Legends of Avantris - Beneath Dark Wings | Ep. 28 | Timeless Tales: Part 2

Episode Date: December 18, 2024

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Welcome to Legends of Aventris. I'm Felix Ackerman and you're listening to Beneath Dark Wings. Here's what happened last time. Yeah, that's some serious shit. Holy fuck. Finally, someone is talking sense. What the hell was that? Are you all right?

Foul creature. Commodus, he tricked me. If he is truly going to destroy his own people, I do not care. An elder tempest is in the prime material plane. Disastrous could destroy civilization as you all know it. You need help. You wish to save them and yourself. Every fucking day of my life.

Call for me thrice. Darkness returns. Why did you dream? I had the same dream, but it was different. You feel my thought. My family. It was the same but different. I just needed to say his name.

Deception beyond the Lord of Lies. Doom and chaos take to the skies. Corruption from abyss he brings. Your path now lies beneath dark wings. He said the thing. I did it, did it? He said the name of the show. Did you hear that?

We need to go back to Zintra. After we deal with this storm herald thing. As the doors open and the rumbling of stone, you hear what sound like, Chimes prove commitment to the law. The Vati await the return of the windows. Like VATI, does that ring a bell? No.

V-A-A-A-T-I is how that would be pronounced in common. I don't know what any of that means. I can just read it. Okay, I do no, VATI sound familiar to you? D. D. Familiar? It sounds familiar to me.

And Lifty, it sounds familiar to you too. But you're certain you've never heard it before in anything you've ever studied. That's so weird. It's like on the tip of my tongue for some reason. And Al-Qura steps forward and looks... How do we prove our commitment to wall? What is the law? What is the law?

of the plane of veil. There is no one. Perhaps we just need to respect this. I walk into the light and like kneel down. You walk into the light. Just like, you're here with a hundred detain of radiant damage. You see what happens. You step into the light and you kneel down.

And as you kneel, you feel a comforting sensation and you all see Toa be good with a think hue of natural blue he's turning into a creature

I hold up my forcing red blows Tully do you feel all right he's TG evolving are he something you hear a voice It doesn't sound masculine or feminine. It sounds distant, alien. But calm it. Will you banish the chaos? Just me? That's all you, do you hear that? As you are bathed. Do we hear anything? You hear nothing. You see him glowing.

So we don't hear anything. We will, we will kill it. We will destroy it. We will stop it. Oh yes, he's definitely turning into a creature. Kill the Matas. He's talking about. Hold on. It said, how will we banish the chaos? You don't banish chaos. You manage it. We will manage it. And as you say that, there's a pause and a hesitation. As the beam around you intensifies, it switches from gold to blue to gold to blue.

It's swirls around you and you feel a sense of grace come over you. Some grace under the pressure of everything that's going on and power. And you feel the need to arise and step up. I do so. And you see Toa kind of glowing this faint hue. Have you always standing? What is it happening? I want to step out of the light and see if I'm still blowing.

You are. There's a very faint glow around you. And you're sure... I don't know what happened to me, but... You feel all right. I don't feel any different. All right. You're glowing, dude.

Oh, no, I'm glowing. It's kind of me. I want to glow, too. Maybe we can all... We can all do it. I don't know if that's supposed to happen, but... Anything changed the door after he walks out of the light? Do I feel more powerful, or...

Do you feel like there is a blessing of some kind of pocket? I feel like I've been... blessed. You know I didn't cast that spells this morning. Can you open the door at all or? You push and feel like it gives away a little bit, but it's not it's not enough. I'll walk in and kneel down in the light. You step into the light and the same thing happens to our hands. You start to glow. I love gold. And you kneel. Look at this beautiful glow and it is almost emanating of every single hair of your firm and you hear the same voice. how will you banish the chaos? You do not banish chaos.

You learn to control it. Hesitation. And then you feel that same feeling as the light intensifies. And the air is just a swirl around here. And you glow the same way that towed it. Gorgeous. Feel great.

I didn't die, so. Come on, let's go. Let's all have golden showers today. I was in until you said that. I think I'll just end myself. You're fine, I'll push you in the light. I will attempt to push you under the light. I'll take that as a...

It's your turn, and I'll willingly stumble forward and just stand there. You glow. And it's not unlike the light that comes from Beatrice when you... So I'm unbelievable. And you feel that... Androgynous voice in the back of your mind, how will you banish the chaos? Well, I guess the same way I tackle every other problem in my life. I'll learn as much as I possibly can, and then I'll be really stubborn until I do it.

Over and over and over again, I'll just succeed after learning as much as I can. And you feel that sense of power. As you begin to glow. Huh. Look at that. Just when you think you've seen it all. This will actually unicorns begin barking in the distance. I love you, of course.

And... Especially barking. What else do you guys do? I step into the light. Glow is a great combination. Yeah, I look pretty good all the time. You begin to glow. The color of the glow, not unlike your skin color.

As you step in. you hear that voice, heaven you vanish the chaos. Well, I will banish it with strength. I will overpowered and I will put it in its place. Will be chaos no more. The air swirls around you when you glow and you feel that sense of calm and grace and blessing as you step out. I'm sorry blessed. I do feel hashtag best.

I'll walk into the light. You do that. Same question. Honestly, I have no fucking idea. I don't even know if that's something that you can do to chaos. But if there's a will, there's a way, and I'll find it. Using this. Then I'll hold up my veal.

It takes a bit more time than the others. But you eventually feel your skin begin to glow as the wind leaks your face. you feel that same grace and you step out. Thanks. I'll back out. I'll step in and looking down at my flail and down at my shield. And I'll just look up and gaze into the light. I'll say.

I'll do what Ma and Pa always taught me. Kill them with kindness. I will show people the kind warmth. of Morriden's forge and I will free people from their oppressors everyone deserves a second chance

almost immediately you feel that grace and you glow and the door doesn't move mental cure looks at all of you I step out and she steps forward the light barely

consuming her whole form as she kneels down, she hesitates. And she begins to glow, lighter blue than her deep skin. And she looks up and says, By helping my daughter, she glows. And as soon as that happens, all the light that emanates around all of you burst out and fill the room as the letters in both orange and celestial glow

as the door begins to open. And you see a long hallway, hundreds of feet long. And you step in, once again, bathed in the blue and golden light as the air whips around, and you step in, and you see chambers all around going up to the ceiling. They're large. And you see, in all of these chambers are humanoid shapes. They seem to be people staying completely still. They have dark obsidian skin, pure white hair, muscular, almost statuesque, and all and

androgynous living. It's hard to tell if there's any male or female shapes at all. and you see rows and rows and rows and rows hundreds of these creatures all surround you as the entire chamber fills with light and they make no emotion but you feel like you come to the right place

and you're all level eight. Nine level eight, nine. No, no. No, no. And you're all level three. Yay! You all are still. standing in a great hall of what you've soon to be the Vati.

Rows and rows and rows of these statuesque humanoises, at least they look humanoid, in a stasis of some kind, seemingly waiting for the return of the windukes. The light is bathing, and you see that there's also the same kind of chimes that refract the light in a beautiful way is you all step through this threshold and Lifty you suddenly feel

a your soul something seems to guide you as you step in across the threshold you feel as if you need to continue and you feel like you have a sense of how to defeat the elder

tempest. I feel very strange. Sorry. A lot of pizza. I got that old pizza car. I got the old pizza car. Pizza flam. I feel it's so strange stepping in here.

I feel something pulling at me. And I feel like really smart. Oliver Sarton. Do I want my iris? No, I heard it, but she's a liar, so. I'm not. I know it sounds strange, but I feel like I know what we need to do, or I can find what we need to do that I feed this thing. Follow your gut. Lead the way.

Oh, don't tell her to follow her gut. Follow your nose? That's better. Where does your soul live in, Jung? I need to follow that. What do you know? In your heart and in your head. Like in your throat. I'm going to close my eyes and just think really hard for a minute and just feel where it's pulling me.

You channeled that new feeling in your being, in your fiber. And you're drawn forward. You begin to walk almost as if you're being pulled. You feel yourself moving your own legs, but it's almost as if there's something calling you. You lead your party down this massive hallway and you just see the closed eyes, the sleeping figures of these large, statuesque humanoids, waiting for the day that they'll return to their city. And you arrive at another chamber, large and circular, similar to the antechamber that you had entered. and you see that there are a number of doors. And you see that inscribe in each one, above each one, is a picture, the figure of a creature.

And you see that one of the doors is calling to you. You step forward and you see that the creature above is this large feathered circuit, slithering above the doorway. You feel drawn to it. And you step forward and as soon as you cross, step onto a large square stone in front of the door, the glowing color around you, the floor glows. The floor glows in the same color. And you hear this sliding of stone,

the rumbling, once again, sending the chimes into a beautiful song, along with the whipping wind. And you feel like you need to step through this threshold. It's this one. I can feel it. And I will, it's open. Yep. I'll step through.

Okay. Is there light beyond it? It seems to be filled with the same glow. This one is a bit darker. than everything else that you experienced. I scoot up behind her, just protecting the place. You do that. And as you step in, the wind whips around,

and you look up and you see the form of the great feathered serpent wrapping all around with markings of orange and celestial. and you see that there are, that there is a story, and it tells of the cycle of the Elder Tempest, where the conflicts of, the conflicts within the elemental planes, the constant war, elemental plane of air bordering the plane of fire and the plane of earth. or plain of water, pardon me. As well as the portals that are opened up from the plane of earth, all of the planes within this greater elemental plane constantly of war whips up storms.

And when conflict is more brutal, the darker the storm. And over millennia of battle can whip it all together until it coalesces. and forms into a creature called the elder tempest, the prime elder elemental, the counterpart to the Leviathan and the Phoenix. And once it is whipped up, it is a being of pure destruction. No good, no evil, just storm. But destruction is in the nature of the elder elemental. It will rage across the plate of air until it is either slain, or it rages for so long and destroys so much.

It eventually loses its steam, but after tremendous loss of life. It mentions that the last time an elder... Tempest had made its way through to the material plane. It destroyed numerous coastal cities. Civilizations in the mountains. Horrific death and destruction in times long past. That there were weapons forged by the jimmy to battle these creatures. These are the windseeker blades.

and it's from a metallurgy and a blacksmithing practice that's long forgotten, borrowed from the work of the free team, but using the power of air to forge these blades that can make a tempest vulnerable to a proper assault. that these blades were scattered and since lost and woe to those that must face an Elder Tempus without one. That's the general address. What do you think?

