Legends of Avantris - Stardust Rhapsody: Anthem | Ep. 10 | Material Girl: Part 1

Episode Date: February 27, 2026

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Welcome to Legends of Aventris. I'm Rhett Indigo and this here's Hank. And you're listening to Star Dust Rhapsody Anthem. Last time on SDR Anthem. The gang set in play a plan to catch Grobulous J. Weedlebox through his loved songbird Pixel Pop. Head in a Meteor Mall, they grabbed all the outfits and accessories they'd need to present as big shot music producers from Rhapsody Records. Getting your wheedlevox through Pixel is the only way to be able to. to get an audience with him, so they set out to try and charm her.

After going to the Glitz Room, Weedle Vox's club, where Pixel was headlining, they saw her in action for the first time. The show was mind-blowing, for some more than others. After a strange feeling, Ziggy and Co. tossed away their inhibitions and completely cut loose. Pixel set up a meeting with Mr. W., but needed to show the party a good time for a week. unbeknownst to her setting them up for getting blackmailed into working for the boss. After enjoying a week experiencing the sights in Paradise City, the party finally meets with Weedelvox. He ropes them into dealing red line for him and is about to celebrate the partnership with the crew alone on the balcony,

a keystone of their plan to grab him and turn him in. As they're making their way out, Weedovox gets a call and ushers the party to leave. Ziggie having slipped a bug Mike into the room, hears his conversation with the Don, the boss of the Scarlet Eye Syndicate. He sent Pixel to give a private show to the Don's friend of Viceroy the Empire, and that when he's done, they'll bury her in an unmarked grave in the desert. You find yourselves racing away in the car, Ziggy relaying the information you're getting on your listening device through the lipstick

as you hear just the one side of Weedlevox's conversation with the Don. the plan to send Pixel to the Viceroy, present a private show, and then to bury her body in the desert. Guys, I think that Pixel's gonna be, it's in terrible danger, terrible danger. Oh my God. Did we do this?

Is it just like Mrs. Ume? Oh, fuck. No, it couldn't have. That lion fucking jerkass. That piece of fucking shit, on you, Dave is fucking skull. Why is it all these pieces of shit Who we have to keep alive?

No Do we think she's already gone? No, it couldn't have been that long. We got to figure out where she is. I can drive us there right now if we have any idea. Well, they said, what, edge of town somewhere? No, I mean, this place is fucking huge. We saw our purse there.

That's why the lipstick's there. That's why it's still in the house, right? That's why I can listen to this conversation. So she doesn't have it with her. But the key tar. She still has her key tar. Yeah? You didn't give her the fucking key tar.

No, no, no, no, no. But it's an electronic device. I can, maybe I can find it. Could I try to roll for fucking computers and see if I can ghost in the shell, reticle target track this shit? Holy! With like her signal.

Roll a computers check. Is it yeah? All right. I will. I will roll a computer. computers check. That's cocked. That's really cocked. You have... No, no, no. I'm gonna... Also, we have twists.

You have two. You have five twists. We have five twists. Is it used before? No, no, no, no, you can call it. You can call it. Standard twist rules. Natural 20.

Oh! Shut up! Feverishly. You start tapping away on the... You son of a bitch, I'm in. Firing three, see, sats of code. See sats of code. Yeah, 27.

As you're zipping around, you're searching, you almost see the city of Paradise City, the world of Cherokee almost falls away from you, as lines of hypergrid erupt all around you, as you're searching, searching for a dot, anywhere on the map, anything that stands out, anything that has that familiar energy signal

of the Ketar of pixel. And it seems in vain almost until you see the faintest blinking, of a signal towards the edge of the town. Holy shit. It has stopped moving. I will, oh, it stopped. It stopped moving.

If I can pin that position and then start to work a Google Maps route back to where we currently are, I will immediately send that and just cast it to your display so that you can immediately... I think that's where she is. It must be. As soon as it pops on the HUD, Coe is the only one who sees. seem to like lock in and I'll say, all right, everyone, hang on. And I pedal to the metal and basically peel out and just let's fucking go bike.

Let's see what this baby can do. Wait, my feet melt and not. As you blast off, I am going to, if my, I mean, I'm pretty fucking big, but I will literally try to dive through the divide and dive past Ziggy and Rhett and to get to our bags if it's possible. I don't know if we need to basically stop and open up the trunk. I don't know if it works like that. If I know...

Oh, if it has one of those, like you pull the... That's what I'm saying. It does absolutely have that central console that extended out and presented the section of like beverages and stuff like that. And I think you would have been able to see that at the time that that comes down, there is an opening that looked into the trunk. And you might... You attempt to go through the window. roll athletics or acrobatics to get through the window. You may use your strength. I mean, I think it's just strength normally.

Strength acrobatics is also possible. Strength acrobatics or athletics, which either one. To see if you're going to be 24. Oh, with a 24, you can't fit through this divider. You are too broad and muscular. So instead of trying to fit through it, you wedge your. arms and you crack the base of the window, you bend and steel frames, actually like shattering it to provide the space so that you leap into the back seat and you ready

yourself as you go towards the back, roll an investigation check. I am going to... I assist her. Yeah, absolutely. If you're communicating, you can roll an advantage with Brett has also probably begun to actually search the backseat. I actually have a proficiency in investigation. which is plus three, or no, plus two.

So, 20. 20, with a 20, the two of you together, Rhett, you've begun to tear out the cushions, and they do remove from the back. Stop, stop. And, Red, were you trying to look for, like, the- fucking second is fair!

Coe just starts ripping things apart to try and actually get towards the back, and you're able to open a compartment to get into the trunk, that's towards the back and where all your gear is and you see it right there. I, Rett's cannon and backpack would be behind, so it would be coming to me first.

So I would basically rip out the bags and hand it to Rett and basically get his stuff. And then I'd reach in and grab my club as I'm, or you know, the bag that has my club. And I'm gonna rip it open and pull it out. And I would get fully suited up, literally there. And then once I had everything on me, I'm gonna try to strap myself down with some things.

For safety. Yeah. Uh, Mike. Roll a decks check with your light vehicles provision. And the last thing I'll say is that I understand that this is not a sports vehicle. This isn't like, you know, this isn't like a race car. It's like shy of a limo. It's not...

All I'm going to say is that this is a very high-class vehicle. And if the Rolls-Royce engine is good enough to power the sword fish mark two, luxury means something is all I'm going to say. I mean, find a lie. An air speeder is not that different from a starfighter. Yeah. Just a straight decks check plus proficient. Plus your proficiency in light vehicles.

I got a 19 for my first roll. With a 19, as the crew behind you starts to gear up, Co is able to grab the club, Rett starts to harness in. While all this is going on, you've gotten the sense of this vehicle, you're starting to get in the movements of it. You're still learning this town a little bit. So it's not quite as comfortable to take these corners and hit, though you have the nav, you're now moving an incredibly high speed.

high speeds. You've been kind of normal car driving around this area as you've flown through these elevated spaceways between the buildings. And even yet, even with a limited knowledge and comfort with the area, something about the moment you start blazing through and you're striking these alleys and roadways. Other cars line the air in front of you, but you find the perfect dive spots, even at one point as everyone starts to harness in and grab on. the straps, you flip up over a cresting in between two cars as you went through and spin a little bit as everyone in the back, as you blast forward down the roadway. Anybody, did you have another thing? No, I'm suited up and I'm fucking ready.

I'm strapped in. You're blasting, blasts through the airways as fast as you can. Roll another decks check for me. Come on. Suited up like a clone trooper ready to get dropped off. I'm ready. Let's fucking go. I'm like holding on.

22. You're holding on to the strap. Everyone's got a hand on the O. Shipwars. Everyone's ready for action on the O'Ship bars. You are blasting through the air. All the vehicles getting in the way, you're like a leaf on the wind. You're blasting through them as you find yourself

elegantly spinning through. Make one more dex check with your provision. God. Only a 10 that time. Only a 10. One twist? Right? Should we use the twist? I mean, it's 940.

You used one, he used one. So you got four left. Four left. This will leave us with three. Are we short? Yes. Yeah, okay. We can't.

Much better. 21. I rolled a 13, 15, 14 for all three. With a 21. You see it on the nav now, you feel as though you're closing in. You're starting to make it towards the outskirts of town. Some of the lavishness of the restaurants have begun to fade away. but this is where a lot of the food delivery drivers come out.

In front of you, unexpectedly pulls out this floating, like food or people sitting around the edges. There's a chef in the center, preparing meals in front of you. As people are enjoying a meal at night, as you're speeding toward. You didn't expect them to come out. Multi-coor-something, in the last minute, fractions of a second is all you ever need to make the right movement. As you're able to dive down and not hit the car beneath you,

not even hit the horn, you're as cold as ice. You got ice water in your veins. As you dive down towards another car, but you pull to the side at the exact right moment and you're able to move up and come out on the other side of this cart, as the traffic starts to bleed away and you turn into a more, a quieter section of town. Till speeding down, the lights start to fade away.

you'll notice that a lot of the life, a lot of the activity starts to quiet and deaden. You still drive as fast as you can with purpose behind the wheel, but you won't miss the fact that you're now moving into a section of town which feels much less populated and like only the things that you would never want seen or spoken of take place in this part. Oh, geez. canonically night train by Guns and Roses's play on the radio at full blast as we rush through as we rushed through Paradise City that's um well done guys yeah a little bit of luck on our side we needed it pixel oh no you wait for the viceroy in the strange room

lamp beside you is your only comfort from the almost oppressive darkness. Just on the edge of its light, you hear dripping water of this abandoned hotel, realizing just how far you are from the luxury and comforts of the Glitz Room, or Weedelvox's mansion. Then, without warning or sound, a sheep moves into the light from the darkness. He seems to be a man, but it is hard to as his silhouette is still shrouded in shadow despite being in the glow of the flickering lamp. He wears a dark coat that obscures any sort of physical form, and on his face he wears a pair of thick sunglasses, the lenses, a deep shade of red. A pendant with an eerie symbol hangs from his neck, seemingly casting that same shade of red. He moves towards you silently.

with an eerie grace. And although you cannot see his eyes behind the glasses, you can feel them pierce you to your core. Although you have never met this man before, and you certainly do not recognize him, you know without a shadow of a doubt that this is the viceroy. He the viceroy on pixel perfum so excited to perform for you.

It's going to be a great show, I promise. You're looking great. I can't see her very well, but from what I can see, gosh, you're even better than Mr. W. described. So you are the little songbird, Captain Wheel of Vox's cage. Yeah, yeah, I'm pixel. He starts to circle around you.

