Legends of Avantris - Beneath Dark Wings | Ep. 75 | A Chance in Hell: Part 1

Episode Date: February 5, 2026

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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. Last time on Beneath Dark Wings, you were in the deepest realms of the abyss. You had experienced making your way into Pizunia, seeing what had become of Escher after accepting Pizzuzuzu's dark gifts. he pleaded with you to help save his daughter, Ravanaughia, who had been disassembled and spread across the domains of the Oberith lords

that had been seemingly united by Pizzou. And you learned that these obariths, these proto-demons from another dimension, that there are only 13 remaining from however many. And in the Great War that you had seen against the Wind Dukes, against the Vati, against the rod of the seven parts or the rod of law, and the tremendous uprising of the Tenari demon, the lesser demons, the more common demons that you all know,

had effectively risen up and nearly annihilated all of them. These Oberith lords were shades of their form. ourselves and you made your way through the various layers of the abyss where they lurk waiting for Pizzou's dark plan to bring them back into power after seemingly uniting all of them. However, you have realized that there was never any love between any of these Oberith lords, and you decided to hatch a plan to turn them against each other, at the very least against Pizzuz. Most importantly, you first encountered the former Prince of Demons,

himself, Abox, Ab, who had been the Prince of Demons before Miska, the Wolf Spider, that you had seen get slain so long ago. And he had been deposed by this entity known as the Queen of Chaos. that seemingly fancies herself as the true ruler of all of the Oberoth lords, but had, after the death of Miska had received the favor, or given her favor to Pizzou,

seemingly convinced to lend her support and help unite these ancient entities, to flood a ventress and make this universe in the image of the old universe they escaped from that they had destroyed. And so, So you, with a little help of the Lord of Lies as Medeus through Caprice, you had agreed, you had connected with Abbas, and made a bit of a bargain to have the, have, when the, when the time had come to join Pizzou, to turn against him instead. and you made your way through assisting

these Oberworth Lords in their weakened shade states and received various boons and and various boons and gifts and powers from them. As you made your way through thanks to Escher's Portal Magic, you, the, let's see, let's see, You first were in the forgotten land with Erekes, the forgotten prince, who had been turned into just an inky droplet after dealing with an elder evil known as him who watches from beyond the stars. You then went to the blood shallows where you had made the deal with oblox ob and seen the horrific swarms of the vermin that he controls.

you then went to Anderlain, the frozen, frigid domain that had once been a beautiful lush garden, ruled by Pale Knight. And in her bone castle, you sacrificed various closets and murdered them and gained her boon. In the whispering cairn, Khazarvidexas, the horn of Duke, an enormous skeleton remained being feasted upon eternally by strange. gaunt demons. You managed to reassemble Cairn over his horn's skull and received that boon as the wind whipped through the whispering Cairn. And finally, you made yourself to the wells of darkness,

a darkened void but with pops of color and stars beyond, orbs of light, where Kabiri, the watching master, seemingly inhabiting all of these orbs watched you and seemingly asking for arcane magic. You all fed spells and your arcane energies into this gas, including Caprice's simulacrum. Dupreece was immediately concerned. Oh, Dupree.

We don't know. He could be fine. It was immediately consumed. They just annihilated, experiencing oblivion. And in that, moment, Kabiri offered you each a vision. And in, you all ask for various things and remind me if there's anything I miss, but really the whole thrust of it is that all across a ventras, the eclipse is visible. And there are birds empowered, mutated, attacking,

in a sense, all over the world. You had seen Herzia and Torvald. You had seen a sequet and I family, you had seen the Makani Islands and the seabirds being mutated and attacking. And they were all barricading themselves, right? Yeah, they were barricading themselves. They were fighting. They were trying to defend themselves. It was like the birds. It was basically the birds.

The birds. As this great eclipse loomed overhead. And with that, once you receive the visions, the arcane energy surged and brought a bit more magical arcane energy to Kabiri, the Watching Master, and you all surge with this strange arcane electricity, you got a long rest, and you gained a level. And you must continue deeper into the abyss to eventually face the Queen of Chaos herself.

Obox Obed seemingly believing that it would require her to turn on Pizzou, and it would require convincing and perhaps either way requiring a battle. But Caprice had taken. taking a strange tongue-like bleed-like parasite inside of him. Unsure of what that looks like. And that's where you are.

Any questions? Anything I missed? Oh, what happened in the rest of the campaign? Oh, that's very fun. If you want to know what happened in the rest of the campaign, you can go and watch. Could you read your 20-minute campaign? Was it 20 minutes? I feel like it was probably 20 minutes.

Just go watch the whole campaign. Or go watch last episode. I remember what that. and walk to the beginning. You left that in, right? Nikki's not picking it. What? My 25 minute.

Did you in? Yeah, no, of course I left that in. Okay, good. Be very funny, you cut it. And can you point Big Brown towards your face? I'm a little nervous. Can we get Big Brown on your face, please?

Can we please point Big Brown right at your face? There you go. Yep, I have Big Brown at my face. Slobbering noises of a pug that are not going to pervade the entire. You're rude. Oh, also, does anyone remember what boons you had received?

Yes. I never wrote them down. Oh, that last session? I think I did, and I think I... You leveled up. I got some stats. Oh, stats, I have it. Or some kind.

You got chats. I don't remember what boons they got. I don't recall. I have 22 strength. Do I still have that? Yes. I have 22 intelligence. Yep.

So everyone got plus two. Oh, so yeah, hold on, I can tell you right now. So we got two strength. We have not gotten Dex yet. We have not gotten Kahn yet. We got two Int. We have not gotten Wisdom yet. We have not gotten Chrisma yet.

I'm sorry, guys. I'm rolling all of these. So it's just strength. I know. It's just strength and int. I don't know why I won't let me look at that. Hold on. So let me do. I guess I just wrote it down.

Felix Ackerman rolled text, Jack. I know. I know. I'm not trying to. You can turn that off if you want to. I don't want to turn it off. I want to, I just know if I wanted to edit it. Why wouldn't let me edit my statue here? Hit the word dexterity.

That's what I did. No. Try to hit like, just like a great, hit the top of the box. I rolled a natural 20 on D&B beyond. It is like the outside of the box. Yeah, they want to make it super easy to head. A little B, a little B for Bachel Bente.

Bachel Benty. Bachel Benty. You all are floating, suspended in the wells of darkness. Not quite the same pitch black void as the forgotten lands, but almost like a dark outer space realm with bits of streaks of color, lightning of arcane magic, and those strange orbs that glow in varying bright, nearly neon colors

all around you that had seemingly spoken to you, that had seemingly watched you throughout this area. You have just finished receiving these visions. to set the stage of where we are. You each asked something that you wanted to see, Brother Gruber, how Tommy was doing, how Herge was doing, how the Makani Islands were doing, and I can't recall the other one, but basically, you'd all see what you would ask to see.

You would ask to see. Mine was weird. I tried to look into the future, and like, I don't know, it was a fucking, it was a whole fucking thing. You would also, you would also in the vision, has seen the results of if you had assembled Ravanaughian. That was what I think my question was. I was trying to use my big brain to see what's the outcome of us doing certain things.

And you had seen that it seemingly would aid you in your ends. Yeah. And now it seems as if this, as the magic surges all around you, The magic surges, the lightning crackles. You suddenly return back. You see all of your friends as you're floating. The Escher in his bird-like back form is still clinging to your hair buns.

And is looking, blinking as if he had not seen that same vision. Oh, shit. What do you all do as you float in the wells of darkness with the watching master all around you? Do we have a feeling that, and correct me if I'm wrong, do we know what the total number of Ravanaughia parts there are is, or do we feel like we have more than half of her? Okay, that's right. So do you have a few, we have a handful? We have five.

We have five. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate the reminder. You had just. Big brain on Kelsey. You had just retrieved her eyes that were kind of swiveling around and looking.

They're this kind of this strange thing where they, it's not desiccated flesh. It's corpse flesh. It is strangely a lie, although she's a vampire. It's a very bizarre experience, and they're all being put in this whatever pocket dimension Escher is using. And we all shared the visions of the questions that we asked or that was all individual. Like, do we know, do we have all? I'll say you share, you all, you all would have shared it just for narrative ease.

That's, thank you. Yeah. All right. We have to keep going. We see what's happening. We see what will happen. We have to keep moving. Do you think that that's actually happening right now?

All those poor little birds? Yeah. I'm worried that it is, yeah. Also, poor little birds? Yeah, the little, all of those birds, they can't help it. And they're all... What about all of our friends and our family? Well, I mean, they sing okay for now.

I mean, I think they're going to be okay, but all the little seagulls and pirates and toucans and and seagulls and sinpapers and ospreys and egrets and puffins? Did we see any puffins? I mean, you just have to assume. I'll think of a puffins. Poor puffins. Yeah, I think we have to assume that it is happening right now.

We have no other choice. And I think we have to assume it's going to get worse. Running out of time. They might not be able to hide out in there forever to barricade themselves. If the puffins have not been affected yet, they will. Huh. The puffins, Toa. Think of the puffins.

In the seagulls. And the Kiwis. In the arms of the puffins. It was pretty good. It looks pretty good. Oh, is Capri shooting your heart a bird? Yeah, he's been giving me lessons on the side. I know we've been really busy, but we find time.

We'll have to be freed up the abyssal lessons. It was all nothing but music after that. That's true. That's true. You're fluent now. Except for one word that I taught you wrong as a joke. Which one? Cannot wait to see which one. Well, as much as I love floating in the abyss,

we shouldn't try to move on. We haven't even reclaimed half of parts of this poor child. There's a lot of road left. And we've got to move quickly. And if we've run into more imps, you know it's going to take Caprice ages to argue with them. That's true. Ages.

Caprice, as you say ages, you can't help but see the look of terror in Duprease's eyes as he was ripped from your arms and annihilated. I hope the priest is in a better place. Well, he was just a magical construct, right? It's not like he was real in any way.

He thought he was real. But it's not like he could die a true death. Yeah, I mean, we all know the truth. That was just an unbelievable display of magic. It's creation of the weave. I thank you, but, I mean, I just sort of invited it in. It's not like I did the whole thing from scratch. It's just like music.

It's just like a song. The sum is always greater than the parts. Who knows whether I created a creature with feelings and sentience. I'm sorry, what? Who knows if you created a creature with feelings and sentient? You don't know. You were just making the argument that I should feel not as bad because it doesn't have a soul, right? Well, I was saying you shouldn't feel as bad because the moment it was sucked away, just based on magic.

It should disappear from the soul. world completely and you're saying that there's a possibility you created an actual entity that could live on without you? Wait! He looked and sounded exactly like you! Yeah! You're not concerned for what that means if he's just out in the world being you? No, on the inside, I'm freaking out. I may be putting out a really cool exterior, but on the inside, I am having an existential crisis.

But what if you are depraise? Yeah, what if you're not... And we saw the real caprice during the streets? Would it have your memories? Yes. Oh, Lord. See?

Sorchers, barns, warlocks. This is what happens when you don't study magic. What if it was returned to the material plane and it's sleeping with Hersher right now? No, I mean, I think he's dead. I think we can all agree. Yeah, he's fucking dead. He's dead.

He's dead. He died horribly. He died cursing my name. And let's think about this logically. I mean, you said yourself, it's like a song, the sum of the parts. All songs have to end at some point, right? As beautiful as they may be. I mean, that's true, except for the song that never ends.

How's that go? Why? One of you know, I was like you like, botched into the other one. That's very funny. We don't have time for this. We don't have time for 12 hours. I'm not gonna start the song that never ends. Well, you can end it.

It'll never end. No, it never ends. If you start singing it, it goes on and on, my friend. Why can't you just stop singing it? Some people have started it, and they've tried, but they just keep on singing. They didn't know what it was. Then they just kept singing it forever.

Caprice cast the spell. He teleported to where the new Caprice showed up. And what was lived in its place was Dupris. There are dark, dark magics out there, Toa, and this is why we don't mess with things we don't understand. Which means you'll Dupress, and Caprice's deed. It's certainly possible. You think back, Caprice.

Yeah? And as Toa says this, you know that you have memories of playing a song and then grasping hand in hand as you spun around through space. But as you were spinning, you're not sure what position you were in or what, you can't actually be entirely certain that your memories would be at all different than deprecis. And I'm a powerful spellcaster.

I have all kinds of tricks up my sleeves. I'm very depletious. Well, hold on. To be fair, one of them was naked. That's true. I still have my... Oh, that's true. Now, I'm not going to put it past Caprice. We've watched him take his pants off once or twice, but that would have been quite the trick. To suddenly be naked? And the fake Caprice all of a sudden had all the clothing? There was also that Tom he had the hole in his pants wrapped by his gooch.

Still got the deck of illusions. No, I'm pretty sure he still has a hole in his pants by his boots. The Golden Scale from that lady. I can't remember her name. Would DePrize not have all of your Indian clothing? Sure. Would he?