You can read this. I think you did it. I think you got us what we need. Phil? Got us farther along, but what we need is those blades. That's okay. This is a great start.

I'm sorry. I guess not all of you can. read it but there are blades this has happened before and it will happen again does it say where to get these blades it says that they are lost they are scattered they were made by the euphidi I want to look down at the carefully crafted flail that my forged clare father made and I want to think back on this metallurgy that I'm talking about and see if I recognize this form of blacksmiths saying the magic that's being imbued in these blades, I assume, like, lost knowledge,

but curious if I might have overheard my father ever talking about them or passing that. I would say, make an iconoch check is a marriage. A 19 and a 13, not bad. 14. 14. You are familiar with a free team. I would say that you would know that they are renowned glass, and crafts and crafts and weapons. Beyond that, nothing else.

Do I know where Efridi reside? Elemental plane of fire. Fire? Okay. Alkiya, do you know about these? I did not. I heard tales of great weapons, genius have always been creating great weapons for as long as our species has existed. But I did not know about these tempest slaying. But this is true. We just need one.

Well, I guess that's true, but I don't understand how you could have something so powerful and just use it like that. To keep it away from evil, maybe. That's true. There's a lot of death. If a gin wielded one, it was slain in the air, who knows how far it fell. how far it fell. Where it fell, too. We don't have time to look unless it's in this city.

I do not think they would have written this if it was in the city. I think you're not. Oh, Kira, how... I hate to ask this, because I know there's ongoing war, you mentioned it between the planes. But let's say hypothetically, if we meet a nefridi, that would be capable of passing on the...

knowledge of crafting one of these blades. Could someone like me learn that from them if we visited the elemental plane to fire or would that be too dangerous? I think that would be far too dangerous. You don't have really friends? Vile creatures. Any place that would... I have slayed many.

Would there be a place they would store this kind of knowledge? kind of knowledge or is that only kept among their ranks and passed it on that way? I do not know. They are very protective of their secrets. Whatever Ginny stole that knowledge, I bet many died to gain it. But if there is a place where one of these may be, I may know of one possible option to suggest it. Do it. We need it. There is a great collector a cloud giant N-B-B-A-N-B-A-N-S-I

How do you spell that? N-I-M-B-A-N-S-I Say that again, sorry N-I-M-B A-N-S-I NIME I thought you said named Bonsie I was like, oh, Ponzi

and then you said spelling and I was like, wait a minute N-N-N-Sylent Y Yeah, N-M-B-M-Sy Cloud Giant Cloud Druff Cloud Giant, so maybe on this plane? Is he in the end-blowlant's mane of air?

He is not close but not as far. I have avoided him. He has a great collection, a treasure trove. And his menagerie of Griffins. He's obsessed. With griffins or with the treasure? All of it. Oh.

If he were to have such a treasure. If you were to have such a weapon, would we have to trade him for it? We'd have to figure out something. Do you know him? I have met him once. He is a being that cannot be trusted. He is trickery incarnate, but he trades. He also is, for those willing to go against him, a gambler.

He makes great wagers. Oh. But I've heard of those torn apart by his menagerie that have failed. But there is a great, a great wealth of lost treasure in this palace. How do we get there? I know where it is. But do we wish to face him? Do we think we can parley?

Oh, yeah, of course we can. Or is it better to sneak? can steal to kill him? Well, we could try the first, and if that fails, then we could talk our way out of that. It's not so bad.

We shouldn't kill this giant just because he has a sword that we need. He's not a bad guy. There would be cloud giants are all bad. You say that a lot of people. There are evil

traits of so many creatures across these planes. The cloud giants harbor deep insecurity in ageing that in the ordnation of their kind, they would but second to the storm giants. Then who decided that? The old father. I haven't met him. Do I, I mean, I recognize that name. What I knew that name? I would make a religion check. I would say... That's so bad. Because that's... Oh, I am proficient.

Not great. Eleven. Probably not. You... Yeah, I would say, probably not. No tie to Morridan? Okay. This is a different all-father, it sounds like? Or I just don't know. You're not sure. Okay.

The god of the giants. Hmm? Let's... I don't know. What do you think? Should we sneak or should we... No, we should ask him for it. Tell him that we can stop a great evil if he lets us use the sword and we can return it. We can absolutely...

We could totally return it. I mean, I don't think that should be to stay in our hands. I just don't think that he's going to want to do that, and we don't really have anything of value to trade. I agree with you. We don't need to kill him or steal from him, but I'm just worried that we don't have anything as valuable as that sword may be.

Maybe we have some magic items we could give him. I think we just need to make our case. We should definitely talk to him. I agree. You said he was a gambler, right? Yes. Well, we don't have to have anything to trade. It wouldn't just be a straight bartering operation. We could make some sort of pitch to gamble something for the blade.

To test our metal or entertain him somehow or something along those lines. Yeah. I have awful luck. What were you thinking? I haven't got that far. Do you have cards or something? Yeah, I mean, I got those mega cards right here. And you can cheat?

I probably would be capable of some form of deception. Well, then we're fine. Let's go. We'll try to persuade him, and if he can't see reasons, then we'll just, you know, steal the pants right off of him. You said he resided in this plane, in the plane of air, see this far away. Does that still mean that still mean that? That time is start?

No. When we leave, the veil, we will be on the clock. So whatever we do, we have to go in and do it quickly and then get out, get back to the primaterial plane, take care of business.

Have you rested enough in case we need a tool? Yes. I will be ready. The time comes. And the tomb, it has not yet been destroyed. You mean the machine in Galerie?

Yes. All right. Good. Then we should go? Please. Can you take a stay? I can't. We'll make haste.

Let's go right now. We will. Wait, should we look at anything else while we're here? One of the other rooms? I don't think that... It'll help us on a quest here. Well, I at least want to see what other creatures are on the thing because I'm curious. You're more than welcome to.

Yeah, I'm going to walk back out. I just want to see what else is on the doors. You look up and you see one of the doors. A large, two-headed vulture. Mastrosity. You see a wispy, humanoid silhouette. You see a bird creature that is very elongated with two pairs of wings, like an X-wing, with also two pairs of eyes on either side of its beak.

It's a symmetrical creature. You also see a picture. You also see a picture that looks familiar. It looks to be the image of a gem. And you see a picture of what it looks like a griffin, what looks like a large but thin humanoid creature with a large morning star weapon, wispy hair, cloud beneath the feet, tattoos all over, wearing a mask, and that appears to be a cloud giant. Are you sure we can't just go in a couple of these? Some of them look very useful.

Are you similarly compelled to walk through any of these doors? What do you see? I am, yes. Well, I'm following you. Why don't we take a look at one, and if it's just more of these statue people thing, then we should just go. I was always told that curiosity killed the tobacco, see, so I would refrain from entering any other rules, I think. Lifty water?

I just have so many questions, and I'm afraid if I leave here. Oh, no. Let's go for fuck's sake, and I drag her in. are next door. I want this one. I'll stay with Iris. Holy fuck. Oh, you said

in our spare time, we should... And then I start massaging Irises back again. Thank you to him. Should I go with them? If you want, unless you want to massage Irises back, just no one was doing it. I'll be back in. I'm going to step up to the door.

And I'm going to like literally walk away as he continues it. In a spare time, she told us. I'm going to like hustle up to the ladies and say, are you sure you want to pick this one? We're going to see a cloud giant. Why wouldn't I pick this one? Okay. Stop being so nervous.

It's just a door. Yeah, I'm trusting you, Lofty. Okay. Just stay close to me so I can protect you guys in case anything happens. You step forward, and as soon as you get to directly in front of the door, nothing happens.

You stop my feet over. You stop your feet. Stop. Oven! It doesn't... No? It doesn't glow. And you realize you look around to you and all your friends, and the glow that had bathed you has now just dissipated.

Yeah. Oh. Maybe we used our key. I should have gone as the other one first. Oh, no, I guess not. I'm just... Oh. Do we go bathe and sunlight again and come back?

I don't think it's going to work. I just, I've never been this high up. I've never been here. I feel like I belong here, and I'm going to leave and never come back. Try knocking. You walk up. Hello. Your knuckles wrap on the stone door, and it is immobile,

but it's something that beautiful, polish white marble. And no sound has made, no response. This is stupid. I'm sorry. I know that this isn't going. the way that you wanted, but all I can say is that when I figure this out, we can come back. I promise you, I'm going to figure this out, and I can bring you back here. If you are lying to me, you don't fulfill your promise, you are going to owe me.

I'm going to figure it out. I promise, yeah, I'm going to figure this out. I know that I can do it. I know it. I know it. Okay. Let's go. Remember we're coming back here because we've got to leave.

We're back here. Mark gets your life. I do get to come back. Right? But that won't be the last time either. I promise you. Let's go. What did you guys think about these things as we're walking out?

But you seem frozen in time. They're real people? I can't tell. Are they real people or are they statues? They're people. They look statues. very muscular, but they are very, you can see the rising and falling of breath, as they all seem to be in a stasis, but they are very much living, breathing creatures. Do you see see us?

I walk up to one of them and just like wave my hand in front of it without touching it and see if like it walks eyes. You wave your head in front of the chamber that seems to be. Or it's a chamber. It's a chamber, which seems to be closed off with glass. I thought they were like, you can see them through the glass chambers. Got it. You wave and you just see just the still figure, that dark, almost like shimmering of ebony skin and bright white hair. But totally unmoving in this stasis.

Do we even know what these are? You could presume that those are likely the Votian. Oh, that's right, that's right, that's right. Oh, shit. So you know what they're called? We don't know anything about them. They are awaiting the return of the wind-ducks. So they're in a stasis until they come back?

And the wind-ducks being all the ones that are trapped right now, like they're on stasis. That's what we should. If you guys are back. Yeah. You'll definitely be back. We should go. You've got a freedom. Yes, and Alki returns to you.

my child, if we survive this, this will be where our rescued essences will come. I feel it. Okay. We'll be back. Okay. And you all make your way to the entrance. And you see the clouds are to swirl up and engulf the legs of Alpira as she flies up a little bit. Do you wish to say goodbye to your friends?

