasure. My pleasure. Well, Trellamar, you remember that the Widows of Fate rescued you from your predicament in the hells. You know that your friends tried to help you,

but there was an incident involving powerful demonic figures. And these Widows of Fate have sort of bestowed upon you, warlock powers like you once wielded, and now you have sort of become their champion called when they're in need of heroes. But as you sort of materialize, you find yourself stood in this endless, expanding hallway, and there's these great spider web of glistening strands,

and at the center of it, you can see three of them have been knotted and bound in a dark, you know, corruptive magic. And then you sort of blink, and you look over and you see your old traveling companions, the heroes of Talasphal. Trudeau! What the fuck? Wait a minute.

Last we saw you, you sunk into the ground and a demon took you or something like that? How are you here? Did I? Yes. We really tried to save you, I'm sorry. You went to Averness? We went to Averness.

We did. Yeah. Yes, that was a whole thing. We rode a car. We wrote a car. I have no recollection of any of this. Convenient Trelly Belly, yeah, I'm sure. Oh, well, yeah.

How do you do you? I feel seeing all you guys again. I've just been in a lovely tranquil place. And now I'm here with you were in. You. You, I thought this is not tranquil. What was your name? Raynard, Raynard, Ferrell, we fought together.

Oh, Raynardt. Oh, yeah. Mara Bush or something stupid like that. A leaf. I think you'll find. Obviously, Cam, Alora, Juto. I'm sorry. Have we met?

No, but I was with this lot when they were trying to rescue you from a dentist. She did try and help. Yeah. So she didn't actually know who you were at the but she did still try and help. So that's a really good friend of a demon. Oh, thank you.

I just do a little bow of thanks. Little balfair. And would you describe, because there may be very many, a lot of people at home who may not have met Trelma. Would you describe Trelemar? So he has a very long, battered, Inverness cape, or maybe it's a bit more tidy now that it's, it's been a little while.

He's got a nice Inverness cape, long leather Inverness cape. He's a draught, purple skin, very handsome, long white hair with a little black fleck going through it. Perfect. I think Juto will stride up to you, give you a kind of look up and down. Trelemar. Jutto?

I have something of yours, and she's going to pull out a rope. Oh! Really? I knew this wouldn't be the last of you. Thank you. You now have an animated rope, which is an item of yours, I believe.

It was, yes. If you can find that, I'm sure that we can add that to your inventory. Thank you. It's good to see you again. It is good to see you too, Judo. As you have this wonderful little reunion moment, the heroes of Arois, the storm chasers,

you obviously see that whoever this champion of the Wizards of someone clearly knows this other group of heroes. We must be getting one too. Yes, who's the most important person we know? You are, Burdiel. Oh, thank you so much. If they bring Petal, I don't know what I'm going to do.

What about my girlfriend? girlfriend, girlfriend. That'll be a good choice. Girlfriend. Green. Trillamon. You sort of look over and you see that there is this

very colourful group of other heroes waiting. One appears to be a bird man. Yes. One appears to be a robot woman made of plants. And you see a couple of elves and an air ganassi. They all seem very excited

and very exuberant and delighted. But there is this brief moment where you can see the widows of fate of focusing their magic on whatever this problem is, whatever this knot of dark power, giving you a brief moment. Another woman would actually approach you. You would recognize Avandra, the goddess.

This is Cam's goddess. She would recognize her. But another steps beside her, dressed in these dark purple robes with silver highlights, and her hair almost floats around her like a nebula or like a galaxy. And she will just say, I am Valor, goddess of time and space.

These are heroes from my world. Thank you for your assistance in this. I don't quite know what's going on, but you seem to be a champion of the widow. You just show me where I need to attack, and I will do it for you, my lady. Oh, well, thank you very much. What a gentleman. Sounds very serious.

Stand and then kneel in front of Evandra. Cam, you don't need to be doing that. As your chosen champion, the best of us. You are, you are my champion, that's correct. Thank you. Yes, yes. Come on, stand up. Which dagger do you prefer me to use right now?

Because I've got Duracel, got nimblous, the one comes back. Yes. You choose the best one for the scenario, my friend. You've always known the best course of actions. I know I'm the best. This might be... I don't know exactly what the problem is, but this seems to be a pretty big deal, Cam. This isn't just a rock that's endangered. Yeah, I push the trail behind me. Tell me all about it. Well, I don't know exactly, but I know that it's not just a rack that's in danger. It's this other world, a Roist, that these other heroes are from, and another one, a third world.

They're all in danger. Right. And you chose the best of the best. Wow, I chose the champions I could trust. Why bring him then, my point of Trell? He's literally come from hell. Cam, I really thought that, I mean, we did try and rescue him. Can you not, can we put that behind us? Because I'm quite glad to see him.

Can I use my animated rope to just soptitiously tie his legs up? I'm delighted. I'm delighted. Why don't you, if you just roll a D20 for me, let's get your first roll back. Let me get them out. They're in me poppy. Hang on. I've got prepared.

Roll in G20. G20 and add your sleight of hand for me. So you're going to put your hands. Slight of hand skill. Because it's been a while. My day, we used paper. We did. We literally did.

We used paper character sheet. 15? 15. And would Cam make a perception role for me, please. See if he notices. My role is a disadvantage because I'm fixed on. Absolutely. I think that that makes perfect sense.

And that's a net one. Oh, perfect. Oh, absolutely. It completely ties his legs together. I'm not willing. to put it behind me, all right? Look. Okay, but it's just, it's really nice to have him back,

and this seems very important, so I think we should... All right, Trell, I'll be the better man. How about that? I put a hand out. Perfect. Quill, would... Because Quill notices this rope. You see everything. Nova Century, this team over here, they don't seem too serious.

These are heroes from their world? I kind of like it, honestly. That's kind of fun. The rope thing, the rope thing's very strange. I really want him to move. I really want him to fall over. I know I don't know him. but it would be funny.

Maybe this is some kind of custom in that world. Maybe. Very light. I take a little step back. Go, oh yeah, you're gonna play it like that, cool. I didn't wanna do it anyway. Do you go to stand in place? Oh, you just stay in place, okay.

Anyway, Evander, and then I... And you find that your ropes, you're like, you bastard! Worth it. I am so glad you're back. Me too, that's with you, Cam. Of course, the Juto Smiling, that's the Juto Smiling. That's the Juto Smiling.