You could almost feel his breath on your shoulder. You feel almost like a warmth move there, as if it's working to fight the cold of his presence. Your voice, your music, it is hypnotizing. Oh, thanks, it's so nice to you. You do know why your song grips the masses, don't you? Oh, it's, it's, it's because, because I'm a, I'm a cat. It's me, little songbird. You?

You do not know me, but I have been with you for years. I've gifted you what's mine. And now I need it back. My, my, my guitar? My voice? Your harmony, your delicious harmony has turned discordant. You don't mean my music, my song, do you? The cacophony within you has infested, marinated, and now I feasted, and now I feasted, and now I feasted.

You want me to play a song? All things to entropy to silence. But you don't want me to play a song. It's at this moment that the door blasts open and you see a familiar sight as the crew bursts in. Yeah! Yeah, fuck yeah!

You all see Pixel in this dark room, only a single flickering light, no single other creature except this black, cloaked figure with these terrible red eyes circling her. And just as it's looking the most grim, as you burst in, the creature, the viceroy behind,

hisses out this terrible shriek and escapes to the shadows. Pixel stands at the center of a dimly lit room, her normally bright neon skin dimmed to a sickly and pale green. The shadowy figure of the viceroy looms over her as the small globelin looks up at him in a daze. The moment you all burst in,

the mysterious figure snaps his attention towards you, you see pale gray skin on a gaunt face around the ruby lenses of his sunglasses, flanked by pointed ears that seem strangely large and oddly shaped for his head. Then he opens his mouth and possibly, wide, revealing elongated fangs as he lets out a hiss and darts back into the shadows in an instant, completely vanishing from view. You hear his voice call out once more before it disappears for good. No witnesses, no survivors. Then suddenly, four figures lurch out of the shadows. Not before detected, erupted. from the corners of the room, completely silent,

despite their hulking sighs. They appear to be thugs of various species, human, rangore, jaza, and a mastiff-likea, but all of them have a gray complexion, and their faces lack all emotion as they methodically move in to murder you. Pixel, as the viceroy disappears, you are snapped out of your hypnosis,

but still exhausted and deeply sick to your stomach. Pike, A deep unease and primal fear sits at the center of your being as your mind is filled only with the look of the red lenses of that creature You can't shake the feeling that this turn of events is much worse than you could possibly have imagined I need everyone to roll for initiative Yeah, I don't think I've rolled over 10 on initiative which is one pro That's a pro.

20 to 25? Uh, no. 15 to 20. I got an 18. Oh, so I got a 22. Oh. Damn. Oh shit.

Let's, uh. Oh, shit. I need to. Gosh. Um, let me grab another. Oh, uh, not sponsored, but I just want to show this off. Hey, look, have you seen this, have you seen this meme? Have you seen this meme?

Have you seen this meme? Have you seen this meme? I don't know if you've seen this, but I've ever come a second. Ever come, sorry. Um, which, uh, 15 to 20, 10 to 15? 12. Golly. Five to 10?

Seven. Nine. Dang. Pixel, what did you get? 22. Oh, sorry. Gotcha. Oh.

She is. That's awesome. Bird here. You roll at 12, you said it, or a 13? Nine. Nine. What did you roll, Coke? Twelve.

I'm sorry. Oh, you roll at 12. Okay. Yeah, I rolled the goal. So that's correct. Yep. Pixel, as you break out of your days, you feel this terrible sense of tired wash over you. You gain a level of exhaustion.

Oh, God, I don't feel so good. Um, the, oh, God, my, what are you on? We put them on the mat. There's, oh, it's good. We'll set a map. Yeah. Just getting ready to go in. Love where your head's at, though.

Are we like in looking at? abandoned hotel lobby. Was that the idea? Like a... You're in the room. Okay, got. So she's gone up to a room waiting to perform to him. So not not put a lobby, but actually like a hotel room that you found yourself in.

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Thank you. Obviously, you got to enter from this side. Yeah, you enter from one. So you're like here. Okay. they emerge from the shadows. I gotta make sure that I'm ready to go. Oh, good Lord, Mason.

So, Pixels here? Yep, yep, yep, where are we? Are we walking in from the other side? Oh, we could say that you burst into the room, Salt Pixel, and presumably moved towards her. So I'd say you're kind of like in the middle of the room, roughly. Yeah, in whatever kind of big time you do. These are tight quarters.

You'd look for. These quarters are a little tight. Huh, yeah? I think Coe would have been maybe, Coe and Pike would have been up front. I think Ziggy would probably be in the back here. Yeah, I think, I mean, basically it's, I think that Coe's not going to be able to outrun Pike.

And so basically just like Pike is going to be able to stay, but she's going to be right behind him. The viceroy with a hiss disappears into the darkness. All trace of him no longer detectable in the room, though you walked in through the only doorway. Where he went, you have no clue. As these hulking brutes silently move, out of the shadows to join you in the room.

They box you in. And it is extremely clear that they have all intent of leaving no survivors or witnesses. Pixel, you are first to act. Pixel wobbles in place for a minute. While she's looking around, regaining her composure, she sees Rhapsody Records appear. We're here, Picks! We're here!

And you see that she seemed excited, and then she sees these, these thugs enter in and is horrified, and you watch as these eight-bit sprites begin to appear around her, and then shoot straight up into the air, and then, kach, kach, kach, kach, four spotlights beam down on her

as three holograms appear next to her, as she casts mirror image. No! This line of holograms is standing, and you can't, even though she's wobbling and exhausted, all of the, You see all of these holograms, perfect replications of pixel. Though you saw when you walked into the room,

it's impossible to tell now which one is which. They all wobble and move in unison as these spotlights shine on them, as if ready to perform. If you guys want the, if you could number them. Oh, are there? God, Rich. Just an absolute lad. A bit of a legend. Just a bit of a legend.

And you stay where you are? Yeah, she would stay where she is. The only one close enough, and depending on the commotion, would be co. She may not even notice, but my breathing is much more ragged than it would normally be, where I'm trying to do my own breathing exercises and trying to control this fear that I'm feeling in the pit of my stomach. If I could, getting this sense or this feeling, I'd like to take a look at these brutes. And like, do I know anything about these things? Does this give me the same sense of dread?

Do I feel anything looking at these creatures? I'd say absolutely. So in the moment that you started to feel that terrible sense of dread, looking into the red eyes of the sunglasses of the viceroy, you get an all too familiar sensation from these monsters, but to confirm it, you would have to move in. Okay. Okay, even though I feel this sense of dread,

it doesn't stop me from acting in the slightest. And I know that this is all just stream of conscience and split second, I immediately take off at number one in the corner over here. And I am going to make an attack, but then also use a point, a focus point for Flurry of Blows for a total of three attacks. The first attack will be a 14 to hit.

14 hits? the second attack will be a much higher, 23 to hit. 23 will definitely hit. And the last one will be a 13 to hit. 13 hits. Wow, okay, that's a good sign. That's not a good sign. Well, maybe not, right.

So that's max damage is going to be 11. We'll call it 6, 7, plus 3 is 10, 25 points of damage over 3 attacks. as I go against my instinct and my dread, I fight through it to rush number one and deliver three quick hits, two fists to the face, and I try to kick him in the ribs to see if I can try to cripple this thing

before it sees me coming. You race up the sense of dread in the pit of your stomach, but it's not the courageous man that doesn't know fear. It's one who does and overcomes it. And you move in and you throw the first two blasts

and land the kick, all lands squarely. Your fist hits the face, your fits the chin. The, your kick lands right in the ribs. And this huge Jaza creature, kind of like with these shark-like features. This seafone green skin slits around the neck. Barely even looks down at you as these all come in. And as each blow lands,

doesn't flinch, almost seems to not even notice you. And I'd have you roll an Arcana or religion check. Sure. Um, I'll go with religion. 16? 16. With a 16, once you get in, and you land those blows, um, it hits you, and you recognize the silent. Do I have, like, a moment to shout anything before the end of my turn is over?

Yeah. Yeah. After these hits land, the dread in my stomach gets worse. And I have a moment and I say, fuck. Heads up, guys. They're the silent. And that's it. What the fuck does that mean?

The what? What? You hear four pixels say, what's the silent? What's the silent? What's the silent? What's the silent? What's the silent? With no sound and an emotionless

expression on its face. This creature in front of you, Pike, looks down and lashes out with a blade. It produces from nowhere almost. It doesn't even seem to hold one in its hands, but as it strikes forward, it looks as though a blade is coming right at you. Maybe. Okay, with a 12 but then an 18. I have 19 AC. Oh my God. Get out of here. Mugs are broken. It swipes at you twice, missing easily. However, then, I need you to roll a Constitution saving throw. Oh, that is not where I'm breaking. I'm in danger. I got a natural one. Oh! Sorry. Me too. I'm also very sorry. I was rolling hot. I was due for a bad one. Yeah, even rolling hot. I was rolling hot. As it slices out, emotionless, but death, almost like mechanical with its movements. You see them coming, you can anticipate. But then as its final slash goes through, you feel this piercing sense that pulls at your very life essence. You felt this once before, not long ago. You will take eight points of necrotic damage.

Oh, God. Yeah, I mean, anybody who's paying attention would basically see that I didn't get hit, but I still stagger. Ah! Ah! Ah! Uh, three will move to Ziggy. Four will move to...

No, thank you. I'm assuming that's a rat. Yeah. Uh, and two will move to actually co. Um, each one, I'll go two, two, three, and then four. Each one will make two attacks for starters on the ones that they're living at.

Oh, Jesus, fuck. So, So that's highest 19 to hit Rhett. The other was like a 17? 19 hits, 17 misses. Oh, no mind if I do. I don't want to save my spells. Bubba.

And then, Rhett, you will also need to roll a Constitution saving throw. The three of you actually can just do the con save right now altogether. Oh, almost. Yeah. Not Pixel. Great. But everyone else. Natural 20. Okay, you pay.

10. 10. Eight? Ten. Oh, I'm sorry. The other thing that happens to you, Pike, is your hit point maximum decreases by eight. Oh! Rhett, you will take nine points of damage, four piercing and five, necrotic. You will then take two additional points of necrotic damage, and your HP maximum is reduced by two. So I am going to, as they come in and hit me, my, what happened to?

My etheron nature will sort of absorb some of that force, and I'm going to reduce that by some amount. Nine plus, I wish I had it here, I don't know what happened to it. I need to go to here and search. Kinetic density, 1D12 plus PB. So I reduce it by 10, and so you will 5 and a 4 plus a 2. To take one damage to it.

Woo! Okay, so you'll take one damage from the necrotic. And you'll reduce your HP maximum by one. Damn. One other thing is because you were both hit by this, you also can't speak. So I'll say you shouted your thing before you took the hit. Ziggy. Okay, that's very reasonable.

18 and a 12. And you pass your con save, so you're fine. Yeah. Uh-oh. 18 or 12? No, no, no. They do two attacks. And then the cons save.