No, no, no. One of us was naked, remember? He had nothing. Naked is the day he was born. So we can, oh. So we can confirm then that this. This is Caprice and not DePrice. I mean, I would feel confident, but again, magic's we don't understand.

But we can confirm that Depriese is not impregnating Herzsia. We cannot confirm that. Do you have any way to take all- Why not? And by your logic, if he has all of your memories and he is a duplicate of you, he would be just as in love with Herger as you are. Yes, but-

And Hesier would have no way of knowing- I just saw her! She wasn't fucking at all! But time has passed since then, and we're not sure how time moves here, compared to the material plane. It could have been two weeks since that happened. If I'm a good caprice, then it's the real caprice.

Good for me. I don't know about that. Because I think what's most concerning is that if that a second Felix suddenly appeared and had all of my memories, it means they were fabricated. So what's stopping my original memories from being fabricated? What if I was created by somebody else?

Oh. My nightmare. I'm glad I don't have to worry about that, Tella. I'm honestly really, really happy that I don't have that. of working ability. What if I was fabricated? No, you're not. You don't have magical abilities.

And plus they broke the mold after they made you both. You're one of a kind. And I don't even wear fabric. No. This is very concerning. I mean, I suppose it's possible that when Caprice cast the spell, he was teleported without his clothes.

It's any possible. The new location in the new Caprice took his place with the clothes. I would love to say with more certainty that that wasn't the case, but we just can't know. I guess we'll never know until Caprice or DuPriest dies

again. Should we kill Caprice? I guess in theory we tried to dispel him and he might just fall apart in the snow. Does that work? I don't know. How does the spell work? Oh, that's right. You don't study these things before you just go crazy and try shit

and then get penalized for it. This is the consequences of your actions, Caprice. Yeah. Why do I keep making spells that are so fucked up? You should write a song about this. Yeah. Okay. And how you lost your girlfriend to yourself.

Potentially. Pretty good song. We should probably get going. But where, too? We gotta finish finding all of Ravanovia. Right? And I look to the little bat bird creature that's hanging from a feet bun.

If a bird bat could look exasperated. This bird bat looks very exasperated. What does he expect? And he then looks at you and gives you like a firm nod. All right. Where's your nest? He looks around at all of the orbs that are floating around. And there's a little bit of hesitation there. As you realize now is that this realm is filled with the eyes of the watching master.

Did I, like, feel unsettled by that? I mean, like... Well, you had known that he had wanted to be undetected by... by any of the obariths. And there's a little bit of hesitation there. And so, you know, you were able to get away from the bone castle of pale night.

Oh. But he's always watching. And he's the watching master, so he's generally watching. Oh! Do we have a way to... obscure our friend. Caprice. More than him being a little bat?

He can't help us move on as a little bat. Can't you make him invisible? Will invisibility work on something like this? That's a good point. I... Did you take true polymorph? No. Well...

I do have the ability to polymorph, though. Just regular type, but that's good. That's... Well, then he can't case his portal. Oh, you're all right, you're right. I have a solution, but it would prevent him from portling us. I'm potentially have a solution, but there's this strange floating, squished-faced beast in front of me that makes it nearly impossible

for me to harness my promise. Yeah, but I've heard she's so dangerous and you shouldn't disturb him. Oh, God, she's waking. She's waking from her terrible. waking from her terrible slumber. She's the one that snorts beyond the stars. That's very funny. I mean, if things really get bad,

we can hide, we can hide usher away from, I believe a lot of things, but it would basically suspend him in animation for as long as I deem. And I know that that doesn't really help us in this position, but it might be useful at some point. Sounds like it wouldn't raise any existential,

questions or cause one to doubt for known existence. Oh, no, it would definitely would. It's complex magic, and it raises questions that I don't even want to open that can of worms. Well, I leave the thinking of a piece. I can't. Why can't you? You've done it before.

I can make myself invisible. What, now that you can see isn't in a touch spell? Yeah. Then what can't you do to him? Because of the legacy of Malbulja. Excuse me. What? What do you say?

The whole legacy of my bulge. My bulge. My bulge. My bulge. That's very funny. Why didn't I think of that? I believe that the bow that was given to me my zern allows me to cast invisibility regular type. So I could make an invisible bet or an invisible...

How is it last for about now? Yeah. But the moment that he casts anything at all, your invisibility will drop and he'll be visible anyway. It would be complete waste. Yes. Unless you had... greater invisibility, which it sounds like you don't. There's a greater invisibility.

Caprice, caprice, caprice. You should have studied. What? He's invisible and you can see him anyway. Yes, and entities like this, something that can see from beyond the stars, is going to have something like true sight, be able to see through parlor tricks.

I have an idea. Why don't we stand in a circle and he can shift out and just will hide him in like a circle of us? What if we just ask him not to look? Ask who wants to look. The one who sees from beyond the stars. Oh, yes.

I don't think that's going to work. I mean, I'll ask him. I can be very convincing. I just find that most conflict is solved by conversation and communication, and I feel like we're really going out of our way. When we could maybe just say, hey, could you not look for a minute? No peekies. I think I've learned the opposite lesson on this.

I think every problem we've dealt with by killing it. Oh, that's true too. So we should try to kill it? I mean, with Moloch and Atomed and Johnny. We've solved problems without killing people before. I once convinced a man that he didn't have, that he was gonna lose his penis. And then he was killed, Caprice.

Oh yeah. But I didn't kill it. He may have been killed later, but that's not the point of. not the point or moral of my story. I just think people have to die to solve problems. How likely is it that we're going to be able to procure diamonds in the future? Unlily.

Very unlikely. So I could use our remaining diamond to get us where we need to go, but then should any of you fall in combat? No, no. It's not worth it at all. No. It's nothing I could do for you.

Absolutely not. How many diamonds do you have? Oh, quite a few. Let me tell you, let me look through my sack. Check your equipment, Tib. I will. I said we smell guacamole. Oh, and that's my sacamole.

I have four diamonds. You have four diamonds? I do, yes. Wow. We took it four diamonds from. We bought them. We did. Yes.

Oh, what a long journey we've been on. We were quite smart. Slask full of orange demon goo. That's great. Let me see what I have. Maybe something will help. Here at you. a sheet.

I don't have anything good. Inventory. Um, yes, no. Aside from that, there's not much I can do. I've got a briefcase full of red, blue, and green gems for some reason. I've got a water scheme. Felix remembers. I have two tiger's eyes.

Like actual tiger's eyes or stone tiger's eyes? Like these gems. Oh, I have a string. You do cats in the criminal of it. If we create the conclusion that we can't hide Escher, then there's nothing we can do. We move forward. We know what we have to do.

We have to reassemble Ravanaughius. We saw it in the vision. The outcome is good for us. Yeah. Escher, what exactly he can't talk us about? No. The best choice. Mime it out.

What exactly happens if they see you? You see that, um, that you see that he is, will kind of climb down, and then he like flaps up and he tries to extend his wings and he shakes the feathers and then he swoops down in front of you and he mimes like clawing out your eyes with his that talent and then he flies around and around and around and that's all you say.

Okay, that was chaotic, not very helpful. All right, how about this? Caprice, you make him invisible. And then Escher just catch your porter and then jump through it immediately. And we'll follow you. And even if he sees you, it'll only be for like a very split second. Which would be more than enough. Well, I don't make a refrigeration, Chuck.

Oh, I'm sorry. I should not have chocolateed near you. She's behind an alley. See as Escher looks at you and he looks around and very clearly, He starts to fly out in one direction for probably a good 30 seconds, and then fly and basically sees that these eyes are everywhere. And he eventually flies back, and he lands, and he taps one, two, three, almost as if to signal on the count of three. I think he's trying to communicate.

And then he taps one, two, and a burst of black feathers. There is a swirl, the slash of a sword that's circular, and a swirl of magical energy that explodes into existence. It is dark, it's this deep, dark purple. And in an instant, you see the shape of Escher, his vampire flesh, whatever is left of it, and not covered in black feathers, his bald head, the avian features that he has,

is perhaps he's attempting to shroud himself in black feathers, as then in an instant, without saying a word, he poofs back and you see a small bat rocket through the portal as it glows. Yeah, I mean, I would immediately follow him as soon as you opened the portal and, yeah, and gave us the one, two, three, I would follow. You leap through the portal

and are immediately feel the hard, stone floor of a subterranean cavern that you crash onto as I see some music here. Oh. Dang it! Get a little more warning next... Yeah, like a one, two, three would have been really nice.

Escher. I never know if it's one, two, three go, or you go on three. Which one is it? I don't know. I still never know. I think it really depends on the person who's doing the countdown. What if the person is a little bird bat? Immediately, as soon as you all land, the portal closes. And Escher immediately turns back into his humanoid form.

And he says, well, that was miscalculated. It was fine. Good job. It's exactly what I told you to do. What are you might mean miscalculated? We didn't end up where you wanted us to be? No, we are in the right place. but if you did not make a compelling of enough case to the washing master, and he is still allied with my master, then he will know.

Compelling case, I didn't think we even attempted to talk to him. You fed him what he craved. Oh, yes. And they were totally consumed. Completely gone, right? All gone? That was your take on it, right?

They're just completely consumed. Just read, you say. He doesn't say that. Yes, the star for arcane energy completely taps. The only ability he has is to see, but to be powerless to do anything about it, what he says. But with the ability that you, the magic that you fed him, the raw, arcane and divine and primal energies, there is more that he can do now. We just must pray that it was a compelling case.

And if Ovoxar, perhaps, had communicated with him before we arrived, there may yet be hope. but there is a chance if I am ripped from existence before you into a plume of black feathers you will know what happened if that does happen what do you suggest

I mean we need you to portal our way through all this biz yeah is there we can rescue you find you or are you gonna get to priest who's totally like destroyed dead annihilated oh I'm not sure about all that what

Mr. Ed Caprice for now. He's really worried that his clone is fucking his girlfriend right now. Just, just reassurance. Why wouldn't you think that? I need his, I need, we need his head in the game. Just, you know, come on,

keep him on task. It was completely annihilated. Turned to snow as soon as it was devoured by Kiberi. There would be nothing left. You saw how it empowered him. It's feasted upon his flesh. Okay, that's what I said.

Yeah. Yeah. So if you are taken from us, then... Even the penis left. Is everything over? We just lose. And we're trapped here forever and there's nothing we can do. That's where the sentient dildo came from. Oh my God. Just degrees his floating penis. Heimmy!

He's always changed a lot. That's because he got older. The timeway works out. Oh my god. It's my favorite piece of my ventress lore. He looks at you and he says, if you are no longer, able to access my powers, then perhaps all may be lost.

You may need to just face Pizzou before we can reassemble my daughter, and she may be lost. I would be lost. That's what I'm a friend. And if Bob Ox Arb is alone and they turn on each other, but they ally with the strength, Strategy and tactic of Pizzou, you will be facing not just one alone, but at least seven. Okay.

We have to risk it, right? There's nothing else we can do. We got to keep moving forward. That we can do. But I believe that the last gambit of Virgil Zern has, clouded his mind and filled him with so much agony, he may not even be able to be contacted. I cannot be sure.

I hope that's the case. But if he does become the king of demons, if he does utilize the silver crown he has fashioned with himself to claim and harness the power of Thorisdune, he will know all, he will see all, and he will make our reality. quality he is. Oh, right, the crown!

What happened to the crown? Do you steal the crown from us and then gave it to him? I sold the hairpin. It was fashioned into a crown. It is what's keeping the curse of the Raven Queen at bay. Oh, that's right. There was a different crown that I was thinking of. I think that you probably gave that to Asmodeus. Oh yes. I think that's probably what happened. I don't say that. Didn't we give that to Big Red?

What? Huh? Big Red. Who's Big Red? Azzie. I told you all about it. He wasn't red at all. I could see him a lot of rubies.

Yeah. Big Red. Thought when you said Big Red. I feel like you said that before, but referred to something very different. That's fair. I do say that a lot. As you look all around you,

you feel the ground move beneath your feet. you realize now that you are in a subterranean tunnel that goes deep into the earth and then splits, and you see both of the two tunnels, then split each of their own, as there are various tunnels all around you. And you feel the very slight rumbling of stone movement as the tunnels are slowly moving back and forth

as if they are writhing and wriggling. And Escher looks and all of her. view and he says, we've arrived at the writhing realm. The Leia ruled by Ugudenk, the squirming king. Yeah. The floor is moving right underneath me. I feel like I'm gonna Jamiroquai music video. What?

What was his name? Ugo Deng. Ud-U-D-U-D-N-U-D-N-U-D-N-U-D-D-N. U-G-U-D-D-S-D. U-D-S-D-T-A. I'm gonna write Ugo Dake down in my memory right now. The Huberino. Say-Zike right now.

Was it, Ugo-Dak's the blood? The plainway. The plain boy. The riding. The riding-tail. Or the riding king. Sorry. Play a squirming cake.

The squirming. The squirming? The squirming? Oh, the hubbering. So he squirms. Squirming. That doesn't sound very intimidating. What is...