The jit-chow, the corner. A little, the corner is up. Slightly unnerved, but I appreciate the gesture. She really did miss you. The Dryden Night Reef, the current champion of the Eternity Nexus, sort of terns away from the spell that they've been casting. Champions, I must now inform you

of what has befallen your worlds and threatens another. You have been summoned to deal with a great evil. a great power. Your worlds have become entangled by this malignant being that seeks to unravel and unmake them. The chronoboros, a thing born of chaos, manifested at the epoch of great times from the remnant fate and unfulfilled destiny of evil beings.

It shall feast upon the fate of these worlds and eventually itself, destroying all that was. The Cronoboros cannot be fought or defeated via a single world. Its influence reaches through the realm between worlds from a place called Void Watch Bastion. It is an old citadel of an order who once watched over the fates of others

long before me and my sisters were charged with this protection. We cannot stop the Cronoboros for, gods and goddesses and ourselves. We are outside the realm of fate and destiny. But you, all of you, fate and destiny is so much a part of what you are. You are the only ones who can stop the chronoboros. We can help you reach it and bring you back.

But there is another world still at threat, and you will need the help of the heroes from Althea as well. We cut, too. Ashen's Rest, Ashen Rest, a little tavern called Tyrea's Rest. My name is Grav. The heroes of Ashen Rest, for the heroes of Althea, something is very wrong in the world. I've shit myself.

Not again, Rowan. As Rowan says this and you look out, you can see that the world has sort of frozen in time, and part of the sort of the source of. are turning black and as if they're burning, but something, the very fabric of what makes Althea, Althea is breaking apart. Yet you seem to be the only ones unaffected. Even Little Springheart and Mateo and your friends and Garrett, your bodyguard of the tavern, all of them are sort of locked and frozen in a moment of time. You do not know what is happening.

Uh, Rowan, it's probably a good idea for you to unshit yourself. Okay. I don't know what you've done, but that looks really bad out there. I don't like that. I don't like the look at that doll. Oh no. Zanthiazantzi As Orrgan, what have you done now? It wasn't me. It wasn't me this time, I don't think. I have so much to do the blue-collar now.

Ophelia, is this great-father stuff? This is great-father stuff, right? I don't think so. As you panic, you see a triangle of purple light begins to form in the air. Oh God, it's a real aesthetic. And it almost becomes a tunnel, this sort of pyramid-like tunnel

of stars and light and nebula and space, and coming from it, a cadre of heroes. All dressed in different colors, all of different types and styles. We're closed right now, we're closed right now. They enter through, followed by, this beautiful young dark-skinned woman

with the sort of floating hair, the purple robes, as well as a crystalline diamond-bodied spider woman. They sort of carry, come through behind this massive group of travellers. As they do, fate, a crucible of fate, a power that, although unknown to you, has slowly been guiding you and pressure. and aiding you in many of your adventures in Althea, we see that that itself, the audience,

beyond the scope of these mortals, the crucible is swaying to and fro and to and fro, almost unbalanced. And then something, magic, strands, webs begin to form around it, holding it in place, balancing it, as you gain all five fate points to your side of the... This is a special mechanic we use in Ophaya. One, two, three, four, five.

So we can add them to a roll. Oh, okay. Yeah, I will explain to this. Well, the other thing is, is my side of the fate pool will also receive five fateful. Oh, dear. So there's ten in play. Ten in place, then.

So they swap, if we use one, Mara gains it. Right. And if Fara uses one we do it. We'll come to that, don't worry. But, heroes of Ophala. Meet the heroes of Arice, and the heroes of Iraq, and Trellamar Elite.

I'm gonna stand behind Rowan. Daisy stands behind Rowan. There's a lot of people, Rowan, I don't like it. I'll be going to die. I think we're going to die. We don't have enough stools, and we've only got one person that's frozen right now that can serve your drinks.

I could do it though. Hello, everyone come in. This place reminds me of our tavern, actually, remember? Anyone? In Talasvale? We had a tavern. This is a tavern. It was Raynard. I wasn't to earth for that.

No, you weren't. Literally everyone else was. He was in Avernus. You were in Avernus. I'm talking to the people who've been to the tavern. This is ridiculous. Someone else talk. Cool.

Well, it's nice to be here. I don't know how we got here. Well, I do know how we got here. We got here through Valon. Through Valour. Yes, Valour and, yes. Very impressive. Also, we should ask you how the goddess thing is.

by the way. Well, you know, me and father and mother, we sort of left the world after everything happened. And, you know, they are taking some time off. I answer the call of the widows. Exactly. Don't they? And then obviously, as soon as they go off

on their multiversal little vacation, this all happens. Typical. What are you all doing here? What are you doing here in our tavern? Also, have you noticed, time's frozen out there. It's scary out there. Yes.

Just a small explanation, just a little tiny explanation that makes me not want to cry, please. Yeah, I'll do it. Hi, I'm Cam Buckland, and I'm probably the leader of like this whole thing, I imagine, Evangra, right? You are not my head. Abadja's not currently here. She's back there.

You're not the prime, so you're not my leader. Huh? Never mind. We've not even introduced ourselves yet, tall, strange, ceramic thing. But anyway. It's all strange. Wow.

I am. Cam, Buckland, leader. Hello. I would argue that one, actually. Raynard Farahorn, actual leader. Cool, yeah, nice one. Good joke. He's the Joker of our pack.

No, very serious. Had a very tragic backstory, actually. That was fleshed out on. Might I interject. We are the storm callers. No. No. No.

No. No. On Jesus. On Jesus. We watch up with so much. Bye Ciasca. Sorry. You have Ciasca here as well.

Rowan keeps talking about Ciasca, too. I do keep talking about Ciasca. Are you from Ciasca? Wait, how do you know my mother? This is Valor, the goddess. Like, you, how do you know my mother in this world? It just happens now and again. When I'm like in a moment of need, I look up and I see a star and I'm like,

buy Ciasca and I don't know where it comes from. You see Valer genuinely looks very confused by this. I know. By Ciasca, really. Oh, right, I thought it was just something that he was making up. So it's actually your mother. But goddess of the universe, goddess of creation of light, of stars. I'm not crazy.

From the world of a rose. You're not crazy. Do you guys have a siascar as well? Gods like siaska? No, I spent maybe like one week, I think, in a church and was contemplating making that a bigger thing, but I bail on it hard. So no, I don't really know the gods of Iraq or Talisval or anything. Anyone else want to...

Hi, I'm Daisy, I'm very confused. You're six foot three robot woman. Ophelia! This is Aphelia! Do you touch her? What are you creature of the grave? What are you? I'm a smite you! Speaking of creatures of the grave, Ophelia.