And then they do a con save. I'm going to use my reaction to silvery barbs, the one that's attacking Ziggy Singh, that he doesn't look like he's nearly as sturdy as everyone else. You're going to see... It looks a bit like a cry. Yeah, you're going to see all of... He does look a bit like a bit like a guy.

Cryer. As all the holograms begin to dance and play the keytar, all four pixels lean forward and blow a kiss and a little pixelated heart. Four of them head straight, or two of them head straight towards the ones that are on Ziggy, just one of them. And so that one will have to re-roll and take the lowest roll. And then the two of the other hearts, they come up. For both hits? No, no, no, just for one of the guys. One, one. One attack. So for the one that's an 18, you have disadvantage now. Okay.

It means up to you. You can do what you want. Okay, well then that now misses. So that's an 11. And then the other two hearts are gonna combine and head straight towards Co. And Coe, you will have advantage on your next the next to the next minute.

Okay. And as it hits you, you see a pink, like, lipstick mark on the cheek. So then I'll say if that is in reaction to them, moving in, then you could have rolled your save at advantage. If- It's a reaction. I want to keep it.

On the attack. Okay. Yeah, when a creature I can see succeeds on an attack roll is one I can use Silvery Blas. Got it. Okay, okay, okay. So, Shinky, you'll see these gargantuan movements of this large human as it strikes out at you. Almost with like open slashes of the hand. like these blades are coming off of them.

And you'll feel this energy, almost draw at your person. And this, you can't quite place it, but this also feels familiar to you in a moment. Co. You then, if you keep your con safe, you have failed the con save. I'm gonna keep it.

You will take five points of necrotic damage from this drawl at, your energy and because it hit you somewhat the hardest this and this is fresh in your memory this is a similar sensation to when Big Thunder clapped his hands and sapped your sapped your very life essence and feasted upon it you take five points of damage and your HP maximum is reduced by that amount and I'm also can't speak and you what I can't speak as well you are silent for a Turn. Neither of the attacks hit you, though, I'm assuming it's an eight and a nine.

As it flails around you as the arm slash out, no physical hit lands as you are parrying deftly with your mace, but you can feel it, pull it, your very spirit as it somehow begins to almost consume you. Pixel. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. That was the goods. Ziggy. We're in. Thanks, thanks, Pixel. We're going to get you out of here. You're welcome, you're welcome, you're welcome, you welcome. I pull up my grid boy and I start to type, and two screens show up hovering in front of me.

As I look and I'll watch a dance of code start to spill down, very quickly comprehending the situation. I will run a script and you'll see a beam of green light, like a prism, suddenly burst out from the ceiling above me as the code execute. And they target, these three, rays will split and target the numbers three, two, and four, almost like a sniper line.

And then a pulse of energy will fly down and attempt to hit them. This is me reflavoring scorching ray. Oh, cool. I need to make, what is it? I have a plus that to attack. I need to make three rays. You're gonna move away first,

so you're not disadvantaged? Oh, yeah. This guy? Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's going to be an attack of opportunity, but... It's up to you. I'm going to risk it. For a misket.

Yeah, if I could, I will run here, here, and here. But I am going to have an attack of opportunity for you here. 23. Yeah, that hits. Woo! I use a dread against the DM. Yeah, I use a thread against the DM. I used a dread against the DM.

I didn't hit him at all one time. You know, let me enjoy this. I don't care. That's very funny. One fucking key. As you move to get away, it crashes down an arm as you feel it scrape across your back.

Things already mess. You will take four points of piercing damage and four points of necrotic damage. Okay. You also may now no longer speak. So all of us are silent. Except pixel. All of you are silent except pixel.

Wow, that's pretty cool. One moment. I can't cast a spell anymore. Yeah, that's rough. If you need a- Oh, no. That's really rough. What can I do? Oh my God.

Are you completely silent? Oh my God. That's so fun. That's so fun. I can cast message. Oh my God. Oh my God. We might be in deep shit.

I am going to pull up my species traits real quick. Yes! And I'm going to use my gore attack. Yes! My God. I, I, you see my mouth go, Silica, execute, but I can't. I would be screaming, I would be screaming, but I can't do anything.

You scrape the ground with one foot. And so the one that hit me was three, so I'll just turn and endeavor to gore him with my tiny tusk. You do so. As you- My horns. Hold on, I have it in my character sheet. We made some custom shit for this. Hold on.

Rhett, you're on deck. Yeah, yeah. This is a nightmare. I was gonna do so much damage, and now I'm gonna do so little. Attack. That's brutal, though. All because Rhett convinced you to move what? All right, I have to...

That is first. My two hit is plus zero. I get a two. Twisted. This has... I mean, to be fair, my first scorching ray was at 15. So if you want to keep that, then no, no, I'll roll again. I'll roll again.

16. Oh, hell, hell, you. That's three twists. 16 hits? Yes, and I do... Plus, third fourth. Just one D6 damage. I do two points.

On which one? piercing damage from a gore attack on three. Worth it. Worth. Worth. Worth. Worth. Worth. Worth. That's incredible. And I'm sure for my life. You charge forward with all your might and you gore into this. Gouging your... I shit my pants.

My pleaded blue pants. This this gargantuan gray-skinned creature with no expression as your horn is lodged. firmly now in its stomach turns slowly and looks down at you. Rhett, it's your turn. Is he looking at me? I am going to, let me pull off what I have here. Oh, God, is it even the line? If I think I could...

It's phenomenal. This is phenomenal. Seeing that Pike is in danger and that, I mean, everyone's in danger. But I'm sort of focused on Pike. Pixel looks okay for now. I'm going to spin around this guy and I'm dodging.

And I would attempt to yell out to Pike and realize I can't speak. And then, luckily, I have plenty of stuff I can do where I'm going to glim. I'm going to turn some knobs and levers and pull a crank

and then pull the trigger as the singularity in my cannon will spin and focus into a very tight, long beam as I use my alternate fire mode on my craft cannon. I'll use disruptor beam. It's a 30-foot line that is 10 feet wide, and so if I can try to aim it here,

without hitting pike, I will. But if I can't make that happen, it's 10 feet wide, it's pretty wide. I mean, you're talking about that whole, whole side of the room that basically I want to like not care about not hitting the wall I'm just gonna be just trying to blow the wall and clip this guy like yeah he doesn't give a shit I will say that if you I'm gonna raise the AC but if you roll to attack and you beat a raised AC so it's a it's a deck safe that he has to make well shit advantage maybe

um okay yeah yeah yeah yeah okay I would do two guys yes yes oh boy Okay, four will roll normally, let me do that. I'm using Destructor D, one of my alternate five. Oh, that fails. That's like, uh, uh, two, 11 for a four. Um, and then this guy will roll advantage. Oh, yeah, that's probably fine. I'd say, 21. Yeah, yeah.

21 for the guy next to Pike. Uh, four, it was like a five or something. So four will take eight points of necrotic damage and one will take, um, four points. It's necrotic damage? Oh, fuck. Red doesn't know? No, of course not. Oh, but wait.

I see what's happening. And I turn over, and I suddenly realize I don't need to speak in order to run this quick script. I use Hot Fix, and I use my reaction, part of my Grid Runner class feature, to make the spell damage, ignore the resistance

of attack damage. So it does the full damage if I can. I don't need to talk to... I don't have to talk in order to use my spell My class features, everybody. Hell yeah. So you blast out this beam that it first washes over these creatures

and they almost seem not to notice it or Karen the slightest with this initial form. And then Ziggy quickly, you can see him still stuck in the other as he types away. And you see briefly the color scape of your beam change

as Ziggy Hot fixes the type and removes the resistance that they in fact did have to... Just a few green zeros and one sparkle out of where the injuries occur. As they land full... So let me adjust this because they land full damage now. Nice Wombo kind of more. Was that one that took the other hit? Yes, four in one.

Okay, okay. And they both took full damage. One took four damage. Okay. Perfect. Go. I am going to call out to Pixel something, and I'm unable to,

so I will see that she's there. I'm going to be like, my eyes are going to be wise. I feel kind of like the mark on my face, and I'm like, like, what the fuck? And I'm going to get in between Pixel and this guy, is I'm going to pivot around like I'm in the street fight, and I am going to swing my club forward, because I'm going to use the advantage from her silvery bar,

That's good. I'm glad I did that with advantage. That's gonna be a 20... Definitely hits. Definitely hits. I am going to divine smite. I don't give a fuck as a laser spike shoot out of my club as I am smashing it into this guy that is... I guess I believe when it comes to divine smite,

that's a spell slot, right? Oh no, I get two free ones. Correct? Yes. Yes. Divine Smyte. If it is undead, it's 3D8. So I don't know if it's undead, but if it is, it's 3D8. Radium. You may roll 3D8. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Game Master. I was hoping you said, I can't wait for my turn.

Now when I know what these fucking things are, I can't wait for my day. As, as with that, I activate my rage of the streets from my subclass hell yeah. As I am just, this is the fact that all of this is led to Pixel being so vulnerable and this, I look around very frustrated that the Vice Roy is nowhere, and I'm killing these goons. So that is, so that's 48. Oh shit.

This guy's fucking toast. Uh-oh. So for radiant damage, it is 8, 16, 19 points of radiant damage. And then my club deals, be, b, b, oh no, sorry, it's 1D10. Oops. 15 points of bludgeoning damage. That's from one from on swing. Oh, loy. That's like 34 in total?

Yeah, he has. And that's a shitload of dice. And my bonus action, I am going to lean forward or lean back with my boot and kick it into his chest. Noticing these, I don't know how we- Is spite a bonus action? Oh, it's reaction. Smite is.

Oh, I don't know. Yes. I thought it was a bonus action. It used to be a bonus action. I believe it is a reaction. I could be wrong. Oh, it is a bonus action. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. Thank you. It's okay. You did play in damage. Yes. Thank you. You swing in with your mace as it crackles with this radiant lightning energy

dancing all around it. As you crush in, you hit a blow so mighty. It looks as if you've just, you've sheared flesh. directly off the side of this creature. You think for just a moment with that hit, you saw it wince. But for the splitest of second,

and then it turns to look at you. Pixel. Seeing that happen, how does everyone look around me? Does anyone look like they're really struggling or everyone seems like they're, this is rough, but it's okay. I don't know them very well, so I don't know what.

I'm doing okay. The problem is I'd leave it for everyone to say, but they're all silent. That's true. So Pixel will see what Coe did, and she will swing her key tar around from the back, well all four of them will, and she will just run her fingers down them

with a blast of holographic light. You'll see as what at first look like music notes shoot out, but you realize that they're shaped like little dagger, as they slam directly into this, into number two. And I'm going to use Starry Whist as I launch this moat of magical light into them doing... I need to make my spell attack. Oh, it's not going to hit. Let's say one of this?

