Legends of Avantris - Stardust Rhapsody: Anthem | S2E6 | Jailbreak

Episode Date: September 4, 2026

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It's that time again. Don, your sunglasses, grab your instruments, and lend your cosmic chorus to our Stard Us Rhapsody. Let's jam. Monkey. Starting your day under a brutal round of questions by Inquisitor Karnak, truthful answers enforced by the brutal Captain Turuk. Eventually, the questioning ends and you're reunited once more in your cell. Pike and Co. informed the gang on what to expect and how to survive this new experience.

The next day starts and they enact their plan to take out the biggest baddest inmate in the place. They meet Dredge, a humongous massasaur-sor-sorian, and come to find, he's a pacifist in prison for refusing to join the military.

In an eternal event, they befriend him. Oh, also Wormo was there. In the yard, you meet other allies in the form of Velka who can get what you need and Bronius and Oculek to be executed for leaking secrets harmful to the dynasty and Morsibe. As the time here starts to look up, Tarek finds you and puts you to work on cleanup duty. Someone's got to care for all the big dinosaurs who permeate the facility. He proves to be as cruel on the line as he was in the interrogation room. His hand-picked

crew directs the work in the form of the Yagoth Slezno. You spend the next several days falling into a routine as life normalizes for a moment. That is until Portia Bella Gones is reintroduced into the food hall. Rhett and Pike approached to confront her on her intentions and to question her about her state in the jungle a couple nights before. They quickly come to find they're faced with a very different Porsche. Mrs. Gones now stands in front of them loving. asking about her husband with no recognition of who they are, or a clear understanding of why

she's here. As they're discovering how to handle the situation, and if she's even genuine, Dredge gets stabbed and a riot erupts behind them. Quickly leaping into action, their attention rolls once more as Mrs. Gones herself is attacked by Slesno and his goons. One more surprise being that she seemed to catch the blade as he attempted to sink it into her. Slezno is clearly out for blood and has an intended target. Cafeteria is in an uproar

all around you as the inmates are rioting and brawling. Slezno rips his wrist free from Portia Bella's grip who looks up at him with sheep-like eyes. His lackey swarm toward him armed with their own shivs and knives as they close in. You look to the walkways that the guards take and you see none in the room,

not even the patrolling raptors. At the end of the corridor, you see Captain Taurak, take one last glance back at the chaos before turning away and closing the door behind. Oh, scumbag. What a jackass.

You gather together, but you are now surrounded. I need everyone to roll for initiative. Ha! I did okay. There ain't no way. I think you did one better than I did. Okay.

20-25. 21. Oh, wow. Nice. There we go. Pixels up. 15 to 20. 19.

10 to 15. 10. Uh-oh. 5 to 10. Five. Oh, wow. Oh, boy. I rolled a natural one.

I got a three. Oh, boy. Holy. Natural two. I got a five. Oh, man. So we are going Pixel, Pike, Slezno, Rhett, Goons, Co, and then Ziggy. All around you is chaos, as two of you stand near Portia Bella,

gripping the handle of the, or who was once gripping the blade that Slezno attempted to plunge into her. The three of you still at the table previously as Dredge was getting additional food. He's now beset upon himself by Slezno's lackeys. All around you erupts chaos as inmates are swinging in each other. Bodies are flying. A riot is in full swing. What do you do? Pixel. The first thing that I'm going to do is I'm going to change color.

And where I had been green, I'm now orange. and my yellow hair becomes full pink just because I want it to. But it's the orange that matters as my speed increases by 10 feet. Nice. And then from me up to 20 feet, my allies will enjoy 10 additional feet.

Nice. Nice. And then I'm gonna look around searching for Coe. I'm gonna give her iconic inspiration. All right. I'll turn and say, oh, I've been waiting for this. Picks, just make sure Trench is okay

and get him smashing. Pike. Do you action? Oh, was that, I'm sorry. My action was to become my color. Got it, okay. And then I use my bonus action. Perfect.

Cool. I know, I feel for drench. I feel, I really do. Yeah. But there's nothing more important right now than keeping Portia Bella Gones alive. Yeah. And making sure that red

doesn't get in any trouble. So as soon as I realized that a fight is breaking out, I put one hand on my right hand on ret's shoulder, and I vault over onto the lunch table, and I run down the launch table, the lunch table, and begin to just pummel. Slezno.

Rule the attack. I have two attacks, but I'm going to spend a focus point to do insoled strikes to make two extra unarmed strikes as a bonus action. So the first two attacks will be 21 to hit and a 13. 21 hits.

13 misses. 13 misses. Okay, I'll just make sure I do my next two attacks to figure what these are. The lowest is a 19. 19 hits. Okay, so the first three hits are going to land and I punch Slezno twice

and kind of kick him in the face. I am not trying to kill this guy because I know that like, I'm not trying an extra person in time, right? I'm trying to prevent him from just killing Portia Bella Gones. So the first three attacks will be one, two, one, two,

two plus six is eight, nine, nine plus 15 is 24 points of damage over three attacks to Slezno. But I punch him, punch him, kick him, and then I levy the goal. in his face for the fourth attack, instinctually, and realize I'm not wearing the gauntlet, and my fourth attack misses.

Oh, you are, you're drawing down your gauntlet, and you think you're leveling it in his face, but as you throw in to do your third attack, he grabs the cuff of his goon behind him, and he tosses him forward and swaps places. Your third attack lands on the goon on the other side, That would be six damage then to him. Got it means it was 18 damage to Slezno.

18 to Slezno. 18 to Slezno and then six to his goon. Which, what number? Whichever. Oh, the one that's right next to him is one. Okay. If that's how you want to do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But I'm on top of the lunch table, like, raining blows down on this guy before I realize that I'm not wearing the gonglet. Yeah, and as you're like throwing the punches down, basically, like he takes two brutal blows, and then wheels back and kind of pushes his ally forward. to throw him in the way of your raining assault of punches. And then just at the end of my turn, I look over my shoulder and I say,

Red, get him! You'll see Slezno, you'll see Slezno as he takes the blade, having just pulled it out of Portia, tip-blooded. He runs it across, he runs the back edge across his tongue. They didn't say anything about you, but I'm sure they'll pay more. Two for one deal.

And he strikes forward at Portia. No! No! Oh, and totally misses. Thank God. He will... Oh, can you swap him in two? Yes.

Like this? Yeah. Okay. Technically, I would have had to go on this table then to attack him. No, no, no, no. He swaps us with the guy. Sorry, I just said.

I'm with you, I'm with you. Yeah. Oh, damn, and he doesn't hit her a second time. You have to tell us that, Mace. Oh, yeah. It's behind the screen. This guy sucks. You're right, you're right.

He didn't know that I was gonna be all up in his face. He pulls out and goes out and he shoots, Puck. What? An anti-matter rifle. His turn is over. It is to wrecked. His turn is over is to wreck. Me, get him.

You get him. I'm like fighting three guys at once and I'm like, get in here! The scene is happening. I almost instinctually just like, I'm very, I'm now, I now feel suddenly like naked. He and I will know this very well as a machinist and as a gridrunner. Our entire class is turned off because we do not have our tools and grid boy respectively.

So all I have access to are my Etheron traits and any other standard D&D character things. Yep. So what I will do, how out of it or with it is Portobella right now? She is still like a, there's this wild moment where you understand that the mind seems elsewhere. This truly feels like an entirely different person in front of you. But it's almost as if once the body has carved certain pathways, it remembers what the mind is trying to forget. And when the blade struck at her, her body reacted, though her mind is almost absent.

That's the sensation you get. She still almost is mumbling, talking almost as if in a fugue state. I'm going to look at Portia and I say, Mrs. Gones, I'm sorry about this, but you need to get the fuck out of here. I will use the attack action. I'll make an unarmed strike. But the feature that I will use with my unarmed strike is the grapple feature. The target must succeed on a strength or deck saving throw. It chooses which, or has the grapple condition.

Its DC is 8 plus my strength model fire plus proficiency. So that is... Oh, God, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. The DC's 13. She could technically choose to fail if she wanted to. It doesn't want to get away. But if she's out of it and she doesn't want to be grappled, she can do so.

But either way, I'm making that attempt. And then you're grappling her with your hand. you're putting your hand on her. I'm basically reaching my arms out to try to grab her and pull her away from these two maniacs with shit. Yeah. You reach out and grab your hand on her.

You place your hand on her shoulder. Like a whirlwind. She spins around. You can feel her hand grasp your wrist and it's almost terrifying how strong her grip is. For a flash of a moment, you get this look from her to you

as if you are prey. before it vanishes. And she says, oh, I know you, you're friends with Bach Quibbley. And mechanically, you grappled. Oh, so she fails. She fails. Okay.

That's right, Mrs. Goons. Yep, he's a great fella, hell of a whistler. And as I drag her, my speed is half. So I have three squares of movement, one and a half, three. She's coming with me. And because she didn't use her movement to move, Yeah, she's against her, it's a provoid against her will, right? Oh, cool.

And so that's my turn. Okay, now get over here and punch him in the throat. Okay. Now the goons. Two of which will stay on dredge. Let me add these guys over here. Two fights kind of happen at the same time here. It's kind of fun.

This is cool how this kind of worked out. Yeah, yeah. Two of which will stay on dredge, Whichever's closer to the party, one of which will kind of run at Co. Yeah, number three. Wait, who's that right there? That's Co, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, one of which will run at Co. Okay. You'll see the two that are on dredge. Both of them have these like makeship shives. Oh, God. You see toothbrushes, cutlery, anything that can be sharpened,

chips of stone that have fallen off the wall that have been kind of like rubbed against other surfaces to sharpen them off. They are jabbing into him trying to cut him, trying to take him down. Is there a lot of blood? Like, is it visible, or can we not, like, see?

There's a lot of blood. Would he get right up on Co? Or would he, like, stay back here? I think he'd probably, yeah, he'd probably be kind of, like, on that edge of the table. Okay, got it. I think that's fine. This hulking behemoth of Osorian is, you see two people on him right now. On the other sides of him, there are six more goons trying to stab into him, battling him.

He's flailing around, throwing punches all over the place. Cassing, throwing, picking up and throwing people. You hear him say, you've mistaken my tolerance for weakness. Uh-oh. It'll be your last mistake. As he throws people, as this, like, gatherings around him coming at him, he's, he's getting hit. There's some jabs in him.

You can see the red streak starting to come down. No. But he's a big guy. They're not, these are a little shit. They're not like piercing into like vital organs or anything. That we can tell. That we can tell. Oh.

You're very, you're on the, you guys are on the other end of the room. No, I'm not even going to. Yeah, I'm asking from a better. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm happy to answer. I'm happy to answer. Oh, do these guys attack it on?

I'm doing Co's, co's now. Oh, sorry. This is, uh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I said the man was her turn. No, no, no, no, no, no, exactly. Uh-oh. Me?

Yeah, yeah, you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What are they gonna do, shank you? The- You take seven points of damage as a sharpened piece of stone from this goon comes at you and catches you

right around the ribs, scratching you and cutting your side a little open. The two goons right there will both attack Pike. Yep. What are you gonna do, prison-shape me? Ah, fuck, you're gonna get it. Oh man. 18 and a 24.

The 24 hits. My God. Oh, my God. Kid it. Oh, I need to update my AC according. Also seven points of piercing damage as another SHIV stabs action. I will use center deflection,

which is 110 plus eight, so I reduce it to zero. And I will use one of my focus points to redirect this attack to the guy standing literally next time and make him try to stab his friend. So he's gonna have to make a dexterity saving throw. Whichever one hit me, the other one will have to make a deck saving throw. Loses. There's no way to be it. Okay, then he'll take 2d6 damage.

I mean, it's a 10, but I'm assuming. He takes four points. Which one? Whichever one attacked me? Sure, we'll say the far guy, the guy directly in front of you can take the damage. Sure, sure, sure. Yeah. Whichever one attack me, the other one takes the four points of damage. Yeah.

