Legends of Avantris - Stardust Rhapsody: Anthem | Ep. 3 | Lyin' Eyes: Part 2

Episode Date: October 26, 2025

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Welcome to Legends of Adventress. I'm Mace Caffrey, and you're listening to Star Dusts Rhapsody Anthem. You see the pounding. You see the pounding, and Axor continues to call out. I only check those recordings just to not be barred. I accidentally turn on the defenses. I didn't mean to. They keep me in there as much as I cut down in the route.

Please, please. My attention is momentarily drawn away. from this like galvanizer slash temper temper thing that's happening in front of me, this enamel process, to draw into this, this person who's pounding on the glass on the silhouette. But then I immediately try to break that focus to refocus on what's happening up ahead of me to see if I can get out of the way of, now I know I didn't see anything below me. I didn't see any of what you described to the rest of the party, but I'm worried about getting cooked by this fucking enameler.

Yeah, so I would say by scouting the scene in front of you, you can relatively make, I would say generally, and more can come to you. Sure. But generally, I would say in this moment as you're navigating kind of what happens next, you have two thoughts. If you were to move forward to be in the line of the blast, you could rotate around a drone to just kind of like maintain distance as they move. like kind of you walk back against the conveyor belt as it slowly moves forward. And if you really had to get up to it, if you can like offer enough attention

and learn the rhythm, you might be able to dodge in the moment with some deft maneuvers. I guess what I'd be worried about, and this is all happening very, like my brain, I'm thinking about this very quickly, right? Like I'm not taking a lot of time. This is a stream of consciousness coming to me.

You're getting a battle sense of the room as you scan very quickly. My initial reaction would be, I'd be worried about going backwards because I know there are people behind me. my rest of my team. Are you all on the same conveyor belt? Well, at least maybe somebody is.

I don't know about everybody, but definitely. I got on yours, for sure. Okay, all right. So, yes, you have people behind you then. You're all moving forward. There are other conveyor belts, and I'd say at this stage, they're probably two by two. So making an immediate snap judgment,

instead of having to turn and try to explain, with all of everything's going on, explaining whoever might be behind me, presumably ret, I'm going to attempt to study this pattern and see if I can frog her through this bad boy. Okay. Yeah, absolutely. We'll say roll an investigation check.

Uh-oh. And how close? So, just so I'm getting a sense, the glass, can we see Haxor beyond just the, is he like still the same dark? Blackery and it's a little bit, it's almost like kind of this slight frosted glass, but you can see through it. And you, you're mainly at the silhouette. If you were closer, you do get the sense that you'd be able to. to get a much clearer picture of kind of who you're dealing with. But the figure in front of you start to get the sense does not strike you even close to the

description you've been given. I mean, immediately, as approach to the glass, from 10 feet tall to 5 something, mid-5, maybe on a good day with platform shoes. Instead of razor teeth in this grinning smile, has that the, the, the, the, the classic kind of triceratops, like, slight hook with, you know, like almost a beak kind of. And you don't see, it's hard to see from this distance. You got, you know, but it's hard to see, like, raise your teeth. It doesn't quite look like it.

And, and large rippling muscles, I mean, you've seen muscular people before, and this figure in front of you doesn't exactly strike that same sensation in you. It looks like someone who has maybe enjoyed a bit of, a bit of, a bit of, leisure, or for quite a bit of time. Got it. And so then we would need to basically get past the flaming enamelin, the enamel curing, before we get to the glass. You would have to get past the flame blasting curing process before you made it directly in front of the glass. Got it. I'll just wait. If we're just two by two,

Rhett and Pike and... Pike, what is your... investigation role. 14. 14. So I would say as you're approaching, you're starting to get a sense of this rhythm,

and you think that if you were pressed to in a moment, if you had to make that dodge, you as deft as you are, you might be able to shift around it. I attempt. I attempt to, I wait my, bide my time. I wait for

the timing, and I see if I can make it through. Okay, roll a deck saving throw. An advantage for studying the movement. Easy. 22. I got the advantage, though. With a 22, you were easily able to, as you come up, there's one droid ahead, now the drone you're standing right next to,

this kind of like flame turret, the energy warms up at the end as it's getting ready to blast, but you've learned its rhythm, and you're able to definitely kind of roll forward to get towards now the drone ahead, and you completely dodge it, and you feel the kind of warmth coming off. And now as you... Is you right, Mike?

I turn behind and I say, watch it, Red, you're going to have to be quick, or move backwards. Can you turn this damn thing off? And I start looking on the other side to see if there's any way to shut the same down. I'm going to try to, like, follow... As soon as there's a gap again,

seeing what Pike did, I'm going to try and just go. Yeah. You can also learn the rhythm. Make a deck save. And Haxor will yell out. Oh, the control is in here ruined. I can't turn anything off. There's a panel on the outside, outside of this room. I may be able to walk you there how to disable it, but it will take some time. Oh, shit. I got a 20. Nice. 20. Easy.

You got, I mean, you move definitely through this blasting of flame as the turret. Once again, you watch climate move. You've seen it. It's rhythmic in its blasting of the drones as they move through. And you're able to jut forward and get past before it cooks you. I like to do the same. And I don't know if I can use my psionic mind to kind of press up against one of the nozzles as I kind of make my way through.

but that's what I like to attempt. Uh, yeah, uh, roll, well, I would say roll a, uh,

deck save or, if you don't want to attempt to, like, deftly dodge it, is there a, uh, can you roll an Arcana contest? Hmm.

Arcana contest. Uh, that would be a 17. You, uh, you, uh, You warble and the gutteral sounds emanate from you.

As you channel your mental energies, your hands go out, as you begin to push back the flame, and as the orange glow emanates in the blast licks out, you're able to create it's a very powerful blast. You don't stop it in its chamber, but you kind of shift it upwards away from you, and you move forward past it without getting hit. You now, I would say,

you can also experience at this point, just a little bit closer now, as you edge, you've kind of passed the halfway point of this room. The creature in front of you, you get the inkling of the intellect, the consciousness ahead of you, the person you'd been seeking, and you know now that you get almost this resistance

as you try and reach out and get to them, and as your energies kind of travel through the air, through the air and you're familiar with their movement and how they charge forward, you get this sense almost that it stops at the glass ahead of you. Do I get the sense that this might be the sort of Esper-proof glass that might be utilized by chimera bionetics or similar bioengineering

that would be for Esper and other psychic? I would say roll a history check in advantage. Not bad. 22. You absolutely get the sense. This glass also in terms of, like all the rest of this structure, though it's expertly put together and it's functional, everything kind of hangs in this general state of disrepair.

But this glass even over the time that it must have sat here sits pristine and strong in this frame of the wall. And you do get the sense that it is making is maybe imported and not of Ivo technologies, but is maybe borrowed by another corporation, such as Camar Corp. I would relay that. It's a, we know Zoclossi, no breakie.

Really? Flex this eye, flexed eyeglass? Wow. Why are they imported that? I look to Rhett and I'm like, I think I'm starting to understand him. And I'll gesture for you to come through. I will endeavor to jump through,

having seen everyone successfully make it. I'm sorry, yeah, go ahead. I was just gonna say deck save unless you'd like to endeavor a different. I'll just go ahead and make a dexterity saving through. I'm a tiny guy. I get a natural one. Oh no.

And I get, but I get a plus seven is my saving. Wow. And I'm gonna use my tracer ability reflexive awareness. Oh, allows me to add my wisdom modifier plus four to get to a 12. That's a bad. I love that.

That's terrible. Okay. Okay. And I'm pretty small. I'm gonna still say. I'm pretty small. You are small. You, you, no, definitely.

You can dodge this blast. You move with swiftness. You move with comfort. But as you go to kind of jut forth confidently, your foot catches almost on the conveyor belt for a little bit. You stumble, but you're still able to kind of definitely catch yourself and move, but not before the flames. Gently graze your heel.

as you take two points of fire damage. Ow, damn that's hot! As you- Grab and pick you up. You just love me. No, I don't like it when you grab me by my hat flaps. All right, Sally's Wilton. Everyone continues to move forward on the conveyor belt

as you approach and you approach. And it becomes clear now that as you get there, this form, this deep, rumbling voice speaking to you through the comms of this window, modulated and rough, short, these goggles on, holding what looks kind of like a pad not too dissimilar from the pad waxley used to interview in prison, however, far more seemingly,

far more kind of technologically advanced. Definitely a similar interaction with what he could mean to do, a way to interface with certain things. And he has this kind of, like, kind of natural green outfit. Almost it looks like he's wearing like a hoodie and shorts. And he doesn't quite look like the kind of guy that strikes terror in the hearts of, the terror in the hearts of bounty hunters and imperial officers, the space round. Having made it pass this horrific enamelizer,

now I'm looking around trying to take in more of the room to try to figure out how to get down from him. having heard the modulated voice say they might be able to walk us through it. But I still have the wherewithal as I'm trying to take all of this into lock-eyes with Rhett and say, you know, I'm starting to think that you owe me that beer. How old does he look? I'd say, you know, you're not exactly an expert on like Sorian biology. He's not like some giant old... But he looks young.

Okay. No, he looks kind of young. He's not like a giant older guy. He looks maybe like not even 30, maybe like mid-20s. He has this kind of like youngish looking red, scaly skin. And you look and you see, and you see almost like these straps, almost as if he's standing there with a literal backpack on. And it is not, it is very dissimilar from the description given to you ahead of time.

And still with the pounding that, that goadural, almost roar-like voice as he communicates with you. How high up in the air are we? You are about 15 feet, so you're elevated over basically a 15-pit drop. Beneath you are all, just these laylines almost of the Dadaonga night energy.

And the room is elevated. So the conveyor belts end where the drones are moving forward, the final conveyor belt takes you off into a room off to the side of here. And beyond that is, like above that final conveyor belt, probably like eight, 10 feet up is that glass paneling to where he's talking to you from. And there's a, it is a panel that he mentioned

kind of near that furthest conveyor belt that you think maybe he was directing you towards. Look, control panels there, is that the one? Yes, I hear, serve for a couple of minutes. If you don't fucking double crosses and you walk us through this and this ain't some trick We're gonna get you out of here alive. I fucking swear it I'm not a threat. I'm not a threat please And it's it's as you say we're gonna get you out of here alive

That the the the almost like the tension of the air changes It's weird. You almost don't even notice it at first, but it's going eerily silent, except for the dull pounding of Haxor on the glass. And you almost start to notice that he's lost, he slowed his rhythm as he kind of looks out at you, almost quizzically.

And then what you hear is a voice that fills all your minds. I'm afraid I can't let you do that. What? Who the fuck is there? How? You are not getting this quarry out alive, and neither shall you be leaving.

Is this clear that this is my dear, dearest friend, Blumbo? Dearest friend is a little severe. I would say that as this voice echoes and bounces and rattles around in your brain, you have noticed, as previously you were looking up at Haxor, ready to get him out, you turn and you see that your comrades battle stance ready, but not facing Haxor, facing you. Glup standing there is calm and as confident as you've

ever seen him as he looks directly at you and you hear these words echoing in your mind. You look as you scan over the scene in front of you and Quibbley weapon drawn leveled at you. The moment that I see Quibbley has his weapon drawn, I stand up as tall and I draw down on him. Don't do this. Now you just hold on there, partner. This is all part of a grander plan. What do you mean? The goal was to bring him in alive.

That was your contract. Our contract needs him to die. Wrette. Where did you find these guys? I swear it was fucking Graf. A fucking double cross. We've been set up. What do you mean?

Well, there's another fucking contract. Buhl. My antennae will be kind of crackling with psionic energy as I will, you hear my voice speaking in in Galactic Common. This one is the son of an ambassador, the piece that is almost being brokered in this sector is not advantageous to the future

of the galaxy, according to our employer. You have skills that would be usable. Perhaps we can work out an arrangement, but we must kill the young one. We're not fucking killing him. We gotta bring him in alive. Who the fuck do you work for? That is none of your concern.

Red, I don't think we have any other So are we fucking doing this? Is that what you're fucking killing me right now? Right here! Agents sent by the Empire, assassinating a poor, helpless child, the son of an ambassador from the Sorok Dynasty. This sector will be consumed in war,

and you got your kill in, but you were victim to the security mechanisms of this factory. All according to be. All according to plan, Quigley. I'm afraid you're about to be framed. No, no. I'm not going back, Redd.

It's not happening. No, we're not gonna let this fucking happen. You have one last fucking chance. I fucking implore y'all to reconsider. I don't think this is gonna go as well as you think it will. Well, well, I try to say two words at the same time. Well, I'm not so, sure about that. We got the draw on you. You are certain in defending this boy's life, are you?