Okay, yeah. 10 to hit. 10 will miss. Yeah. So she sends them out, but they're still kind of shrouded in shadows. She's still really reeling from her encounter with the viceroy, and you watch as these 8-bit music notes just. You still feel that pull on your essence, almost, that pull on your harmony.

I can still hear him in her head saying that he wants her harmony. The voice, the whispering voice rattles in your mind as you tried to take aim, and it throws you off just mildly as you go to land your attack. Pike. Now that I have, go out? Yes? I forgot that now that it's a spell, I could not have cast Divine Smite. Oh, shit. Is it another verbal computer? Yes. I did not know that. I rather, I was thinking of 2014. In 2024 is a spell. Oh, fuck. I also forgot that my beam, Triple fuck guys. Okay, I'm gonna, I can't undo all this.

Okay, I can't fix it. I'm gonna raise it. No, I'm glad you said that though. For mine, it destroys all objects in its past, so the cut chair in the corner of the hotel. That's an important thing to know. You've also blown a hole straight out of the hotel into the opening. I'm just trying to maintain game state.

I appreciate that. I will say be cognizant of that moving forward. Okay. However, I'm just not gonna walk it back. Okay. That's just too complicated. As a bonus action, if I can use my bonus action. Please, yeah, please, I'm sorry.

You'll notice that even though this happened and the coloration on pixel had been muted after her encounter with the Viceroy, that she begins to start pulsing and glowing brighter and brighter as her innate global inability, she starts to glow, all four of them, start glowing this beautiful neon light as the spotlights up ahead begin to spin around the room and she casts dancing lights,

and they become these laser lights that create a light show all around the room. And there's almost like this warmth feeling. From the lights, you see these little pixelated, which look like little hearts, but like little green health hearts that are like raining down around. I'm not familiar with what dancing lights does.

So what it does for me is a globulin, because I have dazzling, and cast dancing lights as a bonus action. and depending on my globaling color at the time, and I'm green, because I started off today, green, when a creature in my light regains hit points, I can take my reaction to add my proficiency bonus to the number regained.

But each person can only regain this once for shorter long rest. So that's why you see the little healing hearts are raining down around, because there's this healing aura that she's channeling with her global feature. And you see this light show erupting around you. As you're starting to, the week with pictures, was fun, but now you're starting to see a little bit of the power beyond the stage as these hearts drop around you. And you get a sense of quite how capable this person is, you've kind of become to know. Pike.

Now that I've hit this thing, it's essentially like it's sapsed by life force and I can know long, and it's stolen my voice. I know what this is. And I have a moment of realization where I push the fear away. And in a moment, I drop, to one knee and I turn my back to the one that I'm fighting to quickly survey the area as I raise my gloved hand towards number three where I see Ziggy stuck to this thing. And from beneath the dark supple leather of my driving glove, the leather splits and peels away as I fire three bursts of radiant light from my gauntlet. Hell yeah. I use a focus point to use Flurry of Blows and the room already illuminated from

pixels light show is even more illuminated as these these radiant blast flyclotch room. I'm going to make three attacks on. Do you want to back away from this guy? No, I don't want to take an opportunity attack. Okay. But you'll be the disadvantage now. Oh, for all attack? Then I have to. Yeah, then I have no choice. Right there? Yep. So he can, number one, can take an opportunity attack against me. And if for some reason that makes me lose all three of my attacks, that's going to

really suck. What's your issue? 19. Misses. Okay. So I dodge out of the way as I drop to one knee and fire three shots across the room. The first one is going to be a 13 to hit. You roll out, drop to your knee, you bring up your gauntleted hand. The leather driving glove explodes into shrapnel of leather as your hand glows with this awesome energy.

As bv, bov, boom. The second one's gonna be a 10, which most like a will miss. And the third one will be a 21, which will hit. What was the first one? 13 was the first one. The AC is 13. Okay. Oh, so 13 hits.

That's gonna be max damage from the first hit. So nine, 19 total points of radiant damage over two attacks. Which one is? To number three. I'm hoping to basically drop this thing in freezing. And radiant would be nice. Yes, it is radiant damage and it is not a spell. You fire out these blasts as they, bov, bov-bov,

land heartily on direct dead center on the chest. And you see a similar singeing away of almost as you've melted away this skin, as you can start to see kind of like almost decaying bone under the flesh. As I watch the attacks land, I turn back to face number one, and I've got my breathing under control as I pass my turn. The goons will all continue towards, move towards their target. So one will move back to Pike, three will attack Ziggy, two will attack Red. I'm sorry, three will attack. attack rat, and two will attack Co.

One, oh, and you'll notice, this will miss both attacks, but you'll notice as they move to initiate their turn, everyone who's currently silenced, you'll feel your voice come back to you. Oh shit. So the first one will move towards Pike and go to attack, missing both times. You were just too nimble and effective in close quarters combat for them to land both on you.

However, you will roll your your con saving throw. 11. Yeah, not enough. Oh, 11 just misses. That's okay. That's all right. Oh, man.

You take four points of necrotic damage, and your HP max is lowered by four points. It's crazy. I'm still at Max L. That's very funny. That's very funny. I didn't get the joke the first time. That is very funny. I'm fine.

Still, Weirdly. That's actually... Two will attack Rett. It will do the same thing. Two strikes against Rat. One is a... What is it? What is it? What is it? Where's the plus? Where's the plus? One's a 20. One's a 16.

I'll take the hip. Yeah, I'll take the hip. And then roll a con save for me as well. 15 on the con save. You pass the con save. You feel that drawl at your essence. But as it pulls at you and you're able to resist it, it does land one blow. And you take six points of piercing damage

and one point of necrotic damage and you once again feel the voice catch in your throat. Oh, it's bow! Three? On Ziggs. Yeah. Okay. Uh-oh.

Zee has to pass this. Ooh. Uh-oh. Do I have to con-save regardless of whether he hits me or not? Yes. You'll con save every time. Great. You have to succeed this. This is a 23 to hit and a...

I'm going to use silver rebarves. And a nine. Huh? Oh, that's still happening? It's a reaction. And so I got my reaction back on my turn. It's spell slot. So I'm going to use that. Okay. Well, never mind. Double sixes then. Unbelievable. Thank you. You're welcome. And you have advantage on your next. Attack rollability check or saving throw.

And your saving throw comes now. Because that is a con save. Does it like, are you getting, are you blinding him with your dancing lights? The laser show gets in his eyes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now that the, now that the spotlights aren't on pixel, they can angle to get down and blinding light strikes

right in his eyes as, as, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, bay. No, not a single groan or sound of frustration as the misses go out. The, eerily, the only silence beyond, I mean, I'm sorry, the only sound beyond your own movements is the fluttering of their clothes, as they

swipe to strike you. Otherwise, they produce no sound. With advantage, I rolled a four and a seven. I have a plus four, so that gets me to 11. I don't think that's enough, is it? No, twist it. For the con? Yeah. We got to twist it. I mean, I was already advantaged because of her ability. So I've already rolled this twice. Is her last one? Second last. That was our Ponellum tape. I'm scared of twist, because all of a sudden I think that Nikki's going to give me a fucking, uh, there it is. We need a wizard to cast a spell on his turn. I agree. I agree.

But you think I'm going to do what? You're going to give me a curse from which light. Oh, yeah. It's so funny. We're going to tell us. I can't hear that. Where's the tavern? I would also say, for clarity, this. Deep gross.

This may not have been conveyed. But when they strike you physically with what feels like a blade, that is the moment you feel your voice leave you. When they draw at your, life essence, that is when you feel your HP maximum reduced. Oh. So if they strike you, you lose your voice. Okay. If they draw on you, you lose your max HP. Um, that will then go, who's, who's last? Co? Uh, you move I know more hike, you've resolved rent, you've resolved C. Yes, Cone's Cote.

I don't know what your fucking problem is. What are you gonna do? Stap me? Yeah. Every time. Natural one and a 17. 17 just hits. Oh! What are you gonna do stab me? Yep. Oh, I'm sorry, and your conslave.

I fail the consign. Shit. Um, ah. I mean, twist. You will take three points of necrotic damages. You feel that lower your HP maximum by three. You will then take six points, three of piercing, three of additional necrotic damage, and you've lost your voice.

Ziggy, it's your Tia. Um, the entire time that I've been wedged inside of, uh, number three with my horns. I will have been typing. I've accessed the accessibility venue of my Gridboy, and I switch over to text to speech. I didn't realize that my voice is going to come back. So I hit enter, and all you hear is,

guys, by can't eat with my voice. My connect with my voice. I'm scared. I'm scared. Please, please, help me, help me, help me. Fuck, quack, quack, quack, clap, quack, clap, quack, and you hear this. As I, on top of that, I go,

oh my gosh, I got my voice back. You were born to play. I always mean, literally every session. Yeah. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Your voice is back. I never get to eat with my Stephen Hawking impression.

You were raided that for 10 years. You said all that shit by you. That's phenomenal. Oh, geez. It is still your turn. Yeah, and so that original opening that I created in the hypergrid that has been scanning them, has been tracking them this entire time,

but I couldn't execute, and I finally go, yes! And I hit the bottom. and I will use a multi-thread or scorching ray, as it is called in Fantasy Dungeons and Dragons. The first is going to be a 20 to hit on each one, I'm sorry. But why? Because you're using his right in your face.

God, no, why? You said your face on saving throw stuff? No, we're wrong. If it hits him, if he gets stabbed it all, so we should not have twisted the saving throw. But that's, we've learned. No, no, no, but my point is is that as a wizard, shouldn't there be lots of spells that are making them make deck saves? Like burning hands, or.

Shatter. I could magic missile, right? I have scorching ray, magic missile, and shatter. I mean, do you think that I get hit all three with these guys is a shatter? Is shatter? What is shatter? What is shatter? Shatter's a 10 foot. What kind of damages it do? No. I don't think that I could hit all. This is like barely 15. What kind of damage is the shatter? Thunder. Yeah. Don't do that.

I don't want thunder. Is what you said? Do a different spell. No, no, no. I'd be able to turn off the thunder resistance. Because I have that ability. Oh, all right. Yeah, you can do shatter then. But if I put it here, wouldn't it be 10? Is it a cube? It is a sphere. It is a 10-foot sphere. They have a radius sphere.

Yes. Oh, that absolutely. So like if I put it here, you can get all of them. I can get all. I can get all of them. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. It drops down and I hit execute.

Just forget what everything you just heard. We're tactic-titioning here. And still in the background, you're still here. Because it's serious. Pop, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, p, and so it does it deletes a section of atmosphere. And that creates a scientifically sound explosion that ignites in the, uh...