Per Tris. Yeah? Just back to a little minute. Isn't big red what you call? your underpants, every time you take off your pants, you say, oh, there you are, Big Red. I'm not referring to my underpants. What are you trying to? My tail, like.

Oh. Anyway, who you were telling? Oh, he looks at this, at the tunnel all around you and he says, we will need to navigate this labyrinth. And this may be where we run out of time. Is there, do you know? what Ugardenk is going to require of us. That could save us time if we're prepared for what we need to offer. Or which piece of Ravanovia is here.

Maybe we could get ourselves through the labyrinth faster if we knew what we were seeking. Could search it out somehow. I believe it is one of her legs as this being as a crawling thing. A worm with infinite legs. He has the danky leg. That's very funny. That's meaningfully important.

That sure does so. It was very funny, honest. In Clever too. I believe what the squirming king would like is to find his way to his way to his true home in this place. After he became a shell of his former self, he is no more than a mass of wriggling worms wandering lost in these tunnels just as we are,

just as lost, just as hopeless. Oh, so we're just sort of like running to him? We might. But for all I know, these tunnels are endless and infinite. Could we call him to us? Is there something he craves, something he would come skittering to? If you squirmed, what would you want? But not sure I understand the question.

Well, I'm just trying to think like a squirming king. Maybe like Vaseline. Do you think doing that is going to help? Vaseline is close. I feel like if he's lost, he doesn't want anything other than to be free or find a way out. Don't you have a plastic baggie filled with some kind of gelatinous substance? Not anymore. I used the last of it.

Oh, well, that's unfortunate. Damn, that would have been really smart. Could they've just given him the goo. Didn't you say something about having a bag filled? with demon goo? Oh, I've got orange demon goo. I don't think we should maybe give him any demon goo. I don't know.

I don't know exactly what it does, but... Maybe it cures athlete's foot. Or... Or something worse. I don't know. If he looks chafed, we'll keep this in my back pocket as a backup plan. That's fair. Okay. Does any of us have the ability to find an object

or to traverse difficult terrain more efficiently? Oh, well, yeah, yeah. God, they wish to praise us here. Or do we know what this thing would come out of hiding for? A way to call him to us. I can absolutely locate an object. The problem is the, unless you're just a little bit of hiding for. The problem is the less familiar I am with that object,

harder is to find. But you've seen her before, you know? Hopefully not too intimately, but you know her leg. You know what it looks like. And you've recently held parts of her. Yeah. Yeah, you just saw the leg. It's literally the same thing.

The problem is how chiro is. Oh, that's right. We already got one. It's chirol. If this thing is. Picture it, but just the other way. We're not listening. If this place is too big, it's beyond my reach.

Hmm. It seems like a big. place. If this is infinite. Oberith has been lost down here forever. It could be infinite. There might not be an end to this place. Could you try? Is it too

taxing? I can certainly give it a shot, but if anyone can do it, you can do it, Felix. I believe in you. That's very kind of you, but, you know, there are just limits of these things. You actually study magic unlike Caprice. Yeah. It doesn't study magic at all. What's an idiot. God. He just goes about it. the wrong way and gives us existential dream.

You know, you guys make fun of me like three, four more times. You're really gonna regret. I'm gonna really start getting worked up. That was not really shouldn't. That's very funny. Yeah, I mean, I, you know, I would definitely try to try to cast a looking object. The problem is that it has, you know,

I describe her name an object that's familiar to me, which again, it's not really, right? So that'll affect it. And then it has to be within a thousand feet of me. thousand feet. If it's in motion, I know the direction of its movement. But see, that's the thing. It's like, it's... Yeah, it's going to be... It's going to be tough, as I'll say. And then I can't locate it. If any thickness of lead, even a thin sheet, blocks the direct path if you meet the objects.

Okay. Not that there's necessarily lead down here, but it's just... To put. And how long is it last? So, it's concentration up to 10 minutes. So in theory, I could attempt to concentrate. trade on this and think about, you know, these disassembled parts of Ravanaughia. And obviously, I have not familiar with this individual piece, but, you know, think about what maybe magic she's giving off of her aura or something along those lines and try to

follow it as we begin to work our way through the maze. Okay. Yeah, you're able to do that. Why don't you make, as you think about this, as you cast the spell, make an archa check advantage. Sure. Luf, do these stones seem awfully leady to you? Yeah, I mean, it just won't work. I would like know instantly like, oh shit, it's blocked. Arcane, you said? Arcana.

Just chipping it's a lot of taste. 22. Okay. Yes. You, uh, you channel this magic and you sense out, your eyes begin to glow as you sense out a thousand feet in all directions. You don't get a sense of any immediate read, but you don't feel anything is being blocked a thousand feet out in a complete orb, a sphere around you. As you feel the halls or the tunnels of this place shifting

as it begins to go down and you hear kind of a bit of rumbling as the stone not too far from you to the tunnel of the side spills out and then its small hole appears and grows and grows and grows and grows as another tunnel emerges and opens into the tunnel that you're in, as another entrance near you starts to close. Oh.

And you feel the, you feel just the very slight vibration of things very subtly shifting and moving. It's all very slow. I don't like that. Good news. There's nothing blocking the magic, so if we keep moving, We have about 10 minutes before I need to cast this again. And if we get closer to it, I might start to pick something up. The bad news is that, and I point to the shifting,

this maze is constantly moving. It's not set in stone, which means even if I try to remember every pathway, every turn we make, and make a mental map, it won't be accurate. Well, then let's just go. Let's just go forward and see what you see, see what we feel. I agree. The faster we move, safely.

Let me concentrate on what I'm thinking about. and the second I pick something up, I'll know the directions. And I'll pick a direction based on gut instinct. All right, you lead, keep me in the middle. Isha. Watch my back. If we get stuck somewhere, you can poof us out, right? Poof us out.

Yes, I can move us on to the next layer. Then yes, let's go. Does any of this seem like, or does it seem like the walls and stuff are being altered by magic, or is it some kind of like, living entity. Yeah.

Um, I would say that it's difficult to tell immediately, but I know you would, I would think that it'd be very obvious just like all of the other strange layers that you'd been in of this kind of high fantasy abyss where it feels like it's just the nature of this place, but if you are, if it would affect how you are trying to maybe have it, use a spell or something, if you elaborate, I can make a judgment call. If casting true site would help to see. see and find entrances and things in this place.

Oh. That's what I was good. I think that would absolutely help. Then I would, kind of inspecting the walls and seeing how it moves, I won't touch them, but I'll reach out towards Felix and my paw will glow golden as I'll lay my hand on him and I will cast tru-sight on Felix. Oh, shit.

Well, hopefully this will allow you to see more clearly as we traverse this place. Eye opens on your forehead. Goodbye, sixth level spell. But I think it'll be worth it. Is that a true seeing spell? Huh? True seeing or true sight?

Oh, pretty sure. Is there a echo? Where's that coming from? Yeah, I can fix that. Let me double. Dagney, no, no, no, no, no. Ah! All right, let me double check.

Oh, it's, it's true. True seeing, but it, so the spell gives a willing creature you touch the ability to see things as they actually are. For the duration, the creature has true sight. Notice the secret door is hidden by magic and can see into the ethereal plane all out to a range of 120 feet. Curl your tail up. So it gives Felix true sight. I'm so glad that was you. Make a perception check advantage, Felix.

Okay. Oh. I'm going to, if I can, inspire Felix. I'm feeling some slight. vibrations? No. 10 or 12? That's a good question.

I think I'm at 12, but we'll take to . Yeah, it's got to be. Don't drink my beer. Let me see what I get. Let me see what I get. Yeah, you got 10 minutes of it, same amount of time that you have. Oh, I got an answer 20. So that's going to be a 20 for perception if you think I want to pump out of it.

Well, it's the 10 minutes that you have to enjoy for the next 10 minutes. So enjoy the inspiration while you have. I don't think you need to use it. I don't know. 20, it's insane. With a dirty, 20, I think you're right. 28 perception. Iris places a paw over your forehead, and suddenly there's a flash as a golden eye of Horace

appears above, on your forehead, as your eyes flash gold, and then shimmer and shift to that same arcane power that you harness from her divine magic as you look. And the entirety of the realm that you are in completely changes. And you realize that you stare out as far as you can see. And you see beyond the tunnel that you're in. And while you feel like you are moving, and you feel like you are in this endless labyrinth that is constantly circling, constantly shifting and constantly shifting, and constantly shaking, you look

and you see the true nature and torment of this realm. As you see a singular tunnel, all of the other chambers veering off are looping back around, but it's almost

like an enormous an enormous aurboros. A single endless circle. Fascinating. Of a tunnel. that leads absolutely nowhere. And you see now that everything else,

all of the other tunnels that are going off simply loop back to this main tunnel. There is no way. There is no way out. If there was a being to be trying to find their way, there would be no hope. And you get a sense that if you are able to keep this truceing and keep your eye on the pathway forward,

you would be able to lead to the one singular route that would be able to get you through this place. As the eye like opens on my forehead and the gold, brilliant light flashes before it changes the arcane magic, I would have my knife in my left hand and I would have been holding my right hand up with more arcane magic as I'm sensing this

and all of a sudden my eyes go wide and I... Time and space and the plains and ethereal and material. It's all before me. I can see it all. This place. places. There's no, there's no path, but I can see the truth. The truth is before me and I can lead us. Felix. You would almost like start to see like tears well up in my eyes as like, it's like so much information like flooding my brain. Iris, what the fuck did you do?

Is he okay? I opened just that eye. As I turn back to you, you see a small number two right underneath my left eye. You, and you do shed a tear. As for a moment, as the strange nature of this place, you feel a sense, you feel the same hopelessness as the squirming can. You feel the same powerlessness and the hopelessness and where the same kind of energies

that had filled every, that had filled every single, one of these layers. You begin to feel the nature of this realm as you see it for what it truly is. You begin to feel perhaps what this

Obereth Lord is feeling right now. I can see the exact time, date, nature, and location of all your deaths. No, I would despite the overwhelming amount of knowledge and information that's like being downloaded in my brain and the fact that it's like deeply upset,

and I would try to focus and concentrate on the spell that I'm holding with this information and attempt to, I would almost steady myself on Toa and like point the direction he would need to go to kind of lead us all. Oh, no, you can do it, Felix? And kind of act like a, just like a compass that he could use to lead the way. No, you lead the way. As I'm sensing, I would just like be pointing and like leaning on you. Oh, all right.

Okay, okay. You know, because it's like so much. Really? That way? Oh, that was the way that my gut instinct. And I would attempt to just basically direct us almost wardlessly. And I would try to help Felix, like, keep his balance while he's seeing all this stuff and try to, you know, help him lead the group.

Escher will kind of take a step back and I'll say, careful, Felix, do not tap too deep into these powers. You may lead, but your mind may not. I would say anybody who's talking to me would almost think that I'm not hearing them. Because I'm so focused on what's happening with this knowledge that Iris has imparted upon me. and I'm just focusing on my spell trying to reach out for Ravenovina. You do that. And this is an enormous,

an enormous orbores deep in the earth, the subterranean chambers. And you see now as Escher poofs into a bat once more as feathers fall down onto the stone floor and then cling onto Lifty's head, his head as you, Felix guides you. And although what you all are seeing is an endless network of riving tunnels that go up and down, some that climb up and you might be able to scale a cliff wall as you see that in the

earth there's strange ores and actually gems that are appearing out as you feel like you're going deeper, you feel like you are maybe going back around, except if it wasn't for Felix, who is so dead certain of where you all heading. However, without seeing it for yourself, it becomes difficult to believe. You're okay. Do we just feel lost? As you are feeling like Felix is guiding you astray, that it's lost and the place of this, the truth that Felix has seen, he understands.

I need everyone but Felix to roll a wisdom, saving throw at advantage because of what he told you, against the hopelessness of the advantage, you say? Yes. At the back, yep, of the riding realm. Oh, hell yeah. 25. Wow, that's pretty good.

That's pretty good. You all have twists. I don't know how many. Advantage. But we can't use them. Yeah, I didn't need it. No, you know you roll and you know what the DC is. Yeah.

20. 27. Oh, wow. Yeah. 22. Oh, let's go. No doubt. You manage to resist as the... Oh, bug hair, everyone. You manage to resist as you, as Felix leads deeper and deeper, and you feel like it's hopelessness, but you have to trust your friend in this moment as you go continue around and circling. And finally, Felix, I'll say that perhaps,

the true site will extend the duration of the locate object. If I need a guess against one, I'm happy to cast it. You'll probably need another one then. You'll probably need another one then as you continue as you... Tax my slots, baby, you know what I'm saying? Exactly right. As you finally feel... Disgusting.

Got them. You finally feel off in the distance a ping. Wait. Wait, right, right. As you feel it all... Is there? She's there. You found her?

You can feel her. See you? I can feel. Yes. We're getting closer. And... It's ready. It's there that you see that as you make your way closer and closer, you feel the presence going stronger and stronger and stronger.