I do. Yeah. I will be flying overhead. Take your time. We have eternity here. She flies up. I really hope she's right about that. I mean, not lying, but if she's incorrect and times have been progressing,

we've been wasting a lot of this time while the storm tempest has just killed. Yeah, it's probably not. It's probably fine. I said it's okay. We didn't have a choice. I think we can trust her. I really pictured her, like, big, and she's pretty big, but mean and just evil and nasty and she's very sweet actually I don't know I hop back

Al Payton await anyone else that wants to join me and then I ride back you all ride back you all you fly up to Alkira and she just gives you a nod as you ride back to camp you see Zorbeck he is take he has a flower that he plucked from the garden and he's looking sadly and just throwing petals and Hart is walking around and like setting up the perimeter

I'll walk up to is he sitting or see him? He's sitting at the edge of the lake Okay and he's just He's dangling his long long bugbear feet into the water

I'll like take off my plate boots and I'll plop down next to him and just kind of solely watching flicking his flower. I'll put a hand on his shoulder and give it a squeeze. Hey, I'm really sorry about earlier.

I have no hard feelings. I'm sorry if I offended you. I mean, I'm sure I offended you. I'm sorry for hurting your feelings. I'm sorry Iris put you up to this. Shaved your chest. Like I said, just, you know, take one pill of those every 12 hours is what my pod did to grow out his beard. It all

grow back soon. He looks at you with his nearly feline like eyes and he looks back and he says, at least Zorbeck tried. You are a good guy Zorbeck. I think there's a bad rep against Buck Bears, but you're the exception of the role and I want you to know that. You fought valiantly with us. You've taken down great evil. You've got so many stories to tell when you go back home. I just can't be your bride.

That's fine. I don't even understand the concept of being in a relationship I've never been in one. In a very sheltered upbringing. That's okay.

Zorbeck wasn't ready to settle down anyway. I hope you survive. Oh, I hope so too. And if I do, I'll be back. And we'll go home once we've purged this land of its evil Erica. And you can tell people of the great things you did. And your people don't have to have this bad stigma against them.

You know? Except at least stigma against Zormac. Right. Okay. And he, like, reaches over and awkwardly pats him on the back. I give him, I give him like a side hug. They're just like,

ugh. He's still wearing the hippo headdress, nothing else. He just has the headdress off. He's taking everything else off. Do you want to, are you, I should probably return this to Iris. I like go for it, see if he's okay. Do you want to keep it?

Who can keep it? I don't do it. Okay, you keep it. See if he grabs little ears and like gables them. Oh, you're so cute. I give like the nose part of it, I guess, of pinch, like above his forehead. He's like smiles and it's actual genuine. The sadness kind of leaves the face and he just nod and says,

Be safe, please. You can't. I mean if you want to. It's not a big deal if you don't. Yeah, you know, I haven't practiced unsafe sex or sex at all. sex at all, so I'll be very safe. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Is I know what you made?

Bye. Oh. And he kind of scoots over. Oh, so long, Zerbeck. He looks. He says, I hope Toa, I hope you're safe. Felix, I hope you're safe.

Iris. Be safe. Lifty, be safe. You and I need to have a conversation. Goodbye, Caprice. Hey, man. You know, I'd say it probably costs about 40 gold pieces to get from the left eyebrow to the right eyebrow and your chest looks like a gibbon monkey, but you're all right. It's so long, man. It could have been worse. He could have called you an Oscelot. Oh, I don't even know what that is. And he lets you approach for the conversation.

You can keep the helmet, if you like. It's the least of, the least value that we want the jewelry I had on me. Oh, wow. It's slightly rusty. That's fine. Because my young brothers, when you was a small child. That's better than Zorbeck normally gets. So how do you feel now, having poured a heart out to a woman? Not good.

Yes, it sucked, didn't it? Yeah. Don't get into a relationship. That's my idea of things. So, now, now that you've been spurned, you know what it feels like. I guess I'll be a bachelor. Yes, you will. And when all of this is said and done,

You'll come visit me in Siket. And I know that you like them thick and juicy, as it were. Well, just like that helmet on your head, we have harems. Hippo women that will be right up your alley. They won't judge you for being a bug bear, and they're not going to look for... And I'm going to look over at Caprice. The beautiful, skinny teethlings, they'll like you just as you are. Oh, that would be nice.

Yes. I'm just happy to have a meal regularly. Well, I can guarantee. until you'll feed you, but you can at least come and enjoy the splendors of sked. That sounds nice if you survive and if I survive. Well,

chances are, neither one of us will, but dreams to hold Sonia. Good dreams. Yes. Keep the hippohelred. Think of thick thives. They save lives as well. Thank you for that and for sparing my life.

Of course. I would have to let you die. If I can, if can be a boy who is for friends. I'm going to reach up and I'm going to put my hand on his face. We will always be friends. You can always call on me if you need it. And personally, I'm in the slap his jiggling belly. I like it a little bit shaved.

It gives you a change about yourself. I don't know what she was complaining about. Not my style, but school all the same. Sorry, I nicked your nip. I'm not going to turn to walk away. You're looking at all like the bloodstained linen. See this, you just go, ah! Toughen up, Zorbeck. He'll get there eventually.

And Hart's kind of making her business. She's just walking around. It's like kind of swinging her sword around, trying to be good in the full guard mode. She still has the full Bastet headdress on. Oh, Hart, I think I'm going to miss you most of all. You really mean it? Yeah, this is goodbye, fire ever, probably.

Are you crying? Are you crying Oh, you're crying Oh, no I just got air In both of my eyes I'm so worried for a little Oh

But I am going to miss you so much But you do a good job here I can tell I have to go now Goodbye And I'll I'll wink it Is this is a group

Gonna die And I'm gonna just jet off in there We're not gonna die There's no reason to be a best That's case Everything's gonna be all right Well, if you give you a Fasted.

Well, if anyone can survive this, it's you guys. We're not going to die. Thanks for your faith. You're going to do a great job here. Thanks. I'm going to make sure he doesn't fuck anything up. Did she have a sword and a shield? Yeah. Or was it, okay? Did the door of the temple that we exited

closed when we left? Or are they going to be? able to walk in and look at a bunch of yeah oh just probably gonna fuck everything out I'm just trying to you remember as you left that the door seemed to close

behind them it was a good question I want to take out my spitting tools and get up get like a parapet I'm laying Dakota out of my lap and for the first time visibly to the party

there are these little charms that are hanging off of the flail. One of them looks like a baguette. Another one looks like an anvil. Another one that looks like a muscox. There's two more prying off the one that's a shield. You easily get it.

And I hoist Dakota over my shoulder and I walk over to heart and I opened her palm and I placed the charm, the shield charm in her hand. What is this? These are charms that were forged by my mom actually back home. Every five years for my birthday, she makes me a new one. I've got four more here. This one is special to me, and I want you to have me.

Oh, thank you. We're both shield masters and you've been strong of heart. And I know I've great faith in you, heart, but I will take care of Zorbeck, you'll take care of this place and you'll guard it against all evils. I'll do my best, thank you. She takes it. This is a promise that I'll be back. I'll do my best.

And I just like ruffle her head. She won't like, shiver is in her first hand of the hall. I guess this is a goodbye. Until next time. We'll see you again. We'll see you soon. I'll miss you guys. We'll miss you too. I'll never forget about you. And she looks at you are as well as you're getting ready to leave. He says, I don't think I'm gonna get for get as tall as you. Sit here with me on this stone step thing. Oh, okay. Just going to wait till everyone left. They like to eavesdrop, but they'll say.

You. Yes. You're small. Scrony. Oh. You look weak. Better not. In any way. You know what it's like to be a Tabaxi? You get strange looks. People don't fully understand you.

Especially not where I come from. No, especially not. I'd like you to think about it. I think about what it must be like for Zorbeck. It doesn't fit in anywhere. Even where he's supposed to reside. So you will rule this place for now. and guard over it.

But I'm counting on you to help him to learn how to be the man you can be. With your heart and your inner strength, you can help him discover who he's supposed to rise to. There's potential there. And I'm trusting you with that. Can you do that for me a lot?

Her eyes get wide. It's like, oh, I could teach him to be a knight. You understand a small fraction of what he goes through on the day-to-day basis. You can help him. And then all of us will go to this account. enjoy what it's like to be around tobacco where you can relax

you'll still be the smallest of all of them of course I've accepted them not sure what kind of tobacco you are actually I'm orange yes I know I've seen many orange tobacco but they're so much larger than you starts to feel like it's raining of you guys

from above but you know you're also you're so young I can see you standing with the best of them well I guess I I have all the time in the world to train. I'm going to try to get better here. Now I'm going to pinch your cheek and practice that roar.

It's not quite where it needs to be. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, show me again when I, when I see you again. Okay, yeah. I'm going to lean down, and I'm going to embrace her. She yonzie back. Thank you, Iris. I love you, darling.

I love you, too. I'll see you soon. See you soon. Now I have to fly. Wish me luck. It's not so bad. No, it is. I'm going to start spinning through the air.

I'm trying to get the... Reel! That's what I'm going to do. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-ha. It's like... What is this stupid pop-tark cat? Oh, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I'm good. Perfect. With that. I'm like... I love heart. I love heart so much. You're going to be okay. It's both loose.

I swear of anything happens to that gut. Oh, die. No, we're going to come back in three years and she'll have been practicing her like roar and she'll be like, she'll be like,

she'll be like, ask her a vagina. And that's what happens as you as we all fly away wisely leaving the the easily

killable NPCs we did something right yeah leaving the leaving Zorbeck at heart they look up and they all weave at you as you meet up with Al-Kira she just nods at all of you

and the cloud begins to spin and she takes off into the sky and flies up as you follow getting the hang of of this maybe Nileis doesn't give a hang of it but you're able to keep up as you, it seems like it's a beautiful day and that same perfect weather, the same perfect temperature, that same nearly dusk state of the sun. And then you keep flying and flying and suddenly out of nowhere you are enveloped in mist.

As the cold dampness coats your skin and you fly, it's incredibly thick as you leave the protective. shrouded of this veil, the beautiful gardens and towering silver steeples behind you, as the mist gets lighter and lighter and lighter until you arrive on the other side. Ah, shit, I forgot my copy of Knife Monopoly. Oh, dear God. Well, Zorbex going to be dead when we come back. Blimez Vance. Ow!

I get to pass knife going. All according to plan, right? So, you fly through and you are, once again, that blazing sun greets you, and you see sky in every direction.

And as you fly away, you look behind and where there should be this huge valley there is just a massive shroud of mess as you fly away and

Al-Qir turns and says now time is passing not a moment has gone by since we first entered but now every minute we spend is a minute where the Elder Tempest

as having put, the people we want to save. Let's go, let's not waste a moment. We should hurry as quickly as we can keep up, and she pussop. She's rockets. The nimbus cloud that is swalling around her legs is trailing behind her.