Okay. But what number is it? Two ticks the damage. Two takes the damage. Got it. And that was four points. Yes. And that was also, that's the one he swathed with,

so that also took the six points. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, this guy's getting beat up. He's probably like, hey, why don't you stand me? Ah, man. Okay. That is all of them, I believe.

Co. Co. I am going to, after I got shanked, I'm gonna look around. What a phrase. And all of my damage is gonna be non-lethal. I'm just saying that across the board. Same.

On a side. Everybody, Ziggie's not announced it. I'm assuming he's fighting for lethal. God. He goes into a blood rage. Yeah, I'm definitely gonna do lethal damage with my turn. I have a lot of options.

You're better off than I am. I have a lot of options. Maybe. You have a horn. I am going to say, I'm glad you fuckers gave me a reason as I lends forward and I attempt to grab

and make a melee attack as I will use an unarmed strike. That's 18 to hit. 18 hits. 18 hits. Ideal, the first one, does 11 points of bludging damage. What's the number? To three.

Three. Yes. And I can also, as part of my grappler background, which I've never used, I can also do the grapple thing. What do I have to do? I have to roll a, in order to try to grapple them as well. So, how does the grappler feet use? I can grapple and do damage.

Yes. And then my first time, he just needs to make a strength or death save. His DC is eight plus proficiency plus your strength mod. So eight, nine, two, eleven, twelve. That was pretty big. It's 16. 23.

That passes. 23. Still do damage though if you hit. I did. I did. And then I'm going to attempt to grab him. He basically is able to slip away. And then I am going to

you still going to. You still have one more attack though, right? I have taken one more, yeah. And go, actually, I'm just, I may just take an opportunity, so I was here? Yep. One, two, three, four. I am going to attack this one.

Number five. Number five. So that's a lot to hit. That is 10 points of bloods. damage and as part of my feature, I'm going to use Rage of the Streets when I take the attack action. So I get, I can make one on-arm strike

as an additional bonus action, which can still do. And because I am a renegade, I am able to activate the push mastery when I get an on-arm strike or an improvised weapon. So I'm going to kick number five, 10 feet backwards, I believe. Oh, let me just double check. Yeah, 10 feet backwards.

Away from, was that five, or can I do it like, that's directly away? No, you can do it in that way. I kick him this way. And then I am going to take an opportunity attack from number three. Oh, okay. As I pivot around. Oh, 22.

22 can't bring it on. Dang. Bring out weather boy. This is six. Six bludgeoning damage. As I'll kind of get hit in the back. Okay, cheap shot. And I see the dredges is being swarmed.

I look at this one, I'm trying to basically say, I gotcha, buddy. And I am going to attempt to 19, very close. That'll also presumably hit with a 27. Oh, yeah. This one is, Seven plus five. 12 points of bloodstream damage and I'm gonna knock him back

to this way to number four. 12 points? Yeah. Damn. And so that was one, two, three, four, five, six. I'm basically, uh, yeah, one, two, three and a half, four and a half, six. Okay, yep, there.

And so I, my goal is to basically get all of this crowd off of dredge and, uh, yeah, you know, see how I do, that's my turn. Okay, Ziggy. I am similarly neutralized by the lack of my grid boy. I can't cast spells. I can't... Most of my Saurian traits don't really help

with the rare exception of the natural weapon that it's on the front of my face. Let's go! That's wild. You know, I'm gonna mess with the trache, get in the horn. I mean, look at you, you're wide, like me. And so all I can do is follow up. Loco's example.

I'm going to, using the bench seat of the table that we've been eating at, I'm going to put one leg up and climb up onto the table. I actually try to hit the one that took 12 damage just now. I'm going to jump off the table

and... Do you like a soaring eagle. And then I jump down. Let's see if I can hit with my ridiculous attack. I almost imagine like a little Yoshi Flutter kick. As he jumps into the Natural Twine. No.

Being this guy, Zingie's on mine, boys. Ziggi's on mine, boys. He doesn't realize on me at all, right? No, no, no, bitch. And I jump on this poor fellow, and I do seven points. Wow.

If I can, bludgeoning damage non-lethal because I'm just using my pure weight. Yeah, you can just body slam them. If that's what you choose, absolutely. Seven damage on who? Number four here. Four. Oh my God, incredible.

I don't know. Or off the table. Slow motion flying through the air until you land on this guy and flattened him. Absolutely amazing. Is that your turn? That's all I got. Incredible.

At the top of the round, now we're back to the top of the round, I need everyone to make a dexterity saving throw. Oh, wow. I'm good at that. Well, I did okay. I got a 16. Dexterity.

I got a five. With an actual one, I get four. Well, you're close enough. Hold on a second. What is it with everybody? No, I don't have my reaction yet. Sorry. That's not too.

Okay. You two co-ret fail. You pass. Zee-Pixel? 17. Pass. Nine. Nine.

Fail. Okay. Shit. If you failed, you will take 11 points of bludgeoning damage. If you pass, you'll take half. Oh, just from like the community. You are in a riot. Oh my God.

There is mayhem around you. Things are flying all. If you, it's bludgeoning. It's bludgeoning, so I don't know if that's relevant to you. No, it's not. If you,

there is chaos all around you. As this fight breaks out, everyone is involved. The players, the key players in front of you are represented, but all throughout this cafeteria, fists fly, chairs are thrown,

sporks are stabbed with, Sometimes bodies go flying through the air and crash into you. How much damage? If you failed 11. Yeah. Thank you. And we're back to Pixel. I will move past number three. And I will take an opportunity attack as I move away from that guy.

And I want to move into the spot next to number four. I don't think three has to- You could just go over the table. You don't have to like go by it if you don't want to. Can't you ever over the table? Well, wait, does three get it back, his reaction back on his turn or the top of the round? His turn.

Oh, okay, so he doesn't have it. He doesn't have his reaction? He reacted to Cove. He's right next to four. So that way I'm within, well, in line with Ziggy and Co. That way they're both in my light again. And so they'll start their turns in that and they'll benefit from speed.

He doesn't get a reaction. And then I will look around. Oh my God. I think someone hit me with a tray. and I'll give you an iconic inspiration. You got some tapioca pudding on your part in there. Gruel is all over the place. There's gruel everywhere, tapioca pudding.

And actually think that's my turn. I don't think I can do anything else. Do you action and photosque? No, but I don't have any actions that I can use. Use. You can strike with like an improvised weapon. I don't have any way to know which ones have. Well, it'll say M on it.

Like, you, these characters, they don't. The healing word doesn't require material. If you want to say you grab an improvised, like grab anything in the kerfuffle, pick up a weapon. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not bad. Or if you wouldn't do it, yeah, yeah, if you wouldn't do it, up to you, absolutely. You could help.

Yeah, I will, I will give, I will give dredge the help. Okay, okay. And he also benefits from the 10 movements. Oh, nice, okay. Extracting number four, the next attack rule on number four, I believe is made an advantage. Perfect.

For Dredge. Amazing. Yeah. I love that. Love that. Great action. Pike. I will rule of cool basically vault over these guys to land next to Slezno, but mechanically, I will take one opportunity attack to get to him. to position myself where on that.

So if one or two would like to take an opportunity attack, it is at disadvantage. I take opportunity to disadvantage. Oh my God. Due to my- That's pretty good. Agile movement feature. Oh, 16. That misses.

So I definitely dodge out of the way as I land basically between all three of them continuing to fight and I say, okay, Rhett, real nice, I'll just handle this. And I go to Pummel Slezno again. I'm gonna attempt to make four attacks on him. Yeah. Does a 14 hit? Yes. A 14 does it. Okay, the first two will hit. Oh, that is his AC. Okay. Yep. Just so you know, Slez knows AC is. Then one of the attacks

misses, so I only land three attacks again. Oh, my, my. Uh, seven, eight, nine, 10, uh, 18 plus 15 is 33 points of bludgeoning damage over three attacks. Yeah, I rolled very well on that one. 33 points of damage? Yeah. Yeah. You flip over these goons land next to Slezno, and you absolutely start to pull him apart with your fists.

You're landing every solid, dirty, cheap shot you can think of a giant prison wall. Everything's on the table. Kidney shot comes through. This is a brutal flurry of blows you've dropped. on him and he's looking extremely rough. That's my whole turn. You can't save her. She won't see a courtroom.

She dies here and you will do. Good luck enter Wreck. I'm gassing you all. You better let me down. I'm gassing you up. That guy. None of these are two like a point. You can cast that.

And he just starts like, he sends back a florae of basically a stab. He's not got a shiv. What's interesting, he's got a truce of a real life. Yeah, he's got like basically his walked in with a combat knife. Yeah. You now see this kind of like crazed look in his eye

as he is truly bloodied and 19 to hit. Oh yeah, 19 hits. Okay. I think he still does. Yeah. Okay. You will take five damage. as the blade sinks into you.

As it strikes you, you fall into the ground from. If I don't take any damage, does that negate that, or am I going to the ground either way? It's probably an on-hit. Yeah, it's on-hit. You don't have to tell me, I'm just curious, because I'm deciding whether or not to save my reaction. It's on-hit.

Yeah, then- Then-Ommy. I think you would still go down. I agree with that ruling. I will go to 38, and I'll take five points of damage. Oh, man. And I say my reaction. I like that. I'm gonna start reading full text boxes.

Okay? He attacks you a second time. Yeah, I'm gonna put it. So now he gets advantage. He would, except. Oh, right, yeah, you think you're gonna handle all. Naturally blessed by the architect, the god they created the ether on,

when a creature I can see when the 30 feet of myself makes a D20 test with advantage or disadvantage. I can enforce cosmic order and cause the world to have neither advantage nor disadvantage. Once I do this, I can't do it again until I finish a short and a long rest. So, my, he rolled straight. Okay, I'll just, I'll re-roll it.

I rolled advantage. Okay. And both, both hit. So, well, I don't actually know your AC, but I'd assume. Well, I'm not telling them. Yeah, DM, sorry. 20.

Yeah, that's still. That's 19, my AC's 19. Okay. But look, that's what I thought was, actually. With you on the ground, he almost gets on top of you, and in two hands tries to plunge the blade into you. you take, you start getting kicked in the head,

this is bad, quite a bit of damage. Oh shit. Well, good thing I save my reaction. You take 17 piercing damage, and you have the frightened condition. I am going to attempt to center deflect this. I can reduce it by 1D10 plus 8, so I have to roll basically max to take nothing,

but I'll still be scared, I guess. Oh my god. I can't do fuck at it. Oh my God. She misses. I take nothing. You pieces. But I'm,

but the knife embeds deep into the floor next to my head. And I have a moment of like, oh shit. I'm not showing outwardly, but I'm sorry to get to sweat a little bit. Like, I have fear. The most dangerous place in a prison brawl to be is on the ground. I'm going to start getting my head against me. Yeah, the most dangerous place to be in a fight like this

is on the fucking ground. But I don't take any damage. That is crazy. I hate you. Hey, that Slezno is over. You know, for flavor, he's kind of trying, he's like standing over you trying to like dig the blade in. Mechanically, he's not pinning you to the ground.

But, uh, no, it's for flavor. It's all good. So I didn't get a chance to narrate this before we've been done with initiative, but when we had the bar attack, the same thing I failed, took 11 damage. And so as I'm, I, I, I, I picked Portia Bella up, and I basically carried her off of the chair, and I walked her over here, and some random prison goon

picked up the chair that I left and chucked it at me. And it hits me full force. But my etheron stirring this, I used my reaction to use unyielding density. I spent my reaction to reduce the damage. I roll 1d12 plus 3. I roll the 10. I reuse all the damage.

So it just like, it just bounces off my back. And I like, come on. I put Porschea belt down and I'm like, Mrs. Goones, your husband would kill me if anything happened to you. So I appreciate you just staying out of harm's way and get the fuck out of here. And I'll turn around and I'll look at the chair on the ground and I'll like shrug and I'll pick it up. I'm coming, Pike. I'm coming.

And I'm going to make an improvised weapon attack on number two. I'll say I've always liked you, Red. Yeah, you pick up a chair, you pick up that same chair and you come over and you attempt to just slam it into the, are you going for the gooon or you go for Slezno? Who has the knife on? That's Slezno. Slezno is the knife on Pike trying to like, really trying to kill him.