That's the fucking job. I'll kind of levitate a little bit in the air as my psychic energy will crackle. As I'll reach and I'll pull off my as I will drop down the metal collar as my robe billows as my head starts surging. Pity. I'm close enough to Rhett that I don't feel the need to shan. out this. I kind of give him a side eye, I say, you take Quibbley. I'm gonna close distance and I'm taking out glup. You got it? I got it. Say we in. Go! And the ether engine wars to life. Pike, his stance shifts to his front foot. Glup cloak billowing out as the manifold around his neck falls to the ground and clatters. The spin of a chamber as the six- shooter clashes together

drawn. I need everyone to roll for initiative. Yeah! Jackasses! You, you bastards! Smash cut to a title card that says, The Adventress Gang does PVP.

As the action breaks out, everyone moves to their fighting stances. Initiative begins with you, Glup. I... Please don't crush right, blame. Please don't not crush right, blame.

I am going to move forward. Am I able to just move over here? Jump over here? Yes, I will say, instead of jumping rules, you will have to make an acrobatics check. But to move one layer, the DC is relatively low. I'm just gonna jump forward. In your minds, you're hearing this in Galactic.

It did not have to be this way. It is nothing personal to either of you. We have a contract, and we never break our contract. As I will lean forward, you'll hear, as my head will all be surging and bulging, as the psionic energy from my head will be surging and surging as it will come forward. As I'm going to cast Thunderwave.

Oh, fuck. first level. Yeah. Coming at, to both of you. That could be very, very bad. To start this off could be very bad. It could be very bad. How are we splitting up our twists?

No twist? I will say for PVP combat, twists are disabled. Oh my God. Oh my God. I was gonna say you can take twists. I'm not gonna take you twist. No, twist or disabled? If you're not taking twist, I ain't taking twists.

I don't want anybody to say we didn't win this fair and square. We're gonna win me the power of friendship. That's right, guys. So we- Oh, my Akrabatch was a 17. I'm sorry. Plenty, plenty. You're able to clear that gap easily. I assume we have to make a DC check. You do. Let me pull up Thunderway. That is part of my Esper feature that I get Thunderway automatically prepared. And that is a, you have to make a Constitution saving throw.

Kahn? Kahn. Yep. The DC. Fuck. The DC is 13. Oh no. Because I released it, it's 14 now.

Plus one. Because of my, I've used my sorcerer, what is it called? Inmate sorcery. That's correct. Yeah, so 16. Wait, 16, no, it's 14. 14. 14. It's plus one.

13, plus one. 13, 14. 14, 15. 15, be a minimum. No. No, my DC's 13. I only have plus three, the charisma. Oh, okay. Yeah, I didn't, my stats didn't really shake out very well.

Okay, never mind. I'm very hearty. But I'm not, you know. I see, very fair. Um, and this involves me getting knocked away. Yes. That would have advantage. Yep.

Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm only, you have 14. I have a plus three. You threw on. Thank God. You better roll well, Pike. I need an 11 or more.

What do I do if I have a plan? I have a plan. I have a plan. I didn't want to break this out this early, but I have a plan. I didn't want to reveal my hands. My forearms are out. I got an eat.

So I am knocked from the platform. I was prepared and mid-air, this concussive blast catches me, and all of a sudden I realize I'm going in the other direction. Okay, yeah, absolutely. So that same warbling, gunwerell cry goes down. How far does it knock me back? Let me check.

15, I think. Oh, Teph. You feel the concussive blast, but it doesn't hit you in the chest. It hits you in the mind you feel. this sharp pain, but you are thrust backwards 10 feet as you fuel yourself pushed off the conveyor belt, now falling in open air. I guess it's my turn. How much damage do I take? Oh yeah, so if you fail, I rolled only a 10, but I'm going to use my volatile mind feature of my S-Burt to use my last

sorcery point to add my charisma modifier, which is three. So it is 13. A thunder damage, it failed. Half if you succeeded. That's a big hit. Did you roll? Six. Uh, Red? Yeah, I got a...

You crushed it? I got 11 plus seven. A correctly psionic boom of psychic energy. It erupts out. That familiar, you've come to recognize it now. You can almost, your body almost tenses in the moment before it hits, knowing what's coming. You've seen it happen so many times. The concussive blast, as you're able to keep your feet,

uh, ret, but you still hit with the force as you, your arms reach back and grab the engine that conveyor belt steadying you. But Pike, you're thrust off into the air and you're falling to the ground. You take the damage from, uh, from Gluck, but you're, you're, uh, crashing the ground. Do you fall? Well, it's my turn. It is to you. I mean, if that's, yeah, that's, yeah, it's my bonus action. I am, I am, I am out in midair. You're out in midair. It would take me time to fall. You're, you're, you wouldn't fall immediately. Nope. I mean, I don't know the rules of gravity, But, yeah, I mean, you wouldn't fall immediately. I'm pretty sure that's true.

So I am, I'm, like, mid-attack, right, as I'm ready. And I know that Glup is dangerous. Having watched everything that he's done, this is, like, my worst fear. This is why I wanted to close distance and try to, like, just, you know, crack him. And I feel it in my mind, but I also feel it in my chest. And all of a sudden, I realize the conveyor belt is no longer underneath of my feet. The wind almost gets knocked out of me as some blood kind of trickles out of my mouth. There's, like, internal damage.

from whatever it's hit me. And I realize suddenly that I'm falling. It is in this moment that I lock eyes with Rett. As he watches me, go over the edge, and I see the conveyor belt start to dip below, and quibblee actually see Pike dip below the conveyor belt. You lose side of Pike as the concussive blast knocks him back. He falls beneath the conveyor belt, and you trust.

that he's falling to the ground, landing on these coiled energies of Dodonganite. Almost instantly, there is this soft glow of light that is like a deep purple, and then it turns to a magenta, and then to an orange, and then to a bright yellow, as all of a sudden you realize that there is some sort of light illuminating, pouring off of me. You almost feel this heat, and with a bonus action, I use wings of light, and you see as if phoenix wings have sprouted from my back, And for one minute, I have a flight speed of 40 feet. And so I almost as fast as I've disappeared,

I am now flying in the air. You see first, as you're the one looking out in that direction, you see these kind of like rays of light as Pike sinks beneath the conveyor belt, almost like the Aurora Borealis cresting over the hill. And to be clear, these are not like feathered wings. It's almost just light. Radiant wings of light.

God, ding the dang it, Samari! It's a great battle be sung, too. The moment that I crested back up over the conveyor belt, I used the rest of my movement to close distance with Gluck and absolutely just tee off on him and try to hit him as hard as I can in the face. Soul of the Phoenix. That's going to be a 20 to hit.

My AC's 16. I don't have any reactions. I'm going to go ahead and say you land that one. Whatever my reactions. That's good. That's gonna be nine points of bludgeoning damage. And actually, I don't punch him. I fly in and I deliver a just absolutely nasty roundhouse kick

right to the side of his head. You blast forward wings of radiant light as you swing around to the side of glup and use the momentum to swing your leg around and crash into the side of his body with a brutal kick. And you conveyed the damage? It is nine points of bludgeoning.

Okay. And that is one round of my 10 rounds of flight. Holy shit. What on earth are you doing? Here, you can just drop. No, it's just nine points. Oh, it's only one attack. I use my bonus action to activate the weeks.

That's right. And as my foot connects, I say, traitor is jackass! And that's my whole turn. Yeah! Oh, God! You hear, as this commotion breaks out, this unbelievable exchange of ability,

erupts in front. You hear for the moment a pounding on the glass, and quickly you see the silhouette grow larger and larger, as you've come to understand, Haxor moves away from the glass and runs back into a terminal. Quickly, you see conveyor belts one, three, and five flip directions. If you could spin those arrows. It's at this moment. What a cheater! It's at this moment... What a god. This is a great little mechanic. Everyone on their conveyor belts will move five feet in the direction

the arrows are currently moving. Yeah, I'm flying. It doesn't need to affect me. I would just get out of the way. You're probably there? Yeah, let's just say we're kind of in the same space, but it's like, you know, I'm floating. Everybody else would move, though, except Pike.

Are you floating? You're not floating. You're standing on the conveyor belt. Okay. That was kind of a flavor thing, right? I was flavor, and I landed, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I am very, like, I'm very depleted.

You get the sense that even though I'm kind of unleashing, I've expended a lot of my mental energy. Quibbley. Oh, I'm sorry, one other thing. Let's do it like this. Where is it? One gram of a lot. One more thing.

Kill the ether on quibble. This burbling, this, that chaotic energy of didonggan. pulses in one of the energy cores in sector one. Nobody is currently there, but immediately the conveyor belts in that section are blanketed in neon lightning as the cells crackle and burst as they shoot out. Quibble, it is your turn.

I'm gonna run away from the wall of fire. Yep, that is what that mid-cut is, that wall of fire. 15, 20, 25. I think I'm actually probably a 20-15. Are you 30? Am I 30? Am I 30? Can I shoot Rhett from here, or am I going to have to...

Mmm. Can I be shooting through your buddy? Damn. I don't want to shoot for my buddy. Glup! Damn! I'm going to aim my gun. I'm sorry.

I'm going to aim my gun, and I'm going to take aim at Pike. I'm going to quickly hit the scan on the side, and you'll see this thin red laser that marks you as my target. I'm going to cast a ton of... Hunter's Mark. On Pike? Oh, fuck. Dang. And I am going to do, do, do.

Yeah, I mean, that's pretty good. That's pretty good. I'm gonna say, just one more contract. Just one more contract, and you can be with Portia Bella forever. That's going to be a 21 to hit. My presumption would be either of that. 21 to hit, Pike.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I apologize. No problem. You're gonna take seven radiant damage, and you're going to take... Radiant damage? Radiant damage and five force damage. I'll take all of the five force damage, but also I have the feature solar metal.

I'm resistant to radiant damage. Well, then cut it in half. So five, and then, how much was the radiant? Yeah, you take three radiant damage. Okay, so eight total? Yep. Ooh, this isn't good. I hit the wing and it like a bunch of sparks fly out.

Damn! And I reached down and I pull out a shell and then slip another shell in. See if this works, you fucker. As you draw down, as it clips his wings, so to speak, as the blast rings out, and you take, though the radiant damage strikes you and your radiant metal shaves off a bit of the pain, you make that swap in bullets.

What does it mean, me, me, me, and me. Rhett, to you. Oh, fuck these guys up. Fuck these guys up. Oh, Jesus. Fuck him up. He hurt me. Don't let him hurt me.

I'll hurt you again. Yeah, you actually, the way it connects, I like, well, and you actually see the wing of light, like, dissipate for a minute before it, like, reforms as you, like, land a pretty devastating blow on Pike. You see me quickly, like, swapping shells out. Yeah. I do my magic finger trick. Okay, so what I'm going to do. Now, listen, here is, we're taking over this campaign. The season's an evil campaign.

When you're both in, it's going to be the club and fucking... Take it every you. Quigley show. Masalina! Ooh, through my eyeballs, this will help me. This will be very important. So this is one, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, five, six.

So what I wanna do, I wanna put it like one and a half, two, so that's. What the fuck are you calculating? Two, three. All this is a direct- Yeah, artifice or shit. So I'm going to target. I will grab my Grav cannon, and it will start to churn and crank in all of the tanks on my back are

going to clunk and whir, and you can see bubbling in the tanks, and the singularity in my cannon is growing, and it's growing darker, and with blues and purples in the center, just pitch black. as I look towards, I'll actually walk down here and facing my fucking self. Let's fucking go. Just remember, you fucking chose this. And almost like the whole fucking room goes pitch black for a second.

And then all of a sudden, even the light from the wings? The light returns, and right behind Quimbley hanging in the air is a swirling vortex, almost like a singularity from my cannon, floating in the air, and you, everyone within 30 feet of it, which should be them too, but not bike, will start to feel the pull. As my once a day, once a week special move, called Vortex, thank you, GM, for giving this to me.

And that's my turn. Do you want to circle it? What is it? What is it? You'll find out. Oh my god. My man. Let's fucking go.

Thank you. Thank you, Grimcourt. Very cool. It might be relevant right now, because I'm going to say at the end of Rett's turn, the conveyor belts will move once again. And everyone who's standing on them will move five feet in a direction of the conveyor belt.

Only five feet? Uh, yes, five feet. They haven't started their turns yet. And you would come down. Oh, and I would come down. Yeah, you come back towards spike. Does anything affect us right away? When you start your turn, let me have to turn.

Okay. And... Oh, or if you enter within 30 feet. Um... You believe should be in somebody within 30 feet. Uh... Gluck. I just started my turn.