As the... As As As Asher starts to kind of squirm with almost excitement or anxiousness on top of your head lifting. As you, as Felix guides you through these tunnels ignoring the... various different places that veer off. And it's here, as you begin to turn around a bend that seems to go deeper and deeper, you see, you feel it just around the bend. And it's at this point that you hear rumbling and vibration.

The subtle vibration of the, the subtle vibration of the tunnels moving and shifting and shaking you've gotten used to, but there seems to be rumbling, small shockwaves all radiating from the, or emanating from the tunnel directly up ahead as you feel it, Felix. And however, as you're getting closer and you sense it, you realize that the, that as you're approaching, you see, you know that you are approaching with your true sight, the squirming Kang, or what remains of him.

And you see that the leg, what you're feeling, is in a place beyond the tunnel. Oh shit. In the, almost as if there is a something in the center of in a separate disconnected chamber outside of this interconnected infinity of tunnel. Wait, do you guys feel that? No. So rumbling.

Oh, that. Some sort of vibrations. I think we're getting close to whatever entity is lurking down here, but the problem is Robinovia's leg, it's not in the tunnel. It's sectioned off. It's separate. How do we get there? We're gonna have to deal with whatever this thing is, whether it's by

Talking to it or bargaining with it or something there's got to be another way To it we just have to give it what it asks. It's gonna be the thing is in the tunnel though, right? I think so. I that's the sense I'm getting I It's just hard to explain. It's more of a feeling. It's more of a The sense we're getting close if we can locate where this this thing is This king then we can figure out how to get to the leg and give it to us.

All right. Well, I trust you. Thanks. We're close. And I would keep leading us, knowing that there's no connection to where I believe Ravanaughies like to be, I would try to lead us to where I believe

that the Squirmank King is. You lead deeper and you turn the bend and you all feel it get more and more, the vibrations get from. And finally, you see what's creating this. Before you is what remains of the squirming king. You see thousands, perhaps millions of worms, squirming along the floor, the ceiling, the walls of the tunnel that you're in,

as they're all grasping forward, attempting to move towards you, away from you, in various different directions. And all of them, you realize, as they all move back, they're dark, they're slimy, as if these worms are, they move and look almost like separated legs for perhaps some larger creature, as they all are writhing in every direction,

and you realize now that all of them all go back to the center of this tunnel as if they are all tied and knotted together, as they feel the entirety of the tunnel. And you see this off probably a good 50 feet away, from you in the tunnel. And all of the various openings are shifting all around you.

But you feel the presence, the humming, the pinging of Ravanaughia's leg off to, off deeper, away from the tunnel. But I know there's no way to get to it. Not from this tunnel. Right.

Yeah. Right. Not from the single connected circular or other tunnel. Why don't we use, Felix? We have to go through. I don't know. I don't know. We're getting very close. I don't know if this thing is

all of the worms together, separate. The worms are different. I don't know. If this is a weekend oberth, can we fight it? Can we kill it? Can we burn it away? I think we just have to ask it what it wants, just like the others. It's a good place to start. And we, you know, I think we know

that if he's just a mess of worms, hopefully he's pretty impotent. Hopefully you can't hear me saying that he's impotent. We'll speak quieter. Don't yell at it. I'm sorry. You see like thousands of little mouths go, hey! Yeah.

It's approached with caution and he Caprice does the talking. Come on, just a little closer and don't get too close to the worms. I'll take the lead. Just in case I need the, you know, words. We've got your back. Thank you. We trust you. Sort of.

Mostly. We trust you. He approaches. You approach and you see you. and you see that the wriggling thing, and all of the swarming worms are all vibrating the walls of this tunnel, as they're all attempting to move forward, and as soon as you approach,

you see that although they had been pulled in various directions, there are suddenly all of them refocus in towards your direction, as they squirm slowly but surely towards you, as you all feel the entire tunnel rumbling around you. You guys, you guys have kush balls where you're from? You guys remember those?

What? I don't know what you're talking about. I guess it's a cultic thing. Greetings. Hi, hi, hello there. Great. Oogodank, the squirming king, I take it. My name is Capriccio de Sesto.

You can call me Capriest. We, what do we need? Ah, we need ravinovius leg. I don't know that we should come right out and say that. We beseech thee. We seek a specific leg. One leg, no more, no less. The leg, uh, you may know of it.

It was given to you as a gift by, uh, well, you know who. Yeah. And if you wouldn't be so kind as to pass it over, over, that would be great. If you need anything in exchange, then we can talk. We can start negotiating, you know, back and forth. With honors. Thank you.

To all of you or just you? Unclear. You wait a moment as the squirming king stops in the tunnel, and you hear very similar to the other layers. Yeah, that's what it sounds like. Gross. You hear. Foam?

Oh, yeah, home. Home! Yes, we have been told that you are seeking your home. And you've probably been looking for some time. So if we helped you either get on the right track or find it, that would be a satisfactory exchange. I think he just wants to go home. So couldn't Escher just teleport him there?

Escher. Yeah, he can't be seen. Remember? Well, I know he's in his bad form. We should have established some sort of communication system before now. What if his home is the place that Felix could see, but it's not part of this... This Libran. Oh, that would be fantastic.

Maybe he's stuck in his home just right over there. You know what I mean? We did it with the little liggies. It's certainly possible. I don't know. It's good guess. Let's try it. If I get him to move out of the way so that we can make it to that room, can we make it to that room?

There's nothing connecting it. I mean, it's all of what we thought were, these tunnels and passageways, they're all false. I'm gonna touch one of the walls, and I just wanna see what it is or what it does. Like, what's it made out of? You touch it, and it feels like an underground subterranean stone. You see a bit of streak of ore within.

There's a couple gemstones around you, but it feels like a deep subterranean tunnel. Okay. And it's, once again, it's very slow. slowly rumbling and moving as it all squirms around. As it shifts and moves, do the grooves feel like they are cleanly, frictionlessly, like, touching each other? Or are there gaps of these walls that worms or other things could squeeze for?

I'm not sure I understand the question. I think it sounds to me like you're saying, like, is it something that's pre-cut that's moving against itself, or is it just kind of like a more? about the nature of the shifting. Is it like, it's not like cut, it's like it's, it's just shifting and rumbling. It's not like tectonic plates moving. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

It's not like the stones are moving the way the bricks move with diagonality open. No, no, no, no. It is very much like the, the underground shifting stone itself. Okay. Do I get an idea of how deep from this Orboros Tung, do I feel how far away this other holding chamber is?

make a perception check at advantage because of the... How long was the true scene last? An hour. Okay, yeah, yeah. At advantage, for you know. I got another natural 20. Oh, my God.

Damn. You feel... I'm a fire now. As if you realize now that whatever chamber this is is just beyond a relatively thin wall of stone, is just beyond this.

tunnel and that presumably that the squirming king's home or whatever this chamber he's seeking out has just been a mere, you know, several feet of stone beyond him this entire time. I would like to attempt to find where I feel like it's closest. And I would like to try to cast passwall. How was that working? Oh, I just had it. My first...

Well, look at the big brain on feeling. This is filtered weird. Sorry. So it is a... One action. A passage appears at a point of your choice that you can see on wooden plaster or stone surface. It has to be non-magical.

It can't be magical stone. And then I choose the openings dimension. Five feet wide, eight feet tall, 20 feet deep. At a maximum of those dimensions. The passage creates no instability in a structure surrounding it. The passage will last an hour.

When the opening disappears, any creatures or objects still in the passage are safely ejected to an unoccupied space to the inner surface of the wall. Actually, it doesn't say that it has to be non-magical, but I thought it did. There are different spells. This one doesn't mention, it's just pass wall, fifth level, transutation. So I would like attempt to, I guess I don't have to drop my concentration because it's just one action. Yeah, yep. I would like walk up to where I'm using this tree site to like sense where this, this thing is close, you know, with this,

and sense that it's just on the other side. And I would take my dagger and kind of like roughly carve in like a transmutation circle. Yep. Yeah, and then once I feel like it's done, I would clap my hands together and touch it and attempt to transmute an opening using Passwall to see if we can access the chain. Yeah, okay. You do that.

As you all watch as this, this knotted mass of worms are all wriggling together almost in hesitation. As Felix carves a large circle that turns and glows silver as his silver blade marks into the wall, the magical energy that is being expended, obviously doing the work as the various ruins and the circles and everything that's done.

You see what Felix works very quickly. And in a moment, the arched, energy fills this chamber, blinding silver light, floods the place. The worms seem to not even notice or realize, perhaps being completely unable to see. As the, as you, you're, as the earth and the stone and the chamber around you begins to crumble away,

and suddenly it pierces into another chamber that seems to be much larger and tall as this cavernous, in an enormous circular cavernous room as you see that you have pierced into this central chamber and you feel Ravanauvia's, the presence of Ravanovia's leg is just through this tunnel. Wow, I really felt like all this study is finally paying off this last week or so.

You did it again, I knew it! Here, you're fucking killing it, feelings, Jesus. Wow, well, we could just, I mean, Felix, why don't you just handle everything? Oh, this is amazing. Because again, Tora, they're, I'm doing my best here. You're doing very, very well.

Thank you, thank you. We're getting a little lucky. She's just right here. No like I mean. All right, let's fucking go. Join us to your home. Friend, look, Nick, follow. Immediately, before you can even go,

the worms suddenly move with a sense of purpose as they feel the vibration. And you see this squirming mass, slop forward and cling towards the tunnel as it feels new passages, perhaps that it hasn't experienced in millennia. As it pushes forward, and you all follow behind it as the darkness opens up an enormous circular room that is thousands upon thousands of feet. You cannot even see the end of it.

As you see a smooth, dark, a smooth dark stone where rather than there being rough-hewn underground tunnels, this seems to be polished and cut in a huge dome overhead and a circular flat stone floor. And you see that thousands of feet ahead of you through the darkness, you can somehow see that there is an enormous hole. center of the room and also in the ceiling. As you see this squirming king, as Uga Deng moves forward, the knotted worms no longer pulling against each other in all different aimless directions, as you see that as this thing passes, that along this floor, there's all many grooves that are carved into the floor that looked like to be in the shape of worms and circling one, there is a raised circular pedestal, and on that pedestal is a small child-sized leg.

There it is. You did it. You found it. Okay. I'm just going to take a minute and catch my breath. But there it is. I'm going to wait right here by the opening. You guys got this.

Oh, don't please. Are you okay? I'm all right. I'll go forward with Escher on my head. I'll stay with you. and retreat the leg. I'll follow along with Lucy. He perks up in excitement as you approach the leg

and it is sitting there. It looks like a almost, it looks like it's casting his own light because of how pale it is against the contrast of this dark chamber. But you were easily able to pick it up and grab it gently. It feels cold but not dead as you hold it. And you all feel, you all hear the sickening

as this massive wriggling shape falls into the central hole in this large domed chamber. And in an instant, you feel the chamber vibrating as all of the grooves in the ground start to shake and fill with worm-like flesh as it all fills out and fills the room as you all feel the feet beneath you,

hum and vibrate and through these vibrations, you feel your skin start to crawl a little bit, just like the squirming king, your entire being squirms as your flesh response to the squirming king, having found his home, his palace, his chamber, his throne room, after all of these millennia, And you all enjoy plus two dexterity.

Whoa. I draw concentration on locate objects once we locate rabbit. Yep. Yeah. Just to free up my brain a little since. Oh, yeah. Iris just domain expansion, infinity of my brain. All right.

Limelis. Where did you say dexterity, right? I'm feeling. Dextrous. Dextual. That's very fun. Do you want to get textual? Hot dog.

I finally have plus one to initiative. Oh, is that why? And you realize now that as the, as you feel your dexterity, your flesh respond, you realize now that the worm flesh in the grooves is going to the wall of this chamber that is separated magically by Felix, but they then start to go along the edges

as if it is being sealed from the tunnel. You feel like in this chamber, I guess it was probably, how many feet across? It was like five by eight and 20 feet. Yep, yep, yep. And so five by eight, it is starting to close. And you feel if you do not move quickly, you may be trapped in this place forever. All right, guys, time to go. Go, go, go.

The pass wall, it's closing up. We got to go. Are you sure? I really could use it about 12 hours. There's no time, man. Actually, you've got to get us out of here. Make an acrobatic check, everybody. I'm trying to shove the leg into my backpack,

but it doesn't quite find. That's 20. Wow, that's a third one. Would you say dex check? These dice check tonight. Not saving the deckers check. Acrobatics, you said. Acrobatics, yeah, sorry.

Sorry. I need to do a thing. That's insane. 20-21. I mean, that's good. I rolled 11. Yeah, that's pretty good. Wow.

I rolled me yoker. I don't like these new rules. 13. What did you get, else? I rolled a one. I rolled a one. Oh, that's brutal. Yeah, there's like, that sucks.

There's nothing we can do about that. You're dead. No, you can, don't you have key points to do some re-rolls? It's not a saving throw. I don't know what, I'm, that's what I'm asking. I just know that you have the ability to do some key point re-rolling.