I go for Slezno. He's trying to cut himself, obviously. And I have my, I have the chair by the metal legs, but it's like a prison. So it's like it's one of the like, where it's like the four metal legs. Yeah. with the plastic like seat and like back.

Yeah. And so I raise the chair up and I bring it down hard. And as I bring it down, the plastic and the metal separate and makes a perfect gap around here. And I just hit the door with the legs. Three, four, five, six, seven, eight. I had to use my reaction. I had to.

And I missed. God, damn. That does do miss. It does happen exactly like that. The chair splits apart. After colliding with your impressive frame, the chair can't quite keep up, and its structural integrity splits in half as you attempt to use it, but it had shattered as a weapon. That's it. The goons.

Oh, Dredge will go. Oh, these guys done fucked up now. Here we go. Here we go. Back over here. Dredge tosses off two guys that are on him into the kitchen behind. They go flying. Seeing where Pixel is and trusting the might of Co.

After having a pseudo arm wrestle over the tray, he runs forward, sped up and inspired by Pixel's words and dashes in whatever number that is. Two, sorry, four. Pixel, how might you be distracting this guy? Me? I think I'm probably just chatting his ear up. I don't know why you're doing this.

When we were sitting at this table, you were telling all in the field shuffling shit, and I'm just like going on. Oh, you're saying just like my mom. He was more, hey, look at this tattoo I got. Is that, that's four you said? Four. Look at him.

Look at him. Dredge runs forward, and you see his webbed massive hand close into a fist. As his hand falls like a collapsing pillar, as it crashes into this goon, there's a sickening thud as the body hits the ground as this one is uncommon. Oh my gosh. Oh my God. Let's go. He's a fucking wrecking ball.

Um, it's like when Conquest pops up behind Oliver. He then for just like, for cool's sake, uh, he strides one leg forward over the body of this, not dead, he's unconscious, but he basically straddles one leg over the body and bellows, you won't harm my friends, uh, out to the, uh, out to the, uh, but he basically straddles one leg over the body, uh, and bellows, you won't harm my friends, uh, out to out to this whole riot that's occurring around them. Oh, another goon's attack. That goon is right next to him, we'll attempt to stab Dredge.

Number three. So bag. Oh, oh. It's the invincible hair. This blade really seems to sink into Dredge. This hit something. Can I use my reaction? Yeah, absolutely.

Seeing this guy pass out in front of me, I'll turn around, and use that I'm going to use silvery barbs on him. Oh. I can't believe you would use that against me, Pixel. I told you all that in confidence. That's, I have to re-roll and take the lower roll. I went from a natural 20 to a 17. Which will still hit.

It still hits. But, yeah, not a credit. Okay. He takes significantly less damage. Thank God. The blade, oh, I can't believe you, as the blade stabs into dredge. But this now hits as a glancing blow.

As you call out to him, he gets in his head and the attack misses. That further goon will run towards Coe and strike. Oh. It's come 22. 22 will hit. The hell hit. Eight points of piercing damage.

Okay. Oh, wait. Yes. Okay. Okay. These goons up here. The one will attack Rhett, one will attack Pike. Advantage on me.

They are actually both at advantage. Oh, shit. Well, I won't speak to anybody else. Oh, no. Is it packbacker? You'll never hit me, though. What? You'll never hit me.

Mine, too. This one on RET is a 18. Well, I try to cash yield and realize that all spells from you have mixed your own components, so I can't. My AC is 11. Oh, what? Holy soon. 13. Oh, my God.

Why is it so? Does it just 10 plus X? Yeah. Oh. Oh, jeez. Which is two, which gets me to 12, but because I'm a Saurian. You're right-five. You're right on a 13.

And so, you're a little hard- Slightly better. You take nine points of piercing damage, as this guy also will grab your shirt cuff. As you, he grapples you in his hand, as he's attempting to stab you with. you with a sharpened toothbrush. How much?

As the shift, nine points of piercing damage. So he tries to stab me in my chest, and it just like, am I going a little bit? But I almost don't notice it, because I channel my ether on power again. I'll use unyielding destiny, density, and I roll really high again, and I reduce it by. You are my density.

I mean destiny. 14? 14, so I take no day. Holy, okay. It's just, he's like trying to stab into you, but you're just, your destiny's too hard. Your destiny is too spritory. And finally on Pike. Yeah, he's advantaged against me, obviously.

Like that. Oh, that's bad. And a fear. Uh, I rolled double twos. I'm not going on you. I rolled double two. I swear to God, I rolled double twos. Wow.

My reaction, my shields were down, though. Uh, yeah. You'll be there. Okay. That was the last goon. That was the last good. Okay. You're just me and number five.

I am going to, uh, I'm gonna look at him and say, I don't know how stupid you have to fucking be of all the people here to pick a fight with that guy. Uh, I'm gonna fucking choose, and then I just swing in with my, uh, Schubertie.

15 that'll hit. Stupidy. That'll be a, uh, 13 points of bludgeon damage. Oh, I'll attempt to grab. Strength saving throw. Oh God, oh God. Oh God. Non-lethal.

13 points on number five? Yep. Strength saving throw? You say? Oh, strength, shrink, shrink, shrink, shrink, shrink. 13. Oh, what is it? It's 8 plus proficiency is what, two?

No, three. 11 plus 5 is 16. Is the D.C. Okay. He's grappled. I got it around the neck and then I'm just gonna basically like pull him around and then just like punch the shit out of his kidney. I am, I am, I haven't, I'm choking him out. I'm advantaged, I'm advantaged.

Oh my god. That is a two, 18 hit I think. 18 absolutely. Okay. That is eight points of bludging damage in one kidney. I just fall off in the same kidney. Oh my God. God, same one.

The same kidney. Ah, come on. That'll be a 23 to head. Oh, that'll hit. That'll do it. The AC on the Goons is very low. That is six points of legend damage. That's my bonus action.

Oh, oops. The arm wrapped around them, you rein in these just ham-fisted hammer strikes into this kidney. And as you do, you call out, you fool, how could you possibly pick this? You can feel the body pass out in your arms. Go down!

That's right, I drop it. And I'm empowered by Pixels aura, or Orant ORA. You know how much extra movement? 10. 10. So I'm gonna look at, there's still three with Pike and Madison.

I'm coming guys, and I'm going to use all of my movement, which is 30, so I have 40 points, 40 feet of movement. movement, I believe. And I do one, two, three, but can I do the actually, no one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Now I'm just running. And that's my turn. Uh, Ziggy. I, pick yourself up off the ground, jump back on the table. I get on top of the table. Screaming at this fucking guy who's trying to scream into, uh, it's like not true bread. My dear friend bread.

This time I do a 10 to hit. That'll hit? Oh my God. What? They're also not wearing armor. But I slip on a tray. Oh yeah, but can I add that to damage? No, no, no, no.

So I slip on a tray, and what would have been an equally powerful slam attack falls a little bit short. I still manage to swipe him with my heart. horn, but I only do one point of piercing damage, and then I fall prone to the ground. You give him an abrasion. It hurts me. It hurts me more than I hurt him. Which one is that? Three. Okay.

Oh, how can this happen to me again? As you collapse on the other goon. Top of the round. I need everyone to make a dexterity saving throw. Oh, you guys again. With frightened, saving throws are not one of the things I'm disadvantage on, so I'm rolling this trait. You might be because you're prone. There's the natural story.

That's a different story. Frightened does not affect saving throws. I don't know why I'm rolling. For the product inspiration. I'm going, I can use that on saving throws, right? I just made of attack rolls and just movement. Doesn't say anything about saves. All right, you did that, man.

A D20 test. Yeah, for prone. At least here it doesn't. Decks saving throw, I got a 24. Pass. Just now the DC's 15. If you... If you pass, you take half of eight.

If you succeed... I shouldn't be able to sign a reaction to lay. If you pass, you take half of eight. If you fail, you take eight points of bludgeoning damage. As once more, the chaos of the riot surrounds you. Chairs, tables, tapioca pudding, gruel, everything flies through the air. Bodies. Shives, the strikes go out.

We take half. Yes. If you passed. So did we, was that for the first one as well? Because I didn't take half in 11 the first time. I didn't take any average the first drought. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. If you pass, you pass, you pass.

My HP is now officially updated appropriately. Okay, thank you. All right. So in this one, we take half of eight, so forth. If you passed, half of eight, yep. I passed with a natural 20. Nice. Nice, nice, nice.

I use my bark inspiration on your pass. Okay. Uh, Pixels, back to you. Um, I am going to, to... I'm gonna chase after Co. Guys? Bye, jerk face!

I'm gonna use my full... I thought we had something, Bigsel. Does he have his reaction back? I don't think he reacted to anything. So the only times they've used their reactions were attacks of opportunity, and I don't think those have happened last round. I think he tried to attack Dredge, and then she got silver-barbed, remember? Yes. But they've not used their reactions.

I don't think so. So then if he wants to take an opportunity to attack. Unless you want, I mean, if you could run slightly differently and get around him, or up to you. Oh, no, I'm not worried about that. All right, I'll take an attack on opportunity. I want to use my full 40, 40 movement speed. Oh, you're 40?

Yeah, because I'm on. What that means you were at 40? Yeah, that was awesome. Oh, go, okay. I think he went, he went eight squares or whatever was. You can, you can do that, we'll say that. Yeah, that's fine. That's fine.

Um, oh. All right, so he'll, well, uh, 22 to hit. Yeah, that hits. Uh, you will take. nine points of piercing damage. How dare you say that? How dare you hit me, jerk?

This is a prison riot. We were friends, and then you silver-in-bombeds me. You're beating on my friends. We got matching tattoos. I thought that meant something to you. Oh, my one looks so cute. Anyway, shut up. I hate you now.

Well, it doesn't look cute, so... And then I'm going to rush forward. I don't think you hate me. I think this is just a product of circumstance. You're the worst. And then I'm going to use... this way. My bonus action to,

and I'm gonna give you iconic inspiration. Yeah, you. Good. Look, I don't know that you are in, I'm on the other side. I don't know that you've got anything going on. And then I'm gonna use my action because I'm closing up and I'm gonna cast

fairy fire on the guys. I'm gonna angle it towards the wall of the cafeteria and try and hit just the, Do you want to hit me or do you want to hit Pike or you just at the two in front? I believe that Pike's fast enough. I'm going to try and hit Pike and then the three. So you're doing like here. Yeah. You'll be fine.

Is it a deck saving throw? Deck saving throw? Yeah, I'm okay. You've got this Pike Dodge. 30-20. Oh. Deck save. Oh, I don't think I'm very good.

Mace is like the most kind and forgiving GM on the planet until it's me. I'm like, oh, man, eight monks. This side of the table has nullified all of my damage, so I do in fact hate both of you. We're going to ham. The goons absolutely felt like I got like a 10. I'll get three uses of that for days. Oh, is Slezno dead?

What did you say? No. What did you say? What? I only have more focus points. Sorry, I thought you said somebody was dead. Focus essence. No.

Slezno actually is quite dexterous. He rolled quite high. 23. Yeah, you would pass. No passes. Yeah. But the other two? They failed for sure.

Oh, okay. So they are, they are shimmery, sparkly, holographic as they radiate with my fairy fire. Well, I was gonna mark them, but then I can't unmark them if they get rid of the fairy fire. Okay, and that attacks are an advantage against them and they can't go invisible.

Correct. Correct. Yep, okay. Perfect. Pike. Everything I do is gonna be a disadvantage. These guys have sparkly, fairy fire on them as you can see.

Well, but then you have advantage on them. Yeah. Yeah, but I'm not worried about them. We're going to be like, I should cut my throat. Oh, fair. I cannot move towards Slezno willingly, but I don't have to get any closer to try to punch him to the throat.

Correct. So I am going to use my last essence point to attempt to make four disadvantaged attacks against Slezno. If I can manage to kill him before all of my attacks are up, then the rest of my attacks will be normal if I can stand up.