Um, make a strength savings, bro. Oh my God. My god, I gave a plus zero. It's about what I got. 15. You fail. You get pulled into the center of the singularity. You take one D8 force damage, seven force damage,

and you're pulled 20 feet towards the center point. So one and a half. 15. 15. And am I being held in the air by the center point now? Yeah, basically, I would say, yeah, absolutely. How much damage? Yeah.

You took seven damage. Oh, shit. Oh my god, I'm just dropping my dice. I'm so like, ah, dude, I'm like vibrating. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's my turn now. It's your turn. Yes, it's your turn.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the gravity's literally, it's pulled you in, you're just floating in the air right now. Can I, can I get out of it or no? There's probably a repeat saving throw, right? Well, that's an interesting point. It's a fall, you can try to... I'm gonna presume that I, because I failed,

I'm there for my movement. You can walk out of it. You can use your movement, right? It just pulls you in, you can walk out. But you're in mid-air's. I think it's considered difficult terrain. I think it's like you, it's tough to move out of it. Oh, it's difficult terrain.

Yeah, because you're, you're getting, like, you're going to drool towards it. You're floating, right? So like, can you, can I get on here? It's up to the jam? You might be able to, like, grab the- Can I grab on with my arms? I'd say, I'd say you could even, I mean,

you've used mental energies to do much less. I think you could pull yourself. You could use your mind to pull your body to your hands to get there. And Quibli can assist. I think it's reasonable to be able to move to get on that conveyor belt. Five, six. All I can do, as I will look at Rett, realizing that you have very advanced technology. And I might say, how the fuck do you have this?

You are still within range of it. You feel like you're still being pulled unless you get without, unless you get 30 feet away. I don't know if you're moving left, but I want to put it out there. If it's difficult, he's probably not getting out. How heavy is your Grav cannon? Oh, shit. Dozens and dozens of pounds.

Yeah, that's a pretty, pretty heavy. The only reason you can even wielded is because of the GravTag. Yeah. I should have been ready for my turn, I'm sorry. No, no. Dude, who fucking cares? I'm ready to fight you bitches till 3 a.m.

As long as me walk away the victors, I don't give them fuck. I don't care if I have to limp out of this apartment. This is our campaign now. Like, hell, it ain't. Over my dead fucking by. Did the pit, sleep after my ship. I'm going to once again crackle.

Are we taking the ship? I'm going to once again crackle as I'm going to once again as I cast shatter directly here. Fuck. Trying to blast with you and hopefully break the conveyor belt that you are standing on. Wow. That's my hope. Very calm. That's my hope.

That's a great fucking play. That's a heads up play. Very mindful. very demure. That's my, that's my action. As I catch Shatter. What's the DC on that bad boy?

What does Shatter, read, Shatter? Yeah. It does more to, like, it does more to, like, shit like, structures and constructs and stuff, right? We talked about this earlier. It does more damage to construct, like, the, like, automaton's.

To actual just stuff, I think it can just break it. Right? Yeah, it damages the objects that it gets. Ten foot radius sphere, so just... Yep. And if it, If it blows this, I am basically,

my head is getting more and more chaotic as I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm shing everything. You can see this, like, movement in the brain is the pulsations of this mental energy. 19. Lurch out and explode the area around you. 13.

Oh, fuck. Edd, you will take, you'll take half of this. Ah, shit. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. Yeah. I'm out of sorcery points. 7. 13 points of thunder damage.

Half of you see. Holy shit. And uh... Non-magical objects that isn't being worn to carry also takes the damage if in the spell area. How much damage you do it do? 13 points of thunder damage.

And it's once again a sonic boom of psychic crackling energy. Uh, once again, my hearty biology will uh... Once again, my hearty biology will uh... is I'm gonna use kinetic density, which when I take damage, I can reduce the reaction to reduce the damage of 1D12 plus my PB. The next time I deal damage before at the end of my turn, one target takes an extra force damage equal to my BB.

Awesome. I reduce it by 12. I take one damage. Wait a minute. No. Oh, oh, oh. That's good. Mother, you fuck, you fuck! Motherfucker.

I will say, well, he's looking. This powerful mental blast does not destroy the entire conveyor belt knocking it down. But this thing is in disrepair. It's held up shoddly. And I will say that you have blown a clear hole in it. If you could just like delete these three squares for me. Oh, baby. And there's a clear gap.

Not underline, but here, these three. Nice. but I might fall off. Yeah, it's gonna turn very soon before you go. But it's one, it's a belt though, so like maybe it doesn't work. I don't know. Well, the bands of the belt are now just shuffling off

like playing cards. Yes, exactly. Now we're doing a Toy Story 2. We've reverted her Toy Story 3 now, it's Toy Story 2. Oh, can we do Toy Story 1 after this? That is, I don't think I have any bonus action that I can do, so that's it.

That's my turn. Like, you got. It's up to you. So this is very, actually very important. When I was, when the whole conveyor belt moved, remember we were supposed to be like on top of each other? When you went over to Glup and you attacked him? Yeah, I remember Glup moved and I was like,

oh, I'm flying and we're like occupying the same space. Not actually over here. Yeah, okay. I'm over top of the conveyor belts. Yes. Okay. And the reason it's important is because I dropped to zero. When Glup hits me, I dropped to zero.

Oh. Wait, hold on. Are you within? I don't know if you want to be there. Um, I don't have a choice. That's where I once, right? Like, that's where I ended. You know what I mean?

I haven't had a turn since I attacked him. It is just the way that it was, right? Like, you know, I was just, Glupp and I were like occupying the same space mechanically, but I was in the air. Yeah. So you're just down? I'm down, but it's my turn.

Yeah. So I get to roll a death saving throw. I roll at four, which is a failure. But because I have the, one of my Solari traits is Phoenix Rising. I can't believe it. So again, this radiating, Phoenix energy is starting to pour out from me.

And even though there's blood, like dripping from my mouth, maybe from my ears from my nose, like Glopp is doing some sort of internal damage to me through concussive of mental blast. Rattling your mind against its bone cage. You watch as the wings, they're extinguished as my body limply hits the conveyor belt and it's just kind of moving against the conveyor belt.

And you think that it's over before this burst of energy erupts from me. And there's a like... You see that evolution. of lights as an explosion of a radiant light emanates from Pike as this Phoenix energy pours out of him as he hits the conveyor belt. I ignore the result of my death saving throw,

whether I succeed or fail, and I immediately rise and regain one hit point. Each creature of my choice within a 10 foot radius takes radiant damage to my proficiency bonus, which is two points of damage. So Glopp is close. I don't know if that counts. And they're both of them.

because he's half in it. Yeah. So you each take two points of solar, of radiant damage. And then I can't use this trait until I take a long rest. I also am pleased to tell you that Dan let me know that you didn't have the revised version. It's one plus your proficiency bonus HP when you get, when you raise. So I'm at three HP. You're at three HP.

So then... Ah! The question is it doesn't say whether or not I lose my turn, whether that's my whole thing. I think you have a turn. We call that like a Phoenix passive. Yeah. I, uh...

Passive prox in here, as far as I'm concerned. I would say you, you stand up and you have half speed. I'm not even gonna move. I'm not even gonna move. You stay where you are. I stand up. And you would see that my hair is like, especially on the one side is wet with blood.

And I look bad. I look real bad. But there's this eminent glow kind of radiating from me. As I raise my right on. and even though it's a little shaky, I'm gonna use my action and my bonus action to Flurry blows, fires three radiant blasts at Quibbley. As I'm making a final stand, I just try to unload on Quibbley.

Stay down, Phoenix Child. The first one's gonna miss, the second one is going to hit. The last one will be a miss. Two Natty ones. Oh no! Ten points of radiant damage. The first two shots, whiz, whiz, left ear, right ear, barely missing.

You hear the sound of these projectiles, and the last one will hit you square in the chest. Ow! How much damage? 10 points of radiant damage, and I look to them, and I say, I'm not ready to die yet. It doesn't matter if you're ready. And that's my turn.

You hear the clacking once again. Oh, fuck, fuck, fuck. Once again, And then you hear, as two like panels open up from either side of these, as these flying, almost like triage drones fly out as Haxor sends help. What? Now wait just a goddamn second.

What is it? What is it? What is it? And you see that the two drones fly at Pike. and at Glop You both you both take 12 points of healing

Pike and... Oh shit! Pike and Glop? Pike and Glop. Now wait just a goddamn second. We Pike and Glop. Pike and Gluck both take two two bots throughout.

Let's go! And they come down and what it feels like you have these bloods coming out and what it looks like Let's go! These aren't like delicate medbots. These are like a lot.

laser like burns a cut down your side, and it sears, but it holds up the damage, and you start to feel a little bit better. And look, it's the same for you. Sorry, sir, I'ma-ar-is-haw-h-h-h-haw. As the medbots expend out and heal you slightly. Is this boy worth both of your lives? Is it worth yours? You could spend your time in jail, three meals a day.

To the start of your turn? Quibble, it's you. Make a strike saving. I get... Oh, no. Three. Oh! I roll the natural one.

You take one V8 force damage. Eight? Oh! And you're pulled directly into the vortex, and you just, you know... Do I just stay there? Am I good in there? You have the turn.

Yeah. I think it's holding you, but it's... You can kind of scamper out like, like, like glupped in. My feet lift off from the ramp and I start summer assaulting in air backward. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, oh. I still am trying to get my parents on you.

And even as I'm rotating inside of this singularity, I look at Pike and I'm like, you're almost down for the count. Glob can take care of you, you pink mop. You're the real danger here. And I fire at, I'm going to fire at Rett, and I'm going to get a 21. I'm going to do 11 points of radiant damage.

As I see you, I think there's no way you're gonna hit this shot. And all of a sudden you steady your gun. What the? And as it comes towards me, you'll see it get about here, and all of a sudden, It fires off as I cast shields. Oh, shit. 18 to 19, 22, 21, 22, 23.

Oh, my God. That's got to be big as fuck. Yoink. Oh, no shot. That does that, that does not count as hitting a creature right then anymore. So I can't use ensnaring strike at all. Oh.

That's right. That's right. You made me wish my good bullet. And I will continue to spin in air. Do you want to get on the, I would say at this point, Yeah, weird. Where's this difficult terrain? Oh.

I would say you still make a low, a low DC acrobatics check. 15. You make it back on. You're able to clamor back on, and resist the pull just for a brief moment as you get back onto the conveyor belt. If I've got movement.

You got movement. You get half movement? It's all difficult terrain though, so that would have cost you one. 10. Yeah, that would have cost you one of three. 10 feet. 10 feet, 5. 20 feet. Oh, it's all difficult to range.

Yeah, for it's because it's a big old. If you're within the sphere, then all I'll do is just, uh, get close to, no, I'll stay where I'm. I'll stay where I'm. I don't want to be in the middle of some blast radius that you can hit us both. I'll get you fuckers. This is the greatest fight you've ever had. Uh, so fucking phenomenal. Rhett. This year. Three, two, one.

Gotcha. And you'll see the, oh, spin and spin and spinning and it just collapses in on itself. Everyone within 60 feet is immediately knocked probe. Oh, I got it. My ass kicks. That's okay. That's everybody. I'm not going to roll as much damage as listed here

because this is too high level, but I'm going to have it. And both of you take eight force damage. Can you choose for Pike not to take it? He's not within 30 feet, I don't think. Oh, I say 60 feet. No, no, 30 feet. Okay, then I think I'm okay.

Okay, okay. Eight force? Eight force. You don't hear me saying that. me say anything when I clatter against the conveyor belt. I've gone from 26 HP very quickly down to zero. Exactly zero was what you got with eight points of damage, and you just hear me, and then I guess I will turn my focus on Glup. No, I won't be dead. You just fucking fell. Yeah, I'm prone. Tark! Well, I mean, I'm not prone, but I'm beat up.

I like almost don't even see this, and I will leap over here if I get. Yeah. And I'm gonna jump on and I'm gonna run up. You gotta get up. We gotta get through this. This is gonna hurt. And I'll stab him with a larger med-pac and cast that healing spell, cure wounds, at a first level, and that's 2D8 plus five.

Oh, hell yeah. That's fucking huge. Six, one, so... 12? 12? That's plenty. That's plenty. That's your shirt.

That's my turn. The Haxor is at a control console inside this center. He's no longer at the glass. He can't exactly see the layout of the field. Hang on! I invite some time! You can almost hear the feverish clacking as something as he's trying to do something. Suddenly, four massive construction arms come out of the wall.

of the walls as each one of you is grappled. You're all picked up, hike in red. You are moved to this conveyor belt, just obviously not over the broken air. Come on, yeah, there. And Glump and Strumpel, Glup, you will be grabbed as well. Shrumpel, you'll be- Quibbley.

You'll be. That was the original name. I was changing that. Quigley, quibbley. You will be grabbed and you will be moved all the way to the furthest conveyor belt on the opposite side. You're formed down. I just. And then, I'll buy some time.