And you fly through the elemental plane of air. The Dragon Ball Z theme song starts playing. Dan-da-da-da-da-da- That is done-d-d-durn-dur-dur. Could I have Peyton with me that time since I summoned her yesterday, or would she not be a part of this? She doesn't have fly cast on her, I guess. Okay.

So she dismissed her. Yeah, she's dismissed as you fly through the elemental plane of her. And you see, once again, the strange topography of this plane where it seems as if there are huge stretches of clouds that are so, entrenched with magic that there are structures cities built on top of nothing but clouds You see buildings rising up on every single direction sideways up ways down and there seems to be It seems when whichever way you turn the gravity seems to shift with you It's all based on your perception of how you choose to fly and you

you That was very That was good I was like, oh, God. It was actually happening. Is this what they call Vita Gows? Exactly. That would be a nightmare.

I can't even really, like, I can't wrap my brain around that, really. This is other world, like, and it feels incredibly bizarre as you fly further and further. You travel for about two and a half hours, and you know that that's two and a half hours passed on the material plane. as... This is so bad. They're all dead. Yeah, they're fucked. There's nothing we can do.

And I will say that you know it took you five days just to walk. So it is a great distance. If you're like flying across the sky of break next feet... That's true. It definitely helps. Yeah. But there is a little bit of distance, but it definitely... He's closing it on...

You probably had hours at this point until... Until comitus arrives. and finally in the distance you see a patch of cloud off in the distance and Alkira looks at it, her eyes narrow and she draws her scimitar as she

stops for a moment perhaps it is better that you go without me he will not be happy to see me Why? What did you do to him? She gets a sly smirk. Let's just say your mother is a great gambler. Oh.

Do what she says. Okay. And we just go there. There. You see the palace of the clouds. And you very, very faintly see the outline of a glorious palace on this, built onto this incredibly fluffy, And you see just these rounded peaks of towers and turrets and chambers. And you see specks of creatures flying around, all around, all swarming it.

As Al-Qaeda says, those would be his griffins. I hope you do not all get torn apart. I will follow, but I will stay out of sight. Just know I am behind him. I am behind you and she touches herself. And immediately goes invisible. Oh, fuck. Is that what that looked like?

Crazy. Well, I don't think of where. I was going to ask her what she lost. Amy out of the gambling. Then we can ask her out of the way. I'm still here. You hear her voice. Can I do that?

You teach me. I don't know, can you? I don't think so. But maybe I will learn. Maybe. And I'm not exactly sure where she is. Oh, Kira, what did he lose? We don't have to know.

I just, I just want to know in case we have to use it as leverage. Okay. I lost, he lost some of his best wine. Oh, okay. We've got some pretty good wine. He was very upset. Do not mention me if you can avoid it. We'll avoid.

But that'll be here. And you fly off. You feel the, you feel the size. of Al-Qaeda flying alongside of you. You feel the wind disrupt the air disruptive. As the wind, the air has been getting warmer as you've been traveling further into the plane, away from the plain of water.

As you see this grand palace emerge, you see there is a large central building with these great towers, with bold tops, all of this beautiful white and blue stone and metal. And you see there are great gardens with vines wrapping all around. The tops of

it looks like vegetables or fruits, but just absolutely massive. And you see a great aviary and roost. And as you get closer, you now see the shape. And it looks like a rainbow. You see reds and blues and pinks and greens of griffons.

Of every single color you can imagine. Holy moly. That's cool. As they all soar around and fly around and you approach. That's like a winged lion, right? It is a, a griffin is a creature that the front half is of an eagle and the back half is of a lion.

Okay, got it. But they have four paws, right? Yes. Well, they have two eagle claws in the front. Two eagle claws in the front. Two lion paws. But they like walk on their Yeah. They can walk with their eagle talons, yeah. Got it. I show you. Sorry.

And you begin to approach. And as you approach, you start to see the griffins that are all swarming around, flying, begin to notice you. And they start to soar in your direction. Let's not be hostile. No, no, yeah. Be very nice. You think they can talk?

I don't know. I've never met one before. Neither have I. Would you just assume because it's part animal that doesn't know how to talk? No. You're talking to a... Thank you. That was my point. That's why I'm asking.

Oh, I don't know. I've seen them. I'm sure we'll find out. And I like my hands up as I'm like sorry. Yeah, I don't. But make sure your weapons are away. Let's do a group animal handling check. Ooh, a group animal handling check.

The rarest of error. After you, my dear. Oh, thank you. Oh, thank you. Putt down. Natural fucking 20! Hey! Thank you, Marlon.

I don't know if they were. Yikes. Natural one. Did you roll a natural one? Literally right out. You sucked up all the good juju out of the warm one. Fuck, that's going to keep on you.

21. 21. 21. 21. 21. 18? 21. 21.

What do you get? Animal handling, 21. 21. Lofty. Three. Let's twist it. Okay.

We got it. We got it. Where's the, yeah, thank you. I got a four. I got a seven. I got a seven. No, six.

Six. I got a six. That only lowers the average a little bit. We're good. So you see, Hi, it's nice to meet you. How are you? Can you understand?

You see as this great menagerie of what would assume to be a parrot, almost, but vicious, bloodthirsty griffins, fly in your direction. They seem to all ignore you, and as they get the scent of genie blood, they all start to swarm in around Luffy,

and they eye you with their piercing eagle eyes, and they linger for just a minute before they glance over all of you, and you're able to kind of raise your hands and they then fly out and begin to flank you and surround you and follow you as you head towards the palace and you see one of the griffins in the lead of purple griffin fly off towards the

grand entrance and you see as you approach a massive door a massive door that is probably 40 feet tall that is closed. As you see that in the top of this palace, there are large porticos with large roosts on either side, and you see that the griffins are flying in and out of this palace. As you approach, you see these great number of structures on these palace grounds.

You see the great aviary, where the griffins are able to fly freely. You see what looks to be a library, a great chamber that seems to almost be, it looks militaristic, it looks potentially like an armory, and you see all surrounding gardens, massive gardens of the largest vegetables and fruits

that you've ever seen. Carrots bigger than toa growing. so big do they have like big blue eyes on the front an onion and a cauliflower you see a bear and a bird is rolling into it and it destroys it there is some large beats

as you begin to fly in you hear the loud rattling of chains the creaking of wood as the door begin to open begin to open open as you arrive and the griffins all kind of give you a look and they point forward to the door they all fan out and land on the ground

have i ever let me go have ever seen a griffin before um you probably seen one griffin or like know anything about them in terms of like the animal handling side of things maybe you know that they're monstrous their atrocities. You know that they probably are in like the canyons and the mountains flying around. They're relatively rare that you need to kind of keep an eye on your your livestock to make sure they don't get that they swoop and take care of them. But there's basically predators to your livestock, I would say. Do I know if they're intelligent enough to speak? They're not very common. They don't know. They're not sure. I will land on the landing pad. You see that there's actually a large circular

had that seems to be this beautiful, smooth stone with massive steps that go up to the huge door that is now open before you. And you actually see that on either side of the steps, however, which would be massive for you to, you'd have to climb up, you see that there's ramps on either side that you'd be able to walk up. Hey, guys, go in. Who's doing attacking? Watch this.

And I'm going to just run up the stairs, like really, really, really. really powerful. What the hell was that? She's very... Look what I can do. That's cool. She gets on like a ball of wind and rides it. What your arms do when you're running up?

There's only one option. There's only one option. No! Naruto run. I'm not doing it. She decided to d'a sprint up. I'm really more of a spider monk

is what I'm going for. Yes. You do that. The rest of you either enjoy the ramps or you kind of fly up, hop up. I will walk up the ramp feeling that would be the most respectful way. I'm just going to follow up. I don't see the ramp, so I'm just struggling. You can fly, you know.

Just like. Okay. And then I just like clamor upstairs to the stairs. You do that. I bounce, yeah. And you see a lar. through this massive doors, a large hallway that leads towards a beautiful chamber

that's glittering in golds and gems and jewels of every color. It looks, and the light catching is refracting of, it looks like a prism is just blasting, bathing the light, and you see the griffins flying around just as multicolored. as the lights that are

that is bathing this chamber. And as you make your way through, you hear the screeches of the griffin, the low roaring screeches as there are perches built into every

single facet of this stone palace seems to have places for griffins. It seems if there was like a crazy cat person, but for griffin, This would be like the kind of palace that they would have. You continue to make your way through,

and finally you see bathed in the light a shape sitting on a huge, it looks like a throne, built of this massive white and gray marble. You see elegantly robed in purple. a light blue skin, completely bald head. You see at the side of this throne a massive weapon that is, it seems to be a bludgeoning weapon that is a bald with wispy metal spikes that looks like it could probably flatten you, pulverize you in one hit.

as you approach. You see that you see it's robed and purple, but then you don't see a face. It's masked. A mask that is half black and half white, half grinning, and half snarling.

Which side is the white side? Smiling or something. White side is smiling. As you see that this cloud giant and it is a massive creature about 20 feet tall sitting in its throne is resting

its cheek on its fist as he is tapping his fingers lazily on one side of his throne and as you enter the chamber

you hear a voice booming voice call out well you all You all thought you almost know when I was feeling bored. I don't see an Ero-Kocra. Were you expecting one? Yala, a human. What are you all doing here?

I would not expect this. No, we're just sort of showing up spontaneously. Yeah, this is our first time in the plane of air. We don't mean to intrude. It's beautiful. We're here to chat and we're sort of going to rush, so we thought we'd say hello. Hi. Oh, you're lucky I am bored because otherwise my griffins would have torn you all apart.

But I am very interested by this. I normally only get invisible stalkers, air elementals, air cochra. You, you, girl, come forward. Okay. He has his massive finger at you as he looms down. and you see the voice blooming out and the head is moving, but the mask is remaining motionless.

Hello, I am Luffy. Are you... You are... I am. Have you heard of me? Of course we've heard of you. The great cloud giant up here in your castle. I could smell you all coming a mile away. Oh, I'm sorry.

I hope it was not terrible for you. I know the smell of humanoid folk, but I smell the genie blood in you as well. Oh, you do? Are you trying to sneak and steal from me? No, no, absolutely not. If we were, we wouldn't have walked in the front door and introduced ourselves. That's true. And your griffins would have eaten us right up.

Yeah. They are pretty, aren't they? Beautiful. Oh, I love the purple one they came by. It swooped out. Oh, my gosh. It's gorgeous Griffiths. be pretty.