I would ask that you roll them one at a time. Yeah, for sure. I'm gonna fight him off front. I'm not getting up yet. I'm gonna, like, you know, we're just fucking scrapping. Yeah, I love it. I love it. Yeah.

The first one is going to be a nine, which is a 17 to hit. 17 will hit. Hell yeah, well. 17 will hit. The first one will do, six points of bludging damage. Eh.

You throw a knee upwards into Slez, no, He's on top of you, and you catch him in that same way. He coughs out and blood splatters on your face. I take another attack. Oh, God, the low roll's a 12, nowhere. Miss. I take a third attack. 15 is the low roll.

Hit. Max, 13 points of bludgeon damage. You punch. I don't you want to do this to slowdown. He just caught a knee in the ribs from me. And I go to, uh, try to hit him and I miss, especially as the blood that gets in my eyes. I'm holding on to his prison shirt.

He's holding on to mine. As I miss, I pull back and wipe the blood away from my eyes, and then I punch him in the face as hard as I possibly can, just trying to knock him out. But as I do, and once I feel him go limp, I roll him over and then use half my movement to stand up. Oh, you throw that punch. And the second the second the motion transfers from your fist into,

his face. You can feel, you can almost see his eyes roll back as he lands unconscious. As the weight loosens and he limply falls on you, you move him off to the side, spinning and stand up using half your movement. And as I pop up, I use my last attack to just try to kick number one's head right off his shoulders, not legally, with the damage, because I'm no longer feared. And that'll be a 15 to hit. 15 on it? Four, ten points of bludgeoning damage, and I am completely out of essence points. Okay. You spin up quick and throw a wide haymaker and it catches this guy right in the chest and lands a solid blow.

Slows no is down, Rhett? The cheers falling apart in my hands. I drop it. As that's happening, the tray that Ziggy slipped on flips through the air, flying, flying, flanks off my head. and I look down, and I grab it, and I smash number two. You're a advantage. With this spare launch tray.

Two 12s. That probably hits anyway, right? For sure. There is 10. 14, okay, we're good. And that will be, and oh, max damage, six points. Yes! Oh, my number two, who's been pretty wounded.

Number two, you crashed this tray over ahead of this. There's a sickening crack as it snaps against the back of his head. He moves forward a little bit, but still standing on his feet. That's it? I'll want to retina. And the goons, he spins around and takes an attack at you. I've just out like 80 points of bludgeon damage. I can't attack any faster.

I think this hits. Your AC's like 11, right? I got a 14. Rets is, yeah, Rets is 11. 14 on Red. That'll do it. Only six points of bludgeoning damage. The other one will strike forward at pike.

Oh, 20. I'm going to need to roll. Maybe I get it. Okay. Six points. Piercing damage. I'll saving my reaction. Okay.

And then is there one more again? Oh, good three. Good three. Good three stands up. How could you, you? Flying Dinosaur. As he stands up and tries to also stab you with a shank. 18 to hit.

I'm assuming... We're really outclassed you. These guys all have weapons. What's the... Seven points of piercing damage. To me? As, yes. I cast...

Ah! Diggs! As you get stabbed. You guys just left him. As I come thunder. One, two, three, four. I mean, you definitely get in here if you need to, for sure. You have 40.

You can't get in between both of these guys? Probably. Probably. Yeah. If you don't count the tables, it's like difficult terrain, right? Five. I mean, even if it was extra difficult terrain, you can get it here.

Easy. I'm coming, guys, as I leap forward and I come down with my boot or whatever shoes I'm wearing into number two. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. 14? 14 minutes. The AC is 10 for the goons.

That'll be 13 points of bludgeoning damage. On which one? On number two. You kick number two and it goes sailing into a table before he limply hits it, collides, clatters off to the ground unconscious. You know? I leap down, I just completely kick him into it, and then I pull way away.

back and going for a big punch. You got it. And this is on, which one? This has got to be number one, right? Yep. It's a natural one. No. That's just about the only way. Oh, yeah. They have firefire.

I was going to say that's like just about the only way you can miss. Bitch, you're doing great. 19. That'll hit. That'll hit. That'll do it. That's my second attack. I realized that Cosmic Smite doesn't require.

material component. Oh, that's great. Just bring down the justice, baby. As- Send him straight to hell. As I say, what are you gonna do? Get pummeled unconscious and regret starting a prison riot? As a crackling static electricity builds up along my arm,

as I pummel this guy in the gut, and I hope to just send him flying, maybe even like hitting the railing of the walkway of the guards. We were like, I saw the guard captain. I don't know if it'll knock him out. But that's my intention. So it's 1D8 and what Connert's might, I think, is 2D8? Yep.

I'll just go for it in total. 12, 12, 16, 21 points. A bludgeoning radiant damage. That's got to do it. Your fist crackling with the static energy, catches him right in the gut. So much of the momentum unleashes as the punch reaches its zenith. He goes flying up.

through the air and hangs like clothing over the railing like clothing set to dry over the railing as he limply as he limply is hanging off the second level of where the walkway is. Ziggy, there is but one left.

He just he just all righted this guy like the number of USJet. With the Detroit slamper, the Detroit Smasher. Ow! I'm bleeding and I've been hit sharpened toothbrush sticking out of your gun. Yeah, there's a sharpened toothbrush.

It's bristle side in. Oh, horrendous. That's not how that works. How does it make sense? Please tell me you clean this before you stuck it inside me. Please, please, I. We use it to clean toilets. You're poison.

I didn't choose it. The job is scuba toilets. It was it was Ziggy who got the Mercer. And I will attempt to stab the purpose. in front of me with my horn. I find the most erotic part of the woman is the boon-ass. I get a 19 to hit. Nice.

Oh my God, let's go. That's not cock-ca. I'm gonna do four damage. Piercing damage, non-lethal as I stab into, I don't know how you can make piercing damage non-lethal, but somehow I find a way. I'm gonna say, you can't do the back of the skull.

That, What happens here is dredge slips around this guy and loops two arms behind him and holds him back. You got this kid. As you take the toothbrush out, wherever you use the horn, and you just start hammering into this guy. Let me go! Let me go! Ziggi throws himself into this guy like that trolled Lord of Rings movie. Like, like, bunting into the wall. You start crashing into him against...

It takes 10 minutes, but you knock him out. You're like a Jesus. Oh, God. Oh, shit. Holy shit. The Slesno and all of his goons have been neutralized. I need you to once more make a dexterity save. Oh, my God.

I'll take a half. I'll take a half. That is once more. Well, sorry, 10 points. Oh, my God. 16. What's the DC? Oh, 15. 15, no, 15.

No, I passed. I passed. I do not pass. So I take 15, you say? No, no, no, no. 15 is the DC. Yeah. 10 points is the damage.

Okay. If you pass, you take half. Okay. If you fail, you take 10 points of bludgeoning damage. Okay. Slezno's goons are out. You now find yourself in a fight for survival. The chaos still rages around you.

The seconds pass, it feels almost like an eternity. As you work towards the center of the room, back to back, you hold off all sorts of oncoming threat in the form of flying bodies, trays, stabs. You fight back and create what feels a bit like a barricade. As we are moving together and moving away from where we are to the center and whatever it might be, I would like to pick up the actual fucking knife

that Slezno had, so it can't be used against us. Oh. I don't want someone else to stumble upon a giant fucking booing knife and then come after us with it. Okay. You pick up the knife. Yeah, absolutely. And I'm not even going to use it.

I'm not to stash it in my belt. Yeah. I just don't want someone else to pick it up and then start like gutting people. Yeah, absolutely. In this madness, I want to, do I see Portiavillian? Did she get away? She's actually sitting where you left her.

She's kind of kicking her feet. She is almost, it seems as if she's enjoying it, she's not being following. Almost as it, things are flying around her, but it's almost as she laughs, she throws her head back and laughs, of Trey goes by in front of her. She kicks her feet and somebody, like,

slides across the floor in between them and they kick. It's this almost like, oh, I didn't know we were having a food spot today. She's like, yeah, 100%. She is part of, like, you know, there's enrichment in games stuff. She has the little golf tea game from the Cracker Barrel. The Ingramma, sir, Dingerama's game.

And she's playing. And she's playing. They did turn out to be quite a bit of fun. There's a train that fly. Flying furniture, Mike. And I run up. Mrs. Goans, come with me. It's time to go.

Let's just right this way. Oh, you were just such a nice man. And I'll grab her hand gently, but still I kind of try to yank if we're kind of collecting the middle and going back to back here. Are you taking me to my quibblegones? And you all gather kind of in the center here. It feels like minutes go by

as you are battling to not take any more damage as now you're in full defensive mode, blocking the chaos around you, just trying to stay on your feet. It feels like minutes, it's more like seconds until you hear the door to the cafeteria burst over,

as shouts of the guards erupt into the room with small armored stone hind three horns at their sides. They all roar to stand down and return to their cells and gemstone projectiles are fired. Filling the room with surprisingly soothing light. Everyone make a Constitution saving throw. Oh, my God, I got a 23 with a natural 123. With a natural 20.

Wow. I know. I made up for all the awful rules I had in the first half. I'm breathing heavy. I get a five. Twelve. What do you think that cast does? 14.

Seven. Seven. Where about would you get? Twelve. Everybody. Close. Yeah, I'm sure. Everybody.

I'm sure. You get woozy as the strange gem tech slowly makes you lose consciousness. The chaos fades around you until there is nothing but darkness. You awaken in your cell, your heads pounding. There's a quiet in the holding facility.

You have no idea how much time has passed. How much time has passed? I have no idea. Thanks for playing everybody. Can I remember? Unclear. Wait, Mrs. Gones? Guys.

Mrs. Gones, you hear? You look around for Mrs. Gones. She's not in your cell, which is not unusual. She did not share a cell with you. I was like, because the last thing I remember is I was trying to help her get out of it. You're in the center of the cafeteria, in the eating hall, surrounded by people.

And now the five of you, amongst no others, find yourself back in that familiar stone cell, the bars crackling with energy, once more sealing you within. Oh, what the hell? Did you hear what he said? That he was paid? To kill Portiavella?

Damn it, yeah, you're right. Am I misremembering that? Or he implied it? That damn officer. He saw it all start to happen and he just walked away. He closed the door behind him. Jackass. This was some kind of setup.

What do we do about it? What can we do about it? And why would they want her dead? She's scrambled Raptor X. Who the hell knows? Do you see how I punch that guy like 20 feet? I think he let out of Wilhelm screams. Has he got the railing?

Oh gosh. You know, that's... I felt pretty good, I'm not gonna lie, out of my head. You never did anything like that and last didn't we had. Yeah, well, we never had a riot. That's true. Thanks for coming in there and saving our asses at the end there. So that's not a usual prison experience?

I mean, it happens, but I mean, I've had a riot other prisons I've been in, but not Janix. That's not a, that's not an everyday occurrence. That's for sure. It seems like the other guards, they wanted it to stop, so, I mean, that captain must have been paid off, too. And Slezzano. That guy had a real knife. I'm not talking about a sharpened piece of plastic. I mean, you should have seen the thing. It was like an eight-inch blade.

Oh, the God. How the hell what are you gun? Wait, but who's your friend, the fixer? What was her name? What was... Velka? Velka, thank you. I'm already done. Did she ever get you your cigarettes? No, I, I've been saving up notes from the jobs we've been working, and, you know, what, they pay us a pittance, so I was hoping to swing by there in the next couple of days

if there was anything else that we could get at the same time. Short answer is no. I haven't spoken to her. Do you think she got on the knife? We could ask her, but you know that she's not going to tell us when she gets other people. That's not how that works. I mean, if that God guy was in on it, and that's why he left,

I mean, I'm sure he just slipped him the knife, right? That would be my guess. I'm just really upset. I had some great conversations with those guys slinging shit. I can't believe they would turn on us like that, especially Ted. Do be fair, picks. I did warn you when we got here not to make friends with the scumbags. I'm supposed to know which ones is scumbags and which ones is not.