If you get to the control panel, we can get out of here. As these suddenly flame blast doors drop, like glass doors drop on, separating every conveyor. So these massive pains exactly just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. As, in terms of like a safety feature, in case anything was, in case the flame turrets, to start a malfunction or they were blowing, they could section off to protect the rest of the line.

Haxor quickly drops these separating you on the side where maybe you can make it to the panel, but cutting you off from Glup and Quibbley as well. And for a single moment, we won't say calm, but a form of quiet returns to the room. So I roll a death saving throw. I'm out. Yeah. Or I guess of the GM, sorry. I fail.

Oh God. I would say, I mean, if you would like to attempt to stabilize him, him. I think you know, while you two are maybe trying to get to the panel, you may be... Oh, if we're out of initiative. Yeah. If we're on an initiative. Initiative has dropped at this point for this moment. As the blast doors have come out, you've been separated on other sides of the room. You quibblee is down. You are hurting. The two of you, you've been patched up, but you are still hurting. Everyone is looking worse for where. For a moment you feel yourself separated apart.

But you know that this won't last forever. Um, what is everybody doing? We don't know. We don't have a lot of time. We have to get to the panel. Yeah, where is it? If this hacksore guy is going to help us, we need him on our side. Uh, is it down this way? Do we know? Do you? It's up, it's, that's the head of the room, like, hacksore is that a way? Well, we can use another fucking galaxy brain. While I'm gonna look to you and say, and I basically ask if you have another

synthcord. Oh God. Well, take a look at my pictures. And while, while we're coming up with a plan. What's you, make something like that? Is it just disappear? Or what? I mean, how's that No, I would still have it. As long as I took it, yeah. While you're, like, working on a plan or whatever,

I'm going to look across at what's happening with Glup and Quibbley, and I'm seeing that Quibbley looks like he's unconscious. There's blast walls, right? Yes, they're big, I mean, like, just imagine. Oh, those are clear? Oh, yeah. How do you describe them?

I thought we could see Joe. Oh, yeah, yeah. I had them as clear. Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. Clear flame blast doors. You could kind of see across. the shields and phantom menace. Oh, yeah.

This is the greatest campaign. These sectors, these almost of like, flame, flame, blast, glass, brought between whether you can hear me or not, while Rhett is doing his thing, I'm looking you guys up and down from all the way across the other side of the conveyor belts, and I shout,

you better hope he doesn't get up, Glup. We're coming for you next. On the other side, you'd hear, It disappears after an hour. It's probably been an hour. But I can do it again. I can do it five times. So I'm going to, again, a grappling with the launcher will emerge from my pack and it will shoot up and try to grab something that we can like... Roll an attack roll. And there's all sorts of stuff all around this room.

Flame turrets, hands now moving throughout the air. Robi, you hit a hand. The hand that had come out to grapple you and move you around is kind of moving and now gesturing, just stopped at the top of the room. You hook the hook right around it. What do you do? What are you?

Quillies and the conveyor bolts going. I am, yes, the conveyor would still be gone. My, I can feel that the, my feature, my unleashed and surging power is running, out now. As, as, as, uh, as I am depleted, I'm out of spell slots. Oh my God.

Oh, shit. I have one spell slot left. I have no sorcery points. I've used all of my, uh, extra level ascension. Good for you, man. I look depleted. Your eye stalks are extremely slumped down, hanging completely over your face, uh, on the other side of the room. Um, you might not be able to hear Pike clearly, but you can see each other across the room.

room and you would get a take on how rough it looks on the other side. I am going to walk over to Quibbley and I'm going to reach in and take the one stim pack. There's one more stem pack on me. Yeah exactly and I break it like a glow stick and I... Farser! As yeah, as I will I don't know if you guys want to go. I feel we just take turns. Yeah.

That will stabilize quibblee. You gain whatever HP you do. You stabilize on the other side. Back to you guys. Is you a mind clear? I lost the plot there for a moment, but I'm with you. I still got my gun.

I am depleted. I'm doing all right. I think I can take them if we just, you just stay out of the line of fire, all right? Is your mind clear? And I want to look into your eyes to see if, to see how you're looking at. You're right, you're right, Gluffy.

I'm clear in my mind. I'm clear in my mind. I'm thinking about the spoon. There is a spoon. There is a spoon. We're gonna be okay. And so you guys, you have been able to fire the hook over and it wraps around this arm sitting right at the top

and it pulls taut. What are you doing? How are you feeling? I'm all right. I feel fine. We need to focus across getting this gap and get in the hacksaw out. Alright, well, fucking hold on.

And I'm gonna try to grab you by the waist out. You Tarzan, you immediately. Oh, there it is. No, what are we fucking talking about? You fucking Luke and Leo. Yeah, we have to lay-out. There it is. It's too good to ever fail, so it just succeeds.

You have the rope and you swing across this gap. much smaller than what you'd accomplish before. Actually, I'm sorry, the exact same size. But still, you clear it easily with the power of friendship. I was gonna say we just like take the time. And you end up on the other side. In front of you, Rhett, you see the side moving conveyor belt, still moving and now only pushing, I mean, actually,

in the kerfuffle, tons of drones have been knocked all off the conveyor belt. Things are very shoddy. things are ending up on the final. They're knocked over. They're moving through. But you can see the panel, Haxor mentioned, right in front of you, basically accessible from the horizontally moving conveyor belt. And you think you could stand on. And as long as you continue to move against the flow, you could try and follow his instructions. That's it. It's right in front of you get there. I can walk you through it. I would say that's our turn. As you arrive at the panel. Don't fall. And I'll get rid of the panel. I would say you run to the panel and you, you like rip the front facing. off and Hacks or shouting directions at you as you begin to follow in and do kind of what you can to do to accomplish.

And I'm just keeping my eyes on these jackasses. And you're watching kind of what's going on on the other side. And I would ask actually, Love, I know you've been separated, but as you're using the mind power to communicate with Quibbley, is that something, that's something that to me would not be blocked by the shielding. Unless this is, if this isn't the chimera. This is not the Camericorp. That I would be able to be okay with that.

So if you're like kind of wild, like loud, open scan broadcasting your communication, you would hear the conversation between him and Quibbley on the other side. As you're trying to focus to follow HaxSor's instructions, you hear the warbling of glup. Back to you guys. I have not failed a single contract.

You will not stop me. Quibbley, and I'm gonna look into your eyes as you're kind of coming back. You had followed the training of the Esper well. Is your mind clear, think of the spoon. Do you think that you could bend the ninth level?

I think I could. I think I could do anything right now. I'm with you, Glob. I'm with you. I can see your psychic energy is strong, Quigley, as I'll kind of I'll put like one, my fingers will glow, my three antenna will glow,

on one hand, another hand, another hand, I'll reach another hand. Basically a finger on each side of your head. And I'll say, Quibbly, you were a good friend. What do you do? I use my special move to explode your head and cast Warhead Ascension and devour your psyche energy that I have

been training you for as a- I fall apart like jackfruit. Don't look now. I think, I think Glup just killed Quibbley. In that moment, you can almost barely hear the horrible death throws of Quibbley as Glup reaches out and rends the mental energies from his mind, consuming them.

What you see in front of you is, Glouff's antennas no longer leaning, as suddenly the form, the crackling of that teal lightning energy starts to pulse all around him, as you see the frame of his head, now not just lightly thumping, but truly drumming as these almost mental sounds of war start to beat out through the room.

The lifeless form of quibbly, Glup lifts, up and casts forcefully aside. It rockets through one of the blast shields and strikes limply the glass of the control panel as quibbly for a moment slides and then

uh, rat slowly drops down. Keep focusing on what you're doing but he fucking blew his head off. I look and I see his head missing and his corpse get slammed against Oh my God! Oh my God's! You better fucking help us!

My head is twice the size, as it's pulsing and surging, as a psychic energy is crackling out, as my flesh is slurping back and forth in my skull, as I am, my eyes, my eye stalks are glowing as they're filled with this almost uncontainable, raw psychic energy, as I will, as part of that, Ascension, as I screech to attempt to burst through all of the energy barriers that have separated us.

And with your warheads ascension, Derek, can you leave the table for the... Oh! With your warheads ascension, this terrible, nightmarish warbling, the electric crackling, you don't even open your mouth, but everyone hears the terrible abominable scream as in an instant all the glass shatters perfectly in place not blasted back but right in its spot and the glass crumples to the ground um he didn't deserve that he didn't deserve um i need you one more time roll for initiative upon rolling this initiative i am using my new monk feature from the twenty twenty four rules uncanny metabolism when i roll for initiative as a just a free action once per long rest.

I get to refresh all of my focus points and I get to heal 1d6 plus 3 HP. You do so. You absolutely. You seeing the fight once again on its way, whether you like it or not, it looms towards you. You steal yourself and for a moment, that radiant energy that pulses at your core

erupts through your body and you're able to write yourself as you take action. As this energy kind of starts to, again, just emanate from me lightly, my free object interaction while this is happening is I pull out a cigarette and I light it. And I take a deep draw. And while Rhett's doing his thing as I exhale,

I say, this might be it, buddy, and I ash it, and I flick the cigarette away and I say, but it wouldn't be fun if we want every time. You know, Puck, you ain't wrong, but I hate to fucking ask you. to do this, but cover me. And I'm just, I'm literally just gonna fucking ignore Glup and I'm just going to do what I can

to try to fucking get Haxor out of there while they show down. I've rolled initiative and I draw down on Gluck. As I say some cold ass shit to a motherfucker. I will still, Rhett, have you roll initiative so you can have a clue. Okay, okay. I'm still in combat.

Oh no, no, it's already. Okay, yeah. Um, what is everyone's rules? Nine. Nine. 11. 11. With a natural one.

Oh! I get a six. Oh! I will feast upon your Phoenix soul, child. You get you get. My voice is getting more garbled and modulated, even though it's in your mind. It's buzzing.

Your mouth is just like totally just straight. Completely straight. I am not moving. I'm Dr. Manhattening. I'm Dr. Manhattan. You're crackling with a terrible to your energy. Your arms stretched out to your side, as powerful as ever before, having consumed the energies of a mentally trained acolyte. You float forward. Pike? I have listened to what my best friend

and partner has said to cover him. I know that I can't run. I know that I can't hide. And Pike's Starfall never would. And so I take about 10 steps forward, 10 feet, to stand about 10 feet distance in front of red. And I draw down. And for all of the punishment and the beating that I've taken, I look pretty good, except for the blood that might still be in my hair,

maybe staining my clothes. And I take three shots as I take my attack, and I bonus action flurry of blows to fire three radiant blasts at Glub. From all the way across, if I can't. Actually, it's third. I have to get closer. I want to move 10 feet forward.

either way, because I want to be taken up in front of you. Glup also has been shattered and has moved forward. So do you think you'd be, is it fair to say you're one conveyorable? I just wanted to stand in front of Rhett, put myself between Gluck and Redd and like Dr. Manhattan. And I take three shots. Shards of glass are spinning around me, pieces of conveyorbley's body are spinning around me in an orbiting pattern.

The like rended form of brain matter consumed swirls around a glub, spent, and lacking of color. I don't want, I don't- Stop PVP anymore. It is formally not PVP anymore. So if you would like to enjoy twist. I think we should twist.

I did. I rolled my first two and what I'll say is I got an 18 and a 15. Do both of those head. Both of those head. Then- Well, yes. What is that?

have a reaction is what I was. Okay. Why don't we just add three to the last one? 20 total with a three with a three to us. So 20, 18, 15. That's gonna be 3D6 plus 15 rating damage because all three attacks hit. Yes. You want me your total of damage

or you wanna do it individually? So if one is, so were all of them 18 or a higher? No, it was 15 was the lowest, then it was an 18 and a 20. I will, as they fire towards me. Yeah. A, another kind of sonic boom, as one of your blast will get caught in my psychic energy

and get added to my swirling psychic blasts. Oh, you catch one. As I used deflection. It's definitely deflection, but I think it's just cooler to have it added to my bid. Okay. So you'll be able to do. Other two will hit me.

Oh, fuck. 13 total points of damage over two attacks, radiant damage. Thirteen total. I need a fucking... Damn, that's cool. Damn, that's cool. You all roll. Oh, yeah.

I'm a Derek, guys. Yeah, what the fuck? There's no longer necessary. And as these first two shots collide with you and you catch the third, there's a wild smirk on my face after I told Rhett that it wouldn't be fun if we won every time. And as I watch him catch the third shot, I say, the band is playing our song. Oh, yeah. That's my turn.

Rhett is to you. You ain't wrong. Good shot. Is Haxor talking to me? Hacksor, yes. You hear him calling out. Oh, yeah, no, I like him, and no punch this in.