Another! Oh no, there's another one of you. I like you. I like you too. Whoa, you're like a bigger version of me and you're like a smaller version of me. Are you your best friends? Are you sisters?

Rory. Rewit, Rewen. Yeah. I quite like the robot woman. She seems very nice. She is so cool. The robot woman is Centry, century. Century. Probably the most valiant warrior of all of us.

She's amazing, the best of us. She seems nice. That one with the muscles scares me. I don't really like the look of her. Oh, I'm sure she's fine. Right, hello. I mean, I guess for Aila, like, it's very rare that you encounter people bigger than you,

but Rowan is like taller. It's very strange. And all of this Trellabar, You are just watching this chaos unfold. I think as well. Did you and Trelimara like stood at the bank just like watching all of this. So a tall, older

Blackford Lion Man will approach you. Like, hello, my name is Graf. I'm from a little village called Thaymorrow. You look rather sensible. Have you got any idea what's going on here? Trelimarallioreliath. Do I know what is happening? Everything I told you before.

So you've been told that there is this creature called the Cronoboros, which is devouring fate and reality and time. And you have been sent to this world of Althea to then sort of pass into where this creature currently is. And that's why Valor and the other gods and Duskalo have come with you. They basically needed to come to a world

that was less affected by the Cronoboros and now will take you to the place where it resides in the space, in the realm between worlds, basically. But you had to come here. You also knew that you needed more help and that this world is at threat as well. I regale.

All the bats. With a flourishing. The classic. We're hid help. I say that. Okay. I could be sensible. You didn't know that.

I could be sensible, you know. I'm not, though. I'm just here to hit things really hard. Hi, Ayla. Nice to meet you. Hi, my name is class. You're really big. I like it.

Big boy. My name is Graf. Hello. Nice to meet you. Right. Excellent fur. Looking sharp. Thank you. Thank you. You're the first person actually to say that to me. Yeah, no.

I think this is a lot of too scared and I pointed that I'll say. Okay. Hey, um, from this world, I'm Rowan. And it's a real pleasure to meet you all. Welcome to our tavern. Uh, Trell, I heard you speaking to. Grave. Your bros.

What do you know? Rowan, have you reached you heard again? And then we have... Aela. Delight. Delight. Sentry. Sentry. I'm really great. Centry. That guy is way bigger than all of us. He's massive. He's huge. I thought I was tall.

He could probably level this entire town if you wanted to. He must be a terrifying warrior. Yeah. Be careful. Just be careful. Everywhere you go. How do you not fatten things? Hello, what? You're so tall. I thought I was tall.

I'm terribly clumsy, by the way. You look so cool. Can I just say that? I don't know if that's too much, but I just want to say you're super cool looking. You're going to make me cry. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to cry, good cry, good quiet, good quiet.

No, no, I'm sorry. No, I'm going to cry. No, I'm crying. Wait, do you guys have warm plates around here? Plates do you've warmed up at all? We can really do with those. Everything in the kitchen, right now. Yes, I can get some, Samtius.

I can get some, I can heat stuff up. Back in a sec. One character down. He's very helpful. What's a helpful young man? Oh, I am very helpful, and not a detriment at all. No, not at all. Not at all. Not at all to anybody.

I'm actually the most useful person here. Not a hindrance. Anyway, produce flame. Anyway, why are we warming up these plates? Give it, give me, give me, give me. Oh, sure, go for it. Oh, yes, thank you, thank you, thank you. She places the plate against her face.

Curious. That's rather unusual. Daisy, it's just gonna look and go, I kinda like that, actually, that's quite nice. It's really nice, would you like one? That's quite comfort. Yeah, I, yeah. Santhias, can I have the worn plate?

Oh yes, yeah, here you go. I can just heat them up. It's not nice, actually. For Matt's benefit, we should also describe the Alfea characters. Oh, yeah, what's going on. We probably should. Well, Zanthius is a humanoid dragonborn,

who is more half-elven in his stylings, but has scales, golden scales, has almost a crown of horns around his hairline. He has a very noble clothing of browns and golds, and has probably in the middle of the night, probably not covered up his arm. There's this kind of corrupted arm. Yeah, and this red, cracked arm.

When you reveal that, for the first time, you're revealing it to a multiversal. You guys just marched in in the middle of the night. They wouldn't know what it is, so. Funny. Well, there is, I think for the heroes of Talas Val, there is a strange look of it being kind of similar to the shards that fall. Interesting.

And also. Not the same, but similar. That looks familiar to me. All my clothes. Oh god, okay. Red alert! Red alert! Stop squirming. Is that called Crown rent?

Groundrend? No. Does it talk to you? No. Does it tell you to do things? No. Does it tell you to kill royalty? I jump out the window.

Well, I was at a window. I was only going to tell him that I had something like that too. What? Really? Yes, my friends here help me get rid of it. So you're a hindrance too, to everyone around you. What did you do you call me? I, mate.

Huh? I wouldn't. What did you just call me? Stop. Stop it right now, boy. I like the fact that Raynodd call it's boy. I really like that, listen, boy. Yeah, so I think Valor at this point will say

Sorry, yeah, that's Amthius anyway, these other people Val will say, we're so sorry, this world is Althea, right? I think I have that correct. As my friend, as our new friend Trelemar explained, there is this beast, this chronoboros that is not just affecting your world like you can see here, but also the world that these heroes come from. This lady here, her name is Duskwilo, she is a being called a widow of fate, and her and her sisters sort of manage the connections between realities, between worlds, what we call nexus realms.

And as a goddess of time and space in my world, I work with them often for things like this when there are problems that go beyond the scope of one nexus realm. There is another goddess who hasn't come with us, who comes from the world of Iraq, which is where these other heroes are from. We need your help. Your world is being devoured by this Chronoboros too. Will you come with us?

Will you help us defeat this creature? I can send you there, but myself and the widows of fate, we can't interfere. We can only send you there. It needs destined heroes to fight it. We're destined heroes? I like the sound of that.

I don't like the sound of that. That sounds like we have to do it, and I don't want to name it. It's scary. It is your choice. You don't have to, but they will need to help. Chronoboros eating the world, and if we don't help, Chronoboros eats the world. Your reality, it won't just consume your world.

Your reality will cease to be. All of your adventures or everything you've accomplished, it will be as if it never existed at all. It seems kind of a boring that we do it then. Over, over. This is just like HADAR. Which is bad. That's a bad thing. But we run that simulation and we won. Simulation? That was... that was real.