I got 27. Your plus should still be crazy hot, right? Like, if it's just a dex check? No, it's bad. It's not. So plus 12. So she got 13. 13.

Both her and I got 13. Garbage. I don't know. I think good luck. All I'm saying is, yeah, good look. We'll grab Iris and we'll leave you behind. Right, Loufee. It's okay.

Yeah, I know. You'll be permanently alive. Your deathless nature will keep you alive forever. I know. No, I can still die. I just don't suffer the effects of old age. So I'll look great until I die in a misery of worms. What everybody get?

30, 30. 21. 13. 13. 13. 27. 13. 13.

As you all are running towards the exit, in. You, both Lifty and Iris, as the wormfl is starting to surge up and scorn and crawl, both of their footing is lost, and they tumble forward. They are prone and on the ground as the wall is closing up. You've just all, you all have a moment to act as this, the entire chamber around you is shaking and squirming. That's very funny. Actually, this was a seven. I got a 21. A 21. It is just Iris. You see, Iris. trip and fall. Sorry, these aren't my guys.

Honest, can I leap? Bye! And then grab her, if she's like, I don't know, would your hands be like outstretched when you fall? Well, any time I fall or jump, I go like this. You do that. So I'm going to grab her by her wrist and just like yee her shop foot style. Okay.

Sale out of the top. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, exactly. Well, to wrap her back the next check from you, as you see Toa, you realize what he's doing, As you have your paws out, your hair, your hackles are up, as you realize that the gross warm flesh hits your paw, it's an awful feeling. And Toa, you go in action.

Make a shot put athletics check to see if you can eat Iris into the hole and make an acrobatic check to see how well your role affects his DC. The fourth 90-20. Two for me, two for him. Damn. 17. 17. I think it's 32.

Let me just confirm. 32. You make it easy. As all of you tumble you through, you see the iris on the ground. Toa, as it's closing, you leap through the shrinking tunnel as you manage to grab Iris before she even hits the ground and grab her paws, and you spin once and spin around.

And I don't feel sick as Toa just throws you through as the tunnel is shrinking. You see Iris tumble out through the chamber As Toa, you sprint forward and dive through, right as the tunnel closes around your toes barely make it out of the hole as it closes forever. Oh, so you're all right? Oh, thanks.

Thank you, Toa. Well done, Toa. It was still very wriggling, squirm. Can you imagine being stuck there forever? I thought about it for a split second until Toa's incredibly strong, stone-like arms ripped me. from the wriggling wood. It was really close.

We're still got to get out of this tunnel. And whatever this plane is, this awful place, I think you're up, Asher. As he transforms back and he pulls out his rapier and he says, and he also, she starts to smile and he looks at you lofty and he says, thank you, my sweet.

May I please have a leg? I put my hand in his hand. Oh, he takes it. And he leans down and he gives it a kiss. What the ass? You are saying. I'm sorry you have to see me like this. What the ass?

I need to bone demons. It's okay. You're going to die. I'll yank the leg out of my... It's like kind of sticking out at an odd angle, but I will yank it out of my backpack. I think this is yours. It's like an awkward, unrealistically placed a World of Warcraft item

that just sits on your back magically. Exactly right. It's just the leg is hanging off and you just, you hit Z, and you grab that and hand it to him. He opens up the pocket dimension and places it in, and it closes and he smiles and he says, well, we may have, that may be the best thing we've done thus far. He was hurt somebody to their home or some buddies.

It's like a good deed. We did a good deed for Robreth. Realizing that the leg was there, he will know that Pizzou knew, that Pizzou had the power. to free him from his torment and did nothing. Oh, that's a really good point. I mean, we're winning them over. We're sewing chaos.

That's right. That's right. Worms. What are they good for? Absolutely everything. I don't know what any of that means. Say it again. And we're not.

I don't know if it's true. What are they good for absolutely everything? Huh. I roll my inspiration before I get 12. Nice. Just while we sing this song together. Sweet. Because I'm so inspired before it runs out.

Thank you. You're welcome. Ten minutes, right? I think we did a lovely job there. So we can go to sleep now. Yes? No, no, we still got six more of these fucking things. Two arms?

I'm so tired now that I've almost fallen into a pit of wormy despair. This was an easy. one. Maybe you can just have like a snack or something. Or a catnap. Here, here, just drink some water, hydrate. Oh, this was the demon goof. Oh, man. Well, it would have been bad. Oh, man. Why do you keep them next to each

other? That would be a mistake. Where the fuck is my rapier? We're ready for the next one. Oh, shit. And it comes to the inside of the worm room and you just see Caprice's rapier on the floor. As Asher looks at all of you and says, Well, it's going to heat up a bit as he cuts another hole into reality And it's a bright, vibrant green energy that opens up as he Poofs once more into a bat and flies through as do you all follow him? Oh, absolutely.

We haven't come this far. We dabbing. That wasn't a joke. I'm removing rapier from my inventory. Oh, that's amazing. I love that. I absolutely love that. Oh, God.

That's very funny. No, really, it's like cut to the cave where we saved Ravali and there were the lorgs. He's just noticed it. That's right. That's actually been. Oh, man. He's been weeks. Oh, man.

I loved that rapier. I almost used at that one time. The humidity hits you, the second you enter this place, as you hear the, the chittering of strange beasts and creatures all around you, as you see massive looming trees, dense foliage, enormous monstrous-sized ferns, binds hanging down, as you realize,

you are in an enormous teeming jungle. As Escher surveys the area and flies around and looks and then transforms back into his humanoid form and he says, this is a place called the Hungry Tauns. The Hungry what? T-A-R-N-S. Oh, the Hungry Tarns? I don't make this up.

T-R-N-R-N-S. I would believe you. You could make it up if you wanted to. And you hear the hissing and roaring off in the distance of great reptilian beasts in all directions. As you, he looks at you and he says, this is the domain of Certrus, the prince of heretics. This podcast is brought to you by our Patreon. Become a patron today at Patreon. dot com slash legends of avatrous and gain access to tons of exclusive perks including a monthly movie night

and a weekly Patreon exclusive campaign set on the high seas shroud over salt marsh you can also go to the crooked moon.com to pick up your own copy of our first published supplement the crooked moon a folk horror tome for dungeons and dragon fifth edition and don't forget to snag all the extra goodies like dice miniatures plushies a tarot deck and more thank you You are in an enormous teeming jungle. Dense, basically the way all around you disappears into overgrowth and foliage. As you see things lurking and creeping along,

you hear the hissing, you hear the distant roar of beasts off in the distance. Unsure how close they really are. And right what you like. And And you are in the hungry target. The layer of the abyss that is ruled by Certress, the Prince of Heretics. Certress.

It's a jungle. It's kind of sort of like home. A little bit. Hatia. Yeah, it's muggy. It's a little. Humid. Okay. Yeah.

It's a little moist. My fur is matting. Mine too. You see an enormous multi-eyed lizard about the size of a medium-sized dog, climbing on a tree and looking down at you along, a dual tongue extends out as it lapsed through the air and looks at you with strange, demonic eyes as it continues to make its way up this tree. buds are on a tongue like that.

Do you think he gets like salty and sweet, or is it both? I don't know. I mean, maybe you could ask him. He might attack. Let's not try to disturb anything. Let's make our way. Asher, do you have any idea of what we're looking for here? Is there a ziggurat or a temple?

Some kind of tomb? Some sort of a glade. Oh, I hope. A giant tree? It's kind of like hollowed out. Oh, yeah, a big tree, some sort of, uh, uh, jungly. A big cave in the side of a mountain? Ooh.

But like a jungly cave. Jungle cave. The Dike cave. Prince of heretics. It's a heretic. It's temples. Oh, that's the name of the game here. Stupid talent.

You're all right. Don't, that's my friend you're talking about. It's very nice. You're more friends you can praise. temples all over this jungle built to gods that are either long forgotten or never existed. Never existed? Not in this universe. Perhaps gods that existed and ruled in the universe where the Oberiths came from.

Who would have built something like that? Yeah, who followed them here? It's crazy to think that so much time has passed that gods themselves are. are forgotten and gone. Well, it was surteress himself that preached the heresy to whatever beings inhabited that doomed universe

to turn against the gods that they had led to their annihilation. But perhaps they never existed at all. That's my brain to think about. And so there is nothing left beyond a reflection

a shadow of the Prince of Heresheeks. It really makes me feel insignificant. Like, our time here is just a tiny blip of entire passing of time. Yeah. On the one hand, yeah, I get that. And the other, think of things we've seen. How rare the air we've breath. The five of us?

And the sure, you're here too. What strange lives we lead. No one else can say that they've seen and done, the things that we've seen and done in that order. That's pretty special. You're right. You're right. Begin the search.

You said the, like, a lizard thing was going up a wall by us? Of a tree. Up a tree. A large lizard has got two. And you see another one. You see, and you hear the croaking of an enormous, It looks somewhat like a bullfrog, but it's got a great number of eyes going down,

and it whips out a tongue that is covered in eyes as well. Ew. It snaps up a dragonfly that is passing through, although this dragonfly has wings that go in all directions, pairs in varying directions, in the strange jungle that you find yourself in. We need to look for a temple. Point in the direction.

I mean. Maybe I could climb a tree and see if there's anything sticking out on the landscape. Not a bad idea, but be careful what you might find in the foliage. Just pick a tree without any like critters on it. Just go with this one. And I'll pick one that looks kind of large and clear close to us.

You're able to do that. I'll climb up and see what I can see up there. Okay. Make an acrobatics check to see how well you leap up. I'll say you won't need to roll athletics here because of the way that tree branches work. Another son.

90. Thank you. 19. You manage to leap from branch to branch as you hear another distant roar booming through this jungle. It sounds deep. It sounds guttural. It sounds utterly enormous.

especially with the lungs to make a noise like this, and it sounds otherworldly and unholy. As you continue to climb your way, you see lizards that look at you, and you see some frogs climbing in the trees, the strange, demonic-looking frogs, and then they let out a scream as a large tongue snaps them up, and even a larger lizard snatches into them.

As you see that, that you begin to climb, and as the lizard is chomping the toad, you see as it's immediately snapped up by an enormous snake-like creature that devours it. As you're watching the rapid circle of life in this strange jungle, as you continue to make your way up, and they seem a little bit too big to be seen as prey, but you continue to climb. Eventually you get through the dense foliage as you see that as the leaves touch you, it almost feels, you see that the leaves are very strange

to this jungle. They come out and they're a dense green, but the veins are of red, and they split almost like serpent's tongues that are licking you as you are climbing through the leaves. Oh, I'm gonna get placed in the hell. As you almost feel as if it's a little, little damp.

And you're hoping it's from the humidity and from the moisture in the air, but you feel like this tree itself is tasting you. As you make your way out, as you finally emerge from the canopy, you look, a bright orange sun appears overhead, and it blast down and you see this massive sprawling, strange jungle all around you.

Make a reception check. 10. You look around and you see that through this jungle, this is an incredibly strange place. It's very clearly not natural. You look, and as you see off in the distance, in the distance, you see the certain areas where the trees are shaking and rumbling as something seems to be moving through it, and then off in the distance over there and there and all behind you. As you see throughout this place, you try to find what seems like an obvious direction, but you do see looming out from the jungle the top of what looks like a stone structure of these huge slabs of red and sandstone-looking colors that rise up and there's one over there and there's one over there.

and they seem to dot this jungle. And as you poke your head out, you do not see the shadow that passes over you. Oh, boy. As you only hear the flap of a single flap of wings, as you feel an enormous looming creature descending upon you with an enormous serrated

jaw of a terasaur looking creature is descending towards you as you don't notice it until it has the chance to make a surprise attack on it. Buggers. Can you be surprised?

I think so. I haven't really worried that that was the damage. They would have disadvantage, right? So it was just straight. So it's straight. If you haven't taken damage from, and you have your elephant cloak. Yeah, it would have, so it would be straight

canceling out its advantage, but I can be surprised, I guess. Okay. 18. No. Smokes. Oh, that, you know what? I bet you was the plus two decks. Oh, you feel its presence, the gust of wind as you duck into the canopy, as you hear

this shriek, and all of you hear it from below. This horrific reptilian shriek as a as a Tyrannadon-looking creature with six different wings flapping it chaotically with a serrated beak that is far too long and eyes that are far too large disappeared and you see that behind it were seven, eight, nine, ten more

as you see that they were descending towards you but you are able to disappear into the canopy as the first attack miss with these enormous grasping lizard-like claws at the end of its legs. I would immediately begin climbing down the tree as fast as I can, being kind of reckless if I need to.

Oh, yeah, you can just jump off. Yeah, I can. Yeah, so you very effortlessly climb down seeing these strange creatures as you eventually arrive, as you see Luffy quickly descending, having narrowly escaped being picked and taken off the following.