All right, I'm following sequence, enter. It's not working. And he's guiding you through it. Oh, oh, oh, oh, control instead of, oh, sorry. With a splat button here, I don't know what that does. You start to get a little, he's starting to get a little frustrated with you. No, no.

No, it's a backslash, not forward to there. As you're going forward, you start to get a sense of like, even with him directing you, under the fucking tension of the moment, it's hard to focus on what he's guiding you to do. What is your passive perception? Ooh. 15. Gloop, it's your turn.

Oh shit. Phoenix Child, this is not how it should have end. It is a simple contract you could have been wealthy as I am going to first he's a legendary. Oh, shh, what the fuck? I know I see that's not PVP. Well played. Michael and base.

As I see, I see a RET on the console, as I'm going to use mental duel on you. Oh, fuck. There's no more screaming. There's no more screaming. It's whatever, it's just kind of a garbilling, a guttural, and you hear it in your mind. It's like this static, it's like this constant static. And you're a man of focus, Rhett, and you're on this panel, but even you, as dialed in as can be, you start to fuel this prod, almost bore in through the side of your mind as Glup approaches.

Intelligence saving throw, DC-15. Oh, that's good. That's good. I'm efficient. And my stats are good. 17. You succeed. 19, sorry. You, ooh, 19? 19.

Hold on. What do you mean, hold on? What do you mean? What do you mean? What do you mean? No, it's okay. Oh, okay. What are you mean, bloody?

That's very funny. You don't take any damage. Yeah. I believe so. Hold on, hold on. Hold on. All that is made you just making sure. Boo.

I told you you're not that smart! Ah! Oh shit, got them! Yep, as nothing happens, as the psychic energy almost kind of like burst back as around your head, there's a bit of a, and then it's my turn. Oh yeah, don't forget, we gotta use up those twists. We do. Because use them or losing, baby.

Use them or lose them. I am going to replace, I'm going to use two, my mold. my multi-attack to use two psychic shred attacks, but I'm going to replace one of the psychic shreds to cast levitate as I float into the sky, 20 feet above you now, as I float in your direction, not wanting you to leave, as I then see you. I've attempted to mental duel with RET.

I am then going to look at you as I point one of my arms at you and use psychic shrew. shred, make a, it's an abridate attack roll. Yep. My AC's 19. Oh, yeah. 25. That'll hit.

Yeah, it'll do it. I think that's gonna hit. I can choose either force or psychic damage. I think for this, I'm gonna use psychic damage. 13 points of psychic damage. As you hear this, this, as there is another, around your head, as this sonic boom burst from your head,

your head. As it's almost like these popping, popping, popping, popping, as they burst out, as my head is starting to gyrate as my tentacles on my head disgustingly swell and flop around as I float and everything circles around me. And that is my turn. This terrible rain of mental storm ascends above you as the swirling mass of carnage wars around looming like a dark cloud, your fate ready to fall down upon you. You hear Haxor, frustratedly. Oh, no, no, we need more time, a need more time.

Glup, make a dexterity saving throw. Oh. You've gotta be kidding me. As a boss, I don't get used twists. Dexterity save. That'll be four. A four. I don't know if you get dreads though.

Do you get dreads? I don't, oh, what's up to me? Well, actually, I mean... We got a few. Yeah. You're a ball. We're effectively one entity now, Mikey. I think that Mace wants to give you, you can't.

I got the same rule. It's fake. Well, there you go. It's fake. It's fake. I got four. We have seven dreads, Mikey. We now have six.

You tell me, boss. You're the GM. I'm just the boss. No, you can use them. You can use them. We have six now. Well, we don't use two in a row. I only, if I use one, if I use one, it doesn't work, it doesn't work out.

Yeah, perfect. Flame enamel set turrets slowly move towards you and fire off a blast of flame pointed straight at you. It will engulf you in that, it's almost like this weird warbling circular mass that hits you and then blasts and wraps around you before it explodes out. You take seven points of fire damage. And I let that happen because these blast of flame,

I look like I get hit, I'm not expecting it. And then as the fire clears like Dragon Ball C, I'm completely unscated. as I use a legendary resistance. Oh, that's pretty fucking. As, as abandon hope, you will not make it out of here. Pike.

I'm reeling. As he hits me with this psychic attack, and I wipe my nose, and it leaves a long streak of blood, red blood up my arm, and I look at it a little creasy, and I say, that can't be good. And I kind of steal myself,

And full disclosure for everybody here. I'm out of tricks. I got nothing. I've used everything. Every gambit, everything out my sleeve is gone. My special powers at this point equate to left right. Good night. And I bum rush this motherfucker.

And I leap. And I looked to hit him with a two-kick combo land and just jam my fist into his shit. Do you serve as much as I can? No, no, no. I'm, that was long after I dropped. I was 20 feet in the air. Oh, fuck.

Yeah, he's 25 in the air. Shit, you're right. Then never mind. I would say... No, I can't jump that high. I just continue to pepper him. Fuck it. No, I'm good. Okay, you just want to shoot him?

Yeah, fuck yeah. There you go. No, I still left right, good night. It's just in the form of... Plus, my shots are radiant. My regular kids are just bludged me. I didn't realize he was still radiating. Thank you.

Or levitating. I might walk forward because I want to put my more distance between us and I want to try to keep him away from you. And I just pepper you three more times. I used another focus point. And so now you know, you need a role in 18, the only is 18.

I can use my reaction. I have a plus seven. I have a plus seven. Now you know that. So I'm gonna use two for one of the attacks. Yeah, just call which one? The first attack. Oh, it's a 16.

Even with the plus two. So that's the deflect. So then. So that's one. You can only deflect one. I'm deflecting one. Okay, so that's the deflect. It adds and swirl another, there's two of your bursts.

I'll use two more. Two of these magenta shots are swirling around glup as it moves and forms. Natural! to a fucking 20 on the last hit. Let's go. So we'll still end up being 3D6 plus 10. Hell yeah.

Yes. Six, nine, 19 points of radiant damage from two of these blasts, one of the finding weak point. After the absorbs and reflects the first one, I'm able to find a weak point and get in for a critical hit. You absolutely do as those blasts fire out the first, swapping up, and you fire so fast almost glup, didn't expect.

the two follow-up shots as they both crash into him. Unless- How much damage? 19, I believe. 19, I believe. From two shots because one was a crane. 19. Got it. Glep, would you like the opportunity for a legendary action? I'm going, of course.

No, I don't think I will. I pass my turn. As I am going to, I'm going to mental do you. You're a phoenix child, your psychic energy. I stumble a little. This is in. Oh. Until the saving 30, C-15.

Pike don't eat so good. I would like to add three to this, may I? Yeah. And I'm gonna save the rest for you because I've been hot. No, no, no, no. I've been an absolute hot. You're fucking doing this.

I'm gonna on the control panel. Oh, no. I fail. Oh no. My luck had to turn. My long time next turn. I've been rolling very well. It was a natural. One psychic damage, and you're disadvantaged

on all attack girls until the end of your next turn. Okay. All right, so I take one. I'm at third. I don't look great. So next round, you will be fully disadvantaged. Yeah, all right. That's okay. It is to you. You've been hearing the call of hackers. He's tried to walk you through what you can do here.

But this still continues to prove difficult. You get the sense that if you were laser-focused in on this, It would probably take you three to four more rounds to break him free. However, it's at this moment that you notice the glass. You hear it, you hear it before you turn to glance up. When Glump had consumed Quibbley and cast him aside, it was with such force that as he cladled with the glass, he had cracked it ever so slightly.

And that crack has begun to spider gently. You think that maybe a well-placed blast could solve your problem. Your instructions don't make any fucking sense. Oh, fuck. I don't look at Pike, and he's, you know, his mind's rattled. He's bloodied. You can see he's kind of like, he's got his stance, but he's, but he's, he's, you watch me stumble every once in a while. Exactly.

Something mentally is going on with me. I'm not, I look, I look, I look punched drunk. Focus on our song, Pike. And remember, first chance last. Dance don't fucking forget and I will fucking turn from the fucking console and I'll lift my fucking graph can't fucking and I'm gonna shoot at the fucking motherfucking wait so a better duck This is the glass isn't it it is an object. It is an object yes How far is it from me?

I would say you're by the panel so actually at this point it's like 10 feet it's like 10 feet up oh I guess yeah oh 100% is within 30 feet yeah yeah you're absolutely Absolutely within 30 feet of this glass. I fucking suggest you duck. And the singularity in my cannon will spin and swirl, and you will start to see this almost like line start to generate through the almost barrel of my cannon. And I will aim as these energies gather

towards a central focal point. And I will trade out my attack for alternate fire on my grab gun. Oh, let's fucking go. If you're going to fire, I will use a disruptor beam. My grab gun has a focused emitter that can fire a beam of matter-disrupting energy in a 30-foot line that is 10 feet wide. Each creature within that area must make a deck save, blah, blah, blah, blah, take 3-8 necrotic damage, or half as much on a successful one.

Non-magical objects that aren't being worn or carried take damage as a creature that failed to save. Okay. So it automatically fails. If the beam destroys an object, the line continues through. So basically it's Zaria's fucking plasma. Yeah. Oh shit. Let's go.

As this arcing pillar, it's not arcing, it's this perfect pillar of brilliant energy erupts from the cannon, it strikes the glass, and it deals 10 necrotic damage as I... 10 is just enough. As the cracks splinter, this arcing beam cracks it, there's an explosion of glass that Burst first upward as your beam continues to strike the ceiling and almost blasts clear out of the foundry that you find yourself in.

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cladden in this black and green top with a hood that pulls over, shorts on, Haxor joins the fray as he leaps down and enters the, or you may stay where you are. What do I see if I have... As this glass, you're, so you are in the room, the control panel, the relays that sit without you. You have jerry-rigged so much tech in here. You have wired in servers.

It's all set up for you to hack and run your entire Nest Empire from this, your base of operations. As your back was turned, you've been feverishly attempting to help the people here to presumably take you alive against the people who have been so far trying to kill you. You are knocked down inside as the blast from Rett's cannon shatters the glass, concussing back in, you fall to the floor. As the beam continues and strikes straight through the ceiling, creating now a hole, as you collect yourself and you move forward and you see out in front of you, the mental storm that is glup and the swirling carnage around him,

levitating almost just in front of you, well outside of arms reach, but even a little higher than you. Down by the panel you look down, you see Rhett looking up at you, the cannon warring after just having fired. And you see Pike, also on the side, looking a little worse for wear,

fists up, but shuffling to and fro. I had to my legendary action between this one. You may? Can I say something? Yeah, I have a please. All right, Tien, Haxor, whoever the fuck you are, it's your turn. Fucking help!

I will turn as now the anti-Esper glass has been shattered for me. I will turn as I, the, the psychic voice in all your head. Ziggi, child, I harbor no ill will towards you. Your parents are too important. Ambassador Wu must feel pain. As I use scourging.

As I am going to, you must make a DC-15 saving throw, a strike-saving throw. Okay. Let me pull up my character sheet. Do you have the large block for Ascended Blub? Oh, it's rotating, but it's firmly under the battle camp. Well, you know, we don't really need the map right now. We don't need the map.

What's the safe? DC-15, strike saving throw. I get a 14. A 14. You take. Oh, God, please have a lot of health. Please have a lot of health. Seven force damage.

It's not too bad. And you are blasted 10 feet back into the. into your command center. Ideally, you crash with enough force to hopefully break some of the stuff. That doesn't taste. I would say that you were flung back with sufficient force to shatter several of the servers behind you

as you're knocked into them and you collide. It feels extremely painful. You're not accustomed to being flown across a room and thrown into anything. You did not sign up for this. You're accustomed to, we'll get to it, but you're accustomed to a relatively comfortable chair. and an array of, this is very unusual for you.

You are not having a good day. And it's been a worst week. Actually, the day's worse than the week's better. It's proved at this point. But yes, you shatter several of the items behind you, and I'm just going to add you in. Oh, Rhett just went. You put it before me.

I got a little guy to add to one on initiative. That's fair. That's fair. I should go last. That's fair. I will crash into the console and I'll go, Ow! The lab chair!

I'll race forward. I'm like bleeding out. We're fucking trying. We're fucking trying. You flung back in having crushed your secret lab chair. The chair in the secret lab. The chair in your secret lab, the chair you're used in the secret lab that you have. You remember that you have three

three items in your pack that you feel you would dole out. You could dole out should you choose to do so. Several cans of gecks. And you know that this could possibly be the thing that might just begin to turn the tide. I will pull my backpack off of my shoulder. Come on, I just, oh shit, what's fucking . I got cans and kicks, guys!