So I'm working on this theory. It's kind of a bit out there, but I have this theory that everything we do is a simulation. What, did it's controlled by higher powers or something? Yes! And this proves it! Oh, she's theorizing again. But we got me.

Okay, yes. Oh, I don't want to do that all again. Century, Century. We've done it before. We can do it again, right? We'll be fine. Wait, you've seen us in front of something. You've beaten the chronoboros before?

Oh, no, no, no. I mean, we've beaten horrible, nameless entities from the depths of the Nexus and beyond. Once, that checks. We've been to hell. And we did not succeed our task, sorry, Trilamar. But you're okay?

Look at you. I'm here, no thanks to you. Fine, Fettel. We got to feel really bad about that. We did. We saw you, we were right there, and then you just... We ran out of time.

That was the real situation there. We've run out of episodes, yeah. It's quite literally. He personally held a great success. Oh yes, ours are got very, very powerful there. Almost as powerful as you guys look actually, pointing at the Roes team. You sort of say that, and heroes of OAS,

and in fact the heroes are Talas Valle, you do feel weaker. You feel that through this process of being conjured, some of your power has been lost. And for game purposes, everybody's level 10. I feel level kept. Valor will say, it will be similar to fighting when the heroes of Oroes,

they fought at being. called HADAR. This will be, the chronoboros is not the same. The chronoboros is, it does not have it the malignant sentience that Hada did. It is not really doing this on purpose. It is doing it because it is all it knows. It is born of evil beings that never had their destiny fulfilled or a destiny that was changed or altered from what was maybe meant to be or maybe was a destiny that was never meant to be fulfilled. And it is sort of made from the residual energy of these villains.

Like trail? Wow, I... The true villain. I wouldn't say... I can't imagine the widows of fate would have called this young man a villain as a champion. I was going to say, I've literally been calling it as a champion. But I do get the sense that your...

Your destiny was never realised, was never fulfilled. That's why you've been summoned here, Mr. Aleith. Do you see that? My destiny was never fulfilled. Thanks a bunch. Chrono Boris. That's what happened. We did try our best. Like we said, we had to, right,

we met a flaming skull. It was horrible in that. Awful. Very, very horrible. Duto, I don't know if we can fix this. They just want to stop. I mean, I'm rather entertained by it. I finally have someone else on my side. I really have missed you, Trennard.

It's been stressful. They've tried to teach me. They've tried to teach me. to teach me jokes. You won't believe this, Tralimar. Tutto got me a gift once. I know, I know. Look at this.

That is quite a change of character indeed. And the lights on my, the buttons light up on my outfit. Tutu made that? I thought you might talk about that. As a gift. You promised never to talk about that in public. I don't know how to turn them off. I was going to say, what's the practical purpose of this?

I think it would be oof, wouldn't you? But no. They just die out over time. It's the thought that counts. I know, and you don't have a thought. A knife thought. As you are having this delightful moment, Valer...

Will and Zanthius feel like weird pain. Shivered down your eyes. Valor will begin to create another one of these triangular doorways. And as she does, as Duskwillow, this other Dryder will step forward. We cannot send you directly to Void Watch Bastion. We cannot get too close to the Cronoboros.

Instead, we will send you to a place nearby. It is difficult to explain what it is. In the realm between worlds, there was not quite civilization, but a place that was full of beings, people. And they would have, I guess you could call it a village or a settlement. And this place we call null home. We will send you there first, and from there you must find your way to void watch Bastion,

where the chronoboros awaits. This will be the last time that the goddess and I can help you or give you information. So if you have any questions, if there is anything you wish to know, now is the time to ask us. Yes, I've got one if you don't mind. Of course. How do we interact with such a village full of beans? Beings.

Oh, right. You are perhaps mishearing me. I got that wrong, too. Me too. Oh, it's probably best that we all talk about our individual strengths and abilities and all of that sort of stuff. Is that worth doing?

Oh, yes, I'll write them all down. And then I can put them into my simulation and triangulate and work out properties and how successful. And I can work out the best combination of people to work together. What? Okay, that actually might be useful.

Okay, quietly take notes. Quietly take notes. You're really smart. Oh, thank you. That's really nice. You're the smartest person I know. Oh, thank you. Excuse me.

I thought I was quite smart. You're also equally as smart. You're also, everyone here is the smartest person. Thank you, thank you, big guy. Rowan. Rowan, ha, ha, Rowan. I'm trying to like stand next to him almost size up.

You're like up to like the bicep, maybe shoulder, maybe. Oh, do you want me to. Nudge slightly over to Ailer in that case. Um, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Eilers are, Aila's biceps are like Reynard's head. Just to point out, Ayl still has a strength of 25. Okay, I'll stand next to that bird.

Next to quilt, you look massive. Look at those little chicken legs. Yeah, and like, yeah, definitely, it's a good complimentary pattern, the brown feathers, the brown outfit. Well, as I was saying, I can do a lot of healing, magical healing. Really? You've never done that.

I do it all the time. Actually, I wrote it down every single time, and actually, you're probably. abilities are very low. Well, take a look at that page there where someone's drawn all of the statistics together and I've done more healing than people have done damage. So, thought, now, well now.

Hey, Juto. Do you think he's done more healing than Cam has? It's impossible. Buckland healed. Exactly. You, Cam, you heal? You're a healer as well. Great, fantastic, that's two.

Any more healers? I can heal, I'm quite good at it. I can do a bit too. Hello, I do a bit of the healing. Okay, what about anyone good at it? hiding. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can go invisible.

Three noes from one corner. No, no. I'm okay at that actually, yeah, I can, I'm quite sneaky. Oh, hello, I go invisible. We can go invisible together. I can make you invisible. Oh, Trell's quite good at hiding from his responsibilities.

Wow! I let that one slide. I'm quite good at disguising oneself. Okay, okay, good, to disguise it. if we need that, do we think we'll need hiding? I cannot tell you what you may encounter. Nullholm has not been visited in a very long time. I do not know what there may be dangers there,

there may be beings still there. Cam, Lucius and Ron go wide-eyed. Bees. No, no, wrong one. Lucius, no. Dyson, no. Dyson, will... Come on. Sorry.

What is it? Beautiful sound. Someone else is going to get. And this is why you were kicked out the show. I think that's Valor trying to move the plot forward. Daisy will stand. Daisy is sort of five foot two, like kind of small, hobbity looking, very sweet-looking girl

with very, like, blonde curls. Potentially. I think so, yeah. She just looks like a sweet little girl. She will summon sort of golden, radiant, dagger just in her hand. I can be a bit sneaky and I can do you weapons talk to you? Not my weapons. Because mine does. We don't need to and then I'll summon Tian Gong in a kind of...