It doesn't matter in the science fantasy. It absolutely doesn't. And so I... And yet it works. ...and yet it works. ...they will each make a constitution saving throw for me. Um, they will each make a constitution saving throw for you. I'll just go one to four.

I'll just go one to four. But I will let you know the... You're trying to meter being 15. No, it's three of them. Right? Yeah. It's 10 foot? Yeah, it's 2, 3 and 4.

I think I can get all of them. If you hear, one... Damn. Yeah, close enough. Yeah, close enough. Oh, four rolled, or landed on 15. The other three fail.

I will let you know... I did not hit one. I did not hit one. Oh, so two and three then fail. Four succeeds. Only two and three. You do get the... I'll get the sense to reiterate that sound has no power here.

So you will have to adjust. Okay, I would do 12 points of thunder damage to these creatures. But seeing the nature of sound in this space, I will hot fix it once again using my reaction. I make a few adjustments to the code. You hear this a lot, feels real good, and then they will take the full amount of damage as they are impacted by the concussive force.

Each one takes how much? 12. 12. Nice. I really like that ability a lot, Dan. That's very cool. That's really nice. I just got to say that's a real nice ability.

As you create that concussive explosion in the center of the room, at first it looks like it's going to walk past them. And then as you hot fix it, quick, I'm going to patch it. It actually erupts in a form of damage that can, in fact, damage them. It's not the sound that's hitting them. It's the conclusive force. Concussive force. as they're bludgeoned by this blast.

Shut up, shut up, shut up. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck me. That's very funny. That's my turn. Still being unable to speak, I'm going to turn around, see if I'm a better angle. I don't know if you're gonna use that again, though. Actually, you know what?

I'm gonna go here. And I think that if I am here, if that's like five, ten, and 15. I think I can, I'm just going to take an opportunity attack and step there. If I can. Natural, uh, natural four. So I, there's no way. EBSS. Yeah. So I sort of just stumble and I kind of take a step away and I will, uh, you move he wildly strikes down, but you're in your movement. It just, it goes wide. With all the other, uh, stuff, the concussive blast just having taken place, uh, he's off balance a little bit as his strike just totally whips you. The singularity will start lobbing blast out

as I sort of spray and prey in a cone across them. And every creature in a 15-foot cone used to make a deck saving throw. And I think that they are bad at that. Maybe not. Is it all of them? No, no, sorry, it's just two and three. So basically, it's just sort of like right in front of me.

I'm trying to like do suppressing fire, right? I'm trying to like pin them down. 11 and a 14. Those both fail. So they will both take Um, you can do your damage type, though. They will both take four force damage, and they're knocked prone. That's two and three?

Yes. You'll see as they, as they get blasted back, and they silently topple over. And even as these hulking forms connect with the ground, what you would think would be a loud thud as they hit the ground. No sound is produced. Oh, God. And then I'm gonna use the rest of my movements. Ooh, jeez, I don't want to get me moved in the other room.

I know it's terrifying. It is terrifying. Not this way. I'm gonna basically come up this way and try to like corral them a little bit, maybe. I don't want to like, you Ziggy, but basically, I'm gonna move against the water. Were they dead or now? No, no, he just knocked them over. He knocked them prone. Oh, they're prone.

Are they all prone? Just two and three. Two and three, you're pre. Okay. Okay. Um, co. I'm gonna just like, give like red a thumbs up as I am going to smash down on this fucking goon with my club.

Thank the Lord, that'll hit. That is a 1D10. That's great. That is eight points of bloodening damage with my club. And then once again, I'm gonna smash down with my boot as a bonus action. Now, on account of my subclass feature, I've Rage of the Streets activated.

Actually, I'm going to smack, I haven't been using my weapon mastery, because it's been a while, I'm going to knock him back against the walk here to hopefully make it easier to hit, you know, Group Poppins. I'm just smashing him away from Pixel. Yep.

Because I'm running toward that follow up, and I'm going to actually get this way, and I'm going to attempt to kick him back. That did hit with a 17 to hit. Mm-hmm. And then that is a 1D, sorry, it's a 1d6, I believe. That's one double check. I believe so.

It is. Level 5, it becomes a 1D8. Hell yeah. Very cool. That is nine points of bludgeoning damage. Nice. On top of 10? On top of 10, yep.

Do I get to add my strength of that? Yes. Okay. And then I'm going to just knock him back 10 feet this way, as into, and I just follow up, and I'm just chasing him down. I smack him back. Nice. He's like rolling around on the ground.

I smash him, knock him back, and then I kick him. I just run up, and I just give him a kick towards the other guy, and I'm just following up, chasing him down. I'll say what happens is this. He goes to take a knee and begin to stand up. You crash down on his shoulders with your club, a brutal strike. And as it lands, and he still has no expression on his space, So you raise your boot and kick him out.

He tumbles backwards into the wall, and you can tell that the silent is now still. Oh. Two? Yeah, two. Just in the event, you may flip him. In the event that you would not have moved after him, sensing that you have killed this guy?

I think, I don't know. They're fucking, do I know that he's dead? Good question. Well, if he just like, if he's like clearly a non- Oh, I kill him on the first track. That's what you're saying. When you kicked him, my understanding is you hit him and in the same spacing, you then kicked him.

You didn't like follow and kick him. You kicked him and that pushed him back. I knocked him and then kicked him. And then that knocked both, right? So we'll know. You killed him on the second attack. You killed him on the second attack. Then we're good.

Then we're good. So basically you knocked him away. So if you want to follow up with three, you can. Or you can stay there. I can only, yeah, I'll just, I'll just, I'll stab and stand over the body. If I get the sense that he's dead. He's here. Here, I'll just put the bottle.

And I'll move, use the rest of my movement to get on top of them. Cool, sorry, thank you. No, of course. Pixel, back to you. Pixel pop. Once again, Pixel will run her fingers along her keytard and a blast of 8-bit musical energy

will shoot out as these vibrant neon yellow glowing stars shoot towards number four. Can't roll for ground. 11 to hit this time. The EC's 13. We figured. She's still weakened. So instead, she realizes this doesn't work,

and she plays a synth tune on her keytar as a bonus action and provides dazzling inspiration to Pike. Seeing him off to the side. Let's fucking go. Seeing the way that he's looking at this thing. And even though she doesn't understand why there's almost, she picks up on a sense of fear maybe a little bit.

And that makes her think about the fear that she felt when she was being circled by the Viceroy. So she throws out this helping hand to him. And as this musical magic hits him, it plays a sound from her show. And a very small little 8-bit up arrow bounces off of him and lands right next to Coe, who will also get a 1D4 on her next page 20s.

Oh, my gosh. Let's go. That is awesome. You'll get a D6 and Coe will get a D4. Oh, cool. I can apply to damage, right? Yeah. If I need to?

If I need to. Oh, no, not yet. Yeah, okay. Just like in total. I believe they get rid of that for Bargling. So I can apply it to my hit though, too. Okay, it's better, frankly, generally. Yeah, so I feel uplifted.

I feel, I hear the song from the show. And I, even in the heat of battle, I recall the melody and I feel uplifted. I also am dancing around this thing. And I know not to dance toward the center of the room and put myself between more enemies. So I will take an opportunity attack as I put my back against the wall,

still putting myself between two of these things, but I know at least no one's gonna come up from behind me. So he can take an opportunity attack on me. That's right. 10. He misses, and I continue to dance around. And as soon as I feel my backup against the wall, I levy my gauntlet at number one

and use my last focus point to Flurry of blows and fire three radiant blast at this thing. The first two attacks are going to, one is going to hit, one is going to miss. Mm. and the last one will hit. So two of the three will hit. Oh, actually, I'm going to use my...

I'm going to use my... I only needed to add one to make it hit. All three hits. Let's go. So I cash it all my inspiration. Let's go. Hell yeah. Three radiant attacks will look like...

Fards, folks. Four, five, six, seven, eight, plus 15 is 23 points of radiant damage over three attacks. And that is my last focus point. So my DPS is going to drop off. But we gotta drop some of these things. Shorter long rest, just so I know. Unfortunately, I think it's long, but I have uncanny metabolism. It's short rest.

I thought so. But I have uncanny metabolism. I just can't use it until our next fight. All of those shots were at number one. Yes. As you fire out these radiant blasts, the one is getting ready to go wide until that eight-bit up arrow

flies through and guides it back on course. back on course as your shot lands an attack and as bov, bo, bo, getting hit markers. Ah, hits game. As you fire these out, each one lands solidly into the first silent. And as the third one collides, it pauses for a moment

and then collapses forward. Fuck yeah. Let's go. I used only Only five feet, I will call it 10 feet of movement. So then I'll just use the rest of my movement to kind of go ahead towards pixel so that I'm not in melee range of this thing

and that's the end of my turn. What are you doing? Don't do that. Sit down. Sit down and don't do that mask. Three, seeing that Coe has just felled one of its allies. Come on, Ivy, I killed your friend. Oh, everyone who could not speak, everybody does regain their-

Nice. Yeah. Yeah. One is a two, one is a 19. That'll hit me. The 19 one, not the two. Could you imagine? I would be literally a loss.

I will silvery barbs this. Oh. What does that look like? I don't want to do it. Yeah, good. I want to do it at first level. It's the same as I've been doing it. The lasers are going around to blind this entity.

Yeah. my focus similar to what I did with Ziggy, even though I could choose someone else to be affected by this as well, you'll see the little eight-bit heart fly towards Coe, and Coe will get advantage on her next attack. But he'll be at disadvantage. As one bladed chop is coming in,

and it looks like it's going to land, the lights, these spotlights hit the eyes of this creature and its attack goes wide as it flails, not able to see you. You do feel the, oh, I'm sorry, Khan's saving throw. Oh, so that has to the advantage? Well, I'm not, yeah, I think it's your very next one. Yeah, it's, it's. The next attack roll, yeah, yeah, the next one.

So I smash it, like 22. Nice. You feel that. Oh, no, no, sorry, just at 19, I'm sorry. Do you feel that resonance to reach out to you and begin to drawl on you, but you You're able to fight it back and you are unaffected. You are unhitted. The other one.

Thanks, Picks! And you can do that? What the fuck! The other one- That's amazing! Will run at Pike, seeing Pike just have downed the other- Oh! Good catch. Good catch. Holy!

I see a charge and I just like take a defensive stance. I'm like ready for this thing. Con saving throw. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I failed a con-saving throw again. Oh, man. Natural one and the 23 to hit. Oh, dear Lord.

So finally, I have been dodging. Yeah, you're unaffected again. I'm getting drained. I'm getting slower though. And I'm not as quick as I was at the start of this fight. And finally, one of it catches me. My question though is, for the 23 that hit, is it doing bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage?