Aye. They are my prize possessions. Yeah. Yeah. So, because you are such a motley crew and I have been very bored, I am also impressed that usually when you look like the adventuring type, they usually try to sneak in and rob me, and I get the pleasure of killing them, but you are forthcoming. I respect them.

Thank you. Tell me, what do you want for me? You always want something. I'll walk up and I'll kneel down. I always say, great nimbuncee, king of the clouds. We have been told that you possess a powerful artifact that could save our home, the plane we came from. Maybe.

By your grace, we would greatly appreciate if we could borrow this artifact to defeat the vile evil that threatens to destroy all of our hopes, and then quickly return it upon the completion of our quest. Well said, Toa, I give him Brutnik inspiration. The head, the head tilts up, and the hand comes down, and as he listens. And then he brings it back to the other side. Oh, powerful artifact to save the world and the whole. That is so trite and cliche.

But I do like King of the Clouds. Flattery will get you everywhere. But I don't care about your own. So what is it you want? No, that was that was it. That was the whole. I have many. I didn't clarify.

Oh, no, you didn't. The windseeker blade that you possess. Oh, great king. You've got it. If you have it, of course. Or nor it is. We just assumed we've heard many tales of your great collection. If anybody would have it, we knew it would be you.

Yeah, we heard it was the greatest collection of all the lands that you would be the first person to check in on that, man. Okay, now you're laying in on a little thick. I mean, look at her. He looks at that. He doesn't, you don't seem to look at you, but the math turns to you as you say that. And it stops. That was a skinny devil man.

You're trying to make a deal. If a deal is something that is necessary, absolutely. Just as Toa said, we'd be bringing it right back. I don't lend. I don't let people borrow. What are you going to do for me? Well, what needs doing? Look around.

Say Kuan. What do I need? What do I need? You tell me. You are the ones that are coming to my home, asking for my item I may or my not have. Do you mind if I take a look around? Yes.

I tried to look around without moving and see, like try to get a glance of his collection. This collection is not in this room. It seems to be a large sitting, a bathroom room, if you go. You see that there's a number of doors to other parts of his palace, but they're all closed. Well, if you don't mind gracing me, Mr. Nimbasi, what is it that you desire most? I desire a lot of things. I don't think. You could provide them. Maybe you could. Pure us. We've done some pretty extraordinary things in the last couple of weeks.

Go! Yes. It's an aside. Like awkwardly side-stained to the side. You need a lean way down. Totally. Totally, totally not awkward. Do we have any more of the boo?

From the monastery. The what? The booze, the good stuff. Oh, let me check my pack. I believe we... Ooh, I think that's a great idea. I have a cask I still have one cask of L'Buards Revenue

Where have you been hiding that thing? It's like a small It's between his legs all they want now Every time he walks Between my legs is where I keep it I'm in like a half bow I'm waiting for him an answer That's good, you keep a hold of that, okay?

I'll give him a wink Yes I don't know if that was a wink or just a felt weird on my face um as edward saying that he looks and says

i am so bored excitement in my life would be great well i think you are luck we are a pretty exciting crew perhaps some entertainment would you trade it for a song I've got this

beautiful instrument right here he's really a wonder he's written songs about a couple of I entertain an idea if you play a song Do you prefer a clean song or a dirty song? I recommend the dirty fun. Felix just has his head in his hands at this point like we're all going to die.

You are funny one. Give me the dirty. Whenever life gets you down, has you wearing a frown, and the gravy train has left you behind. And when you're all, out of hope down at the end of your rope and there's no one to throw you a line whenever you're so low that you don't know which way to go come on take a walk in my shoes never worry about a thing got the world on a string because i've got the cure for all of my all of your

blues i take a look at my enormous penis and my trouble start to meltin way. I take a look at my enormous penis and the happy times are coming to stay. I gotta get up and dance when I glanced in my pants. I got the feeling like a bright sunny day. I take a look at my enormous penis and the happy times are coming my way. This is absolutely disgusted but Andy loved every moment. What did you think of that? I tell you he's fabulous. Make a performance check of advantage. You're all right. We're going to go with a 21. He sits there and listens and taps, and then he starts tapping along with the beat.

And then as you finish, he pauses. And once again, I found decoyed. To the King of the Clouds, absolutely. My pleasure. The King of the Clouds thinks that you would make a great chord justice. You trade your friend? Oh, we are going to need him. What?

What? We need this thing, right? No, I'm not trading caprice for it. Just until you bring it back. Anything else you know? A little epicurekle way you think, don't feel? No, don't you want to be my chest? No, stop.

You say the song that strikes me to the core. I feel every... single time I wake up in the morning. That is exactly how I feel. You might enjoy it. Yeah, my pleasure. I'd be happy to trade an additional song. My personage, we need to take care of this great mission. That's, you know, but I want to court jester, and you have made such a great performance. I mean, I would make a good court, Josh. Is there anything else you would like?

perhaps we could trade stories I would like to hear about you tell me about yourself why do you wear the mask that's not seen so I'm sorry I'm sorry nice job bro

got him brother brother brother why does everybody ask that question nobody gave a shit about me until I put down the mask. I give the DM inspiration.

Yes! Well, it's very unique, of course. Twist a feeling to whatever. If I'd take that off, would you die? You would... It would be very painful. Oh, for you. Oh, oh.

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want to cause any pain to you. I'm just, it's very impressive mask. It's, it's got a lot going on. I feel like you're trying to tell a story or, or there's some interesting tale behind that mask. Don't you have a cool mask too? Oh, and I have this cool mask too. And I take out my tribal mask that has all the,

the feathers and the painted mask, and I put it on. Oh, and I have this too. And I just, like, slowly take out my RAM helmet, and I put it on. And I just, like, stand there very proudly with it. I just kind of show. it off to him. That is a good mask. This...

Well, pets the meble. I missed it. Sorry. Is a very personal prize possession. It's how I express my religion. And that is the last unspeak of it. You have a nice mask too. You are very, for being a big man for humanoid. You are very submissive. Would you be a good housekeeper? Well, I'm just respectfully. of your position, that's all. This is your home and you've been very hospitable. So of course, I'm being as respectful as I can to a great being such as yourself. Well, I appreciate respect, and I do need another housekeeper. Is there anything you like to trade physically that we could give you? What do you have? Well, I know you like your griffins. I could introduce you to my favorite

She's a musk-ox. She could keep you company until we bring your artifact back to you. I... Is a musk ox a type of griffin? She can't fly, but with your powers, I'm sure you could bestore that honor. She could roam the skies with your griffin. That sounds beneath me, literally. I... I am a great musician. I am a great gardener, I am a great lover, I am a great performer. I am the greatest cloud giant in this entire plane.

Don't let any of the others tell you any different. I was impressed with little devil man, but my greatness is unmatched, and what could you offer me? Well, sounds like your greatness is confined to this plane. we're from the material plane. Do you want to be the greatest cloud giant on the material plane as well? With someone like Caprice and stories and someone like me and my nobility,

as well as the rest of us, we could spread your name far and wide as the greatest cloud giant that's uplived. Especially for giving us the tools we need to save the country that we're headed back for. The fact that the entire area would be saved by your grace or would calvin for you. Yes, this is true.

The name Nimbunce would be legendary. King of the clouds. Caprice would sing songs for years. Look at your greatness. May I guess we're going to advantage. Damn, that's fucking good. Twist. He said persuasion.

Should you twist it? Uh, 19. Nope. No, no, no, 17. 17. It wasn't good. I don't know that might be good. He,

He goes stone still, a moment. And then the mask turns towards you and leans, it's larger as he leans in. And he tilts his head. Now you are speaking my language, kitty cat. Now, how do you propose? We come to an arrangement. You're going to teleport my great fortress. and give me a kingdom to rule?

Do you have that power, Kitty? Oh, you would deem yourself weak enough to die amongst mortals? No, of course, you would stay here. But everyone would know your name, that you are so powerful, so majestic, so talented, that only the most daring adventurers

would even deem themselves worthy enough to come to you, You would never go to them. You are king of the clouds. Of the clouds. And you would be the ones to spread my name. Well, we can only do that if the material plane isn't completely destroyed. Yeah. So just imagine that song that you heard, but, you know, it is retitled.

To what was the song, title of that song? My Enormous Penus. Yeah, so it becomes Nimbansi is a little. enormous penis. We sing it all over the land. Every bar. I'd be happy to write an original for you too. I'm, you know, I'm quite

inspired to write something great about how tremendous this place is, the beauty of your griffons. They'd be respected more on the prime material plane, too, for you're such a simple gesture as to give us the blade that we seek. Can you imagine the thrill of weak mortals

bowing down, praising your name? How many cloud giants have you heard of with that kind of a worship? Another persuasion check advantage. He stops for a moment and you see his huge hand, gingerly reach up to stroke his bare chin beneath the mask. Kitty cat is speaking of my language. How about this? You all are going to spread the word, the great Nimbansi, and my three prized griffons.

You talk a big game, but I want to hear. How good of a storyteller are you? Each of you tell me a story, depending on how I'm feeling. After y'all are done, that will determine what you get. On the one hand, exactly what you think and what you want. And maybe I'll even sweeten the deal if you're real good. On one hand, the other hand, if I am unimpressed, Beacon claw in your innets, y'all in my belly,

and McGriffin's belly. Is that a fair trade? I think that's the best we're going to do, guys. I think that's a fair deal. This isn't really my area of expertise. You will give us time to talk amongst ourselves. Of course. I am a great storyteller myself.

Perhaps that would be another way I sweeten the deal, if you are impress me. You may discuss, I will hear all of it, but you wouldn't dare insult me in my own home regardless. I think we can all tell a story and hope for the best. Hope for the best. I'll give you guys a little whistle and, you know,

let's make sure that you're inspired as possible. I'll get the other storyteller. I don't even have any stories to tell. I'm usually blacked out of the time I start telling stories. You need to be a truthful story. It's just that you need to spell one. We can all tell stories. The best stories are the ones that ain't truthful.

And you haven't even seen me prize, Griffiths. And he whistles. And all of the griffins in the room clear out and you hear as three griffins that are huge, nearly double the size of the griffins that you would see fly in and land. One is bright red and pink. The other is gold and orange. And finally, there's one that's blue and teal, as they are massive. As they all perch, and they've seen these massive perches that none of them have, you've seen these massive perches

that none of the other smaller ruffins had touched, and they all land in their particular spots. How far away from them, Karmus, are we? They're, like, all around you. So... Like, high up or, like... They're probably about, like,

20 feet up in the air, as they land on their purchase. And say hello to Bassoon, Silkus, and Charlie. They are my precious, precious children. Bassoon, Silkus? Silcus, Puson, Silcus, S-Y-L-K-I-S, and then Charlie. He's his name's not, Chapman.