In this wisp-like form. This beautiful sword. I think we should team up. I think that would be a good combination. Yes. Okay. Friends. New friends. I have a question. Yes. What about my little friend? You can summon them. Would you like to summon them now? Gran Amir is still... You conjure it there. You're familiar.

Oh, good. Yeah. So, you focus for a moment, Trelemar, and you sort of focus in your heart and almost feeling them within your very soul like they're curled around a fire. You feel this familial, draconic-like spirit, and you sort of speak their name in your mind,

Granomere. And kind of... You see... this purple smoke begin to coil around Trellamar up onto his shoulder as a little tiny dragon. Daisy sees that and just goes, Whoa, shit. Oh my gosh, it's so cute. I cannot.

Okay, sorry. Oh, right, are we doing Animal Familias? And then he'll, the Leonin gruff, he will make a little whistle. And this spectral cormorant to you, but ice diver to us, will appear on the top of his and just kind of, yeah, flap its wings and kind of squawk at you. This is my seren. What's yours called?

This is Granemir. A regal fernel. I'm so well trained as well. How do you do that? Because I could really use the help. Well, as you're also saying this, you see that behind Ophelia, this sort of dark, red, dressed,

armored woman of Althea from one of the back rooms, a hooded, robed figure will sort of appear. Mother? What is happening? Oh, Percival. Yes, brilliant. These fine fellows, creatures, folk, have just appeared. Heroes, heroes. A pleasure to meet you, sir, as a skeletal hand.

What is going on in this place? This is Percy. Here's my most treasured young lad, please. Percy? Yeah, um... Where's your skin? I am a skeleton. I do not have any skin. I know. He's scared by him.

A pleasure to meet you. That's the first. It's a very nice handshake. It's a very nice handshake. You look under the hood and there is this quite tall, quite broad, like quite salt and barnacle-encrusted skeleton under there. With sort of gold and filigrees and bits and pieces as well. And just shakes your hand and very pleasantly sort of goes around and introduces himself as Percival.

Like Al's written sneak up like that. A skeleton? Wait, wait, it's on its own, it's sentient, it has its own personality? Yes. Mine don't. Yes. Mine don't.

Mine's all that is one unit. Wow. You're amazing. Wait, there's someone else who has skeletons. I don't know. Croft, there's more skeletons. I had a chiseler once. What's that?

A little furry creature. Apparently it brings you comfort when you stroke it. They do. Do you still have it? No. That's horrible. I'm scared now. With that, you see Valor has completed this triangular portal.

The portal is ready. You can head to it. It will send you to just outside this place. I really don't know what to expect. Once the Chronoboros is defeated, I will be able to come and get you and return you to your various realms and worlds and things like that. but not until the Chronoboros is defeated, I'm afraid. Until then, you are on your own, friends.

You can trust Vela. I will come and get you as soon as it's defeated. I think we should continue with that whole what's everyone good at thing, because I don't know. Big, big tall man, big tall man. Do you hit things really hard? No. I like...

rocks. I like water on occasion. And I like a tune. This is not like a dating profile. I want to know how you fight things. I want to know how you fight things. Fight things. Right, I do have this and I get out this incredibly huge sword. That's like gnarled and...

Yeah, it's like jagged and spine. The blade, yeah. I've got this, but I don't like using it, but I will. Do you use the... The lute? Yeah, sauce to doota is my favorite. Okay, good to know. Scary looking Gothic woman.

Yes, hello. What do you do? Well, I have this. Which one is? Which one? Which scary looking gothic ladies? There are now two of them. The one with the red, blood.

Red, red, red, there's red and blue gone. Red and blue undead lady, basically. Yes, well, fighting is very much, very fun for me, and I'll produce a veracity. Oh, okay. But this drinks blood. That's scary but effective, sure. Yeah, I'll take it, I'll taste it.

I mean, I'm amazing, but this is amazing. Yeah, I have this really big hammer. Oh, I love that. And as Aela puts her hands around the hammer, you just see a crack of lightning from her hand. You're amazing. I think you and I are going to get on famously. Great.

Did you turn again another two-handed massive guanda. Yeah, I'll swirl the start, the guandao. Well, and you would see elemental power kind of shifting off of it, so fire and ice almost trails the Guandao as well as she does. Yeah, I got daggers and I dropped them both. Dizzy just summons one and it's like... I just awkwardly put them back in there. I like to fight.

Well, I have to fight. I had a question for this. Does Century have Starbreaker? Yes. So you would have this gorgeous lance with this like green engraving, sort of almost like a drill-like pattern down the middle of it. This is a Starbreaker. This is lovely, isn't it?

That is a door. Don't touch you. Vala would say, my friends, I can't hold this open for too long. Sorry, yes. We'll need to go now. Okay. Everyone form a cue then, I suppose, and off you go. I'll go last so I can lock up. Yes, okay.

What? Why is ever to laugh at me? A. was just going to step through. She's gone. So you'll begin to make your way through? Yeah. travel through the portal. All, I think, 16 of you.

No, 15 of you, because with Trelemar. 4, 567, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. Yep, 16. Jesus. 16 of you. 17, including Percy. 17 including Percy. You all travel through.

Mateo. He's frozen in time, sadly. You arrive into a shifting void. You know that everywhere you look, There is this stretching blackness, and you can't see it, but you know that something is moving within that blackness. But it's not visible. Its presence is felt, but it's not something you can see.

You arrive on broken stone islands that seem to hover and float between each other, and as they do, they sort of draw close together forming a vague road that leads off into the distance, and down into a sort of valley nestled between these great mountains of floating stone. But not just stone, you can see that fused into this mountain, there are pieces of buildings, architecture that partly you recognize. Some of you might see a building that looks like it belongs in Talasphal, or a building that comes from Kelskaris or from Ashen's Rest, from one of the sky islands of Aerois,

these different architectures, but there are also many others that you don't recognize from worlds unseen, unvisited. Perhaps you see sort of jutting out of one of these giant stone platforms is almost like a street sign that says water deep in one direction. You see many of these other strange-looking places.

in different areas. Great, almost like a ship that looks like it would fly through the air with a great ring of fire and nestled around it has been half merged, creating almost like a little platform that one can stand on the deck. And this pathway kind of weaves its way

through these strange islands of debris, multiversal debris, until you see a much larger, open-plained platform. upon which is a hodgepodge of a village. Again, buildings, taverns that both look familiar and completely unknown, sort of balanced around each other. One building at first you think it is, but as you draw closer to it, you realise,

I suppose your characters wouldn't know what this is, but we as an audience would see a train carriage, sort of turned on its side and a whole cut for a door has been turned into some sort of dwelling. And moving around this place, you see almost scurrying, looking quite nervous, you see these gangly, long-limbed purple beings. They almost seem translucent, and they have just no face, but they just almost like these kind of shifting long, slenderman-esque kind of beings, but they're just made of pure,

almost void light as you see them moving. and they sort of turn around and they're almost acting out lives. You can see one is stood at a blacksmiths, but it's not a blacksmith's building. It's cobbled together from a statue of a dragon and it's cobbled together from a stove that's taken from a kitchen.