Piercing and necrotic. I'm going to use my reaction to reduce it by 1D10 plus 8 as I try to deflect the blow. The piercing? Yes. You would reduce it totally. Totally. It doesn't have the capacity in my age. So even though it hits, I still find a little bit of extra juice,

a little bit of steam, and I use my reaction to deflect it, and I take no damage from the piercing. But I still get drained again. You feel almost, you completely take no damage from the physical strike of the attack landing. But as it hits, you feel the necrotic cut into it. You feel once more your voice catch in your throat is you cannot speak, and you feel the drawl on your life essence,

is you take one point of damage from the necrotic blade strike, and three points of damage from the draw, reducing your HP max by another three. You are now no longer at full health. That's right. I take four damage, and I reduce my max by three. You have one point of damage. And now, Pixel will be close enough to hear that my breathing is extremely ragged.

I don't look wounded. I don't look, I just look. I'm not speaking. I'm just breathing very heavily. I look winded, I'm sweating, but I don't look, I don't look weak. You'd look kind of raggedy, like almost exhausted, though you've moved very deftly and they've not seen to land a lot of hits on you, somehow it would seem as though the battle's taking its toll. Would it be right to say is that rather than being like torn apart, his hair is perhaps quite dim and that his skin tone is becoming sallow and gray?

Absolutely. Is that probably? That is 100%. I love that. That's great. Your hair is losing its shine. It doesn't have that luminous glow, and the tip to your skin is fading

as it's starting to reflect a little gray. Yeah, that's pretty badass. And that's both turns, right? That's goons. Ziggie. Ziggis up. Should I run? I should run. Yeah, I'm gonna run.

I'm gonna scream. And I'm going to attempt to get away from these creatures. Presumably he stood up, right? I'm guessing. He would have stood up on his turn. Is that the doubt against the wall? No, no. He was one of the ones. It was not pro-

Oh, yeah. He would have stood up in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Three can take an attack of opportunity against me if he wants to. He doesn't, but, you know, whatever. 16. That just hits.

Oh! I don't like the sound of that, Mike. I like the face you're making. No, he's fine. I'm sorry. You get to shoot the silent blade attack. You can lose your voice and you take five points of damage. I lose my voice?

But I can make a con save, right? No, no, no. No, it's the blade attack that does the... How much damage? You take just five. It's four piercing and one necrotic. Yeah, I run. Ah!

Son of the bitch. What happens? This is bad. This is bad. I don't have any abilities when it happens to me. I don't like this. Sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep. Help, help, help. I'm scared. I'm scared. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. Please help.

You're shit in my hands. You're shipping my head. Uh, well, fuck. I'm so sorry. This has been one of the most brutal. No, this is. I love it. No, it's perfect. It's like, perfect.

Thank you. I want to use something like a range spell attack. I don't want to disadvantage, so I'm going to move away. This is savage. This feels so threatening. Yeah. As soon as I realized that my voice has been stolen, you can hear my text of speech saying these words and I turn around. And I can fucking try to stab it with my goddamn horns.

I hit. My suit is rolling. He takes three piercing damages. I run my tusks horns. They're not tusks. My horns into his stomach. He takes this. Who takes this?

Who takes this? Die. Poking die. Three. Bucking go down. Go down. Just go to sleep. please please

please. Zicki throws us up this throw up on the floor and there's somebody has shown up in shit in Zicky's pants somebody in shit in Zicky friends you don't hear the puking sound you just hear the

sound of a water balloon hit the floor oh god oh god Rett Rett please that's the end of my fucking turn it's all bile

What have you been eating, Zing? I'll be sort of running, seeing, I can see Pike, I pass this guy. Because they're all like big species, right? Yeah, they're like, they're like huge size, but they're like huge. Valking dudes, yeah, every one of them. Mob goons, but they're just like silent. Oh, yeah, yes. I will be, uh,

Pike, get back, I'll take him. As I fire up, I'll just shoot a normal grab blast at him. That's gonna hit Dealing. Holy shit. Which one, three or four? That is four, 12 points of four standard. Ooh, pretty good. Oh, shit, that was wrong.

And then, I don't have anything to do with my own. So in terms of min-max, I need to figure out what I can do there. But yeah, I think then that is, that's an infuse. I was here, so like one, oops, oh shit. One, two, three, four and a half, five and a half. I kind of wanna just get up there in his face. Yeah. To try to like, hey, you big bitch over here.

And I shot him in the back to just try to gain his attention. Yeah, yeah. For Pike any more. Mm. Co. I'm going to see, Zieg Puk. I'm like, you're doing great six. You doing great sees.

You're doing great. He taught you. Use the horns! Use the horns! You mess with the six, you get the horns! As I said, you soften them up for me, buddy, as I'm going to take my club and swing in. Okay. Please hit. Please hit. That'll hit, 21. That'll hit, for sure.

And I'm using my bonus action. I'm not silenced. The laser spike shoot out on my club as I smash in. I'm going to roll all the damage at one. Roll all the damage at once, I don't know if Rade and piercing matter, or, uh, radiant and bludgeoning matter. Yep. So I'm gonna roll it all together.

14, 15, 15, 15, 19, 20, sorry, 19, 24 points of damage. If I smash in, that is my turn. And I will knock him back away from Ziggy and I'm gonna follow up to get in between, Kim and Ziggy. Yeah. You're doing great things.

You soften them up for me. How much of that was radiant? Oh, sorry. Let me count that. Sorry again. 10, 12 of it, 12 radium. And then... So 12 and 12.

12. Yeah. As the lightning spikes erupt from your club as you land in with one more crushing blow, you launch this creature back against the wall again. And one more time you see its form go limp as it falls to the ground. Silent still. You soften them up for me, six. Good job. There's now only one left.

Pixel. Pixel. And then I'm going to strum it one more time and throw some more stars at this guy hoping to finally hit and do some damage to one of them. Oh, my gosh, I think I might have. Oh, that's not Silverie Barbes. That's not what I'm doing. 21. 21 hits.

Hell yeah. Four points of radiant damage. Nice. The stores fly out from your key tar as they land boo-boo-boo into the chest of this creature. Sorry, Pike. Like Kirby. Bonus action?

Yeah, and then as a bonus action, seeing Pike in front of me and not really understanding what's going on with him, like he doesn't seem like he is, he's only been sliced once and it was really small, but he's just looking similar to how I felt, I will use bardic inspiration again. And I'll play a really gentle melody this time, something that's not going to spike his adrenaline at all.

It's something just really, really soft as you get the bardic inspiration. And because you didn't get the bonus last time, you can still get one, so you'll also get a D4. So you'll get a D6 and a D4. Whoa! Wait for what? The my Bartik inspiration.

I'm using, it's part of my subclass. I'm using my reaction to be able to give that extra. I love that. There's no way I miss on this one then. I'm like, I'm like, my Pokemon. Okay, I hear Brett yelling at me to get away. I hear the soothing, dulcid tones of pixel trying to keep me grounded. You hear.

Yeah, I also hear some weird splattering going on Something wet hitting the ground. Oh, it's not my reaction. It just happens. I still breathe in ragged, but reconcate in my eyes that I'm not backing up. And this whole fight you've been seeing literal flurry of blows, like peppering these guys with hits.

And this time you just see me reel back and uppercut this thing in the stomach as hard as I possibly can, just one hit. Ah, dang. You must use the D4 on your next D20. I got a natural 19. Which means I absolutely crush it. The D4 gives me like a 29 to hit or 28 to hit.

And I will just hit him for 1 D6 plus five bludgeoning damage, no radiant. Yeah? I'm desperate. Wrette can see the desperation on my face. You're looking to land a heavy blow as you peel back. 10 points of bludgeon damage. And through a vicious uppercut.

That's all I can do. I'm just trying to just level this thing out. And as every punch that you land into one of these, it secures that that sinking feeling in your stomach deeper and deeper as you understand that these are the silent and you know what that means. I'm moving slower. That's my old turn.

With the final goon being shot in the back and having Rhett call out, hey, you big dumb bitch, I'm right over here. It will turn towards you and stretch out with both attacks. I'm going to Silvery Barb's for a rat. No, come on, Silvery Barbs! Come on, it was a natural one of 19.

I want to hit somebody once. We're already so fucked. That's fine. I presume that sound returned. Yeah, even if it turns away. At the start of their turn, you get your voice back. As it turns away, that's when you hear me shouting. No! No! No!

16 is the highest value to hit. That misses. Con saving throw. Add advantage. Oh. That beats it. That beats it. Whatever. Okay. Ziggy. With your voice back. Oh, I threw up a lot.

And because I had a really terrible combat, I'm going to run up to him and then leave to provoke an attack of opportunity and then die. You had a big dinner. I had a big dinner. Why'd you have to eat all that carpet at all? There is the effect of three personal pizzas on the ground in front of you right now. No, instead I'm going to go to one of my classic scripts. I'm going to hit Execute, and I'm going to cast Ping, Magic Missile at second level. He's going to take 44 force damage.

And it just fucking happens. 4.44. Oh, 4D4. I'd like to say 44 force damage. How am I rolling so low? 11 points of force damage. You just threw up. I just want this guy fucking dead.

11, you said? Yeah. Yeah. As you fire out these blasts, those red beams connecting, boom, boom, boom, boom. The seeking beams shoot out and land perfectly. This gune is not looking good, but it's got a little left in the tank. I'll go into the corner and cower.

Oh, that's very useful. It's all over my shoes. I'm wearing sandals. Ew. That's awful, dude. That is awful, you sick for you. That is awful. I am going to get over here and just sort of again spray and pray as I use my alternate fire mode.

And he needs to make a deck save. Nothing did not good decks. We're basically shoulder to shoulder now. 11. He fails. We gotta finish this, whatever the fuck this is. And like, I'm gonna put it across his chest because I'm in fucking, I'm in melee range. as I deal four force damage to him, and he gets knocked prone from the blast of the force.

He is knocked prone as you, this point-blank blast from the grab cannon goes out, hits him, and almost like forces him to the ground, still with no sound, but he connects. And he begins to motion to try and get back up as it goes to cope. I'm sorry, unless you had... I don't have any bonus actions. It goes to cope. In my class. Thanks for team me up, Brett.

As I'm gonna run in, as I am just, Ha! I'm fucking sick of you ugly! 16. Nice. Okay, I hit. Call her Gallagher. Uh, yeah. That is amazing.

That's really funny. Well done. Jeep. As I am going to deal, um, I, wait, how many? 11? I, I am, I am, This is another spell.

I don't give a fuck. I... I am going to... The laser shoot out as I use my divine smite again. And I'm rolling it all together. I don't give a fuck. It's overkill.