You can kind of tell. Those guys, when you fight obvious scumbags, Wormo. Gosh, I don't Wormo veda. No, I mean, oh, hey guys, is that you? Oh, Vermo, hey, buddy. Oh, my God's, thank goodness. Is he next door? Oh, he's next door.

A voice calls out distinctly Wormo. Slozo actually cut him in two at the start of the fight, but he did have a body. So now there's two boys. I'm in here with my new brother, Zlurmo. We're in you together. You guys are finally up. I don't know.

Who knows how long we've been out. Did you guys hear? What? In the riot, Slezmo, he died. They said it was Dredge who did it. What? Wait, huh? Yeah, I don't know.

I was hiding under the table. They said Dredge killed Slezmo. There's no way. Dredge isn't a killer. Well, he was on the opposite side of the cafeteria. Yeah, he wasn't even close to him. I mean, I definitely didn't hit him that hard. I don't know.

Words going around, huh? The Dredge is, he's in solitary. They're pinning murder on his sentence for... Rich, no. Cafeteria is sitting. We can't have a... Yeah, no, now he's in solitary always sitting. Oh, that's awful.

That's the worst one. We're in prison. We're prisoners. I don't know. I was wondering, could we take him back to the Rhapsody, since you wouldn't let me keep shipmouse shit jaws. I was hoping you'd let me keep dredge. Look, when we get out of this,

it's not like all our friends can come with us. We're not taking it to come. Oh, we can't take you with me. Are you guys taking people back on a ship? Is this like a prison break situation? You're getting life. You're getting life. I will say, though, I do like all those pinup posters

all side by side on one side of yourself. Oh, you saw that. You saw that, huh? Oh, thank you. Thank you. Yeah. I didn't know the ladies can be built like that. I think I've had to close mind.

The imagination is a powerful thing, Co. You know, and they can look quite nice, quite nice. I like that they're all placed side by side together with nothing else on any other walls. No, it's just, you know, it's just what anybody would do. Anyway, enough about those. Every time I stand over here, there's a slight breeze. No, nothing more is about that.

Anyway, back about dredge. Oh, yeah. Everything's blamed on him. So, Slezmo's gone. He's actually... Slezno's gone. He's actually dead, right? Don't listen to work.

Lermo. Slezmo. I got all... Slezno. And slermo. Slearmo. I heard somebody shout Sleesmo at some point. Is he actually?

Yeah. Yeah. It's confirmed. The guards talking earlier. Slezno's dead. That guy. God. I hope we never have to say his name.

I don't think it'll be relevant after this exact conversation. But if he's actually gone, what are the chances that some of his crew might just come clean? What do you mean? Somebody's got a flip on the guy, especially now he's not alive anymore. You think they're going to take the fall for a dead guy? Or if they just, I mean, all these guys are fucking cowards.

If they saw the boss of their little, prison gang go out like that so easily what's going to happen to them if they start to squeal? All we need is one of them to say something to somebody and this whole problem goes away. I'm pretty sure it was a warning to the rest of them

too. That's how these fucking things happen. Wow. Yeah, we just need it. We just need. It could have been one of his own guys too. Hard to say. Well, that's that hard to say, Pact. Are you buying for...

Oh, no, I was talking about Slezno's name. Sorry. Hard to say. I don't find it hard to say at all. You know, the science standard. I might have a DBI. You got it pretty hard too. My one, pupil's enormous.

Do you ever think that... I don't know how Grebel's world. He ever think that he's actually the 15th Wormo? And that there was Worme through Wormo. And if you get sliced, that's slice and have to be worm-pee? I hope not. Calling yourself warm pee does not sound like a great way to experience prison.

That's a crazy, that's a crazy name. Now, Wormp, Worm is right over here. No, that's a name. You got Worm P? Worm is dead. You got cut in half, and now you've got a Worm? Oh, yeah. Didn't you hear Bikes' explanation of what happened to me?

I'm actually a top of Grebel science. On Grebel. You're not zero well. No, Wump isn't in here. I spent the last 40 years of my life studying the greeble. Oh, my God. But only the top half. You're typically in your top grebe.

No, specifically the top of real scientists. Ah, okay. Okay. We discussed trying to get one of these guys to potentially flip. That was my real suggestion. Nothing else happened. We just got to figure out where these guys are and see if we can put a little pressure on.

Do you ever worry that this whole thing is a big conspiracy and that's why we're in here? I mean, I think that's exactly what this probably is at this point, Vigel. Then how are we going to get one of them to flip? You know that they're being paid loss of notes. Well, that's just it. I mean, maybe Slezno was he think his guns? Who's Slezno?

Is he a friend of Sleysmo? You know, it's hard to say. I told you. You're I'm saying. You're eye. You're saying. No, Slezno is the guy who just died. Tickle me Sleezmo.

When I was a kid, that my dad couldn't afford. Tickle me Sleesmo. This is Slezno. Wasn't Tickleme Slezmo the one that got recalled for all the perverted say? It wasn't here when it started tickling it? Can you get to say dickling? Were you supposed to tickle him? It's nearly the

Dickle me, slees-mo. I've got a great suggestion for our next Patreon meeting. What happens when Slezma is caught an half? Oh, God. You continue to talk and to plan, and you send yourself for what feels like a long time before normalcy. normalcy, or at least what you've come to expect from this life of holding has offered you.

There's a moment where the lights are ushered on and the bars go away, and once more you're expected to line up outside of your holding cell, and you take stock of those around you. You see most inmates where you are right now are sporting some bruise, puncture, bandage, arms and slings, heads wrapped. This section of the holding facilities in has seen a brutal riot as you all move once more into the mess hall from whence you came.

You see a break, we did a break. Let's take a break. Do you want to take a break? No, you see nothing. You see nothing, great day. Do you see Pixel's best friend who wraps You see pixels me yes, yes. The players you see fix his best friend, Braves Zanagan.

Braves Zanagan is here, but we're on a break. I don't know what they're keeping track of all these. What's crazy is that Wormp was born in prison. He's going to continue to be a prisoner. He's committed. It's Worma. It's Wormb. It's Wormb.

Worm. Worm. Worm. Worm. Worm. Worm. I love. You once more are roused from your cell as a strange sense of normalcy begins to take place again.

You walk outside, you begin to line up to head into the mess hall, the last place you remember being. You see the other inmates of this section lined up around you and you see the condition in which they're all in. very much evidence of the large brawl, the riot that took place however much earlier, you now understand that there was a death and that dredge was blamed for it and is currently in isolation. And you're walked into the mess hall. You find it in cleaned up, but there is clear evidence that a struggle is taking place. There's smears of blood that were clearly washed away, but some sections have stained into the stone. Broken pieces of railing, cracks and stairs, chairs that have been knocked over and yet to be replaced. So just a few less seats in the area. As you walk into the

mess hall, this is what you say. And we've been ushered in here? Yeah, well, do you have? Kind of as like, you know, as a normal part of your daily routine, you are often, the gates open, you are instructed to line up, and you are moved into the next area. Got it. So not like you specifically, but as a normal part of the movement that you've experienced over the last couple of days, this has taken place once again. Man, I don't think I'd be very hungry. I'd probably try to find a place to sit and then wait for the rest of the gang. to sit, whether they're getting food or not. Because I think I'm thinking of a plan. I would like to basically kind of take in,

now that we don't have Dredge, I am looking to see if it's a fucking like, scar and the hyenas at the end of the Lion King. Yeah, sharks in the water. Like, is it effectively like, or hopefully even that Dredge is down, maybe me like smashing that dude in the big, I'm mimicking Lieutenant Wilde's finishing move.

and Sonic boomed him up there. Did that display give me any amount of respect, or do we feel like they're all now kind of watching us? Selling blood. And how many of the goons that we fought and knocked out are like they're just watching us and plotting their revenge? Roll an insight check.

Come on, I need this, I need this. I don't get it. Insight, you mean? Insight? Four. That was pretty bad. All the same, it is pretty clear

that they still give you a wide berth. And it's, as you said, the brutal riot that took place. You were at the, your party, your lot was at the center of it. And people went flying in a display of beach skill, especially

out of Pike, Cohen yourself, taking out many, and then even really everybody in some degree completely neutralizing goons, fighting back against other inmates.

All of you held your footing and stood your ground until the guards ushered in and knocked everybody out. So there is absolutely a perceptible amount of hesitant respect paid to you as you entered. I'm just waiting for everybody to join at the table. You take your seat at the normal table you've kind of all become accustomed to meeting up at. I would already be there. I'm I haven't said it and I don't want anyone to ask and perhaps they're picking up on this.

But where the fuck is my brother? Yeah. And it's been many days. And so that we've been here here this long and that my friends are at risk, and I feel like this should be an easy out and that we should already be back on the Rhapsody, maybe with or without the bounty, it doesn't matter. But Ziggy is starting to entertain despair. It's a question of surely, if he was okay, he would intervene.

It costs him nothing. He is right here. The question becomes he has not intervened. Is he not? not okay. Yeah. Or does he truly not care? Damn.

So I'd be sitting down and I flip bounce up on my goggles. And I play the 600th game trying to beat my, there's only a maximum score. I'm just gonna try to get a perfect game faster than I got it last time. See if I can get four minutes and 58 seconds instead of four minutes and 59. And that's all I'm up to. You turn once more to a familiar comfort. I'll hold my tray as I'm walking at the table with my slop, my breakfast slop. Feeling a little kind of like out of my depth, right?

It's like we're in prison, what choice do we have? You know, what plan can we hatch? And, you know, we're just totally helpless. And at any second, you know, everyone's paid off. I'll put my tray down. Hi. Ziggy. Hey. Ronnius. Bermow. Hi.

Hi. Oh, yeah. Pitzel. And I look at the seat that Dredge usually sits at. And I'm like, damn. Damn. Damn. He's gonna be okay. He's gonna be okay.

They don't execute them. I think I'm gonna turn myself in. I'm gonna say I'm the one that. that killed Slurmo. Who slurmo? Who? The guy is saying that the dredge killed Slurmo. Slezmo, yeah.

Slezno, damn it. No, no, not. It's Armo. It's hard to say it. No, this is Bronnius. This is Bronnius now, obviously. It's okay. I just use my own voice when I do brawnings.

Oh, don't. Damn it, I never met him, so. No, I'm not talking about that guy. I'm talking about the one that Dredge is supposed to have killed. Look, I, Look, I think I might have an idea. All right, let's hear it. How would you say that your interrogation went?

I mean, I don't know. I was pretty straightforward with the guy. Why do you ask? Well, because it's not something that I think I can do myself. As far as the Inquisitor goes, I fed that guy so much bullshit. He will never speak to me again. But what if you were willing to sit under the... those crystals again? What if we could somehow get the Inquisitor's attention and tell him what we know?

I mean, out of all of us, look at us. It's going to listen to you. You're a straight shooter, man. I mean, he was trying to solve that one crime. Speaking of which... Oh, speaking of wish, I should ask and see how his promotion went. How's... Or where's Portia Billa? Has anyone seen her? I haven't. Oh, I heard she's back in solitary, too.

Mm-hmm. Did she kill Slamo? No, nobody knows what she died. They just say she's back in. We haven't seen her since. She's just back, locked away, hasn't even been in the mess hall. Well, then, look, if the heat's back on her, maybe you're right.

Maybe they're hitting dead ends, or did some of this get blamed on her. None of this makes sense. The Inquisitor might not even listen to you until we have some sort of extra proof. We might still need one of these guys to flip, but it's, I don't

know who else to go to. Well, gang, that Wormo puts his hands on Pike's shoulder. Don't touch me. If we're going to do something, we've got to do it quick. I hear they're taking them to the cookpot, and that place is a serious business. You're going to feed him?

No, it's a lot. a terrible prison. It's in the middle of a volcano. I'm going to say this one more time. Stop rubbing my back. Oh, oh, sorry. I just do that sometimes when I get nervous. This is a defense mechanism. Yeah, you're about to see my defense mechanism.