I have it written down, Charlie. I didn't have Chad written down. That's why his name's Chad. So, let them give you inspiration, and they're looking down at you with these ancient eyes, predatory glances. Don't be threatened or intimidated. They mean mostly well.

I'm looking forward to six wonderful stories. Make me laugh, make me cry, make me sneer, make me cheer. Prove to me that you will make Nimbonsi is named legendary in your world. That would be. That would show those storm giants who he's number one

and he sits back and once again returns to his position almost unmoored as the mask stares out blankly and you can discuss so we're all great with words

aren't we? I could tell a story I have seen you literally top your way out of captivity Well, I haven't seen it, but I've heard tales of it. But I'm not good at telling stories. You tell stories all the time. That's what lying is.

Joie, you still got that cast between your legs? I'm sorry, what? Oh, you, you, you, I'm so sorry. What? Oh, get Lutti really wasted. No, no, not on that. That's my backup stash. This is good stuff.

And besides, I actually might need that for my story. Well, I'll just, it's right here. I'll just keep it. You can just reach underneath it and grab it in any time. Yeah, I'm actually going to just kind of lift up under his leafy skirts and like tap something and fill up my Stein with a little little. I'm not talking about essential of what's going on. Don't wear it. I hope that's ale.

I've got something about my grass skirt for you. Give it to tell me. Give it to tap. Give it a nice. Give it a scream. Jesus. He looks, he's been a little silent. You're going to be alright with this?

What are you saying? You got nothing? Okay, well... I'm in deep shit. But you don't tell stories. It's like basic humanoid instinct. Why don't you tell about the first time that you got Beatrice? He's shaking his head.

That means no. No. That is not a good story. I mean, you know. What about the time where we met? You could tell him that story. Remember that crab that came up behind me? And I'm like, hey, man.

Is it going crab? And then you pinch me. It's not as riveting It's not as riveting as we both remember It seems strange for someone who reads so many books That he has no idea to tell any stories Well, they're all non-fiction Oh right

He didn't say they needed to be non-fiction But they need to be fiction I don't think anyone wants to hear me Recite the times and great wars of Korovaki For the last ten centuries You might enjoy it Yes you are like a great great story of battle. Why don't you take

one of the walls you've heard of and just make one of them a unicorn or something? Oh no, I'm going to die here. Oh God. You're going to be all right. You're going to be fine. Persia, you're quiet. I think the only way

I'm going to win him over is with an oddest funny story. So that's true. Great, so you're all set then. I think I'm okay. Yeah. And Luffy, you're all. You're going to be all right. I'm working on this, yeah.

Tell her. I can tell stories. I would ask, but there's no point. Well, why don't we go in an order then, and we'll leave Felix last so that he has longer time to think about what he'd like to do. Yeah, yeah, that sounds fine, I guess. So, Chris, why don't we start with you?

Oh, great. So you make the biggest bang, and then as we all get increasingly work, he forgets how good you were in each one of us feels like when mediocre at best. Should we maybe invert that based on your description just now? I don't, yes.

You know, I really did consider it. But I don't think that we can have Felix go first. Why don't we offer him a drink to pair with all of our stories? That way he's a little buzzed by the time he gets to him. How are we going to get a gigantic cloud giant buzzed? Do you have enough booze across the six of us?

Probably just going to have to get on the whole goddamn thing, Toa. They still not that much. That's about the size of one of his normal bouts of ale. Why don't we just have Caprice go less? Because it's always saved the beast for less. We don't want to follow. So then we'll have...

Felix second to last. Well, Herger, you seem the most prepared. Why don't you go first? Followed by Toa. I'll go whenever. Luski, myself, Felix, and Caprice. All right, let's do this. I'm excited about the plan. Let's do the plan.

Let's save the world. Let's do the plan. All right. Well, Hersia. Somebody, give me a spotlight or something. Minor illusion. Yeah. Thermaturgy. Yeah.

The wind's blowing your hair back. Fight, fight. I heard you. You get inspiration. I'm going to give you a supermodal fan with my unending breath. D.A. Blowing on you. Yep.

Okay. I'm going to put it right here in front of me. Over the next 10 minutes, any role. I'm going to throw up my cloak of elvenkind so I'm footed. I'm going to have my back towards him. And I'm very, I guess there's going to be some sort of minor illusion of life. Dramatic. Charlie would enjoy eating you.

Yes. If Charlie was into women like me, I'd enjoy eating him too. Anyway. I'm profusely sweating at this point. You see him lift his head off of his fist and like tilts his head intrigued, but not sure how to feel. It's okay. That's pretty sure everyone around Hersia. I throw my cape around and I whip around and I lock eyes with him. It was a dark night.

Oh, sneaking in to a bake. Learning more about this evil that has plagued the city. I break it quietly. No one can hear. I slammed them together, and they wore an echo across the entire scene. I used the rheumaturgy to amplify the sound. Silent I want. Everyone ahead of me.

Beatrice chirping on my shoulder. This blue bird blowing in the night, and I stood by the door. As lookout on my comrades, went inside and looked for what would be betrayal. It would uncover everything that was going wrong in the city. like lightning from the clouds. The ceiling erupted with glass. Essex, no, 10, 12, 20.

Cloaked figures landed on the ground around us. We have infiltrated the bank. Oh no. What the fuck do we do? Quickly, quickly, shove the papers in the back. And I run over and I just like, Pretend like I'm shoving shit in my bag. I'm a dirty for the sound of papers in a bag.

Shush, shush, shush, shush, shish. We must uncover, but we must. We must expose these people. But do we fight? No, we're at number. No, we can take them. And then another crash in the corner. Who is it?

Oh, no. It's Felix. He has rolled out of the bank. Clevering egg! And I run and I'm like waving my hands in front of Felix. I don't even know what's going up. I'm like sweating and shaking and I look like pale. I'm shaking him by the shoulder.

There are you going, you mad lad. Your fucking bird is still on my shoulder. But no, I can't see him. Why? Because everyone's invisible. Oh, they fucking forgot Persia. Hersia got left inside to fad for her fucking self. Oh, don't you know?

So I put away my top of the tater because, you know, I was slacking on the job. And Beatrice and I, oh, no, we've got it. They swore me instantly, all of us, crowding around me. But I decided in that moment, friendship was more important than me proving to all of these fuckers that I was stronger than them. And I could take all 20 of these folk by myself. And so with the power of murder, I blinded them all with my shield and my flail. And I swish, whoosh, whoosh, who. Ooh.

And I somersaulted the fuck out of their tools. no invisibility needed. My thighs quiet like the night. Don't you know. Don't you know? Quite like the night. And I tiptoed my way out of there. And then we ended up in a bar.

There was a man that we interrogated and we let him know, hey, wouldn't you suck if, uh, you just didn't have a penis anymore? And he believed us. Don't you fucking know he believed us. And we uncovered that sly motherfucker in this whole operation in the bank. Fuck yeah, we did. And we exterminated those fucks. And God knows what happened to those 20 people probably thrown in jail.

Probably suck in my toes. But that's a tale for another time. Oh. That's just so exciting. I love that story. I remember that I was there. I'm not sure if I feel sorry or glad for whoever goes next. Underneath of you, this is a dramatization.

Just a rammed under you. Performance check, I'm not good at. Well, I'm okay. The DC would be. And you have, um, what am I have inspiration? Not bad. Not bad. Oh, any more assisted.

With all of these, could I also put my hands? I also put my hand on her and giving her guidance. Yeah. Do I get advantage? I would say advantage because you were being assisted by... Can you put this away? It's a four. Because you got all the... I got a 12 here. That was

literally. That was your soundboard. So that'll be 20. Dirty 20. It wasn't enough. The dirtiest 20. As he's leaning forward, he leans back and crosses his arm. Well, I think you need to work on your structure a little bit, but that's some gusto.

Okay, okay. And I just like bow. You know what, girl? I'm amused. I tell jokes that most people don't understand. Just work out the structure with your friends when you're talking about me. But I like the enthusiasm. That's all you really need for stories.

really need for store especially if you get everyone drug first well done she nods so it's good okay well I guess Charlie would you're sorry sorry fat Charlie you gonna go hungry a little bit and he reaches up and and scratches the is Charlie a little bit fatter than these guys he'll be a little chunk here Charlie the chunk they call I need chunk griffons in my life I know Somebody please start drawing some adorable chominy rippins. These critches. Little skritie, scritie.

That was great, her. You're well done. Yes, that was great. I mean, he stole my story, but that's fine. You were going to tell us that exact story? Probably the penis part. Oh, I'm sorry. No, I've already done penises.

Well, you know, that's not, I don't want to say that. Oh, I may be sure. I haven't done anything. Please tell me you have another story. You're an artist in the hole. I'm fine. All right. Well, I'm fine, too.

You're shaking, Felix. What? Stop shaking. It's okay. Yeah. It's okay. I'm gonna, huh? Shh.

Oh. I clap on the back. You got this, Felix. And I give him a little squeam. I'm going to blow cold air in his face to just calm them down. Okay. All right. Who's up next?

Next up is... Toa Kamenui. A toa Kamenui. Good luck, buddy. That's good because I have to be before I can a little bit of a little bit of a little. Mimbasi. Allow me to regale you. in the story of Makkah, the greatest Goliath folk hero, the founder of the McCarney Islands,

my ancestor, and the Goliath whose face is carved into my very totem here. And you see the face, I put my mall down, and the carved face, I show him, the painted face. Marker was a great Goliath from the cold, frigid, barren mountains like where Moth Goliath are from. And one day, in a frozen sea, he was desperate looking for food, and he met a turtle, a turtle named Tonga. And he said, hello, Tonga, how are you? Tonga replied and said, hello, Marka.

I've heard of your great stories. Let me show you the world. So he jumped on Tonga's back. And Tonga showed him the whole world. He sailed all across a ventress. And he said the world is truly a great place. But my favorite bit of ocean, I would like to live there one day. Tonga said, but Marka, you cannot live in the ocean.