I don't care. I am furious. I'm sick and tired of these motherfucking silent in this motherfucking hotel room. Three, that's eight, 14 plus 18 points of damage. I just... run forward screaming as I,

as the laser spike shoot out of my club as I bring it down onto this creature's head. You crash this laser club down onto its head. This crazy blow cracks in, and it has just the faintest twinkling of life as it goes to Pixel's turn. Oh my God. Oh my God, it's still alive.

Well, then I'm really glad you, Yeah. Did that. Yeah. You're still alive. I'm very low on damage. Oh, I'm really, I'm really tired. Okay. Stay with us, Bix.

Stay with us. You got this. I'm just gonna try one more time to. Twist them. We're disadvantaged too. I'm not disadvantaged. There's a crone. You can get up next to it, right?

Can you get it next to it? If she gets up next to it, She's advantaged with a disadvantage, so then it counters out. I'm not actually sure how that works. Neither do I. If you walk up and shoot someone with a bow on the ground, that can't be disadvantage, right? I think that's just much.

It must even out. I would say if you walk up next to it, you can roll normally and you can rerol. Well, the first one missed anyway. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I would walk up next to it and I'll twist it. Either way, just stay there. Did you actually give me my own inspiration? Yeah, 100%.

Now I'm gonna use that. Use the inspiration. Yeah! I got it. I gotta do this. I gotta help me. Oh no, you're using the Labusch dice. The three and dice.

No, you can't use Labusch dice. That's all I had. Oh my. No, that's, that's, you're probably all hits. Have you been rolling away from Derek? We'll use our last twist. We'll use our last twist. Derek just take adjibrate.

There we go. Well, I mean, 17. Oh, so yeah. With 16 hits. Round a twist. With a blast of stars, you'll see as she does. One point. Let's go!

This synth concert just rains notes down on top of this creature. As one point is all it took. The silent experiences harmony as these Beautiful tunes drop down and crash on its head. As for one more time, the silent becomes the still. And for the first time ever in this hotel room, a sense of calm washes over. Pixel collapses to her knees.

I'm gonna run over to Pixel and kneel down and grab her and try to catch her. He's like, Pix, are you okay? Are you okay? We're not bounty hunters. We lie to you. We're not record people. It's, it was all fucking lie. It was all a ruse. We were out to view Wheatlevox. I'm sorry. I'm fucking sorry. You look like shit. Are you okay? The moment that this thing hits the ground and I think that it's dead, I just fall on my ass. I like try to grab you and like let you down. I got you. I'm all right. I'm okay. Oh, I'm okay. Oh, I disagree with the cut. Oh, there's another one in this corner. I'm all right.

I'm all right. I'm all right. I'm all right. I'm covered in pukin blood. I think something's wrong with Coe. She's saying a sense. No, it's true. It's true, Pixel. It's true. What do you mean? There was all a lie. I'm sorry. Our names are still Rat Pai, Ziggy, Co, but the last names are fake. I don't know. I pull out my GVG license.

Co. Ticetit's Torah. I'm sorry. It's not Saxon. Saxon's really cool, but no. She just kind of pushes it away. But my harmony, you said I had a connection to it. Was that a joke? Your music is beautiful. No, no, no, because that guy, he said it was his. Mr. Red.

I don't know what the fuck that thing was. I don't know what the fucking harmony is. What the fuck? I don't know what the fuck those things were. Were these guys dead? Yeah. What? They're fucking silent.

They're shell. They're nothing, they're husks of what they were. Whatever connection they had to the harmony, their souls severed, gone. Well, yeah, they're dead now, but... Like the harmony like just the life force of the galaxy. Of everything. It's like planet of the dead. They aren't, they weren't alive from the moment we stepped foot in here.

So, wait, the harmony and the Rhapsody, are those the same thing? No, no. The Rhapsody's more. It's kind of metaphorical and philosophical. Oh. You know. Okay, well, I feel better than... No, no. Harmony is like...

I never really understood it. But it's like a soul, you know, it's a soul, it's our connection to the life essence, the life stream of the universe, as far as I know. But, Mrs. Umein, told me about it. I put out the cigarette I almost immediately just lit and I try to stand up. It's...

Come on. Come on. Here we go. This is real bad. If this is what we think it is, this is so far beyond anything we thought we were dealing with. Who the fuck was that guy, the Viceroy? What the fuck was that?

I don't know. You heard of this guy? I didn't ever see anything like that ever before. No, I just, Mr. W. just said that I was meeting with someone that was sent over by the dawn because I was going to become a star. Oh gosh, poor Mr. W. I gotta tell him about this. When you think about the question, have you ever met him before?

You know that it's true when you speak that you haven't. However, there was something about him that was strangely familiar. And it lingers with you as you move into this next phase, as you move beyond this battle with the silent, something you just can't shake that he is reminiscent of. I have one question. The feeling that I got when I saw the viceroy, is it safe to say that I've only felt that one other time?

The feeling that you got when you saw the viceroy, it is very safe to say that you, that feeling, you've only experienced one other time. Oh, gee. Oh, shit. No, no, I never, I never met that guy before, but he didn't make me feel so good. You were saying all kinds of weird things about...

My music and me and I don't know what he meant. He said something about a discordant. Pixel, Pixel, you felt it. It was awful. And every time I think about it, I feel like I'm going to puke. It's like a tug on your very being. Yeah. It's like it tries to suck the soul right out of you.

They don't like it, Pike. It's bad. Yeah. Is that how you're feeling right now? Hey, that's what Saugio did. That's what he did to all of us. I thought that was the red line. That's what I'm saying.

It was the red line. Fuck. You mean the drugs? Yes. Oh, the drugs can't do that. Mr. W would never sell drugs that did stuff like that. That's just silly. You don't know.

You don't know him. What do you mean I don't know him? I've been within my whole life, of course. I know him. He's taking care of me. me the best life I could possibly have. Gosh, he's gonna be so worried about me, ain't he? I kinda like look at Co.

Just sort of gauging, sort of like a do we teller or not kind of look. Because Red certainly isn't the best in handling the sort of that. He was the one that set this up, picks. What do you mean? Well, yeah, no. The Don sent him here. Oh gosh, he's gotta tell the Don. The Don probably doesn't know that that guy's such a bad guy. Are you fucking kidding me?

What? Listen to yourself. You're drained of color. Look at Pike! It came back. Oh, no, it's gone again. Oh, it's like, it's not that I think about it, that's what the fucking undercross.

They were like, I'm tired. They were drained of their life force. You've been through a lot. But we need to fucking tell you. Not only are we not music producers, but wheedlevox, he knew you weren't coming back.

No, look, no. Now, you would never send me here if he didn't think I was coming back. You don't understand. He loves me. Vicksil, I hate to tell to you, but, but it's true. Oh. Listen. And I'll pull up my grid boy. I don't want to, look, you lied to me.

You told me you was, no. You have to listen to this. This is, this is him. This is his voice. and I will hit play and it'll play the last thing that we recorded before we started pumping the gas

all the way to the buried deep in a hole in the desert how did you do that? I had his recording I had a mic on him when we showed up we were able to to bug them

and I and it's How? Well I... Just tell her. The things that I gave you I really wanted you to enjoy the lipstick and the mirror is totally cool. Well, I mean, it's mostly cool.

But the lipstick, when you left your purse there, that's how we got the microphone inside. That's how we found out. That's how we saved you. We wouldn't have been here any other way. Wait, so you're telling me that you gave you gave me gifts to trick me to? No, I gave you gifts because I felt bad about already tricking you. But the gifts themselves also included a trick. You lied to me?

We did. We did. Hold on, hold on. And she reaches into her shirt and she pulls out a small bag of Glimmer and she quickly does a line. Oh God, oh God, oh God. Have one moment, please. Give her a second.

I'll walk over and I'll pat around in the back. Don't touch me. As you do this line of Glimmer Pixel, you've done this many at times before. And as you run this one, you'll notice that the familiar, exciting pep that it gives you is significantly dulled. As the rest of you who are all hit by the silent, the blades of the silent, you would feel almost a tearing at your life essence, as if they were trying to sever you from the harmony. You feel as if you were, it's hard to place, but if you had to put a name to it,

you feel as if you were feasted upon. And it's a very different feeling. It's not doing what I want. And as you try to up or connect or move beyond, any effort towards that is significantly dulled. You don't know what you're talking about. Even if he said that, there must have been a reason. He would never send me

you to hurt me. You just don't understand. You don't know him. I need to sleep. I got a lot to process. Let's get back to the hotel room. Let's get out. Who the fuck knows if any more? These go. No, no. Absolutely not. You need to come to the hotel with us. That's the only way you're safe. Well, good fucking... It's going to be so worried about me if I don't come home

tonight. The good news is that he had you out here because he didn't want cameras or witnesses. Well, no. That's because of the dawn. Look, maybe so. Maybe this is all the Maybe Weedlevox is being blackmail. It's like he trying to fucking blackmail me. Either way, we need to get you out of here. We need to make sure there's no more of those fucking things in this hotel.

On our way fucking out. Let's get the hell out of here and get back to the hotel. I need a fucking drink. Can you drive? I can drive. I think so. Maybe you should take the keys. And I'll reach into my pocket.

And as I take out the keys and I hand them to co. You'll see the pike key chain. I'm going to take good care of this, buddy. Yeah. Yeah, you sit in the back with me, all right? I'm going to keep an eye on you. You two, all of us. I feel like death.

Come on, let's get you out of here. We can't, no more, I can't fight anymore. We got to avoid another fight. No, we need to go right back to the hotel. Ziggy, can you find some sort of way back that's like side roads, the back way to the hotel? Sure, I'll make an algorithm right now. I do that. You need help, Hicks?

No, I'm all right. off. She stumbles forward and like barely catches herself. I got it. Do it on my own. I'm going to just reach down and grab Pixel. I'm going to pick her up and I'm going to just like grab you. She's going to grab onto your arm and she's going to look up with you. Her eyes are brimming with tears. I promise you. It's not what you say to it's going to be okay, because you need to sleep. And then she's going to pass out your arms. And I'm going to grab. her and Ziggy, come on, is I'm going to basically, I'm gonna put it in my pocket,

is I'm gonna have pixel in one arm, and like, you got him? Yeah. I'm gonna scoop Ziggy up and not pick you up, but basically kind of give you my arm, give you an arm. I can walk, I can walk, I'm all right. Your stomach is empty, you do have a lot, Ziggy.

I will get some protein and sugar in me real soon. Okay. It's just the first time. I'm gonna, easy to do it. Just, okay, I'm here if you need me, six. Okay? We're all gonna get the fuck out of here. We're getting out of this fucking creepy hotel.

You know what? We should have gone back and thrown that fucking vice-ort down the elevator shaft to this elevator. That's what I fucking know. No. Not these fucking zombie assholes! No. Okay. Go, listen to me, no.