That would have been fun. You're right? Whoa, what might happen? There's like a lot. There's a lot out there. I saw many things, things I wish to never see again. I don't really have a clear direction we can go, but I'll point in the direction of the closest temple

that I saw. I think we can start by going this way, but we need to be careful. There are some really, really big things out here. All right, well, that's a start. I mean, that's at least a direction, right? All right, let's go. Keep an eye on.

I'm not going to fly far, and he looks, and you see, like, another large lizard with six legs. Skis had a big fin on its back, and it's kind of eyeing. It's just big enough where it could very easily eat Bat Asher. And so he says, keep an eye on me. Don't let any of these things eat me.

I don't want to get eaten again. as he poofs into a bat and grapples and bat at too easy. I'm gonna take some of my hair and like arrange it around him like a little like cocoon. Oh, that's nice. We'll have with the temple. Okay.

Lifty, make a survival check. To see how well you can guide your friends. Your dice suck. 12. 12. You try to lead your friends in the direction, in the direction that you believe the closest temple to be. And make an insight check for me.

Oh dear. Oh. You are a Viking there, I believe, because of wisdom. I am, I am. I would be, I would be, 10. 10. Nothing. So, well, there'll be a point here.

As you continue, as you, are making your way through under dense foliage. Occasionally you all jump as there as an enormous lizard or a snake or reptiles and amphibians. A few strange insects, a few strange mammalian-looking creatures that are looking down. All of them have large mouths filled with razor-sharp teeth. But they just seem to be looking at you quizzically like a predator, observing its prey and making the calculation to hold back. And you hear a roar as it is incredibly close.

And then suddenly you hear the snapping of a tree, the snapping of a wall, and the rubble as through the distance, you see an enormous behemoth of a creature, as some sort of demonic fiendish dinosaur or lumbers in your direction. You see a looming shape, scales, an enormous maw of teeth off in the distance, is an enormous beast.

You can't get quite a good look at it, is looming in your direction. It must be at least approaching 20 feet tall. Whoa. As it stomps through the jungle, you hear the cracking of logs and branches and the, the, the, skittering of a piece in the underbrush as it moves in your direction. What do you all do?

Roughly how far away does this sound to us? I would say it sounds probably a good... Like miles or like... No, probably like 100 feet. Yeah, like 100 feet. It's through the jungle. It's difficult to even see far beyond the dense foliage in all directions. I cast spray Eldridge Dinosaur Pharamones at a knife level. Okay. I got an eight. We all die. Oh, no. That's a wrong pheromones.

I would just stop and like look to toe up basically and be like, oh. Like I would try to be quiet and like I wouldn't know what to do. I'd probably try to like hide behind a tree and like. Hide, hide, hide. It only sees movement. So don't move. Whatever you do.

How do you know that? It's scientifically accurate. What? How do you know that? And they definitely didn't have feathers either. What? Don't, do I need to remind you that, but I met you? You didn't know what science was.

I still don't know what science is, to be fair, Felix. And I don't know what dinosaurs are either. I would try to hide and, like, keep my voice down and, like, you know. I would look to tell it for some sort of guidance. I just say these things. Pray that we're okay. Yeah, has this thing, like, did it, like, look at us hungrily, or does it know that we're there? Or did we feel like we can't tell if it's seen you?

Okay. It's definitely, it is moving in your direction, though, and it let out a bellowing roar. Okay. I will also try to hide in the brush. It could smell us. I will, Alan, granted. Okay.

As in, I'm just going to stay in there still. Okay. So, so you're, how are you guys hiding? You're going to do a tree. Just like, yeah, behind a tree and I'm like, try to, like, Tawa, no. Caprice, Iris. Tawa.

You're told him. If I'm moving to see me, village. If you don't move, it's going to see you. It has no other senses besides its sight. This totally makes sense. He sounds pretty confident. Maybe it does only think. Wait, I think Toa is the person who's

leaped in a climate most like this. So if anyone's going to know, would be told. I'm trusting Toa. And so I'm just gonna stand there as well. I'll tap myself and change my appearance to be like gray and stone-like very much Super Mario Brothers 3 when he has the stone making a suit on and I'll just like... I need both of you to make a cell check.

Okay. I need the three of you to make a self like a disadvantage. Okay. Great. Mine's basically at disadvantage. Anyway, I got a 14. I got a nine. I'm sorry.

I just roll again. Roll again. Spike it again. Ooh. Tuh. You are two. You were two. You are two.

Well, I rolled 19, 20, 20, 19, 19, 19. Yeah, that's tough. So it finally came due? And I wrote the natural one. You were due. Well, I also rolled a natural one. I love it. But this is gonna go very well.

I am double proficient in stealth, so I get a 19. That's disgusting. Amazing. Mine, however, is a five. Five? I rolled a natural two, so mine's a 13. That's pretty fucking good.

That's just really nuts. Holy shit. The branches snap and suddenly you see you here, and then another half. And you hear this sniffing as you hear two guttural reptilian voices. In Unison occasionally or sometimes at odds. As coming into this clearing, snapping in, you see an enormous dinosaur. A fiendish monster, but the closest thing that could be described as a two-headed Tyrannosaurus Rex.

enormous elongated or rather elongated jaws huge rows of teeth massive spikes on its back going all the way down

to an unnaturally elongated tail at the end of which is an enormous spiked club with spines all along its tail as it lets out

guttural vocalizations as it's very clearly sniffing the air as each head tongues emerge with large sneak-like tongues as they flick through the air as they're gutterol as it stomp's in your direction sniffing and vocalizing and as it emerges through smashing a large lobe hanging branch out of the way and pushing through an enormous frond it stops and you see now this massive massive of beasts, you feel that you smell the stink of its breath. It smells like it's very irony in the stench of blood. Karen, exactly right.

But also fresh, irony, blood as it stops and you see four eyes, two on each head, stare at you as you are just standing completely still. As both heads blink at you, as both heads blink at you, As the heads leaned down, really the necks are a little bit elongated, unnaturally as well, as they lean down, and it is immediately apparent to you that they see you,

they smell you, and they are, it kind of lunges, it's leaning up and looming as very, it's, It's trying to decipher what you are as it is starting to perhaps determine that you are prey. You realize, all of you, don't know what you need to roll an inside check. You all realize that this thing sees you and sees you as prey. Felix! Dogs! Talk!

I think you can see me. I'm pretty sure I can see me. Just start to walk this way slowly. Wait, hold on. Walk this way slow. I mean, I saw it in a major image. I could have sworn it worked. No, no.

Just slowly walk towards me. Tell him. Slowly walk. Come on. I saw nothing. It's just the one creature. How close to us is it? It's probably like 20 feet in front of you now.

As it as it leans down and you see as it leans down, it almost gets in a charging stance as both mouths are opening. And you see the large row of spines going all the way down its back, these massive spikes. It's looking like it's getting ready to try me. I am going to use my feline agility and rush forward and cast management on it. Okay. You... I'm a love with that.

You run forward. I need you to see if you get a jump on it. If you can startle it, make an acrobatist contest. As she does this, I'll yell the Felix. Hold on, I have another idea from another major image. Oh, I think if I think if I'm a figure out, I think if I hold my hand out and won't attack me! What are you doing?

It's not allowed to attack me. It's actually a- I don't have to rush forward. It's a 60 foot range. I thought I had to touch it. Oh, no. But it's 60 foot, so I'll just look at it and I'll say, begone, foul beast. And I'll just.

So it needs to be a saving throw. Yeah, a charisma saving throw. Oh, yeah, that's pretty good. For us, it's not a land to approach me. To approach me. No, no. I've seen it in a film. Talk.

I am holding my action for if this thing does charge, and the banishment doesn't work. It has a minus one. Oh, perfect. Say, I roll the natural 20. All right. Well, my spells Zooty C was 19, so it's saved. Oh!

Oh! Wait, let out. I mean, unless I, do you have silvery barbs? No, I don't have, it doesn't affect saving throws, so it's, okay. Silary barbs, doesn't? No, no, no. I was going to use cutting words,

but I don't have solar barbs. Oh, you don't have solar barbs. created Caprice before he could be that much of a dick. Oh. As if you channel this magic. Don't worry. I have this. And you say, be gone, beast, and joy, you're waiting.

As you hold your hand out. Oh, I was just going to do something really cool and want to make him go away. As, as. I've got this under control. It bellows out in this gutterall roar that sounds like a very fiendish version of the electronic effects in the legendary Jurassic Party. film as it charges towards you the banish completely ineffective. As Toa, what are you doing?

As this all four eyes, there's three of you, all for eyes are on Toa. Yeah. As he's leaning, as his hand up. I would like to have saved my action for it if it charged. Yep. Yeah, I would see that. That's very fair. If I would attempt to attempt to get to Toa

before this creature gets to Toa, and the moment that I can put put my hand on Toa before it eats him, I would dimension Doros 500 feet away from it. Okay. To get him out of the line of this charging creature. What if I think that I can? So I'm, oh, go ahead.

I was gonna say, while you're doing that, I from my place in the bushes, would look around and see if I could find a rock to throw at the dinosaur, like from kind of the side. Oh. I would dimension Doris behind this dinosaur so that we are away from the direction it's charging.

I would be throwing and ducking back down, though, trying to do like one of those. I need, what is everyone speed? I mean, everyone's speed in before we roll furnishing. I have 30 feet of speed. But I would assume that, like, I wasn't that far from TILA. I'm running fast. I'm trying to coach him and walk towards me.

40 feet of speed. 40 feet. 55. Jesus. So. 60 if I use feline agility. So if you want to use feline agility, you may. But basically, so this thing has to be.

So you are going to have to make a contest to see how cool. You will be able to dodge out of the way. So I would say that if you leap back, you leap back out of the brush and you find a rock. There's plenty of rocks all over the underbrush here. And you grab it. I need to make an attack roll with an improvised weapon to see how you do as it is thundering towards a hole. You bolt out as you see cool. All I want to do is get a hand on top.

Yep. So we gotta do an acrobatics contest. What do you do for an improvised weapon? It's a strength. Let me look actually what the improvised weapon holds us. I don't think I'm after doing that. I feel like I should maybe use a twister too. We have a few.

Let me use two. Let me just bump it by two. We are very low on twist, though. Well, should I should just do one? No, no, no. I'm saying it's okay? No, this is good. Okay. But just, yeah. We should use them, though.

Well, it's a good thing I did that because I rolled a seven, but with a plus two, that makes it a nine, and then I have plus 10 acrobatic, so it's in 19. 19, which is better than a 17. So I would say that you would just add your decks to the roll, and your decks. That's my decks. That's here.

That's six. Uh, got it. Nine. Could I try something as well as Felix? Yes, yeah, yeah. So Felix, you are running. And so the acrobatics check is, I rolled, hold on. I got a 17.

19. 19. Okay, what are you doing? So you are running and Toa, you look up as you are... It's just wondering towards you. Felix! Toa, it's fine, I've got this. I don't know.

Just got to count off and a half. As I'm doing this, with my right hand, I'm gonna reach into my pack and pull out the mask of haunting and from how many sessions ago and I'll put it on my face and it is like a carved wooden mask that looks exactly like mumbo jumbo from Banjo Cazui.

And I'll say, umeneka! And he's a thing it was in saving throw. I might have to not waste a spell slot here. I love this. I'll hold off on casting dimension. Wiz you say. What is I say? Yeah, whiz, was, whiz.

Eight. No way. It fails. It is frightened of me for one minute. It cannot willingly come closer to me. Done. That's very funny. It is charging and it leans forward.

Its tail is swiping. It sees you, Felix. And its tail is whipping around in your direction as both heads are lunging forward to Toa as you have your handout, and in a quick motion, you put on your mask and you hear the banging of drums as Toa lets out a magical burst from this mask,

and suddenly the fiendish dinosaur stops in its tracks, and its eyes go wide, as it takes a step back and lets out a panicked... a panic noise of kind of a guttural vocalization. As you run up and I would come to like a sliding stop as I see this thing stop as I'm like putting my hand on toe his shoulder and realize like I don't need to cast the spell and be like, it's afraid of this very spooky mist.

As it kind of leans down, you see this huge, this huge beast kind of has the lean, and it steps down almost onto one knee. and it's almost lowering itself. Its eyes are wide with fear as it's taking another small step back relatively. The entire ground, the jungle shakes with that,

as it's staring at you, staring at the mask with fear. It seems to can't even, it can't even take its eyes off of you as you have this mask as you are terrifying at. How long is it going to stay scared for, tell him? I mean, was it one minute? A minute, yeah.

I don't know, but I think you guys should run. Not long. But I think I know what to do. Okay. All right. And I'm going to start walking at it. What wisdom? Aikaboke.

And I'm like waving my mall around. And trying to look like big. I think obviously like I'm trying to scare away a bear. But this thing's huge. But with the spooky mass that has like that creepy but cute skull on it. Yep. Right? I'm trying to scare him and basically scare him off.

Make an intimidation check. At advantage. Thank you. And I'm just repeating e-comb, obviously. These dices are the natural one that I rolled. Intimidation is a 20. Wow. A 20? A 20?