And he said, well, yes, we must bring the mountains to the ocean. And so they went back to his homeland And he brought his favorite mountains Put them on the back of Tonga And he sailed them to The middle of the ocean And he placed them Into a chain of islands

And that is how the McCarney Islands First came to be He said This is a grand land And he slept The next day He woke up And

There was a ball a bull named Raki and he said Hello Raki you look very strong and Raki said ah yes but so do you shall we see who's the strongest and then Maka said

we shall and they had a great battle they clashed upon the islands from island to island they clashed so hard that these mountains in the middle of the sea grew hot with fire and they erupted and this hut lover

fell and cruel, cremed the islands bigger, more than mountains, entire islands. Now this was a true chain of islands. They were both tired and they respected each other and they decided they were both strong. He decided it was a good day so he slept. He woke up the next day and he was traveling the new islands and he decided these are very barren indeed but that was when he met a great white moa named Hekina and he said hello Hekina and Hekina said hello Marka don't you agree that these islands are very barren he says yes they are and he says well allow me to help

Hechina then laid many eggs and Marka took the eggs and buried them in the ground across all the islands and from these eggs sprouted coconut trees and all other kinds of vegetation and through the help of Hikina these islands became lush and bountiful and he said thank you Hikina you have made you've brought great life to these islands and he slept the next day he woke up and he went for a swim and he was swimming around the oceans and the oceans were were empty and he said how will our lives? live without being able to fish. And that's when he met Komohana, a great black shark. This shark

was not as nice as the others. And the shark attacked him. And they grappled. They each fought for their lives, both bleeding profusely. And then when both were on the brink of death, they said, you were a worthy challenger to each other. And they decided that they were both worthy of living. however their blood traveled through all the oceans of adventurers attracting many kinds of fish the fish all came and made the water around the Makani Islands the most lush and bountiful

waters in the entire world finally he went to sleep the next day there was Tonga again right off the coast and Tonga said Makkah you've made beautiful lush forests islands with mountains you've brought lush vegetation in fish but aren't you lonely? He said

yes I am so he jumped on Tonga's back went back to his homeland brought his family and friends they all boarded Tonga and they've sailed back to the Makani Islands and populated the islands and that is how the Makani Islands came to be and that is the story of my ancestors

Roll with advantage just because I'm impressed. Jesus Christ. Guys, we should really do this more often when it's less high stakes, because I really enjoy it. Can I twist? You may. You also have inspiration. I'll roll one in a five, so inspiration is what, 10? No, it's a D.

A D.A. I twisted. You told your story so fucking well, dude. Just fucking twist it, man. Fucking do the thing. Okay. That all's really good. So I rolled a 14 plus an 8.

Yeah. That's huge. Is a, what, a 22 plus, what is it, charisma? Charisma? I think it's a plus 1, so 23. Very nice. What kind of roles are we meeting? 20.

20. As you're telling your story, Toa, Nimbonsi leans forward more and more as you tell your story. The mask never changes, of course, but he leans in, and he puts his elbow on his knee. and grips his chin as he leans in closer and as you finish he leans back well done

you come from a storytelling people oh do you love to tell stories I want to visit the Makani Islands just from that story alone to see if it is the same as that tale it's even greater than I described

I would love for you to come visit Toh. Storyteller. Well done. You aren't doing too bad. Four left. Lofiti, darling. Oh, is it me?

It is. It is my turn already. Yes, it is. Okay. Hello. Today, I will tell you a fable. From my lands of how happiness came to be. So.

On the material plain in the land of Avantress, there is a great mountain chain. It is hot mountains, volcanic mountains. And in those mountains are great tribes of fire giants. Most of them are big auguring things, no offense. But long ago, there was a beautiful fire giant woman. She was tall. She was broad across. She had thighs like a tree trunk.

and she worked all day in the hot, hot volcanic and it was her home. She had respect for that place, but she grew tired. She grew tired of the heat. She grew tired of sweating and the soot. And day after day is the same with all those men leering at her.

So one day, she came down the mountain. She took off her hot armor. She dropped her weapons. She stripped, completely bare. Naked as the day she, she was born. And she ran across the lands of Evadress, happy to be free, happy to be naked, to have the heat of the fire and the forge off of her back. And she ran through the fields, she ran over the hills, she ran through the lakes, until finally she came to my land, Kirstein.

And when she got there, she was so tired from her running and her running that she fell. fast asleep where she stood and when she fell she landed her great form on a crop of grapes when she landed all the grapes they smushed

they crushed under her great form her great weight and the heat from the forge followed her body and cooked them right on the ground she slept for many weeks there she did not move a muscle until one day

she stood back up And the heat and the time had changed these grapes into something completely different. And the people of Kierstein had gathered here to see this great, beautiful, naked form lying on their land. And when she stood up, her body dripped with the new substance of the grapes, something unseen altogether. And everyone, the people of the town, the men, the women, even the children, they stood at her ankles. They stood at her legs and they lapped up this grape And they were happy evermore as wine was born And you are in luck today and I'll hold out my steyne

I have a bit of this wine It is Le Pouard's wine And it is from the land of Kerstain To show you that this spago Is maybe a little more truce than it sounds And I'll hand in my Stein for a lot Interactive story Roll in advantage

I wouldn't even for inspiration before I wasn't at the table He reaches out and he takes the Stein in his huge fingers It's like a fibble It's a shot glass He's really like he's really

Just did taste And you see him You see him Turn And he pulls up his mask and he only see the side of his face Just more blue skin

as a long tongue extends, and he drips the wine, puts the mask back, and hands it back to you. And you'll roll and we'll see what happens. Nice gulp sound. Oh, okay. 19. Oh, so one is 2026. 26.

Hey. Hey, Wes. Hey, Wes. Well, I must say, more stories should come with a drink. That is exactly how I feel. Well, thank you. I'm hoping at least you won't be able to fall about. At least appraisers after me.

Well, my story then. Hello, I'm Iris. Oh shit All right Wasn't this your idea? I whistle the song that I've written for You see, darling I'm nobility

I have other people write stories for me Do you have your gold on you? I hand your friend my own Good goals Come Thank you, darling Once upon a time When land far far away

There was a gigantic yellow bird standing six feet tall the children all around knew him as the big bird he would prance all along the street and the children would flock to him for tales of faraway lands and princes and princesses but there was a menace in the land

a monster of blue stealing the cookies from all of the children a monster of cookies as it were ravaging the land north-south East and West, and the children were sad, the stories of the bird, the large, yellow, big bird, could not bring their spirits up. But all was not lost. A scientist arrived, two. Lovers, Bertinus, and Ormanthus. And with them, they found a recipe for cookies that the monster could not eat. They began to make cookies on a mass.

For all the children, joy had found its way to the Sasame Street. It's found its way to the Sasame Street once again. But not all science is good, and the remnants had been tossed into a garbage pail at the edge of the street. And from it arose a new monster, an evil, horrid beast of muck and grime. He began to terrorise the children and they knew the only way to resolve the issue was to smite him. They made their way along Sasame Street on a dark and dreary night and opened the rickety rot-iron cave, a gate that led to a mansion the end of a hill. Every step they took, one, two, three, four, five, six steps all the way up the edge of the streets. And there, they queried a nighttime Dracula.

He was only known by name. One single word. Count. Count flew in that form. Raining numbers all along the land. Large rainbow-colored numbers. One, two, three, four, five. The monster of goodness.

And the garbage pale man. And that's the end of the story. watch her. We didn't watch the same Jesse. We got a twist for a really fun D&D campaign.

Seriously. With a vampire, you've got a garbage monster up there. Sasami Street. Is this a Sephouse? Now we know.

Can we can we replay for the rest of Depoutes? Please roll an advantage. Sure. She's just instant pass. I'm doing performance. You have my inspiration.

Oh, what is your, what is inspiration? A D8. A D.8. And RU.C. is also affected by the story that you're told. 25. Hot dog. As, as you're telling the story, he leans in more and more, and he grips the side of his throne.

As he leans in more, I must learn more about the Sassame Street. The next time. Can I see you? I would tell you the way to sis on their street. That was... that was a tear! It was. And the massive, the resounding echoing and claps, this echo through the chamber as the griffons kind of ruffled their feathers,

and they start to look a little bit disappointed. As they ruffled, they're probably going to have empty bellies. As, however, all of their eyes turned to Felix. They start licking the legs Their tails They switch back, their lion tails They're back and forth They start licking their chops

I take my hat off and I'm holding it And I turn to the group and I say, yeah I want to apologize now I'm sorry Do you want a backup dancer? That's not a. You're going to be fine. You can do this.

I haven't been entirely honest I'm sorry and I walk up towards the the giant Felix is playing the fire I'm sorry my story isn't a happy one or

funny or anything like that my name is Felix Ackerman I was born in Kesselfeld in Goravakia I didn't know my dad my mom didn't really have anything she worked hard to take care of us She really did.

And then my younger brother was born when I was a teenager. And really, I wasn't really good for anything. I wasn't good at farm labor or anything. But I could read well. And I knew that there was something better out there for me. And my mom passed away. And really, it was just me and my brother. And he was only two.

And I did what I could to take care of him. And there was this lovely man. His name was Mr. Mendel. And he let us live in his house for free. And I tried to work the best that I come. but it was tough. I eventually got a scholarship, if you will, to the local wizard college, and I joined the military. It was the only way that I could make money for my brother. And, oh, God, it worked hard. I did, and I made the Talen Guard. I made the military. It was competitive,

but I worked as hard as I possibly could, and I was learning magic, and I was doing great things. And the harder I worked, the more that I learned. the more it paid off. And finally, I was able to start paying back Mr. Mendel and taking care of my brother. And things were looking good. And in about a year into my service, this plague, it started to break out. And nobody really knew what was happening, but it was a danger to the people of Corvaccia. So with the Talongar, we were told to take care of it. We often took care of monsters and things. So on that first night, we went to the town and we set to work and I burnt them all alive. I killed them all.

And then we got the next town. It was infected with the beast plate. And I burned them all alive. And it just kept happening. Town after town, we thought we have to save the people. It can't save themselves. And then we got the next town. And it was Kesselfeld.

And I kill everyone that I knew. Mr. Mendel recognized me and I burned him alive. And I know you probably don't care. We're just mortals. But to you, you'll find it ironic that all of it, I found out it was just a lie. The beast plague didn't exist. And the only person I ever knew,

the only person I ever cared about was my brother and they took him away and if he's alive if I ever find him again he'll never forgive me so I don't even know what I'm doing and like I said you probably don't care we're just mortals to you you're some giant but maybe you'll just find it funny that all of those people that I murdered for nothing and that's all I've got you make a performance check advantage I'll walk up to Felix and I'll put my hand on his shoulder. Yeah, I'm right there. I'll walk up. I'll give him guidance.