I got the thing that saved the day! What? Can't kill! Fucking kill! I tried to get both the bars. Yeah, you toss one too, man. Yeah, I tossed one, like halfway to Reddit crashes, and...

No, no, that is none. I pull up those. No, I've got three cans. Yay! And I toss you one, I toss you to the other. If you had my attention, I would attempt to grab it. I would have yelled, kill it, kill it, save me, save me.

And if I can take a turn. You may. You may take a turn. I may. I got a script that might help. I got a script that might help. And I start punching codes into my pad. And I will cast magic missile at second level on the ascended glub. You are going to need, if you're concentrating on something,

you're going to need to make a saving throw for each one of these. I don't know if it's attack rolls, right? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So three points of force damage, three points of force damage, three points of force damage, and three points of force damage hit you. Oh, so that's 12. What's this look like? What's this look like?

What's this look like? Oh, thank you, thank you. As I do this, the air shimmers and almost scan lines start to emerge, and these beams start to scan and actually like track onto where Glup is, is standing, and then they focus like a laser and you just see these three immediate laser darts just guide on all sides, doing significant damage. And yeah, I actually am knocked back by this.

Not even able to. Oh, it worked. Cool. I'm going to use my last legendary action to drift 30 feet towards, Ziggie as I'm sorry Zieg. You may place yourself. Oh, now we can do we want to do the control center somewhere? Yes, yes, I can add that in. Yes, so there's one other thing that's up here. So, uh, get right in here. So this was the horizontally running conveyor. That's right. And so I've actually been here just like, yeah, you've been actually kind of like trying to keep up there kind of like, sort of like, so like, so like, like, so like, jogging yeah um and the they look like this yeah um I prefer creature soda

but you ran out of that week I ran out of it weeks ago oh fuck again not not again you're right you guess that's pretty good oh wrong hold on can you adjust this in I got you yeah I got you um I got this all falling apart it's all no you're fine I dropped I lost the cap that's all right Yeah, that's hard. Find it for you. Um, yes, you are gliding. Ziggy now fully join the field.

Um, uh, placed in, currently in the command center. You were about 10 feet elevated, uh, beyond the rest of your, your, uh, presumably allies. So you were moving towards him? Yep, 30 feet towards him. I'm flying. I'm just, I'm flying. into as the things are swirled.

Oh shit. Ziggy's hypergrid lasers that are these bright and neon green pierced through my swirling bit of debris, and I am knocked back, but I steal myself and just float forward as you all hear this static, like, and hear the popping of these all around the room here. You start to just menacingly slowly, warble forwards towards Ziggy.

Ziggy, as you look out and you see this terrible, almost abomination of Glub with a pulsating mind, literal brain matter of Quimbley, broken drones, this terrible amalgamation of of trash surrounding him. Two of Pikes forced beams

as he arms outstretched, approaches you approaches you and gets right within the threshold of the shattered glass window staring you down. And if that was a legendary action, Bluff, it is your turn. Now it's your turn. Now you may go. Fuck.

He's that cross for threshold, help! As I am going to look upon your command centers, as all of this is there, and I see that there are still consoles and things still working and seeing how much, perhaps Ziggy's figured out to be able to use, I hold out my hand and directly on top of you, or beneath you, you're as a massive psychic explosion as I cast shatter one a day under you,

and I will figure out how shadow works. You only to make a, oh shit. Well, yeah, I don't need to look of character anymore. No. You must make a con save that is DC. What's a spell DC? 15. 18. You will take half of you 3D8.

Shit. Five. God, boy. 12. 14. You'll take seven points of Thunder damage. Not terrible. You're right. We just need to survive the rotation to have us go again,

I think we're gonna be all right. As each concussive boom that I do is getting louder and more chaotic and more static-y. And as I'm casting these, my head is surging out at various points. And one of my tendrils will sort of surge and get really disgustingly bloated and then go back down. Another will do that. And basically, my head is bulging and surging out

as it's filled with this uncontrolled esper power. So when you're blown up a balloon and it gets a weak point in the part of it. Oh, yeah. That's my, hold on, let me see if a bonus act. I don't think I do. You jackals. I get blasted back and smashed again into my console.

And enjoy it. The vertical monitor. Shit, those are so cool. You send out almost like pulsating blasts of that, that kind of kinetic energy that just erupts from you. first slowly and then it does the familiar boom, boom, boom, as they all speed up and all around the room

you erupt the entire control center including Ziggy in this terrible mental explosion. Everything is in some state of destruction. Glup has been sending out terrible concussive chaotic mental blasts. These have had terrible effects. on the energy cells around the room. I mean, everyone who is currently in the conveyor belt room.

Which one? I'm in the... In the conveyor belt. That's me. Everyone except Zingian and Blubb. Oh, okay. I don't know if the perpendicular one counted. It's all in the same room. As in one crackling swoop,

all of the energy cores around the room will erupt with arcing lightning, blanketing the room all at once. I need everyone, I need you two to make a dexterity saving threat. Let's fucking go. Oh, God. Use them up if you need to, brother. Yeah, I do.

I'm gonna use, oh, I'm gonna use two. Beautiful, 26, no problem. I don't have evasion yet, though, to like level nine. I'm gonna use 13. 10 points of damage goes out on a success, half, at five. Yeah, fuck. Oh, 17 passes. Oh my God.

On a failure, you would take 10 points. Nice job. Okay, five points. as it turns to your turn. You're feeling it. You're hurt. Just struck. You glance down at this thing that Ziggy tossed you.

You see this oddly cartoonish lizard folk kind of with a pair of sunglasses on and the words geeks enter the soda. You've never known so much energy are displayed dramatically across the can bombastic lettering.

I look at this can and before I do anything. I go. I glance up to see where Glop has flown towards Haxhore. How far off the ground are you now that you are in front of the Haxh room? Oh, however far up, I didn't move. So basically, the, so as you, however high are they? The control panel is, the base of the control panel is 10 feet off the ground. Then I'm 10 feet above him.

The 10 feet above Ziggie? Above Ziggi, yes. Okay, so I would say the roof, it's probably about 10 feet in the control panel room. So you go... Oh, I'm like lower. I'm five feet. You're at the... I'm five feet above the control panel floor. In the middle of the room. Got it. Okay. So you're about... Yeah. I was lowered a bit to enter. You're like 15 feet off the conveyor belt floor and five feet, uh, levitating above in... Okay. Well, I have 40 feet of movement. If I go 5, 10, 15, can I get up to get within melee range of glub?

I could say you, I would say that you could reasonably... I think if you move 15, feet, you could reasonably attempt an acrobatic jump to ascend the wall and basically like a swallow kick up the wall and get in with, uh, I mean, actually, I think this is jumping rules. I don't know them, but I think that's that. I look at the can and I think to myself, God, I'd rather this be a whiskey right now. And I actually stick it in the pocket of my jacket. like I tuck it away because I am trying to just kill luck and I shout as I kind of like I will tell you if your fear is in action it would to use it should you choose to do so we count as a free object interaction oh okay I was where I was gonna have to spend my bonus action no no no free object

interaction all right I say the exact same I say the exact same thing but I ripped the pop top and I blo blo blo blo blo bloo boop I have grimace as I chug this thing oh it has this crazy like kind of a lecture jolt of um It almost tastes like batteries mixed with lasers, but with a hint of citrus. And in some form of good, you feel this like pulsating, shocking of energy coursing through your body, and you may enjoy a short rest. Oh my god.

Oh, shit, that's a lot of energy. As you've never known so much energy. I will take that. I will tell you that my focus points are back. Okay. And then with that, I shout, as I feel this like extra pep, and my mind kind of,

clears for a moment and I'm able to focus a little bit better and I say Hang in there kid I'm coming and I'm gonna do the I'm gonna attempt to make an acrobatics check as I get to the To the edge of the fucking and it'll be a relatively low DC of a running a 15 foot running head start You're incredibly dexterous 24 blasted it You you as you lung forward you're almost a five feet off the wall when you first jump and leave the ground You're footing with so much momentum, finds enough pressure against the wall, that with one more swift move,

you ascend the next five feet, and you're on your feet in the control room. Glup is like basically five feet right above. Yeah, feeling the gex coursing through my veins. I pop up with this parkour speed that I've used. I pop up right behind Glup, and I say, surprise, jackass, as I unleash the

three on-arm strikes against you using a focus point. Yeah. The first one is going to be an 18 to hit. Yeah, can't deflect it. The next one is going to be a 20 to hit. The last one's going to be a 15 to hit that you can deflect. I use my reaction to deflect as you are able to, the first one, it may be a piece of a Quibbley's brain

knocks your hand away from a small bit of debris, but then you're able to get the other two in. You feel this terrible, almost like gelatinous splurge as what you know in the moment his brain matter connects with your fist. I try to think about it, causing you to, and you try to push it from your mind,

as your fist just gently misses him. Entee points of bludgeoning damage, and as all three attacks either connector are absorbed, I land next to glop, and I'm ready to redouble, and that's my whole turn. Uh, rat, unless... I'm going to use a legendary reaction. Unless you want to use a legendary reaction.

I see that Red has left himself vulnerable. No. As I will so... I can't be everywhere. I love him to the abyss. The Superman. Oh, Theron. As I use scourging, and I am going to,

you need to make a straight saving throw for me. It's about, I guess it's being moved. Okay, so I've, as an ethron. God, I love being an ethron. Thank God, come on, please, come on. Ugh, it's fucking. I would like to dread DM. You may.

Oh shit. Just roll again high. Just roll high again. You take. Oh, God, I don't even know how much shit points you have. I'm no fucking clue. Eight points of force damage. Okay.

And you're blasted back 10 feet. Um, away from you? Away from me, yeah. So, hold on. Let me just zoom in here so we can get a close look. So that would be basically out here into the abyss. Oh, fuck. You are pushed back by this concussive force.

You are knocked over the... What the fuck is it? Not chasm, but over this steep drop on top of these Dondongite laylines. And as you begin your turn, knock down on the side there, these pulsating lines of energy that are sending power to this entire facility,

spaces begin to warble all across the floor as you spend a moment down there. You have moments to get to get get out of this section of grounds. So before I get knocked over, I'm holding the camera of gags, and I've rolled it over, I'll say, wicked brain juice for your epic ponin sessions. What the fuck does that?

Get out! Go drop it! Do I land? Is it, or? Yeah, you would land on the ground. How far is it? It's 15 feet. It's a 15 foot drop.

Oh, that's not bad. So, what happened when you're gonna be, yeah, the fucking arcing energy shit is the problem. Well, right, it's not so much the fall as what you're, what you have disturbed now, being the first person who's touched the, basically energy core of this entire facility. The raw, unstable, chaotic energy core of this entire facility.

This would have been a very different fight if I didn't have flight. Yeah, it would have. Hold on. I gotta check what features I got. Hold on. Got my anti-grab boots. I don't have to use the grappling hook again. And wish that I was back on the Rhapsody. No place like home.

Click, click. I guess you're just climbing out 15 feet. Like, is that? You have your grappling hook that you made. You just used it to get to the panel. You have that on you if you'd like to attempt to just throw that. up and just scale up.

It would probably still be hanging here. Would it be hanging further down where I could run over and grab it? Unless you said that you chose, like, unless you chose to take it with it. I never dropped it. If you left it hanging there, absolutely. I'd say that it's still down there. You could try and... Oh, fuck. Oh my God.

I'm going to switch to the cord. So that's one and a half, three. And so I'm going to climb up. It would be difficult terrain, so I have 15 left. So I climb up like seven and a half feet. and a half feet. And in terms of an action, I think, I probably just wanna dash.

I'm trying to think we can drink the gecks. As you make it up this rope beneath you, Oh, that's true. Right before you, right after you get off the ground and you start to ascend, racing across this ground like an angered volcano, these orange lines start to to burble and crack as lightning now dances almost consistently all around the ground. And then maybe what I'll do is I'm just going to basically, while I'm on the rope,

I'm going to, I got to keep going. I got to get out. I'm just going to dash. And I'm going to go the rest of the way and try to jump onto here, and I can probably make it, if it's 15 feet, another 15, I can go this far. Yeah. And so I'm basically back up. Yes, I am pretty thirsty. Oh, when we take the sure rest, can we roll hit dice? Absolutely. Okay, I didn't do that.

You can do the full, you can do the full mechanics of it already. So I'm going to use, I'm going to use my last two as well, because I did not do that for 2D8 plus 6. You got like key points back, don't you? Yeah, I did. I did that point. I just didn't heal. 12 plus 6 is 18. As Rhett, you have that same experience of this weird, almost like, kind of citrusy metallic laser flavor.