What's going on with your nerves, Burma? It's just things have been really tense lately. And now Dredge, Dredge, who is our big, imposing sense of protection. Now he's in solitary, and maybe at the cook pot, soon to be? Yes, Pixel. Well, I mean, this is Morpho Pike.

You could keep talking for him, but we need one of the, one of the, Yeah, sometimes it's a cook on. I don't need to keep going. I was pretending like he was keeping to talk. I'll listen to you if you need to talk. But you were saying you want one of these guys to turn on him?

Yeah, I mean, with their leader gone, it shouldn't be that hard to get one of these guys to spill the beans. I mean, you could always ask Narcoli, Excuse me? You know, the friend of theirs is a knock. His name is Narculous. Well, yeah, on account of him being a knock and all.

Did his parents know he was gonna grow up to be a nar? How could I have made such an obvious clue? I think he was raised that way, Rhett. I really do have a TBI. Me Pike, me strong. I mean, it's also loose lipsly. Loose lipsly? Yeah.

Wow. You can throw a dartboard in these. They'll throw a dart on these guys and hit a traitor instantly. Why have we been stuck here for a month? Aren't they all friends with Grim Greg? Hmm. Yeah. Hmm.

You're cool, right, Grim Greg? Oh, yeah, I'm cool. As long as you want a tattoo and don't want me to flip on anybody. Or ask any of my friends who are known to flip on people to flip on people. Oh, yeah, but on everyone. All right. You know, as long as I've known Grim Greg, he's had two defining character traits and that he wants to get a tattoo and then he doesn't flip on people.

Is that right, Grimbrick? That's the name of his bio. He's like writing an autobiography. Honor and ink. How willing all these people are to flip. God, Philly would just be, I think I'd have a heart attack on the spot, like... Yeah, yeah. This is not like the playbook, that's for sure.

So it's your idea. I mean, it's not a bad one. Look, and you know, they have a way to suss out the truth. If we can find a way to get some kind of confession, maybe that we can take to him, and we make it relevant to the case. And look, I don't know this guy. but from the time that I spent with him

he seems like a no-nonsense guy could he also be corrupt maybe but what else do what other choice do we have I don't think he's corrupt at all not at all nope and you're sure of that nope

just a feeling yeah because when I was talking to him and everything he seemed to really appreciate my honesty and even kicked that corrupt guy out of there, the one that was, you know, probably gave sludgemo or whatever the knife. I mean, Captain Tark is his right-hand man, though, at least during my investigation or inquisition it was.

Yeah, the inquisitor watches he beat the shit out of me. Well, I mean, probably ordered him to do it because you weren't being honest, Cole. I was being honest. I was on taking shit. Oh, well, I can't speak to that. I just, how often is there something? Someone who... someone's one, two. I mean, damn.

I just feel so damn helpless. You know what's really starting to piss me off? Huh. Where the hell is your brother, Ziggy? How are you a week ago? It's been fucking, at least a week, if not longer. Who knows how long it's been? We've got four.

Something is very, very wrong. I don't know. That's out of here by now. I mean, things haven't always been perfect between us, but he must know I'm in here, unless something's wrong. unless something's really bad, unless something happened to him. Do you think he thinks that we are guilty?

Unless more than just... What was his name against Slas? Slesno. Slezno, yeah. More than just Slezno was paid off. Do you think Ziggis' brother was paid off? Or someone was paid off to tell Ziggi's brother something that wasn't that we're in here.

Oh. I mean, if he doesn't know, maybe they told his brother that we jetted off on the Rhapsody and that we're flying around the galaxy with Meg and Hank. That would be quite the predicament. If he doesn't think that we're alive or in here, then that might be it. No, look. What if he's in on it too? Diggy's brother.

Yeah. Then we saved the guy's life. What if his life was never in danger? What if he told us that she was... What if it's even... An even bigger conspiracy? I mean, you've heard the way that Ziggie talks about his brother.

He's like the perfect guy. You know, he's uncorruptible. He's a model... Saurian, right? I mean, I think I asked you that once, Ziggy, is how well do you know him? Given everything that's happened, how do you feel about that?

I don't know who he is now. I remember when we were younger. He wasn't anything like this. He was brash and out of control. Before he found the church, he was, he was a new girl every day. And it was a, uh, lucky girls.

I mean, he was always so athletic. Yeah. And he always had the right thing to say. Yeah. And he, there were so many times when I, he would do something just to be mean, Just to be cruel, just to put me down because people knew that they'd believe him because he was handsome and because he, you know, he was always so perfect. The channeler that he is now, I, part of it, part of me thinks that he's like, you know, turned over a new leaf and that's what he's actually up to.

And that he's trying to give himself to the harmony, the whole thing. And another part of me is like, a lot of power. There's a whole, whole lot of influence. There's a whole lot of, just like my parents and everything that they do with diplomacy and wealth. And my sister, we're all woogs, we're all drawn to that. I just pour myself into games like bounce instead of authority over an entire planet's church and culture's religiosity. Sounds like you might as well just be a fucking stranger at this point. We can't count on him any longer.

If we could just get a word to him, you know? Who knows what good that would do at this point? Wait, don't we get like a phone call? I haven't taken mine. Do you guys take yours? No. Is that how that works? Do we get a phone call in here?

I don't know. I don't know how sore-od prisons work. How am I going to call everyone I knows in this room? Same. I could call the circumstance, see how he's doing. We could do a phone call. I mean, we could ask. I think back to the phone numbers I remember,

and I only have three, I think. And all of them were dead ends. Oh, shit, you already tried to make some calls. You did get to the office of your sister. That's true. Wait. Wasn't she on diplomatic mission with Morsi? I can't remember.

I forget what the actual message was. Do I recall where my sister was and what the excuse was for not getting to the phone? I didn't take that level of notes. You reached the offices of your sister and spoke with her assistant. And I believe she was... Did we...

I believe she was involved in Morsi. So your family's just kind of M. I.A. Like, we don't really know, right? Yeah. Okay. I could try calling my sister, but she didn't give me the time of day. And I was begging, pleading, warning her about her brother's life from her own brother. They just, they don't want to have anything to do with me. My brother might know I'm here, that we're here.

And he might not be. be thinking about it at all. Well, I mean, I've got a couple of numbers I could try, but we're talking about a literal coin flip. All that people you can call that we can try that, and I think other than that, we've got to see how many of Sleznos crew survived and just, I don't know, shake them down and try to get them to talk. I'm good at that.

If you want, if you pick somebody, I get some special favors for doing the taxes for the warden in here. So if you want to get them alone and have a conversation, I can arrange that later tonight. You would do that for me some warm-out. You almost called him Slashno, didn't you? We're practically family. Warmo. I have to, like, really center myself here. Pike, we're practically family.

Well, you know, if you can get to the warden, and the warden can get to the inquisitor, that might be a full uncorrupted line. I can certainly get a message through. I've saved him a great deal of notes of doing his taxes. Wow. And then you and I,

We can get the information we need out of Nacolus. No, I think... I think Brab is going to be the one who's most likely to flip. I don't know. I think the Narklas actually grew up resentful of his name so he came to the antipuses of a Nark. I think he hates snitches. You think that...

Guys just feel Trent. But I don't know. I just feel like... I feel like Bram's such a liar. He's so full of hot air. I hate this. I hate this so much. You don't think flip's gonna flip? I mean, you and Brab have matching tattoos, don't you?

Well, yeah. Well, I feel like you shared a special moment, and that's worth something. I'm in with the amount of times I turn on my friends. Hmm. Let me do it, Ben Picks. He's not my friend. His friend's secrets to that group of 15 people with blades is off the hook. But Brab...

I think he's... If anyone is gonna know if Slesno is paid off, it's him. Slurmo? Slezno. If you say so. You think it's a good idea, Pike? I still think we should go with Noculus. Do I think what's a good idea?

Just to clarify, before I either confirm or deny it. It's just to lay out the plan. Just to, if we're gonna basically go into the Inquisitor? Wait, is this the exact rap again? I honestly don't think we have any other choice. All right. If you're sure about, do you say, Brap? I can get him alone tonight.

This whole episode is being a ban on you. In a room, you guys can have a conversation as long as you can guarantee that he'll turn. You get him to flip on Slezno. then I think I can probably convince the warden to get the Inquisitor here. I have to remind myself that some worms aren't meant to be caged.

Their skin is just too worm-colored. Oh my God, what are you talking about? He lost him. His voice changed. Okay, so how are we gonna So, sweet, what's so... You're going to talk to the Inquisitor

after we get the information out of Brapp once he realized the winds blow in the other way. We can use this guy, but I swear I'll never say his name. You can't make me this in a way. Let's just call him Zanagan. Zanagan. Not even as a threat of torture while I ever utter this guy's first name. I think is Brap Zanagan.

Yeah. I don't know. I'm calling him Zanagan. We are never saying his first name ever again. Mr. Zanagan. Zanagan. All right. If you get me a confession, then that's what I can use to talk to the Inquisitor.

And how are we going to do that? Tonight. We're alone with them. I'll get you guys all in a room, but if this doesn't go well, you could be separated at the end of the night. This may be your last day to do whatever you want. Wait, wait, separated from Co? Well, if it just stuff doesn't go well, you know, I mean, you're going to kidnap a guy, kind of, and get them to, like, flip on other people, so I, you know...

No, we're talking to rap, not flip. We've seen people get put in solitary for way less than this. Huh. I would just say if there's anything you want to do, do it today. And tonight, I'll make sure Zanagan is alone in a room with you. Okay, I can work with that. Okay. I can work with that.

I think I need that contraband. We're going to have to butter him up. Yeah, what do you think? Tell me what we need and I'll get it. Okay. Yeah, we gotta loosen him up. You've had... Just enough for Co to scare the...

Scare him. You have had probably, I'd say at least four to five days of hard labor on cleanup duty. And I'd say between you, each one of you has earned 25 notes. Pooled together. Well, however you'd like to do it, but each one of you has about 25 notes.

I, we can talk about this in character, or not a character, whatever it might be. I don't think it would be unreasonable to try, even if it costs all of the notes, to try to get a little hooch to loosen this guy out. I would like to assume that maybe I've had this conversation already, so I'm not like going to her,

find out how much it is going back to everybody getting in. No, and I think you would have met with her. You've been throughout like a life cycle of being in this holding facility before the riot broke out. So I think you would have certainly met with her. And I think if you want to say that you have them, I think you would have been able to acquire

your flamingo slums at this point. But I think you would know prices. Let's say that a bottle of even reasonable, right, of just a few shots. Right, of just like, maybe it's not even a ton, but it's just enough to like, as a piece offering. A shareable amount, I think you would understand is 90 notes. Velka can get us a bit of booze.

It's going to cost us about 90 notes, so we're going to have to pull them together. You know, look, it's a lot here, but it's not a lot if we get back to the Rhapsody, okay? And look, I'll pay you back personally if I have to. No, just take all of mine. I'm fine with the slop and the gruel. Yeah, then it'll just be us.

We got 50 here. I need a few more. Here, you can take mine. That's 75. All right, here's five. 80. But we also need... I may have bought four candy bars.

Bricks, they were delicious. You spent 20 notes. Sick. Picks, I hate to do this. We don't need the boost. What? We don't need the boost. We, you can part with some of your cigarettes?

Yeah, of course. Okay. Cigarettes, how much do we think? He has a bag of hot air. White bread, cheese, and butter would cost. I would have an idea. Tell me. White bread, cheese, butter, and cigarettes. White bread, cheese, butter.

And we got the cigarettes. I'll just give the rest of my sigs. I think that you can pull together 80 notes. If you trade in your sigs, you're gonna lose value. But you will get, we'll say, if you want, I think you could trade the SIGs plus

30 notes for white bread cheese and butter. I know what, Co. The moment she mentions those ingredients, I know what she's up to. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna move forward with that if I can. Were you suggesting, you know, that we also give? Give him cigarettes, yes.

So, oh, yeah. Oh, I see. Okay. So just how much for the ingredients I keep my sags. I'm going to give all of my sags to Mr. Zanagan. If you keep your sigs, we'll say 50 notes. All right. 50 notes, easy. Okay. You have all mine? Those are white prints.