One place that looks like it was a beautiful bathhouse has been turned to where things are dunked in and this creature is forging something as you see these knolls going about their business. And you can see that there are mountains of debris obscuring anything beyond this little village. I hand it over to all of you, what would you like to do? Those must be the beans.

Beings, Lucius. Beings. Beings. Beings. Beings. You really shouldn't embarrass us in front of the other people. We've got to look good. No, the big tall one said beans too. I think they're on the same wavelength. Guys. Beings, bro and beings. Beings, bro, beings.

Beings, Cam. Beings cam. I know. I know it is. I don't think you did. All right, let's... This is a bit weird. It is a bit weird. This is actually very similar

to lots of places that Val has taken to us to before. Like, remember when we went to space? Yes. Wait, you went to space? Like out, out, out? Outside of the... Yes, the cradle.

Well, we've traveled to different planes before. But, no, I don't think we've traveled through space itself. Yes, it was a long... time and felt quite isolated and we had to do things remotely for years. I had the best time because I got to go into space and I went on a spaceship and I saw all the stars and I found the Ganassi How Old World and I met my girlfriend. Don't get an overstayed on space. She will talk all day about space. My girlfriend is amazing. And Thalia. She's beautiful and gorgeous and she kicks ass. She does kick us.

Trail just knots. There was a big cat. She has snakes for hair. I will sort this out then I guess. Cam will... You start making your way down into this village, just openly walking down. Yeah.

Okay, yeah. So as Cam, you begin to approach kind of leaving this large group up on a sort of elevation, but you're really just walking down like a pathway floating rocks, really. You begin just nonchalantly making your way down. You see a couple of these knolls look your way and they sort of ripple and vibrate

and then scurry off to hide as if frightening with your presence. Cam Buckland? I'm just introducing myself. And they just flee. Yeah. Going running from. Be afraid. Ooh. Daisy, is it maybe worth chasing after him

so he doesn't go down there and, I don't know, find some kind of death and die on his own? You're stealthy, you're quiet. Well, they've already run away, though. All the things have run. I'm gonna away. Cam, are you dead down there? I think it's fine, guys.

You can come on down. Oh, great. Leader says it's okay. I agree. I mean, I did. A-L is rolling your eyes so hard. I heard that. A-L is rolling your eyes hard.

A-L is probably close behind, Cam. A-L is probably close behind Cam. Okay. So yeah, the two of you, like, yeah, they are very clearly, whatever these creatures are, they're very nervous, they're easily spooked and agitated and kind of go scurrying off. You can see them that they're like peering around

these ramshackle buildings or through makeshift windows at you. They're very curious and watching, but the second you look in their direction or move in their direction, they kind of scamper and go and hide. Can I follow after cam, but can I send Granomir on ahead? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So Granite kind of shat around. Yeah, he like flies off. I think because Granamere is like a magical creature, the beings, the nulls, almost, they don't seem as afraid of it. They're almost curious, and you see a couple of them begin like, ooh, and they're kind of speaking,

kind of language that doesn't really make sense. I'll do it again. And they begin pointing at, but then you see one of them will, like, claps its hands, and a little bubble will try and grab Granamere. Can you roll a D-20, for me please and add your dexterity modifier.

Ooh. For your saving for it. Oh dear. What's that nine? 12. 12. Granomere tries to flee but is grabbed in like this bubble of void light. And then the creature sort of almost telekinetically brings it down.

And three of them gather around it and start peering at Granomere kind of naturing to themselves. And you can see Granamere is not happy about this. It's like, and trying to get out of this bubble. I do just like a, hey, hey, hey! Get away from him. And then they go scampering and the bubble pops, uh, pops and Granamea flies back to you.

But they seem very curious about Granamea, but for the rest of you, very frightened. And now they're sort of peering over in Trelimar's direction looking quite afraid. Don't worry, I'm great at this kind of stuff. Hello! Hello, small things. And they just go, ah, come on, I'm not that bad. Oh, so good. Nice job.

You're going to get on my nerves, go away. No, they don't seem threatening, at least. No, they seem pretty scared. I thought they would want to talk to us. You know, like, tell us, we're looking for something, not you. Help us. Probably your smell. A smell.

Yeah. Oh wow. And, Ryder Trell. Bad smell. No. I can see the years. You'll be good to your poetry, Cam. I mean, I will also say Trell, you look pristine, you look like the prime of your life, you're handsome, you can enjoy this people.

Cam looks like fat Thor and model. Like, he's... He stinks, he's got a massive belly, his hair is long and greasy, he does not look good. I think what is happening here, Trelimar, is that with your return, the human is feeling rather sexually threatened. I think so. I think his, you know, you've had too long sort of being the alpha dog of this group. It's tiring being the top. What does Raynard think about? Can Raynard even hear? What's Raynard's perception?

I think it wasn't bad. I think it was okay. Apparently, well, apparently it's 12 now. So not great. Not great. Quill, however. I see all. Yeah, so I think that Quill, actually,

that's a good point with your, you know, massive perception, as we know, famous. Burgeoning. 24. Burgeoning for level 10. Not 25 strength though, is it? Passive. Give him his base.

No. No, you are being watched by these creatures. They are following your every movement. They're very curious. I'm trying to get someone's attention. I'm like a small bird. Yes, good, Lucius, good. I think something's watching us.

Something out there is watching us, and it's not one of those things that ran away. Can you get everyone's attention? They don't seem to be listening to me. They just keep you bickering. What can I do? Do you want me to? Yes, please, Sheriff, do something.

But I would say also, with that perception check, Will, you pick up on that these nulls, they're frightened of you, but you kind of get the sense because you've got a pretty decent insight as well, passive insight, I think. 24. You get the sense of they're scared of something else

and they don't know what to make of you and they might miss, you know, they're clearly afraid of something else because they keep glancing around, maybe looking for that same thing that you think is watching you. Wait, Ela, get their attention, I'm going to try something.