Strangely, like it shouldn't work, but strangely enticing. As it courses through your body and you feel this almost like vibration of electronic energy kind of pumping you back into action as you knock back the gecks enter the soda. That is wicked brain juice. Noob's only witch. We're getting like boomer school right now. I will, as Pike is below me, I will, I'm, I will look down and I will say,

I take no joy in this, but a contract is a contract. Century 2112 will be one of. As I cast mental duel against you again. Yeah. Intelligent saving throw for me, DC15. Yeah. I got a 15 with my plus 1. 14 plus 1 is 50.

You succeed. Oh. Holy shit. As you are able to resist, and it's a fizzled out static, but you hear still see the static of the, of my crackling voice is everything that I do, my brain is getting more and more chaotic

and gyrating more violently. That's my legendary act. Is your head like, oh yeah. Oh yeah, it's dancing, it's shifting kind of from side to sign. You're seeing these different sectors pulse and bounce and at times just elongating, blowing up, detracting, crazy, unnatural physiology occurring.

Um, Ziki. Oh shit. Oh shit! I am definitely prepared for my turn. I'm gonna run away. Yeah, I mean, you can get to like this corner or this corner, but like, you know. Can I- Can I get up like-

I can't get out? You can't jump down. Yeah. So you can do like one, two and a half. Scramble down. You could jump down if you want to. I want to keep glopping my sights. because I'm scared, but like, obviously, he's floating.

It's a 15-foot drop. That's scary. I'm too scared. Is it 10-foot drop? It's a 10-foot drop. I'll get over there and I'll turn around. I was just gonna say it's a 10-foot drop. Oh, sorry, a 10-drop. That's not a huge fucking drop.

It's a big drop. You're dropping a floor on a house. It's done to, right? It hurts. It doesn't feel good. Right. I will immediately in my panic, pull out my pad. Okay, come on, come on. probably still saved in the clipboard.

Come on, come on in the hypergrid, come on! Oh, there it is! I will look at Glup and I'll be like, you just use this and I'm gonna use it against you! And I'm gonna cast chatter right here. I'm going to use some of your own medicine on you, sir. I'm going to need you to make a Constitution saving throw. No, that's count.

Oh no. I will use my legendary resistance. Oh! Okay, but you still take half of it. You still take half of 3D8, which is gonna be, that was cocked. 10 and 11 points of Thunder damage, so you take five. So what does that look like?

Yeah, what are you, how are you interacting with it when you're able to kind of like reverberate his own moves? Happily, happily. So I will type a few key commands into my command terminal that is up on my pad here, and you will see a script run very rapidly, and all of this code starts to load, and it goes almost looking back at the psionic shatter

that you used and opens it up. And instead of the psionic explosion, you almost see this identical green blur as warps and shifts, like a copy paste, essentially, a digital copy paste, as it bursts, and I simply like place it, He used a little cursor to move it and make it adjacent. Then I'm like, okay, execute, execute, execute, execute, execute, execute, execute.

You can get them. But as soon as I hit the execute button, it's as explosive a blast as what Gloop unleashed earlier. Hmm. And you do that. You copy and paste this green explosion of a copy of shatter as it, Glump is able to shrug off a portion of it. But is either your turn or is it your legendary action?

My legendary action is to, I'm going to move my fly speed towards Ziggy. I'm not letting him escape. As I'm going to get a tack on opportunity. Yeah. It's the contract. I'll take one. As I am going to. Miss.

I'm going to then, as you're running away and do this, I float and I just am directly now at your eyesight. There will be a war. There will be no peace between the Cavalon and the Saurak. This is what I have been paid for. This is the mission I have accepted. This is what will be done, child. You're thinking of my father. You're thinking my mom and dad.

You don't want me. I'm just a kid. You are collateral damage. And now it's my turn. That's your turn. That's really awesome. Fuck. As I am going to use the main. I am going to use a melee spell attack.

Reaser thin, man. I am going to use psychic shred twice. Oh, fuck. I can't stop it. How does that work? There's nothing I can do. Melee spell attack. And I basically take both of, two, four of my arms

and basically place them on your head and try to psychically shred you twice. Eight plus, hold on, 15. Yeah. Well, let's do that. Let's do that. Let's do you. Um, I'm going to deal you.

Cot. 12 points of psychic damage? Holy shit. Oh, no. There's no way. I'm wearing a hoodie. It doesn't really offer much protection. And then I'm going to make another tack.

The first one, my goggles go blind. Oh, fuck. As I'm going to make another. No way, hold on. That was a one in a two. There's no way, two plus, two plus seven. He's with a hoodie. That does not hit because my body falls to the floor,

so you missed with the second one. Yeah, he falls unconscious and it's like, he's like, pops up on the side, I'm not even gonna use a dread, I crunch. I'm not even gonna use a dread because that was a one and a two. That's, Ziggy crumbles to the floor.

Before the server room blew up, the before the control panel. That was weird, it scared me. Yeah, that scared me too. I was like, oh, what's happening? Oh my God. You launched one last line of code before the glass shattered and Wreck broke you out. You have attempted to enable the room

to continue in whatever capacity it can to work for you and your group. Seeing you go down, sputtering, contingency plan baby. One of those small bots flies out with laser stitching and and a laser staple gun as it flies over to you and you experience painfully 10 points of healing.

I experienced this, I blinking look up and slap the side of my goggles. The goggles go green with illumination as they turn on and I can see through it into the world, into the hypergrid, and I, oh, thank you me. Mastery of the hypergrid will not save your life. And that's Mike, oh, Mike. No, no, clap!

And I'm just gonna run. I'm gonna charge you and 5, 10, 15, basically throw myself at you as I go to again with my last key point. Uh, yeah, I had to. died used to. With my last key point, to Flurry of Blows you for three attacks. Okay.

20 to hit. Hits. 22 to hit. Hits. 21 to hit. Holy! Rolling hot fire. I love monks.

Roll high. Roll high. Roll high. Four and five is nine plus six is 15, plus 15 is 30 points of bludgeoning damage over three attacks. How do you want to do this? I watch a Zee whose name I don't know. I may have heard you say it. I would have said that. But I'm not making that connection. I'm thinking this port, this kid.

And I'm like, kid, I'm coming. Yeah, hacks, I'm coming for you, kid. Don't worry. And I run. And I basically throw myself on top of glup. And I'm like, stay away from the kid. And I drive my fist deep into your soft, fleshy skull to try to basically penetrate it and crush your brain.

Every time that you throw a punch into his brain, you strike what feels like brick. But every time you strike him in the skull, the brain chaotically bounces out and comes back in. Chaotically bounces out and comes back in. Lightning is arcing. Brain matters now swirling around the both of you as you are trapped within his terrible mental storm of influence. punching, punching, slam! And one final blow as you pull him up and you knock him back and glub,

you float out into the air over the conveyor room above. In your final moments, is there any declaration? As my voice will kind of go into your brains, Consciousness is eternal for the aspir. You love mona, you'll die. As I will use my dying act to, as my brain is surging as a warhead, as I hit the ground.

That same explosion, you go through the lines of conveyor is you slowly sink. You reach the dodonginite already ignited as the crackling orange energy, your body is struck and almost passed around the floor as it seems to meld and begin to melt with the teal chaotic explosion of your drive. As your own energies are rocked,

and all of the conveyor belts are cast asunder an explosion of concussive mental force as all this stuff is flung up in the air. Rhett, you are cast as sunder above as you go flying up through the sky. I do my best to, like, throw myself over top of this kid. Just the best of my ability. You do so.

You lunge over Ziggy up in the control center as he's already on the ground as you cover him to try and protect from the blast. This terrible concussive force blasts up a whirlwind of machinery, orange energy arcing. Brain matter explodes everywhere. The room is asunder, and it's not over yet, because the whole place starts to shake, as now every energy core in the entire building is warbling and glowing orange. You have moments to get out of this room.

The entire pathway back, the way you came, has been rended asunder. You cannot go back on the conveyor belts. The one way out that you see is the final horizontal conveyor belt leading to an end, one final unexplored room. I'm shell-shocked, basically.

Like, from the absolute concussedness of the shit. I got knocked, you know, here. Yeah, you got knocked. knocked up into the control room. The moment that I can shake my head and kind of clear it, just to clear my eyes, I realize I'm still on top of the hack sort, and I'm holding him by his hoodie, and I say, get up, kid, get up!

And I'm gonna stand up and try to pick you up the best of my ability. We gotta get out of here now. How do we get out? All right, I just have to get a few of my things. There's no fucking time. And I'm gonna, and I'm gonna like shove you in the derail. Like, go, lead the way.

Wait, I leave the way. You take a quick glance over your shoulder and you see that everything you had built here, all of your server rooms, everything that allowed you to reach out beyond the expanse of this planet with such immense reach has all been torn asunder. It is nothing but scrap metal lost. His original packaging.

You know, so there's one pathway left. You can all see it. but the slight remnant of a shattered conveyor belt that is leading out to that final doorway, and you can run to the edge of the control room and jump down on it and make your way out. Come on, we gotta get to rest. Hey, buddy, come on.

I'm all right. Are you all right? I'm fucking alive, that's what matters. I got the kid, we have to go. All right. Go, come on. Threw, threw it this way. We run to the edge of this conveyor belt. As far as we go.

To the edge of the control room, you leap down, Pike, you land gracefully, you roll, moving with your shoulder, your back on your feet, you start going. Brett, you jump down with the thunderous land, and you start moving forward. Ziggy, you jump down. No, no, no, I don't jump down. I just, I have to, like, climb down. I let myself, like, release from the... Okay, okay, I got it. Ziggy, you get to the end of the control room, you start to climb down, your hands are totally outstretched, but for you, it's still a five-foot drop, so you're

Little legs are dangling off the edge as you're reaching for the floor that your hands slip and you clatter to the conveyor belt. Oh, my tail! Red and I definitely make it to the end of the conveyor belt first. Yeah, you realize that Ziggi's a little behind it, you work back for him and you get them and you bring them with you. Come on! Stretching out in front of you, line after line of finished drone, abandoned in an empty room. The placard over a massive doorway. Final inspection, the massive blast doors slammed shut on the other end of this room.

Hundreds fleets of cherry red painted Ivo drones just crashing and falling as this whole place is trembling and tumbling as you're running to get through them. And I need everyone to make a group either athletics or acrobatics check. Followed by a Dex saving throw. For Akro, I got 19. Athletics is a 20. For Dex saving, I had 17. 17 as well. Nice, good fucking shit.

Nine and 10, I die instantly. Alright, so you guys are moving through. Ray, you were just muscling these drones. You're clattering everywhere. You're just kind of bowling through as you're knocking things left and right. You should pulse from the grab gun to blow them out of the line. In their sky, they're pooh-boo-boo.

They're going in all directions. Pike, you are moving deafly. Nothing touches you that you don't invite. The drones clattering helplessly around you. Ziggy, you're like, oh, fellow me. Oh, I feel like Kuzuma Lightforge at the end of Blato and TurboVenget and Feet the 3. Drones are falling and clattering down,

and one hits you pretty hard as it comes down, and you take four bludgeoning damage from this robot falling over on you. You all race to this giant blast door. Ret, you realize now that you're on the other side of the door you'd attempted to open before, you begin to lose hope. Oh, fuck. No, no, no, no.

You couldn't get through this. It was impossible beforehand. What are you gonna do to open it? It is those same massive closed blast doors with a panel on this side of the room as well. Red, if this is the exit, We're screwed. I can't fucking do this.

Wait, kid. This is hypergreen shit. Fucking do it. Go. Over the door! You don't, you're fucking kidding me. You don't even have to roll the difficulty level

of this panel as you plug into it. At a second you jack in, you have an autoscript that runs that just opens the door. Now that I'm out of the control room, there are a drones all right? You couldn't over this fucking door? Didn't you look at the second tabbed? There was a second. We'll talk about this later. It's still the foundation's shaking.

Everything's going crazy. You're just barely making out. You blast through the inspection. You hang a left. You run back into the first room where you first see the assembly line of the drones as they shuffle up. You see the big open doors blasted inward

from Glup earlier. And you race out into the open air as the foundation erupts in this terrible crackling pillar of energy as the whole thing goes up and explodes in an arcing lightning flame mixed all over the place as it just lands these almost what looked like falling meteors are launched all throughout the the planes around you everyone make one last uh decks saving throw natural 20 yes let's fucking go i got a 15 25. Holy shit, we're meant to get out of here. It's fate.

It's fucking fate. All right, you all passed, everyone takes five points of damage. The blast, the concussive force of this place exploding, launches all of you forward. As you're flying through the air, as you can see, uh, fiery balls of shrapnel flying all over the place. As they land, you can see them strike these fields of flowers. And as they hit the orange tingees in the flower at all, all ignites and all these patches that lands in all set off their own chain reactions of explosions, more contained, but this place just starts to level itself as you finally get outside.