As you, with a 20. No, no, no, sorry. 26. Ha-ho. With a 26. Dinners were shaking in his knees. You see Toa get, he's presenting himself as large, but with the mass,

with the radiating energy that's kind of pounding out with the magical, the primal magics that are surging from this thing, he looks larger and larger as he steps forward, and you see that there's fear in the eyes as this massive beast takes another step back, and you see that his eyes are wide, and as you get close, it kneels and falls to the ground,

as small razor claws tucked underneath as it looks up at you with two heads in, in the sense of having given up. It's working. And it's completely terrified in almost a emotion of submission to the fear that you've instilled.

How did you know this would work? What? Does it look like I could mount it? You can certainly try. I'll put my hand back out. And I'll start to approach it. Great. Mighty King of the Jungle.

I am Toa Kamenui, and I wish to be your best friend. Hey! Well, he'll be my second best friend. You will be my second best friend. And together we will stomp to the temple with my friends on your back. And I won't have to hurt you. Make an animal handling ticket advantage. That's pretty good.

Pretty good. Animal handling. That is a 22. You approach and this thing is no longer attacking and you see that all of the strange ravenous creatures in the jungle is completely fled. And all four eyes are looking at you. Its tail is down and you approach. And as the fear effect of the mask, the magical effect, wears off, you approach and you're able to touch its scaly hide, and it remains down and lowered

as if this king of the jungle is now bowing to you. Wow. Damn. Yes. Well done. Second best friend. We will ride upon you now. Hurry, get on. Get on. Get on. Hurry. Hurry. How about this is going to last? follow his guide and I get on by climbing. I'll peek out of the bushes and hop on. Yeah, 100% I fall into it. I would say everyone, in order to scale this thing, Oh, God. Choose either animal handling or athletics or acrobatics.

Probably acrobats. Depending on how you are going to get on top of this thing. Yeah, I'm choosing acrobates. As Escher is definitely, he's like trying to pull on your hair to pull on your hair to bat and two of you away. Like, no, no, no. But he still stays with you. Does acrobatics or animal handling?

Either one, yeah. Or athletics, whatever you're deferred. I got a 17 of acrobatics as I attempt to dexterously climb up. I got a 19. I'll race up and leap into an open spot. Okay. I got a seven as I bear my claws and attempt to climb this thing.

Oh boy. I got a 20 and kind of, with Escher trying to pull me away, I'll kind of take a back approach and sort of run up the tail far away from the malls. You do that, and you all manage to get on as a toe, how do you mount this beast that you have scared and intimidated into submission?

Oh, God. Let me just see what I have here. Hold on. I just want to make sure that like, Just trying to see... That's all like... It's all those like fighty stuff. Clairvoyance doesn't really help me.

Augrey doesn't really help me. Um... You are very, very friendly. Thank you very much for being my friend. You have very mighty powerful fangs that could bite me in half. I will call you fangy. T-Rex. Do I know what this thing is?

I don't say that, yeah, it's a dinosaur. It probably should be some... It's a T-Rex. It's a T-Storex. It's a T-Stance for two. Yeah, I mean, there probably would be some sort of, like, creative and charming name, like, devil-sore and wow, or, you know, thunder, you know, that kind of, like,

a carnosaur, like in... Thunder-snow. All the beasts and monsters we've seen so far have had some sort of, um, demonic, like, change to that. Yeah, they're all very monstrous, uh, jungle animals, basically. All right, Fangie. Now, when I get on top, I'll tap in the middle of your head to go straight, and then two taps to the right and you go right,

and then two taps to the left, and you go left. Understood? Have you climbed up? We're all already up here. We're in extreme danger. I'm not on yet. I'm getting on last. Make it out on.

I'm trying to make an end on that one. 23. You're on fire, dude. This is insane. You're not sure, but you feel like you have a connection with Fengie. You feel like you making yourself larger than life and rolling as well as you have. You have this friend. Beating this thing in a submission.

All right, Fungy. Let's do this. I crawl up, and I'm going to get right. What is he? What is that song? Right behind where the two necks sort of converge. Yep. And I'll, just to be ready to sort of pat.

one way or the other, and I don't know if he's going to listen to me, but I'm going to try to direct him in the direction of the temple and stop on over there. You do that. And as you get at the head, Iris has her claws out. And she is scaling up and you manage to get in. But as soon as you sit in the rain and feel, or at the base of the two necks and feel comfortable, there is a soft spot. perhaps weren't old, you see that there's gashes, there's all sorts of battle scars on this thing. You can't imagine the Skull Island level of shit that is here. This is Skull Island the Lair, folks,

as you manage to stick your claws deep into one of these deep gashes and scars that has been there. Oh, I have a handle. Definitely. You suddenly all feel, as you're on top, Iris, you're almost there. You go in and suddenly both heads let out a bellowing roar of pain as you all lurch forward. Everyone needs to make a dexterity saving.

As the creature takes off into the jungle, in rage, is thrashing around. 21. Let us go. Let us go. Yeah, let us go. Let us go. 18?

18, 21? 20. 20? 30. 30. You all hold up as the, as the, does it go faster? It goes faster.

Yeah, it is now. It's now sprinted. It's going 120 feet every six seconds. Holy! As it is charging. And you see now that it is thundering through. There is a, you now are smashing through the branches. You see that there is a dinosaur that's large, but much smaller than this thing.

That is a large fin. It's got orange scales. And there's a steam from its breath. As it sees this thing, it tries to get out of the way. One of the heads shumps into it, rips it in the air, tears it in half, and devours it mid-sprint as entrails and viscera and gore coat you, as this thing is thundering through,

barreling through the jungle at random. I need someone to roll a scatter die for me, as I just determine, yeah, determine what direction? Which one? A D-8, and the one is north. You'll be north. I'll be north. Eight.

Tell me what that is. Tell me what that is. One is supposed to be north, right? So it's, if you're north, then it's gonna be northwest. Northwest. It begins to charge, when you presume to be the Northwest. It is just smashing through as, Luffy, I'm used to make an intelligence check

to see how well you remember what you had seen after seeing the utter terror of- I got a 21. 21. You know that this is not in the direction of the closest place. As you needed to be heading south. And you are now heading northwest. As you, the dinosaur now, all of you on.

And the good thing is, is that these massive spikes are easy handholds for you, where you're all able to hang on. It looks little cartoonish, maybe, where you're flying like flags as you're all holding on, as this massive fiendish two-headed Tyrannosaurus is charging through the jungle. We're hitting left.

Animal handling check. It's disadvantage. Oh, boy. I got to twist some of these, I think. This is when it starts to go parachutes. I'm going to double twist, two twists. You got this, Toa? I'm going to give you inspiration.

I'm going to need it. Huge. A bazzoa. 24. Jesus Christ. What? What the fuck? You got a town on the inspo.

Thanks, Caprice. Oh, that was so interesting. You, man, how are you going to do this? How are you gonna do this? You're tapping him, what are you doing? He's now gnashing, he's now swallowing this poor, suspecting dinosaur. As you see now, the bits and pieces,

scavengers come out from all over, lizards, snakes. You see a large turtle with a razor sharp beak is tearing into the pieces that are remaining behind you. There's a lot of positive reinforcement. Good job, Frankie. Oh, you did such a great deal. Jump, jumping that little critter. Now just go lift, you can do it.

I'll sort of like very gently pat him. I'm not trying to be like aggressive. Yeah. I'm trying to be sort of gentle and caring. And you suddenly, as it's chomping through once the meal is consumed, the speed of this beast slows. And the thrashing slows are all able to hold on. As suddenly you feel like you have finally gained control. you've turned back around in the direction

that Lofti has guided you in. And you are heading back south. It's okay. As you are stomping through the forest, through this jungle, being this high up, you are, a lot of these low-hanging branches you would normally have to duck,

but the spines on its back are just snapping through them, clearing the way. You get maybe hit in the face with some vines. You see that any creatures that may have been, a threat, and you see that there are a number of medium and large-sized creatures that would have very easily been able to stalk and attack you and devour you, mechanically speaking, and you would have to deal with.

But now that you're on this beast, everything is terrified. Everything is running away as you snap your way through the jungle. And is there anything that you'd like to do besides just heading towards this temple? Not me. I'm on for the ride. Good boy. See that temple right over there? And I'm gonna try to like lean over and point

so he can see, right? Like, this is the one we're going to. Just keep going that direction. You, I'm gonna keep that roll because it's fucking insane. You've been rolling like hot fire as you guide through and suddenly the jungle

starts to, it never opens any kind of clearing like you had seen perhaps or maybe read about and seen illustrations of chalk of where there's jungles when they would open up to these great clearings where ruins or cities might be, the jungle is so massive.

You finally see stone through this blood red and sand-colored stones through the jungle hanging as you make your way through and suddenly the branches snap and almost like a barrier of thick vines, thicker than your tors, hanging down,

that this beast is, able to effortlessly tear through and suddenly right before you swallowed by the jungle is an enormous ziggurotted pyramid-style temple where you see, I think all of you would be able to see very easily despite the bit of ruin that this seems to be in or the fact that it has it's overgrown by the jungle and the and the forest and you see all of the animals skittering about and the various lizards, and there's numerous snakes all over it. Some approaching as long as this dinosaur creature that you're on. They're slithering over it, and you don't expect to see a roaring flame from the very top of this temple.

It seems to be raging above you, a large, almost tear-jop-shaped flame. And you can only see, really see the top of it. from this angle that you're at, but you see that and you see that there are a number of stone steps that go up in this massive grand scale temple. All right. Well, this is it. This is the one that I saw.

But there are a lot of them here, so we should check it quickly and keep moving if we don't find what we're looking for. All right. Also, I don't remember there being a giant flame coming out of this thing. Oh, that's new? Was it new or did I just not see it?

You didn't see it? I didn't see it? You saw a bit of stone and it was all covered, but you used to see a little bit of stone through the canopies. Oh, right. Hopefully the temple is not aware of our presence. No.

We were so stealthy. This is it, Fahy, you can let us down. No, what? Yip, yep, yep. No. Wait, maybe we should hang out in case we need to go to a different one. Oh, Fangy's part of the family.

Tie him up. Keep up, keep him here. We can't fit in the temple. You can climb the stairs, go up, and we can all hang out together. I mean, maybe just even just trying to get him to wait outside for us. We'll help keep some of the other predators away. I'm sure there's something he can snack on.

We'll promise food. We've got lots of demons for him to eat, and I'm sure they're delicious. I don't think he can leave this area with us when it's time to go, and Escher opens another portal, and then you can let release him. But what if this is the actual temple? And we do find what we need inside. Well, then we're going to have to go, and we'll have to leave Fangie behind. No, that's not, we're not doing that.

We're going to come back outside, and Etcher is going to make a fucking fangy-sized portal, right? You little fuck? No, probably not. And the thing is, if we tell this creature to stay here, while we're inside, and then we leave, and the creature never leaves, and it dies here, because it was listening to Toa.

We should let it go into the wire. And I don't say that because I'm horrified of this. I don't want to leave Fangie go. Toa tamed him. He's a part of the family now. Hmm. This creature was not meant to be domesticated. It deserves to be free in this land that it lives in. Are we still on Fangie's bag? Yeah. So the idea is that it's obviously overgrown by the jungle and the canopy is even taller than the top of this temple. And basically that there are a couple of entrances inside the temple, but there are a couple of entrances inside the temple, but there are are stairs that go to the various terraces all around with the bridge here up at the top,

where a lot of the entrances are either collapsed or completely overgrown with like thick actual trunks or roots of trees that are growing out of this thing. And you are still on Fangies back, if that is his name, yeah. I was gonna say, we'll just leave him here, we'll go check it out, and then you can tell him to be free. All right. Are you not concerned he will forget who you are the moment he stops looking at you?

Could you forget who Toa is the moment you stopped looking at him? Oh yes. What? I don't... She didn't need it. I can't believe you would ever presume that fang he would ever hurt us. Pretty Dad said on eating all of us. But now he's my second best friend! I didn't think Toa is right. I didn't know it was a misunderstanding.

It was entirely a misunderstanding. He was just acting on his base nature and instinct. Yeah, well, what if he decides to act on that instinct again? Well, he would never eat me. Imagine if I acted on my base instincts all the time. Then where would we be? You do. You do every day. You do all the time.

All right. Carry on. Fang, you can stay. All right, Fanny. You can let us down now. Make another animal handling check. Just kidding. Oh, no.

You kick him a little on your way down and he takes a bite out of you? Like one of those dogs. That's a nightmare. Here. 25. Oh my God. Yeah, no.

So with that you are very gentle and but still firm. And with that, you hear the kind of the guttural groaning as from both heads as it leans down and kneels. That's exactly right. As you hear that and you're all able to get off as you see that this creature is its small arms or kind of place on into the ground with this long clause as it looks up at you and almost awaiting for the next command as you all

depart and walk towards the temple. All right, Fangy. This may be goodbye. And I may never see you again. But I'll never forget all the amazing times we shared again. And you'll always be my second best friend.