Can I... Heroes! Can I use my eye? Yeah, what would you like to ask? I want to use the eye of the storm, God, yes, I love this thing. Can I ask, what out there is watching us? You feel the eye of the storm crackle and swirl,

and your vision suddenly fills with that gray mist that you remember all so well, and you see a broken citadel, a broken keep, with statues of ancient warriors from long ago. their features long worn and faded and now gone. The citadel, much like the space that you find yourself in now, it is all broken and separated drifting throughout this void. And at the center of it, there is this great, coiled, dragon-like serpent

that is, you can see that its mouth, it has in its mouth a sort of ball of red light and three lines that go out and fade into nothing. At the very center, at the nexus, at the point of this, whatever this citadel was built around, it's kind of formed itself there. And it opens one large, dark, purple, and red eye. And you can now see that scattered around this village

outside of your view, invisible senses, not normally visible without any sort of true sight, are dozens of these red eyes that are watching this home. And do you know that this is the chronoboros and it is aware of your presence? You, Lucius, right? I think your bird's broken.

I would like to fix the bird. Rowan, right? I really like the big bird. Do you know what's happened? Do you know what's happened? No. Hello? Hello?

There's sensors all over the place. A sensor's watching us and a serpent. So as you say that, Quill, you now see dozens, multiple dozens of these red orbs begin to v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-ppup appear in place, and they begin to glow and look down towards you guys. What do you guys do? Not ideal.

I don't like that. That's not nice. That's not nice. You see that the null creatures are like waving to you and sort of pointing into the buildings. Some of them almost seem to be gesturing. I think they were just gonna run. Daisy will...

I said I wasn't very good at hiding. Everyone get inside now. Are we not here to fight this thing? I mean, I can shoot some fireballs at it or something if you want. What are you guys doing? Rough. Those of you said you're going to go run and hide, you just run and dive into the nearest building.

What is... So give me a rough idea of what everyone doing. What's Trell doing? Oh, hang on. I'm trying to remember what I can do. You do have the little cheeshee there, which has got some, like, quick things as well. So you've got like basic attacks.

You have loads of spells. We can always come back to you as well if you'd like to go around the table. Oh, buggerit, we're here to destroy this thing. I, Eldridge blast one. Okay, great. So you reach up, well, you can find two Eldridge blasts because of your level.

So you blast two of these sort of spheres. You don't need to roll for this, but two of them, they shatter into light. And as they do, there's almost this ripple through the air, and the ground sort of seems to shake and shudder for a brief moment. It becomes very unstable. The second ones you blast,

the same thing, but the shaking and the shuddering grows, worse and worse. Maybe we don't destroy these things. Raynard's putting the cross by, wait, we're not shooting this thing now, are we not shooting this thing? Well, I mean, the whole world seems very unstable when we do, so perhaps maybe we just hang fire. Good idea.

Right, cause and effect, good experiment. What are people doing? So are we hiding? What's the plan? Are we hiding? Rowan and Lucius are hiding. Okay, so you will rush off to the side as well, perfect. We're together. Yeah, okay.

I think Central have just cast Crusader's mantle just like as a reaction to what's going on. Okay. And yeah, I think she'll duck in like a shadow. You can find like cover. Like you can definitely push yourself up against the wall of the building. Not necessarily hide them and get you into cover. I think getting into cover.

Sure. Laura will probably hide, but Aila would probably get into cover. Okay. Quill will turn around looking for Century. Centry's already, well, I'm going to see Gruff and be like, you look. Nice, I'm gonna follow you in steadhead. All right, are you me confirm a vulnerable?

Yes, oh, yes, oh, yes. Oh, okay, well, get behind my shield, boy, oh, okay, thank you, thank you, thank you. Bird nestles under the shield. So what does, graph, are you going to kind of, like, take cover and raise the shield? Perfect, okay, it sounds like most people have kind of got the thing. There is this, all of you kind of duck into cover or go and hide. The remaining little orbs of light begin to fire these kind of, like, red, crackling black beams of light. they impact against the buildings,

but they only fire off a few salvos before they then wink out of existence. And the null creatures sort of poke their heads out and look around, and then they sort of, and then they seem to drift back to whatever business they were doing before. One of them will sort of approach the group, sort of bow its head, and in your minds you would all hear a voice.

We are sorry, we knew that the beastly. It was watching. So we did not wish to speak with you in case you were with the creature. Oh, well, no, we're not. We're here to help you. Can we help in any way? Yes, we can see that now. Where should we go? Where do you wish to go? We need to fight it, really. I wish to fight the beast.

Well, it's kind of why we've been sent here, so... We're looking for the Voids Watch Bastion. Ah, the old Citadel. Citadel, we can show you the way, yes. Yes, that is where the beasts has made its lair. It is, it is consuming, it is feeding. But we have busied ourselves with our, our village. But we, we did not know if we could trust you.

But the small one, we are sorry, we thought it was, it is strange. It is made of magic of nothing and everything. It's fine, I understand. So this creature hasn't been attacking you, it seems... It is not interested in us, for we are nothing to it. We are null. But shall we just allow these things to show us the way? Is it safe to come out now?

Yes, Lucius, come out. After you, big man. No, no, please. After you? I couldn't possibly, no, please. You're a guest. No. I'll come through and...

You're laughing this, huh? We should just go and just go and just live here, yeah. Have you guys kissed each other before? Oh, I think Lucius would find Cam quite disgusting at this point. Yeah, yeah. But you don't say it. So yeah, so the creature you're all hearing this voice in your head as it speaks to you from the Nile. We can show you the way to the bastion.

You are from realms. You are beings of existence. You are not null. No, we exist. We are living, breathing. You will struggle to navigate this place. You should ask no, that she's got a simulation theory.

No, no, no, but am I real? Sophia, am I real? Oh, you absolutely are real! In this universe? What do you mean in this universe? What do you mean? Well, as we can see, there are countless universes. Ophelia, I know.

I don't like it. I don't like it anymore. I don't want to be here. I don't like it. She's really smart. The only time that you should be worried is if all the universes kind of, you know, collide into one universe and then we all become the same universe because one of those universes is probably going to have to break to make space for the other universe.

I do not like what that lady is saying. I like my universe. Quill, I should have given you some extra information. Oh. Your use of the stormy. Yes. So perhaps this is, as you are about to make your thing, you don't activate the stormy. storm eye. It activates on its own.