Just trust co on this one, okay? Good bad, we are in jail, so I guess it makes sense. You know, captive audience. Yeah, exactly right. Stay out of trouble. I'll be back. And I'm going to go see if I can find Velka. You do, and I'd say at this point, once more you understand you find her out in kind of the outer promenade, the yard, as you would refer it. And you'll see her there standing in a familiar spot, doing her deals, and meeting with people.

When it's my turn, when I feel like it's appropriate for me to approach, I will do so. And again, keeping a certain distance, not looking at her, but speaking directly to her. Hey, Velka. Oh, back again, eh? The 50 notes are at the drop point. I need white bread, butter, and cheese. Oh, cooking up a little something tasty, eh? Well, how quick can you get it?

How quick do you need it? As fast as possible. Give me 30 minutes. Money's already at the drop point. And look, I'll throw in some extra notes next time. Next time? As a thank you for me to you. Okay.

Let me 25 minutes. I appreciate it. You'll find it where you know to look. And I'll just casually walk away, knowing where the exchange points are. Having done this previously. A predetermined location. You know exactly where to go. You know exactly what to yet.

You go about your business, whatever that looks like for the next 25 minutes until you know to come to the spot and you can collect your white bread, cheese, and butter, which you will find there waiting for you. Again, I'll scoop these things up. Maybe I have a casual way to kind of store them under my uniform, whatever it might be, and then eventually make my way back to the crew in about 30 minutes.

I won't have been gone that long. Easy. All right. You're the best at this, Pike. Step one of the plans done. We're going to try to make some phone calls. Do you think you can get through to anybody? I only really have my family number,

memorized. If I had anything on the Rhapsody, I could try calling Hank or, or even Meg. They're going to be listening. Any call you make. Yeah, certainly can't call Waxley. Damn it, that was one of my two contacts. For what it's worth, I don't even know if you'd pick up, but we're scraping the bottom of the barrel here, so I figured I'd try. I mean, the second we try to contact a Cavalon Empire official, I think we'd be signing our own death warrant, Fair. I've got one other option then. I'm gonna make sure I give you all the ingredients. Yeah. So you have them. We do it, you know, when nobody's watching. I make sure you get your stuff. Man,

that's good. Wow. She's quick. That's for sure. And that's premium stuff you've got. Yeah, I mean, that's pretty high-grade white brand, slices of cheese. It's not a, it's not a, you know, poor quality items. She's provided good- four types of cheese. Unbelievable. Artisanal bread. Fresh-baked sour, no. He was a little bit of... Well, who's number two? Not breath. The guy who's also in prison with us, whose first name I refuse to say.

I just wanted to make the joke. Proceed. You know what? You let me worry about that. All right. And if they come through, then we won't have a problem anymore, now, will we?

All right, well, you all make the phone calls. I'll talk to the Inquisitor when the time comes. That's my contribution of this plan. End the notes. You put up the notes. And the notes. Calling me a jackhairs. Jack hairs.

I guess we should find out if we get those calls. Oh, you can take calls. Oh, yeah, that's, yeah. How many calls? I wasn't talking to you, Wormone. Oh, but I just, oh, I thought I'd offer me information. You're on real thin ice, buddy. Pike.

I wish I could break his arm. There's no bone in there to break. It's like trying to break a bull-rude- Did I turn him to a bulletin? But things are showing up us, okay? We're kind of like a found family, okay? Things are doing really well for us, okay? Yeah.

You can make a phone call if you want, but you only get one. This guy's gonna be real disappointed when he gets his last left behind. One phone call each, fine. Whatever, we'll figure it out. You're moved to a section in which you can make those calls should you choose.

Co, if you have a call, you may attempt to make one. If you don't have a call, this is a little bit more of a free time, and you may, presuming I understand your goal, you may return to yourself. Yeah, I'm just basically getting ready. I would do what I, I'd probably like go to the yard, work out, and get cleaned up, get fully cleaned up, and then basically get ready for whatever worm was not ready for us. I will go try to make a phone call. You do so.

I am in a long corridor hallway. Probably an officer or a security guard is standing on one end, but far enough away that I think I can whisper. Would it be safe to assume that anybody who's making a phone call would all go together and get in the same line? Yes, I think there are, there's more than one... Then I'll also go with Ziggy.

There's more than one phone that can be used at a time. I'm picturing like phone booths, like actual, like on the wall style hanging corded phone. phones, but however you want to introduce this, I'm just curious. Yes, I think that's, yes, phones relatively rudimentary, but the receiver and sender have gem crystals just lodged right at the back of them, that when you come off the hook glow very faintly. I'm going to, if I have a sense of, with my knowledge of CREDA, being what it is, what

the equivalent of like 411 or the operator would be, I'm going to attempt to contact that person and then ask for the number to my brother's temple. I don't have that memorized, but that's the best path that I can think of to try to get to one of the offices where I might get a voicemail or the front desk where that nice receptionist was so kind to us. Like, I'm literally at my like, witsend here to try and get in touch with my brother because if red is correct and or the others are correct maybe through some conspiracy he's never been told can I get a message through that maybe he hears my voice or someone goes hey Ziggy's in prison that's what I'm endeavoring to communicate in these moments um

I don't have much hope, but those are the steps that I would take as I dial that equivalent. And if it doesn't even let me go out to that, I understand. You call the equivalent of an operator. You connect with someone. They provide you a number directly to the temple. Just before they cut off, you realize you were only a lot at one call. and so before you attempt to dial a second number, you asked to be routed through.

Yeah, I can't dial it. If you could just connect me. They connect you to the temple. Hello, this is the Harmony Temple. Kreda. Hi. How may we help you? Yes, hi.

I have an urgent message for the channeler. Channeler Calicus Wug. This is his brother, and he needs to know that I am alive and that I am waiting to hear back from him at the name of the prison. Do I have a prison name? Zellikan holding facility. I'm at a holding facility.

He just needs to know that I'm here and that it's very important that I get in touch with him. We've got a lot of legal business, Wu family business. Did you say you were a brother? of the channeler and you're in prison? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm one of the three wooch kids. And, you know, Calicus is my brother. We will pass along your message.

Oh, thank you. He will get it when he returns. Returns? Well, how long do you know, where is he? How long is that going to be? I'm sorry, we don't give out any information about channelers. Is that all? I understand.

Please pass the message to him as soon as you can. We'll see to it. Thank you. I hang up. You slowly re-rack the receiver. I'll take a long, heavy sigh, and then turn, and I don't even make contact with, like, eye contact with Pike when I, like, sort of walk. back down the hallway towards the inner public area. I just...

That's rough. I just... I just fluff. You move away. Oh. Oh, yeah. Sorry. Dejected. Who else is making a call? So just to walk to the thought process,

of what I'm thinking, Red made a good point that he, waxing, was posing as an empire... Cavalant Empire Guard of some kind, but in reality, we know or I know that he's actually Polaris. So I believe, Pike believes that this call could actually benefit us if Waxley were to pick up. That's my thought process when I sit down in front of this phone. I believe the right call would be to make a call to attempt to contact Waxley.

I pick up the phone But instead of contacting Waxley I attempt to contact Ophelia You dial the number You know it so well Silence on the other line Hey

Hey can you hear me Are you there? In response you hear It sounds like touch tones From the other side Give me something. Are you there? Can you hear me? Anything. Does it mean anything to me? Like, have I ever heard? Is that anything? Does not sound familiar.

I'll think for a minute. And not getting any kind of response or reply, I'll hang it up. I'll take a deep breath. Easy come, easy go. And I'll get up and I'll walk back. You also hang up the receiver. Anyone else? The night progresses. You were moved through another meal period past lunch through the day. Whatever you're attempting to accomplish with the white bread, cheese butter,

now is your opportunity. Before you know next, Wormo has set up a private meeting with you and Zanagan. I don't think anybody else has anything to do. Perfect. Yeah. If we're gonna talk to Zan again, we're gonna gas the guy up.

Don't worry. I know what I'm doing. Pike knows what he's doing. That's the only way to get him to spill the beans. What do you think I have all this? All my bread, my cheese, my butter. You're so smart, Co. We're gonna do this.

I learned from the best. Who taught you? For what it's worth, I know that you think this isn't much. but I guarantee you that if you eat one of these sandwiches, it'll be the best thing you've ever eaten. Are we just talking about a grilled cheese? Wait, just a grilled cheese? I talk to Wormow and he's gonna get us a room

with the hottest Gemtech radiator in the entire facility. Is that some kind of like nudie dancer? Just you wait. Allie, I'll... I'll hold my anticipation. I mean, there's nothing wrong with some butter and cheese on white bread. I just hope it's enough.

I think the booze might have been a better idea. I don't think that I can overstate how much I dreamt about these sandwiches after I got out of the can. Wait a minute. Are you making us all these sandwiches? Why do you think I got a whole loaf on all these slices? Oh, I thought you were just going to fatten the guy up. Well, Mr. Zaniken is a pretty big guy.

Well, I'll withhold if there's not enough for all of us. Same. That's fine. Well, no. If anybody's going to have one. You have to try one. Fine, fine. I'll try one. I'll try one. All right, Wormo. I'm ready? Okay, guys, I have you set up in a maintenance room.

It has one of the hottest gem radiators. It pumps heat throughout the facility. You set up in there, and, In a little bit, I'll have Zanagan over to you. And whatever happens in there, I trust you guys. Okay, let's go. He leads you. I was what he did.

You put this one on my lower back and then like, just me forward. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. I hate this guy. Come on, buddy. Why did he turn this guy to a pervert? Come on, bud. This was totally normal and he was like a dude.

And now he's just like a dude. And now he's just like, Superberg. Why is this happening? Be amazing for doing kissy lives for this, guys. This is the moment he was the word. The second I started talking about, I was doing this. Like, he would have heard of that. His name was always Wormo.

I thought this is really a recent development. He was destined. He was destined. I totally decline. Wormo leads you to a maintenance room. You enter, you go down a corridor, you enter into this room, and there's almost what looks like runic piping as this stone and crystal mesh moves heat and energy throughout the facility. In the room, you see a relatively large, what seems to be a harmonite crystal,

embedded into two connectors in the wall that pump in and lead into other devices. The room is dark, but it basks in that faint greenish glow. You find yourselves here awaiting the arrival. of Zanagan. Okay. I will go over. I'm trying to survey the Gem Tech radiator if I can. I'm going to basically

turn whatever knobs or levers that I need to. I'm not a Gem Tech engineer. I presume there's some sort of panel where I can get it as piping hot as possible. Roll an investigation check. Or a technology check. Thank you.

Okay. 13. With a 13? It's not your It's not your native tool system, but it's not overly complicated to understand how to crank up the heat on this thing. You hit a couple knobs and shift a bar sticking out of it as you can then almost feel the heat start to increase and come off of this radiator. I can work with this. Do you have the stuff to make schmores? No. Oh.

Just so I'm clear. The idea is we're going to get, we're going to get Zanagan inside and we're going to ask him to give us his information for a sandwich. And some smokes, yeah. And the friendship of picks. And I take my sleeves and I rip them off.

And if there's any kind of like bruises, bruises or like battering that I have, I'll make sure to like that, like, you know, if I need to kind of like rip up my, shoulder for bruises, basically to show. And I'll be basically kind of like flexing the entire time and trying to stand as tall as possible and be imposing in case of the buttering up,

for lack of a better term, fails. And then we have to find the elevator shaft at this place. Yeah, because if we can't gas him up, then Coe's gonna have to knock the wind out of him. But- I smoke. And we're sure he knows what we need him to know, right? Like we're not just gonna, you know, assume that he's just being really coy and then kill the guy?

We can't kill anybody. Right? No, we're not killing anybody. Okay, good. Yeah, Ziggy, we can't kill anybody. All right. Just torture. We can torture him?

Let's just try to butter him up, all right? Let's just try to butter him up, all right? Let's give him the damn sandwiches, and hopefully he's like, yeah, I don't want to be harmed. We can, I don't know, I can put in a good word with the Inquisitor. If he snitches. Yeah. Alright. I start budding up the radiator. Yeah, I don't know. You start but I off the radiator.