Twist, twist that shit. And I have, uh, giving you inspiration. Twist it. Twist it. I'd wrap a thingy out of there. Oh, just the one. Okay, huh. It's worse.

So 11, yeah. 11. And you have guidance too, which is a D4. Should have kept the first roll. That 11 was pretty good. I thought you could choose which one you wanted. Oh, can I? Yeah. It's nice.

then an 11 plus 9 is 20 plus what is it charisma I think I have like a plus zero performance unless performance yeah oh I have plus two so that is a 22 and I'll just put my head back as you tell your story you see that he had been kind of tilting his head and then he leans back and crosses his arms and is stone still And as you finish, you see water pool down around his cheek to his chin and drip, drip onto his rope. He leans down the eternally still mask of half grinning and half snarling stares down at you. For your sake, boy. I hope you made that all up.

That is one hell of a story. And he nods deeply at you. As he, then you see him lean down back again and lift his mats and wipe away tears. Group hug. I'm a run over me and give everybody a picture of a lot. Oh, I'm sorry. No, you did great. I'd hate to have to go after you.

You do. Right. Okay. Uh-huh. Let's do it. I love the States. Let's do it. Good luck, and I'm going to smack in the getting paid. I'm making it feel like a big high and lifted my...

Without any additional inspirations to give. I just pat myself on the chest and walk up. And Monsi, you enjoyed my offer of having a choice, so I'll offer you a selection. Once again, you may hear a story about a young boy who loves clowns, or you can hear the love story of a young cleric and a minotaur, your choice. I hope you picked the Oh my God

I want to hear the story of sounds Oh my god I want to see what you fix Can I have vote I'm afraid that it's It's a one of the other type deal Just like before Whatever you think

Is going to move The second one will be for a vanderson chill There are five of you So odd number wins You guys vote Which one do you want to hear What was the option clowns? Young boy who loves clowns

Or a love story between a Minotaur and a young cleric I'm really telling. I know the one story, but I like the... No, that's it. I'll have to sing my story. Is that all right? Yep. I'm very okay.

I think it is. That's not our choice to make, Nimbonsi. Yo, a storyteller. You decide. Try this song for size. Sweet Timothy, comes with monstrous smooches covered all over from head to toe

covered all over with sweet Jimothy There was a lone Minotaur named Jimothy Searching for his hammer and beating his rivals Until a great cleric convinced him to talk She offered to help if he gave her his guidance And showed them safe passage to their pressing goals He did deep down that she had a good spirit, so coming together they joined and devout,

he'd get his hammer and she would get sweet Jimopathy. Comes with monstrous smooches, covered all over from head to go, covered all over with sweet Jimopi. Later, the bullman would use his great strength to rescue the cleric who, taken his friendship in spite of him being a beast of his ilk. She dropped to her knees and she started to worship, her goddess for shaving her butt. Jimithy howled for so fine, a companion. The cleric then said, dear, I'm so glad we met.

Now show me the true meaning of enbroschette. Sweet Jimothy comes with monstrous stitches. covered all over from head to toe covered all over with sweet Jimofy fucking bro Oh my god

Jesus This is my character from another campaign That we stream And I doubt I doubt he played That was fantastic The week is the weakest performance Of the six

No Would you have to give the D.C. goes up and down Yeah I've got 20 Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, boy. Hot fucking bass.

He has a, he's continuing to keep his arms crossed. And as you finish, he stops. And he stares. He smashes his massive palm on his knee and slaps it. You all rumble as he heaves himself up and begins to clap. Well done! I must admit I am impressed, and I am very glad you ended on that beautiful tale. I needed to cheer me up.

My pleasure. And so you know what? I have what you're looking for. And I think I might sweeten the deal. I am going to let you take a look around. I'm going to go, fetch what you seek. Give me one moment. My griffins will keep an eye on you.

And he lumberes out. But there's a surprising grace to his steps as the door opens, and he's gone for probably 15 minutes. And then he comes back out. And as the door opens, I'll be a cool more my music again. was sweet god damn it

the door opens again as he comes out holding a scimitar but it is you can see that it is

humming with energy as it as there is a swirling wind around it as it glows with blue and white magic, a long scimitar polished steel. It has intricate, the pommel is this intricate design that is the shape of a feathered serpent

with a tassel off the side that is just absolutely perfectly crafted as he walks out and extends it down towards you. And it is massive. The only one of you that would even hope to even wield it on your own would be Toa. And even then, it looks like, it looks as if like this is made foraging as he hands it. Don't drop. Careful. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. And so, you are the ones that are going to spread the tail of Nimbansi and his Griffin Managerie across your world. And if you do it like that, I would be legendary. And so he reaches into his robes. And he extends a fist. Come on, line up. And he, and you see these beautiful, like velvet satchels.

that he drops in each of your hand. Consider this a payment in advance. It would be 2,000 gold pieces each and it's like a massive heavy satchel.

Yeah. And I vote gold. Gold. So, well. You rich, bitch. And he

He turns his arm and the door that he had just come out of opens. And you see down a long, huge hallway, glittery of glinting of light on gold, silver, platinum, armor, weapons, humming magic items. I prepared my hoard for you. Take one item of your choice and of the good stuff, the pile on the right, and take three from the pile on the left. It is yours to decide my three best griffins will be keeping an eye on you before you leave. Thank you so very much. You've been so wonderful. You're...

In generous. And generous. Thank you. So large and handsome, too. I don't know how you do it. I suppose it's the mask. But thank you. The king of the clouds, for sure. To you. The Clouds. Thank you very kindly. May you tell my story beautifully. Far and wide. Take your time. I don't got nowhere to be. Hopefully you don't. We don't need it. We should be quick. Still don't have much time. Yeah, let's hurry. Let's go.

So you rush in and as you walk through, you see two massive piles of treasure. A collection that's not well organized, but hoarding. You see weapons, armor, trinkets on one side. On the other side you see vials filled with liquid, scrolls roll up, humming with energy. And you can all choose one magical item from table G. And three items

from magical item, table B, 1 through 83. And so we can decide that for next week. Yes. We'll decide that for next week. That's great. Sorry, B, what? 803. 1 through 83. Table B. I know what's up there. And G. And then one from

magic item table G. So one from B, three from G. I don't know. No, one from G three from B up to 85. 83? I'd love to take a look at them during an interest and chill maybe.

Yeah. With three options. And so we'll decide that for you'll pick off stream and for next session. Holy fuck, I'm so excited. I run over and I grab an item and I say, I can't wait to use this.

Oh, this is perfect. I can't be looking for ever. I've always needed three of these. This is great on me. This looks or feels or is very useful or is great. One from G? Oh, baby.

So I want to turn back around and you all collect your room. And he's standing waiting for you. So my boss, did you find out amenable is the Dia de la Suita? It is.

Entirely. Aventress will know your name foreign line. I'll make sure to deliver the message to Sassarme Street, personally. You must tell me how to get there once you return. The next time we see each other. Next time. Yes. I am counting on you. And next time I would love to hear more about your mask and your deity. That is for when you return the last part of the Sweeten Deal, I will tell you my story.

but do you all have a world to save or something boring they will be on our way thank you again and I want to turn out and just I'll start hustling with the sword over my shoulder I'm gonna follow top you do that you all step out and once again all the smaller griffins

fly around you as you see the three massive ones looking really disappointed they're all like hanging in their heads dejectedly and then you see as he goes to a large chest and just pulls out three massive bird-like creatures and just chucks them

to each of the griffins and they snap it up and they're gnashing and tearing and I was like, oh, we'll get one extra one for you, Charlie. And he tosses another one. And the doors close and echo as you'd return flying out as

you get a good distance away. Suddenly, a flash of blue and Alkira emerges. He did not kill you all. I was ready to go in there, scimitar swinging. No, we have the... We have them eaten under our hands. Look! We have the windseeker blade.

Don't hold it like that. And I think you should use it. It is made for you. And I'm not much for the slashy, business she looks at her cemitar and she pulls it out and extends her hand and suddenly it disappears and then she reaches forward and grabs it and you see the wind as soon as she grabs the hill swirls around her you hear the crackling of thunder as it swirls around her and then back on to the blade.

How crazy would it be if she was just like peace, bitches, and then like, quite invisible and it was like, well, we're fucked. It's what I always needed. Now I'm fucking kiss. She then, she said, with that, are you all ready? Yes. We're so ready.

We should hurry. We shouldn't waste any more time. Let's go. How do we do this? Get around me. Do you all trust me now? I think so. I'll be my child.

Morta. you trust me but we just gave you the weapon of course we trust you let's go and with that her arm starts to spin as the uh the magical glow emanates but rather than the magical blue it's just a simple white as hot white swirls more and more as suddenly

the white gets blinding and suddenly you're once again your stomach almost feels like it gets ripped out of your life. Thanks for hanging out of the port of two. Thanks Wes. Thanks, Wes. As that happens, and suddenly you immediately hear a massive crash of thunder

as you see a bright flash of lightning and you feel heat as As lightning is crashing all around you, you are standing in the center of a massive platform. Of in a huge tree, you look around, you see, you're in Cleary. You hear screams all around you. As your eyes look around, you are on a massive platform and directly beside a large, warring, metal rod with two

prongs spinning around, lightning crackling between each one, wind is swirling around it. As your feet fall on solid ground, you still feel

like you can fly. As as... In a fucking way. As... As... As you... As you...

You see figures the city sprawling out ahead of them. As you suddenly hear a loud and suddenly the splintering of wood as fire does not erupt. You know that this is magically treated. But you hear as individual scream, as aerococca fly and swarm, as a massive tree splinters and falls. You see massive buildings. dozens and dozens of houses being splintered and crashing and collapsing as it falls and hits the fourth floor below. As civilians are flying all around, you see guards attempting and soldiers attempting to fly and make formation as they fly in the direction of something. And you know what it is.

and you hear the loud crash of thunder as the wind is howling all around you, whipping through the trees. As you see far ahead, you see the trees shaking, almost being swept like blades of grass as they bend and creak and break, as the storm all above you,

gets more and more violent. And directly ahead, as you finally have arrived back to the material plane to Kaleri, you see above the trees flying directly towards you. Six massive storming eyes. And that's where we'll end this action. Oh, God. I fucking love this campaign.

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