It's okay. We need to get far away from here. Trust me. No elevator shafts, no fucking with this vice rod. Okay. I can fly an airspeed. It's not, I mean, I prefer to be more grounded, but I can figure it out. Driving's driving.

We'll just take it easy. Okay, okay, you're right. Come on. I am going to, yeah, go get back to the airspeeder. I'm getting to the back. I'm not, I'm not sitting shotgun, laser gun. Laser scatter gun. No laser scatter shot for you.

I'm getting in the back with, with Red. And I'll just like kind of sprawl out on one of the, you know, the limo seats. I'm going to open the door. I'm going to put pixel down on like the plus cushion. I'm going to help Ziggy get in. I'm going to help Rhett. I'm going to help Rhett get. Get Pike-in.

Everyone shuffles into the back. Most of you just strown out lying across these bench-style seats, feeling the heavy, heavy effects of the battle. Coe, you move around to the front of the car, and you take the driver's position. It's firmly easy for you to see the back now as the destruction you created as you moved into the back seats is still there. the separator entirely destroyed

and the metal firmly bent in your fury. The course has been plotted. You begin to make your way. I put my club in the shotgun. And basically, it's right next to you. Scatter blast. I put it in and I just get it ready.

Basically, I'm a little twitchy. I'm a little twitchy and I feel like, I think definitely the poisoning that I've done to my body over the past week is 100% getting to me. I am not. We're all feeling the effects of vendors. Oh, exactly. It's one of those things where I was vigilanteing.

All these druggie losers were like the scum of the earth. And I have completely ravaged myself playing this role. And now I'm starting to feel it. And I feel a little bit helpless given the situation, especially seeing fear on Pike face after knowing him for as long and the horrid shit that we face in prison. And like this level of fear, I'm shaken. I'm shaken.

And so I will put my club, I'm getting ready to grab it and I will basically turn on the engine. And I was like, God, we're- Where did you put Pixel? Oh, on the back, in the back, on a nice cushion. No, we just tied to the roof. As the car starts up, Pixel will come to. Mr. Red, I've been around a lot of people

that have said a lot of things. I don't fault shall for lying to me. I really don't. We're weak with you. And- So did we. And I feel like I truly got to- know you at all. But I promise you, Mr. W is not a bad God.

Said your bounty, honies, you can't, you can't take him from me. It's all like God. Dwe're it. I swear it. If it was anybody, it was the Dawn, if the Dawn would have put him up to it, even if he did what you said, Dickie, it was the Dawn, he would have made him do it. He had no control. I know where it keeps the blackmail. I know where it keeps the blackmail. I could take you there, and then you could go for the Dawn instead. And if you go over So Don't instead, would you leave Mr. W alone, would you? And she's gonna run up to you and, like, standing on the seat, she's just gonna start shaking you.

Don't know. Would you leave it alone? Calm down, calm down. No, it's fine, it's fine. Look, I don't wanna rip away what you have, I don't. And I'm, again, I feel like fucking shit for the lives we told over the last week. I think I speak for all of us that we had a very lovely time.

And look. I was nothing but honest with you. If you could do me one favor, in exchange for the lies you told, if I can get you the proof you need. She's saying she can serve up the Don? Maybe. I will try. I'll do everything I can, but I know where he keeps the blackmail.

I don't know much, but it's the one thing I know. Well, the Don's got to be worked at least ten times what Weelvox is. Maybe even more. This fucking piece of shit needs to die. Look. The Don, yeah. Picks.

Look. Could I trust me. Let's take Pixels word for it. So you're telling us that the Don, the boss, the kingpin of the Scarlet Eye syndicate, that Weidelvox is collecting information to take him down. He was getting ready to turn on the fucking Don. Now, yes, knowing the piece of shit that Weedlvox is,

that isn't fucking surprise. You don't know him. Pixel's gonna run up to where the divider is between the back and the front and wrap her arms around Coe. If I can trust you after you lied to me, and I want you to trust me when I have... I know him.

I know him. I've had one conversation with that fucking guy, but I've known mobsters like him my entire fucking life. He's just protecting his family. You don't know what we got here. That's what they fucking say. They think they pretend to have fucking code and honor. And they say they're doing it for family and community.

And all they do is leave a fucking wake of bodies and devastation. No, I ain't ever seen anything like that. I mean, once or twice, but it was different. Look, after what you've been through, fine. I agree. And feel free to try to talk me out of this, but I'm willing to walk away from Weidelvox if you help us get to the dawn.

Let's do it. I'll help. Whatever way I can. And I think I would get in undetected. This place has alarms. I'm in. You know, we've involved Pixel far more than we ever intended to in the first place. Plus, this is about the bounty.

We're about to strike it big. And here's the thing. If Weedlevox was, paranoid and heavily protected before now. Yeah, we'll never touch them. We missed our one fucking shot. Yeah. That's the only fucking reason I'm even considering this.

Because then, if we cut the head out of the snake, we can always fucking come back. We can always fucking come back. Sounds like we're in agreement. But if I agree to this, I need you to take something. More drugs? No.

It's not a drug. Frankly, I don't know what the fuck it is. I don't know what's in it. But I know it's nasty as hell. And you may find yourself in danger again. In a situation like that, if it happens again, all the fucking gods of Agathos forbid, you need something to fucking defend yourself.

And I will sort of reach into my suit pocket. And I've been carrying this with me this whole time. It is the redline injector, but filled with that green poison that I found in the, uh, and, uh, Macoro. Hey, are you sure about this? You guys tampering with redline? No. It's a red line injector, but as far as I know, if that fucking vice rule shows up again, or city motherfucking jackass tries the same shit, you stick this in their fucking neck, you understand?

All right. Be careful with that stuff. It's nasty. She sticks it between her boobs. Ah. So, gonna keep Mr. W. out of this. I just gotta get you the blackmail room.

You can't be seen by him until we're done and gone. All right? I promise. If we can get the info that you're willing to give up or help us collect, then we'll fucking get it. We'll get out of it. here and then you can make your amends with wheedle fox but if my amendment we're on

great terms you should have heard the way he was talking about you before I left all right all right well he's probably not expecting me until really really late and I'm super tired and I really want to go to bed but he's probably not expecting me until super early in the morning so if we're gonna do this we might want to do this now when it's dark out and when they're not expecting it because the moment he finds out stuff went down in that room. Probably stun people. I had two things. One. Pack of chips.

I'm surrounded by snacks as I cast good berries and heal myself ten hit points. And I hand you like a cheesecracker pack. All the toast cheese. Oh, yeah. And also, where is this place? I can check for alarms. I can look, I can sort of, you know, scope it out. Uh, yeah, I think you might struggle there a little bit because this is more of an analog sort of building, but we've been there before. Do you remember where we went and saw the monsters fighting? The Zeno Dome? Yeah!

That's where he keeps the fucking blackmail? Yeah! Analog? Yeah. Meaning, not digital anyway. No. Your shit out of luck. Yeah, I...

First, these things, they turn off my... to run scripts, and now we have to go analog? We're handing out paper pamphlets, and we're gonna be turning doorknobs. It's a fucking nightmare! There's nothing wrong with paper doorknobs, damn it? Oh yeah, I wanna push my thumb against the screen and there and go,

look, we gotta get all our shit out of the room immediately. We have to rest up a little bit. You think he would come for us at the hotel? Who the fuck knows? Are you sure we have time to rest? Could we rest at the Rhapsody? You look like shit, buddy. I can do this.

You look like fucking shit. I can do this all night. No, no, no. Both of you need to rest. We can't go now. There's no fucking way, not a chance in hell. If anything goes wrong, we're all dead. I only need just a little bit of time to catch my breath.

Let's check out of the hotel. Let's get back to the Rhapsody. You don't think that would look suspicious? Who cares? if he doesn't know what ship we're on or if we can buy ourselves time to rest. We get our shit. I can't be seen there.

Seeing where? At the hotel. Stay in the car. I'll wait. I'll wait. I'll chop you guys off. Get our shit. We'll get everything. Oh, God.

If the circumstance sees me there, he's going to tell him it's a W right away. How many fucking jobs does that guy have? I don't know. He's everywhere. I mean, it's surprisingly nice, and I don't understand it. It's fucking asshole. We're going to stay in the car, please. Okay.

You guys are going to get the stuff. We're going to find a place to eat. Get a cup of coffee. Rest up. We go to the fucking Zeno don't we get the shit. We get back to the Rhapsody and then Pixel. You see your fucking life. All right.

Sounds like a plan. And just be careful. with howdy bunning please don't worry of course we're gonna make sure everybody's stuff gets back to the to the to the van to the vehicle in one piece and uh always still have a bit more time did uh someone say discordant yeah that was me yeah why are you saying the vice voice and something about the discord yeah i mean it's all really, really muddled in my brain, but he said something about, um, my harmony was becoming discordant and it belonged to him. And he was even trying to imply that like, my performances and

my music were all because of him in some way, which is ridiculous in every way possible. Because I never met the guy before. Do you think it's anything like chuckles? What's a chuckles? I just, I silently nod. Oh, he's just a... The fellow we met. What in the fucking hell.

We're in a real bad way, Red. Real bad. Alright, this isn't the timer place, I agree. We'll get the stuff. You make your way in the car with co-driving. Uh, the... Breaking out of the darkness of the outskirts of town, you once again reconnect yourselves to the lights that reflect a city that rarely sleeps.

As you drive through the... the neon nighttime of Paradise City. It's about 45 minutes till you find yourselves back at the Golden God Hotel. Pixel Co., you stay in the car, everyone else, you go up, you step back on those shimmering gray marble slabs, the reflection that looks back up at you now, a pale imitation of how you left earlier that day. you navigate quickly, attempting to not draw suspicion to the state of your attire and the look of you.

Though with your status and the room that you've attained, you would assume that should anyone even notice, nobody would raise an eyebrow or dare question the events of the night that you've gotten into. So as far as you go, you're able to get back to that elevator, ride it all the way up, looking out over the ocean, but it no longer fills you with a sense of calm. An eerie pit has taken place in your stomach that this place, this paradise of a city has casted over you. You make your way back to your room. You collect anything and everything you'd like, including any food items they would have

laid out for you. Really, anything you'd want to take with you, assuming you can carry it, you'd have the ability to. and you'd be able to gather your items and make your way back down to the car. And in the time from leaving the decrepit hotel, where you're battling to the silent, by the time you get to the hotel, collect your items, and get back down, I'd say that in that space,

it would be reasonable to say you can experience a short rest. And anyone who had their HP maximums affected, you can raise that by five. Oh, sweet. Shit, okay, great. I'm using all of my, or not, I'm using, I should only need, so. I still look like shit, but I can fight. It's not the end of the world.

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