There, there. There, there. Goodbye, Fang. Wait here, and if I'm not back in an hour or two, then you can leave. Do you know what an hour is? Bye, wait. Yeah. Like the kind of crocodilian style, like hissing or groaning.

That's all you get is it looks at you with his large eyes, the spine's all over the top of its head. and the large club tail kind of smacks into the ground. I'll never forget you. And I'll turn, and I'll start walking up the temple. Yeah. I follow. I follow.

My head's kind of hung low, and I'm just like trying to like be kind to tell her and like, you know, comfort him. I didn't realize that Toa and I had seen the same major image. It's remarkable. Which major image was it? No, he was singing that song from the, the famous, porno film Jurassic Pork.

What's the porno? It's a film designed to be titillating and sexy. I'm sorry, what? It's sexy. Oh, sexy? Yeah.

Oh, I've seen a lot of sexy major images. Well, Jurassic pork happens to be one of them. All right. Capruce. I'll look for it the next time I'll have an opportunity to go to the theater. If you're into that sort of thing. I don't know if you will like.

that sort of film. I like to read naughty books. Yes, this is a little different, little different. We'll try it. Open your eyes to something new. All right. Well, we should go inside, though I am concerned that that creature will turn on us.

I don't even hear any of this. I'm walking at the mask on. I saw the mask on. Yep, yep, yep, yeah, yeah. I haven't taken it all. Yep, and I'm just sort of dejectedly walking up the stairs. Is he going to be all right, Felix? He's known that creature for all of ten minutes.

Maybe you should give him like a kitten or something. They formed a bond that no two creatures could possibly know except for maybe me and Tela. He'll be all right. It's going to take some time. That happened really quick. It escalated quickly. We've been through a lot.

A lot of emotions. All right, we've all been through a lot, especially fangy. It's going to be okay. You hear a bellowing double roar from down below you as you're about halfway up the temple. You're taking your time. The steps are very overgrown. They're definitely larger than even Toa steps.

You have to take your time and climb. It's a little bit slippery. But being careful, you don't have to make a roll in order to ascend this. And as soon as you hear this bellowing roar, you realize that all around you are dozens of fiendish-looking vipers. that had been descending sneakily slithering in.

And as you've been distracted in your conversation, and as soon as the bellowing roar echoes through, all of the serpents and snakes that have been on this temple slither away in fear, as Fangie seemingly scared off the predators that had tried to kill you, as you continue when you finally make your way to the top, exhausted. And you see,

now, you feel the heat even before you get to the top terrace of this temple. And you see that there's ancient statues all throughout your path. They seem to be in the shapes of creatures, sometimes humanoid, but the faces are always faded, or the heads are crumbled away. They're faded, they're worn, they're weathered, as if they are built in honor of God that no one could recollect. As you finally arrive, you see an enormous. an enormous pillar of flame raging in a metal and stone brazier.

A 10 foot tall plume of flame is flickering back and forth, and it glows with this bright red, with streaks of purple through in, and greens and blues as it rages. And you see now that on an altar, before this sprazier, horrifyingly, is a small piece of flesh, and it seems to be a child-sized tongue

on the altar. As you see now the shadows casting throughout, the shadows casting throughout this, the top of this, the darkness of the canopy is showing shadows that are cast by this roaring flame. The statues, The broken and weathered statues that are around this top terrace, they're casting,

and they form, and they dance, and they elongate, and you actually see a silhouette take shape in the shadow. It seems to be an enormous snake-like creature with two heads, each head with four jaws, as it snakes back and forth and out from the torso of the snake two elongated slithering hands as something seems to recognize your presence and you feel the presence of something

cast in these shadows as the brazier roars atop this temple. Did you say two heads? Yes. Everything reminds me of him. It's okay, buddy, it's all right. No, I'm fine. He's still helping us. I'm fine.

Is this me? Am I up? Is this Sir Chris? Yes, you're Toa. I apologize for doubting you. you, we would not have made it to this spot if it hadn't been of a fangy. Clearly, you have something deep and meaningful with our creature.

I do. It was very special. Thank you for protecting us. But I'm gonna be okay. Then I'll turn and you'll see the mask. It's like the Wojack that has the mask. It's like there's tears behind the mask. Gritting your teeth.

Yeah. That's right now. That's very fine. Do we think this is surface? This gotta be. Okay. I'm sorry, did you say Andy Circus? Certress.

I don't know what his or her name, first name is. Oh, Mr. Mr. Mr. Certhus? Prince, Prince, Prince. That's my father. Prince, so the first name would be Andy. Sure. All right, I'll try it.

Can't imagine anyone being named Andy. No, it's, sounds so alien. And grotesque. Yeah. He's a silly name. It is a silly name. If we ever mean anyone named Danny, let's beat the shit out of it.

Yeah. And then the Italian worker named Mikey. I was like that. You see this brazier is roaring and flickering as the shadows are dancing about, and you see this shape within the shadow. I'll walk up a few steps. Hi.

My name is Capriccio de Sesto, and you can call me Caprice. You may be a third. The Certress, don't know your first name, might be Andy. Not sure what's your room. All the meditations, all the accolades prince, I understand. We are here to barter, perhaps,

or if you want to part with it, if you want to, I mean, they might just want to give it away. That child's tongue. Looking for them. We collect them. We'd love it. We have a bucket full of them. We got a whole bucket.

That's Iris. I love tongues. I love tongues. At advantage, because you're being assistant. Can't get enough child tongues. Persuasion 28. It goes a larger buckets, particularly for this time. The brazier roars up again and feel the heat blasts you.

Your infernal lineage, actually, you're able to resist it and weather it a lot better. You feel it less than your companion. and you hear a voice. All of you do. Essence? I think they're trying to say essence. Essence. Well, one moment, let me confer with my friends,

and then we'll essence you up. Dens of what? What do they want? Our essence? What's the definition of essence? I don't know. It's kind of necklace. Didn't you go to that one?

The adventurous equivalent of a hospital and you provided your essence in a cup, you said. I was in Galtica, and I needed the money. I know, but you've done it once. Couldn't you do it again? I suppose we could give it a shot. Is Derek going to jack on? Oh, complete.

The cup race is dying, Terry. Pretty sure they pay a lot more for blood. Blood? Blood? They pay more for blood? Yeah. Like the platelets and the good stuff, they really gotta suck it out of you, though.

Really? Yeah. Oh, I really was poor at the time. I thought they just... That's just what I've hurt. I've never been to golfing. I would have given more for blood. I just didn't realize that was an option.

So I've heard. My point is, do you think that would work? It's worth a shot. In essence, I don't know. But someone used to put a fucking, like, drag or towel over that. fucking tongue. I have a goblins right here. Look, we all have vessels. I'm not worried about the vessel. Oh, no. Are you worried about the location, not in the mood, the ambiance?

Look, in the tongue. Is it right now? Do you need to be in the mood to spill your essence into... That's what I'm getting at it. It's a little... No, it's a little muggy. It's, you know, it's... I can, I can spill my essence any time I want you. We're all under dehydrated, you know? I mean, if Jurassic pork happened to be on, that would be better. However, I will make do. I just don't think that's what the Prince of Heretics wants. I don't know. It kind of seems like he'd be right at their alley.

That's pretty heretical. To be honest. What you're describing would make any claret blush. I'm not blushing, but I don't quite understand. Yeah, I know you don't. So say that's not what he wants. Okay. But that's what he gets.

Is there really thing that we could do to help you spill your essence? Yes, but no, that is not what this conversation is about. I just don't think that that you've, that can be your plan B. As long as you can say, very strong plant. Very strong plant. Can we stop saying the word spill? Maybe just like share, give. I don't see either of those are better.

Yes, if you don't mind sharing your essence. It sounds more friendly Of course Alright, well I Wait, wait, hold on Don't we need to be also Kind of seeding the whole like, you know,

dissent against P-Man? We should probably mention something about that, right? We forgot to do it last time. Sorry, you couldn't hear us, I guess. You said the word seating and then I lost everything you said after that. Oops, and P-Man and spilling essence. Why don't you spill your essence on?

him in and say P-Man made you do it. I don't know. That's from P-Man. Maybe let them know that this prince will be helped because of our plan with Obb Ox-Obb if, you know, we can make a deal

in your essence as sort of the handshake, so to speak. Oh, you use your hand to spill your essence? Look, can you... No, I cannot. Can you teach... Iris, what she's talking about. Oh, yes. That's not what I was asking.

Yeah, I'll work. I know what you're, where you're going. Oh, do you use your tail? Oh, that is very important. It does okay. Plan A. What if it's like a, like an Icar. Oh, do we all have to spill our essence together?

You cannot. What the fuck is an Icar? Iquor. Icar. Icar? Icar. Icar? Icar.

Icar? What are you trying to say? What are you suggesting? I got this demon goo. Throw it in then. Well, all right. But do you think that all will work? This is probably potent stuff, you know?

But it's not really our essence. It's the essence of wherever you got there. Did it specifically ask for our essence? I think it just said essence. Any confidence. But what are the implications of giving it that essence? I don't know. But I don't know why I took this.

It seemed like a powerful thing. None of us know why you do anything that you do. We found a fucking half-cracked egg of what was almost certainly the... You don't have to describe it to me. I was there. Yeah, and I thought, you know what? I'm going to goop it up into this vial, and I'm going to hang on to it for a rainy day. Fantastic. It's raining. It's pouring.

I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm just saying that this feels a sense. This is the, the, uh, certainly somebody's essence. The egg white of whatever that creature was. No, not human. What? That comes from, that comes from Pea Man, right? This is, this is important stuff.

It's only one way to find out. It seems like in the hands of Certris, that'd be, it'd be huge. Can I say let it rip? All right. Oh, is this from the egg of Pea Man? And what Zern turned into? Yeah.

Zern's egg? Zern's egg. Oh! Zee egg! As Lucy would say. There are all these snakes about... It's very... Thank you.

All of these snakes about spitting everywhere. Yeah. That's very funny. I think the demon goo is fine. We could try it. I'm gonna try. And then you have your plan B. and be.

And, you know, if I have to take one for the team, I'll do whatever I need to do. Surdress! I turn around and I raise my hands up and I walk forward. We have found the essence or an essence that we find, think what you will find to be quite more, more than satisfactory. Get ready for this. When you hold your arms up, your jacket turns gray,

like hold your arms up again. They all that's gone on the knees in the cremases. Yeah, no, no, no. I am all over. I am disintegrated. It is a nightmare on the carpet below. It was nice and clean. We'll fix it.

All right, throw the goo. Therroth you. With this, I don't know if you know what this is. It's one of a kind. This is goo. Gooo taken from an egg. An egg born of How do I describe this?

Some sort of a... It's a demon egg. A Zer-Zuzu baby? Yes. Zern-Zuzu, baby. And, given how potent that combo must be, I feel like you have to accept. Do you agree?

Give me a... If you're down. Otherwise, I got a really special surprise for you, buddy. You're making the snake spit. Please don't say that. Now he's sitting, he's pitching behind you. I am standing up and I'm gonna have to sit down real soon, Iris. Real soon.

Oh, dear. Say you searcher, prince of heretics, do you accept this powerful potent offering? That sounded like yes. That sounded like yes. Yes, it did. All right, I'm gonna pour it into your brazier. Uh, brazier.

Do you need help with that? Don't use your teeth, you idiot. I'm not, they forget. If it gets in your mouth, who knows what's gonna happen? Your nipples won't do it either. What are you doing? Give it to me, please. I loosened it for you.

Yeah, I loosened it. I'm gonna pour the icower into the... Brazier. Brazier, like an altar. Trying to, almost like submerging my hand into the flame, watching the shadow, keeping my eyes out for danger, not paying attention to the snakes, not thinking about plan B, just,

offering a powerful sacrifice and probably creating some sort of horrible new thread of canon that will almost certainly come back to bite me in four to six years. It'll be fine. It'll be fine. I'm sure feeding another demon lord the essence of Zsonsu's. Can we have nothing fucking know? No ramifications. No. With that, a dirty verge. Pour it in.

Dirty Virgil. And it hisses and pops as the orange goo, the demonic icor, this egg stuff that had been laid by Pizzou. The would-be new king of demons, the Lord of the Lower Aerial kingdoms, and the flame erupts into an orange flame. And it rages as you hear a hiss and a shriek within as the flame shifts from red and purple to a bright orange, shifting black within. As you see the shadows of this snake emerge, erupt into the flame, a dancing shade. The two-headed snake-like monstrosity shifts and shakes. And you see as it slithers and bursts into a million different motes, as you see an eye, another eye, another eye, another eye,

four wings explode from the center. Covered in eyes, the head of an avian crow-like demon emerges a jagged beak, numerous eyes all across its head. As it bursts out, the shadows snake out everywhere. everywhere, as you see very momentarily the shape of a man, the silhouette of a man, missing a leg, holding a cane, covered in eyes, until it then bursts again into eyes, as you all feel the heat of this heat of this flame. And in the shadows, in the shade, the images within change and flicker into other shapes.

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