And even though everything is terrible and horrendous, for a moment, it seems as though you've survived. I'm going to take a few steps and then basically just collapse in the dirt. I feel like Casuma Lightforge, the last sun, on the first episode of Blade Orphan TurboVengeance season four. Well, you just shut up for five seconds. What were you doing in there? What do you mean? What was I doing?

How did you get yourself trapped in an old Ivo industry's fucking abandoned factory? I forgot a semicolon or two and then all of a sudden the code ran and I couldn't get the door open. I was all out of soda and chips and it was, it was, you know, I was in there for a few hours. Haxor? Yeah, Haxor. That's my, that's my username. I mean, I, that's my gridrunner name. Gridrunner name.

Yeah. You're a gridrunner. I'm the best. Haxor. So you're saying that's not your real name? My real name is Ziggy. So he fucking knew. I heard it in my head.

Gluck calling you that. You guys are awesome. You guys are like superheroes. You guys are really cool. No. We're just bounty hunters. We're anything, bud. You're lucky to be alive.

I'm just gonna fucking say it. I know. Mechanically, I have one hit point. Why did they want to kill you? Well, uh, my, my,

I have more, you know, my, my parents are pretty important. I see, you were saying something about ambassadors? Something like that.

Parents are fucking ambassadors. Yeah, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're, they're,

they're, they're, they're, they were gonna pin all of this on us. They were? You remember a single line from Glup

as you have this conversation that century 2112 will be one of war. So they're trying to fucking pit the Sorok Dynasty against the Cavalor on that bugger. I guess. How do we get wrapped up in this stuff? To think, all of this started over just a little bit of red line. You know what? That seems like a fucking lifetime ago when we were fucking going after the goddamn scarlet

ice in the kid. I got to tell you. It wasn't just the trespassing. What you mean? When they picked me up in the wrong place and the wrong time, I had a little bit of red line on me. What fuck? We have one fucking rule.

Look, you sent me after those guys. I found a low-level dealer. I was on to something. I thought I could take it as evidence. Lo and behold, they pick me up. I've got the evidence on me. They don't believe me. They throw me in the slammer.

No shit. Ziggy, it's in the course of them having this conversation, Red Line, Scarlet Eye Syndicate, Red Line, Red Line, that these phrases jostle something for you. You realize that you've had run-ins with this syndicate before, that you know a little bit about what they've gone through, who they've been dealing with. you are you're talking about the

sorry can you repeat the crimson Scarlet Eyes Syndicate Scarlet Eye Syndicate The Scarlet Eye Syndicate? The Scarlet Eye Syndicate? Yeah Scarlet Eye Syndicate also known as the Red Belt They're either suppliers or dealers Or manufacturers and stuff called Red Line. Nasty drug I've dealt with them before. They're chumps on

the hypergrid. Seriously? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've been trying to get info on these guys for, well, the better part of a few years. Yeah, you're saying, you're saying, you're gonna help us? I could, I could get you files, files upon files. Oh, we don't want this stuff.

We're trying to get to the bottom of this. We... Shit. I don't think we can turn this kid in. What about your fucking parole? That lieutenant guy, he said, three more fucking years if they catch me break up. the role. I mean,

all factory blue. Maybe PaxSour's did. You could, oh, you mean like a deception? Wait a minute, you've got, what are the chances you can make yourself disappear? It wouldn't be too hard. I mean, it would take me a couple hours,

but I could make it happen. And then after that, I could get you guys info on any members that you are interested in or, uh... What about my records? What if we both just start with the clean slate? This is the closest we've had to a lead and as long as I can remember.

I never thought that fucking stumbling upon a gridrunner would be us catching and break for once in our goddamn lives. I know that I called myself a kid. I was panicked, but I'm not really a kid. All right? I'm a 36-year-old redditor. I can know that.

I'm in my mid-20s. You might as well be a kid. I mean, cheese. I know stuff. I know all kinds of stuff. I can help out. What do you think, Red? I mean, he handled himself okay.

That was... I mean, he fucking saved our lives. We wouldn't be fucking standing here if it wasn't for him. I feel bad throwing this kid in jail. You don't have to. I'll... Just let me come with you. I would love to.

And I don't have to go to do. I don't have to go to jail, my parents would be very, very angry. I mean, would they be happier if they think you're fucking dead? Well, you mean, fake my own death? I thought you were just talking about deleting, you know, Hax-Or. If that solves our fucking problems, then that's fine. It just concerns me that those assholes knew your name. I mean, I've lived with that my whole life.

I don't think that that's too much of a problem. I can hide myself well enough. I've been doing it this long, and it's... Only until now that any of you guys ever showed up to... Hunt bounty. That's how you say it, right? It's cool. We got a lot to teach this kid.

Yeah, but, I mean... Now that we don't have old... Lelphin Quimbley, could use of gridrunner. I mean, it's a skill gap between us. I'll admit. You put me up against... one panel that's fucking jacked into the hopper grid. I don't know what to do. I mean, Hank has the best shot. I'm not gonna fucking risk him. He's gotta stay on the ship. He couldn't even

open that door. Uh, there's a moment of, there's a moment of pause. I look to Rhett, I look back, I look at the kid, I look back to Rhett and I say, or I just do this. All right. Yeah. All right. Don't make me fucking regret this. Welcome to the crew of the rap, the rhapsody. The what? The Rhapsody. My ship. Our ship. Oh. All right. That's sort of our thing, you know. The Rhapsody. All right. Cool. That's cool. I feel like we're at the beginning of Mecca Maiden's Love Protocol override. This is just like how that started. Are you going to be doing this all of the time? Talking? Yes. Well, no. I mean, I also don't talk. I know when I'm watching Mecca Maiden's Love Protocol override.

You spend the next hour or so. I think it would run and I say, well, can you just do that for the next hour or so? You spend the next hour or so. I shook my goggles and they go black. I got it some chips. Pulls up his backpack. They're like crushed. Just dust.

You make your way on foot back to the Rhapsody. You see fields of just blown flowers in all directions. The landscape of this planet in this area right around this foundry has been scarred and changed irreparably. You see no butterflies anywhere near in the vicinity, not even around any. flowers that continued to, that made it through this ordeal. Do we see a bunch of dead ones with their heads blown off? Yes. I would say, yes, you do.

See a bunch of butterflies with their heads blown. As you make your way back. You also come to realize that the question of could Zieg go an hour without talking was a lie. In fact, as you make your way, he did not make it. You make your way finally back to the Rhapsody and you get ready to punch off this planet. Any final exchanges or words as you board? It is your first time. I'm sorry, seeing the Rhapsody as you approach it in this field.

A massive ship, beautiful, by all measures. The Hanger Bay dropped down, welcoming you almost to a new life as you step forward. I'm the son of two senators. Nice. You introduce yourself, does he know your names? Yeah, we would have introduced ourselves after you said, welcome to the Rhapsody, right? It would have been an official.

You're right, my mistake. You're the son of two senators, this is child's play. Nice. I can't believe I forgot. The name's red indigo. Rhett. Indigo. Okay, yeah, I got it. Red Indigo. Ziggy.

Ziggy Wooge? From the Wooge family? You don't know the Woogs? Have I heard of the Woogs? I read the newspaper. I mean, well, nah. I mean, are you in the politics? I don't know the senators from Missouri. No, you don't know this. You don't know this Sorok and ambassadors.

You may have, I mean, you read the newspapers as possible in some article at some point in your history of reading, you've crossed the name, but nothing kind of like rings up prominently to you. The name sounds familiar. Pike. Pite Starfall. Nice. It's a pleasure to meet you.

Yeah, likewise. All right. Getting the bus. Go up to the Rhapsody. And we got rooms for you. One room. You get to pick one fucking. I get to pick one room?

All for myself? All for yourself. All for yourself. All right. Hold on. I'm gonna find out which one has the best Wi-Fi. We go around the ship, I lead him around, I give them a tour, and I show them the various empty crew quarters.

There'd be like a nice handful. Yeah, oh, absolutely, yeah. Several. There's random boxes. Several sure about. And now two more available. The best Wi-Fi is on the front of the ship. Well, you're not sleeping there.

I'm gonna put a computer here. Oh, well, of the front of the ship, I mean, technically there's, If you mean the bridge. I walk away. They take it away. That's fine. Ziggi, you started to just race throughout the ship, finding all the best hot spots. And do we, maybe even outfitting or adapting some of the software and technology.

You start to, without asking permission, start to make what you believe to be your upgrades to the Rhapsody. I bring three glasses of what you bring three glasses of what you. whiskey neat, just small pores. We don't have much. And I find Rhett first while Ziggy's just running through the Rhapsody and I set all three glasses down. I hand one to Rett and I say, just remember in a week when we want to launch him into space, we brought this on ourselves. Cheers. Cheers. Thanks. You don't have seven zip installed? Here's to a... It's great. Here's to a job well done. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cheers. Cheers. Look, it's the Simmons.

I don't fucking know. You all enjoy a nice whiskey together as you settle in and the Rhapsody Oh, I'm sorry, the drop ship takes you back to the Rhapsody. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You fast forward through the drop-off. You fast forward through the drop-ship. The Rhapsody takes off headed to your next location.

A day goes by. You all experience a long rest. Ziggy, you find yourself. the best room with the plushiest pillow, the greatest secret dwelling chair, the best hot spot, and you make yourself at home immediately. You continue to race around the ship and do what you deem that you would do

to kind of almost overtly begin to make this place a home for you, and you do that. I wake up, I pull my covers off, I still have my socks, pants, and hoodie on. I get right back in front of my computers. God, if I haven't lived that life. Oh, man. You too, I enjoy a fantastic drink

reminiscing about once again a job completed as the ship flies through space. You make your way to the closest outpost town in the next day. Pike, you find yourself on a hollow call. Did you say? Foundry exploded. Everything vaporized?

It was quite the mess. We wanted him back alive for questioning, but he's stolen a lot from the empire. He had to know how it happened. I understand, but things kind of went pear-shaped. All the same. I suppose he's no longer a problem.

I think we can consider your sentence commuted. Your parole ended. Well, it's a pleasure doing business with you. I feel the same, Pike. You can tell your companion, Rhett, your gate codes have been re-established. Your papers and identification re-engaged for Imperial Gate travel. Understood. Be safe out there.

Likewise. In this hollow call with Officer Waxley disconnects. You break off and make your way back to the Rhapsody. Reporting back to Rhett and the gang, we're all clear. Conveying that it is all straightened out. Gate codes? Gate codes and all. Sentence commuted.

Wow, that's very unlikely, the empire. You know that Wexley fellow? Seems like an all right guy. Yeah, something about that guy. I'll be a good contact to have. We'll keep it in our back pocket. All right. I have to think of a new name.

What do you mean? Well, I can't use Haxor anymore. What do you guys think of Tricerra Top Score? You gotta have a cool, a cool gridrunner name. Why not just Ziggy? No, because that's my name. Yeah, that's your fucking name. Use your damn name.

No, that, you're, you're not understand. You don't get it all. I clearly don't. I'm not a lot to teach you. Hey Ziggy, let me show you how we had disposed the trash. Ha ha ha ha ha. You, you for so long had been on the hunt for new information about the Scarlet Eye syndicate. In the day that you've been traveling,

Pike has reestablished his freedom. For the first time in six months, you once again truly find yourself a free man. After having spent all that time in prison, two hours, several hours on parole, the next night you find yourself in an explosive foundry, barely a moment's to rest. But now, all of the weight lifted off you,

as once again, freedom is felt. In the interim, while you were straightening that out, Ziggy was able to find a lead on the Scarlet Eye Syndicate. Hacking through some servers, he found interesting coordinates pointing you to the next step in pursuing a contract, a bounty you have had for quite a while now. The Rhapsody slowly takes off into air,

in a totally different sector of space, you find yourselves heading. These large rings connect one in circles around the other. As they begin to spin opposite ends of themselves, you approach slowly as you were hailed, Rhett, for imperial gate codes that check. You see while Pike was out communicating, you see almost in the same moment,

You have been green flagged for codes and you have them to provide. You can scan our codes. Everything should be in order. You see almost this script run across the screen as your codes are, are fetched, cleared, and released. The gate spins to life as this brilliant energy comes to line. This neon roadway extends in front of you as you, as the rest of you, as the Rhapsody slowly pulls out into the sections of this gate and as you you as the nose

begins to enter it's pulled faster and faster as you explode away into light speeds with your first lead in almost a year and a new party member the crew of the Rhapsody is finally back on the hunt out amongst the stars and that's where we'll the session. I said, God damn. I'm sweating. Luke's Lockheater is back on the menu, boys.

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