Oh. Oh. Doesn't spend a charge. Oh, no. The bird's gone again. And I think this makes sense why it does this. Your bird's broken again. Your vision fills. And it takes you back to that place, Bastion, with the broken sections and the creature at its heart.

Because I think that the storm eye knew that something was hiding, itself from you in that vision. Okay. And the power of this eye, you asked a question and it realized it did not give you the truthful answer because something was expecting it. And as you settle in, you see that great serpent being.

And there are three other figures stood beside it. They are part of, they almost seem to have this red tether line that leads from their chest to the being itself. One of them, you know, Quill. A woman with bladed wings. No! No! ...haired as Zarkira.

Oh, God! A mage of Calistarbane. Perhaps your greatest... Bit of age. Yeah, yeah. She took his eye. He stood with them. This vision goes to slow-mo.

It almost seems to slow down. You see Zarkira turning to look to but you see that she's not alone. There is two other figures there. One is a powerfully built dragonborn, but their arm has swollen and grown, like Xanthius has become corrupted with crown steel, a giant halberd held in one hand

and a flowing red cloak. Sir Eldrach Ignis of Althea also stands, beside them. And then a being very frightening, for you have seen demons before and stood beside Zarkira, a hunched, vengeful, angry, demonic creature

of spines and claws and tendrils. And this creature would go by the name Crown Rend. Zarkira looks, hello again, Kilek Adkala. Read it again. And the vision ends. Ah, okay, bad news. Errolous people. It's really bad news, really bad news.

Zarkira, Zakira, Zakira, Zakira, Zakira, Zakira, Zakira, Zakira, Zakira, Zakira. The bird is twerking. Hey, buddy, buddy, buddy, you're broken again. Slow down, buddy. She took his eye, she took his eye. Well, I didn't know that, did I? Excuse me, cool lady, are you the carer of the bird?

I thought he can take care of himself, but we look out of him. I know. Take a breath, well, it's okay. Okay, okay. I saw the stormy, it storm I went and I saw Zarkhira, and then I saw something that kind of looked like that guy over there. What, me? Why, how does it look like me?

It has your, like, your arm thing, but bigger, like way scarier. Arm thing that bigger? Have we seen that before? Not the crown stool. Oh, wait, no, we can gruff, gruff. I don't know. It justed the crown steel and that, Oh.

Oh. Yes. No. The knights. Well, he's the only one with the big of the son. Emburice's son. No. Wait.

How powerful, evil, terrifying would you say, what was it? El-Ragg. He was very scary. He was, he had a big, he was cut out, he had a big, he was caught with El-Drax. Yeah.

And the heroes of Arrois. And we don't with, you know that Zarkira. We don't with Zarkira too. No, but... Another one as well. There was another one. I guess that's related to you guys. How do I describe this thing?

Oh, like, probably like... Giant, huge. Glow-like skin, silver hair. Probably Fulania, right? Probably wears a mask with so many eyes on it. No, it was... Oh, no, it's Utrell, sorry. No, like...

I just give you a nudge in the stomach. It's not hard to miss. Like a big demon thing. Big, big demon thing. Big, big, big... Demon thing. The description mark just gave. Are you talking about Crown Rand?

Possibly? I don't know. Where is it? Where is it? With all the others. With all the fight! Now! Shooto! Breathe! Breathe in, breathe.

Good. We talked about the breathing. Did it look like an animated gauntlet? Because, face animated armor before. It looks like a person, arms, legs. Oh, gosh. Well, as you see, I haven't rushed off and murdered everything yet.

She's getting better. So I think it is better. Because when we rush off and kill things alone. We might need to dim down the meditation and let the rage come out. Oh, we let it come out when it's time to go there, but we just don't want her storming in alone. That lady over there is looking very angry and lightningy.

Yeah, you know, it's just a lot of talk, and there's a lot of killing that needs to be done specifically Zarkera. She understands me. Sorry, but she's a bitch, and I want to hear it. Of the end. Language. I don't care. Language.

She's not wrong though. But we're all friends. She's a B word. Just say it, Sandry, say it. Use the word. It's so, say it, Sentry. You don't have to say it, Sentry. You don't have to say it.

Say it. Say it. Hey, hey, say it. Hey, say it. Who's that guy? Oh, it's Santys. It's Rayna. Oh, it's Rayna.

Oh, it's Rayna. You all sound very similar. No, we don't. We all say at the same time. I say full steam ahead. That's point about me. Say. Old me would have agreed with you,

but new me has learned and grown. We let the other people, particularly the humans, go in front of us. Oh, you use meat shield. Oh, interesting theory. He thinks he's in charge and that's why he's taking lead. You see, I can't really do that because the bird's really small.

Oh, the bird is fine. I'm just talking about that. I'm not front row. This one we could use. As you have this discussion, perhaps the creature called the null begins to lead you through, weaving its way, and you quickly realize it's not just a case

of knowing which direction, but the null is almost reaching out and moving these mountains of this architectural debris, creating a pathway through it. Without their help, it's unlikely that you would ever be able to traverse these strange realms. But eventually, they lead you and you feel yourself elevated, but it's hard to tell because it's just blackness

all around you. But you eventually feel yourself elevating until a great stone bridge leads to the very thing that Quill you had seen, this citadel of broken fragments and towers and ruins scattered, but it looks like it would have once been a great keep with walls and defenses, but now it is mostly lying in ruins. And as you arrive, indeed as Quill once saw, at the very heart of this structure, it's a very heart of this structure, there is this great, almost slate gray, serpent-like dragon worm, enormous, gargantuan beast

that sits at the very heart of it, gnawing on this knot of red, dark strands that seem to stretch out. And stood beside it are three very familiar figures. In fact, oh my Gideon. That is a junkie-on. That's really big. That's really big. That's a pretty big.

Boom. Every time. We could have dusted his base. We could have done, but I didn't. It's been 10 years. They are not alone for our big boy you see. Oh, you're so chuncus. What a chunky boy.

Oh God. There she is again. I'm gonna like that one. Oh, there she is. And then finally. Wow. There he is. Good morning.

Normal guys. It'll be fine. Just a regular guy. Just an instant man. Three villains from your past stand allied with this chronoboros. You have all arrived at this epic battle.

But that is where we will take our break. Okay. We shall have the fight at Void Watch Bastion. Oh, I was joking when I said Zarkira. It was always ever going to be her. Damn it, damn it. Maybe some more villains will show up. Oh, great.

What about some friends? Maybe some friends will show up too. Are we classed as early as a villain? We will find out. We didn't go back. After the break, we'll see you in five. We're going to take a break, and we'll see you for part two. See you.

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