It smells delightful. Give me a D20 roll at advantage, plus your proficiency. I have one cigarette left, and I'm not cracking open the fresh pack that I have that I'm going to give to this guy. But I do light the last cigarette and I smoke it slow. Yes! Yes! $20 plus one? Sorry.

Plus proficiency. Plus proficiency, 23. 23. See, but I tell you, it smells delightful. The smell- This is better than all the gruel we've been eating. The aroma that lost through this room. We have drugs.

In comparison to what you have eaten, the smells that take root in your nostrils, you are like a floating cartoon dog wafting on air of the most delicious delicatessen meal you've ever smelled in your life. You have produced a series of the greatest radiator grilled cheeses that you have ever accomplished, and you have made some phenomenal sandwiches in your time.

Oh, I've been eating slop for a week. See, the keys to basically put butter on both sides in the red. So simple. And put an extra slice of cheese, that's that. Why didn't I think of that? And I'll say, This might be your best work yet.

Philly, if only you can see me now. I hope you're still alive somewhere. As I will basically kind of start making it. And I'll make sure that I'm keeping it weird, it'll be hot when this guy arrives, and I'm like, you know, I'm timing it the best that I can. As I'm making radiator grilled cheese for everybody. And you don't have to wait too long before,

the door actually swings open. You hear Wormo? What am I... Do you like, can't refuse you say? Well, just step right in here. Uh-oh. We're not, we're not... Just come in.

We've got something before we want to talk. I guess there's no escaping. You seem pretty fast. Do you smell the food? We wouldn't be cooking food if this was some sort of an ambush. We're trying to make amends. Your friend Pixel is here,

and I know that we beat this shit out of you. All right, Pix. It's good to see you again. I'm so glad that you're not fighting us this time. Oh, it's good to see you. I knew we'd get past that. Like I said, I think it was just circumstance. How's your tattoo healing?

Oh, the whale? It's pretty phenomenal. Yeah, no, it's looking super cool. Look at this thing, huh? It's really red. Yeah, how's the dolphin? That's supposed to be a whale? Oh, yeah.

Oh, best friends, swimming around in space. I loudly shut the door behind him. Here. A star-us human walks in, whose white prison garb has been stained red blood. Okay. Did you bring me in here to kill me?

No. We just wanted to have a talk. Oh. Well, that's better than what I thought it was going to be. Yeah, no, I was just kind of wondering, I mean, Coe's going to do all the talk in here, but I was just kind of wondering if you'd rat out your friends. Rat out my friend's picks.

They're my friends. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But did they have this radiated grilled cheese? Isn't some cigarette? I shake the full pack. Radiative grilled cheese, you say. Have you ever had a flamingo slim? Flamingo slims.

I go ahead. Give me a taste. Oh, for me. I will open the pack and hit the bottom of it so like one jumps out so you can grab it out of the pack. No one ever need no. You can trust us. You guy, I'll know.

Oh, no. But if only you know, then it's not a problem. You can just, you know, help us out. You think I could just flip on my closest friends? Who am I, flip? Look. We should have gotten flip. We should have gotten flip.

We should have got him. All of my closest comrades. Okay, okay, okay. Fucking narclous. Look. Who am I narclose? Nightmare. Cigarette is good.

Zanagan. Can I call you Zanagan? Of course you can. Rapp is fine as well. Zanagan. Look, we know that Slezno was paid to start that ride. What, how do you know that? He said it while he was fighting. He's an absolute fucking dumbass.

Oh. And you both know we were there in the fight. When you went down, Dredge was right next to you, all the way across. across the fucking cafeteria. Slezno went down. You didn't kill him. I didn't kill him. Rat, you didn't kill him. No. He was alive and fucking well when the knockout beams hit us. Something's not adding up. And we're not stupid. He said he was paid. So obviously, I don't know how much he paid you, or

he may have been holding out on but he said he was getting paid a lot. That Slezno, I always thought he was such a sleesmo. What we've been saying? I knew I couldn't trust him. But still, to narc on all my friends, and possibly for... Slezno.

Can't help but see you've made six. What I'm about to present to you, is from the mind of Philem Anthony Satriale. May he rest in peaks, make me. And I will, this is the grill cheese that I have just finished. I put it on a plate and I cut it diagonally. And I, as I cut it diagonally,

I will pick it up and I'll pull it apart. Look at that cheeseball. And I can give you a half of this. I'll put one half down on the plate. You think I could rat on my friends for some cooked of bread and little cheese and butter on both sides? It's howder. What did you say this magician's name was?

Phileum, Anthony Satriale. By the gods, he could cook. Yeah, he could. Oh, I learned from the best. Okay. If you give me the other half, then I'll tell you it's true. I don't know who ultimately paid off, Slezno, but I know he was real close with the captain.

I wonder who played paid off Sleezmo. Oh, damn it. Sleesmo. That's not going to be good enough. We need a name. if it was the captain that paid him off, who we also saw letting us have that riot for 20 minutes. I can tell you this.

I heard Slusno say that he was getting a commuted sentence. He was getting out of here. Terrick was going to see to it. And he slipped him the knife. I was going to ask you who did that. Yeah. Well, I just offered him. it up. Sam's was that good.

Well, I'm about to offer you something up. You might want to put some cold peas on that tattoo. Oh, well, thank you for that tip of well-being, Pixel. It's nice to see you care again. Of course I do, Brappy. You're my best friend. Your best friend. Whose name is Brappy?

My name's not Brappy. What? It's Brapp. Brap. I know. No, I add the E as like an affection term. Well, that's not how you pronounce that. That'd be brape.

You know what, for you? Brape. I guess it's closer. A delicious treat named after myself. I could see it. I could see it now. We're getting off topic. This is going nowhere.

Co-killer. Would you, look, would you be willing to corroborate the story if we talk with the Inquisitor. And get you a low in sentence, maybe. That means that you have to testify to an inquisitor of the Sorok Dynasty against the Guard Captain. And they got gems that'll know if you're lying or not. Against the captain, and you think the Inquisitor will bring him to justice?

Gods, I hope so. Oh, I'd do it just for that. It's a good thing I got this grilled chival. She's first, though. So we have a deal. I'm in. Here's the smokes, and I throw him the rest of the pack.

I quickly would like to discern his veracity. Roll an inside check. Oh, 11? That'll do. You believe him. You seem to believe him. I just want you to know that one of our crew, Wormo.

Oh, Wormo. Has the ear of the warden. Oh, yes. So if you double cross us, It's going to be real bad for you. Oh, Wormo is pretty powerful. If I don't kill you first. Okay.

Hey, we're on the same page, everybody. I'll come clean with the Eye Inquisitor. I'll let him know what I know. And that brings to justice, the captain will so be it. Have you seen Wormmo's shoes? Wormo, show him your shoes. He left for the roadside. He doesn't get any girls.

Did somebody call for me? No. No, nobody call for you. Wormo, get in here. Show him your shoes. No, hey. I hear my ship? Oh, shut the door.

It's not any normal old prisoner that can afford shoes like that. That's how you know he's connected. That's a clean-cut greeble. That's for sure. Oh, yes. Okay. I won't try anything. The grilled cheese was great, and the smokes will keep me breathing for quite a time.

Okay. I'm in. Let's go tell the High Inquisitor what's really going on around here. It's all up to you now, buddy. You got this? Before we go, I'm guessing the answer is no, but do you have any idea why y'all were ordered to kill Portabella Gones? All I know is that the captain gave Slezno the means and told us to start a riot. I heard he was commuting his sentence as for why she was a target? I don't know. You guys, I think he just hated.

Cavalant Scum, he kept saying. Didn't believe you. But as for why her? I don't know. As far as I could tell, I thought she was cuckoo. Why he'd want her taken out? Couldn't tell you. Thanks, Pratt.

No problem, guys. Take one from the road. Philem. You beautiful man. All right, you can go now. We're going to finish the rest of this bread and cheese. In peace. He leaves.

You carry on enjoying your radiator grill. How's it? Is it as good as I expect? Is it better? I mean, you should be, I got a national 20. It is Agathosian. It's the greatest, it's the greatest sandwich you've ever. consumed.

It's of the gods. It's ambrosia. In sandwich form. This is so good. Ambrosia from the hearth mother's teeth. After a slop for a week, this is so fucking good. You really out did yourself, Co. Well done. Wow. Wow.

I am good at things besides smash. It's just amazing how you all survive and do all the things that you do in here. It really is so impressive. I don't have my grid boy, and I have nothing I can do or offer in these moments. You know, if I were not in prison, I could alter the prison records, and Zanagan would go free, like, the next day, you know? It would be remarkable. You're not to offer you without your grid boy.

I love having your company. I don't know. All I do is talk about TV shows, and I'm unfee. and I can barely stab people with my horn. But you did? I grazed him. You got him. I...

The first one, at least. I think that was mostly just me theming and just crushing him with my enormous girth. Well, I'm going to have one more sandwich. Open the door. Hey, we're remote. Oh, yeah, I'm here. If you could call in that favor, I'm ready to talk to the Inquisitor whenever you can make it happen. I'll get it set up.

Bates! Oh, you... I'm worried about Brap. I'm pretty sure that tattoo is infected. I don't think he's got long. Oh, no. Did you see his veins, the red? No, it's definitely a blood infection.

It's definitely in the blood. He needs antibiotics right away. Yeah, I don't think... I don't think the bag of frozen peas is going to do what... Thank God we're doing this tonight. He doesn't have long. Got blood, whiziting. You consider the impending death of Brabzanigan.

As you finish your radiator grilled cheeses, you go about the remainder of this evening before you are approached by a guard and pulled out of your cell in the late of the night. And you find yourself altogether faced with the Inquisitor once more. His deep gray stone form and his purple, eyes focus on you. I hear that you wanted a private meeting with me that you have information about corruption

in this facility. I do, sir. And hopefully, based on our last discussion, you understand that for the most part, I mean what I say. And the harmony believes it at. as so. All the same, sit in the chair. Ew.

Am I alone? You're all together. Oh, we're all together. Is Zanagan there? He has already met with Zanagan. Or he's there. Whatever you'd prefer. You don't want to be there?

I mean, I kind of really antagonize this guy. I think I would want it to. Yeah, me too. And I think my presence would actually be harmful. Whoever, whoever wants to be in the room to be in the room. I think he'd have a rat. Yeah. Just right is in the room.

Just me. I think so. And just I'm in the room. Just you're in the room. Done. Just you're in the room. Did you hear about the riot in the prison? We heard about the riot.

Very unconventional. Riots don't occur here. I wouldn't think so under your stern supervision. Yet it did. Don't you think it weird that it wasn't quelled earlier than it was, and that somehow at least one inmate was killed, if not more? Yes, I'm told we have the culprit. An inmate named Dredge, found holding the dagger.

He's been set up. When that riot started, they tried to go for Portia Bela Gones, the assassin. It's the only reason they took her from solitary and threw her through her in general population. And so that she just happened to be where a riot was so she can get fucking killed. We saved her life. All right. Whatever useful information she has, perhaps it can still be gleaned. But the point of this meeting is about Captain Terek.

I saw with my own eyes that as the riot started, he looked down, turned his back. and left. I look up at the crystals, if they're still there. They're there. Yeah, you're sitting, it's the same interrogation room, the Inquisition Room from the very beginning where you sat down at first, the same chair, the same crystals rotate around you.

As you speak, his eyes don't look at your face, but his eyes have not moved from the swirling jade crystals that glow around your head as not a lie has yet been spoken. He sits back in the table. chair. Terrick, you say. He paid

Slezno. The inmate had wound up dead that y'all accused Dredge of killing. First of all, Dredge

was on the complete opposite side of the cafeteria during the fight. I was there with Pike, with Mrs. Gones,

and with Slesno and his two goons. I saw that giant fucking knife. He's the one that

had it. And I can corroborate this by one of his accomplices. We've gotten a statement that he's willing to testify to you personally that Slezna was paid by Captain Terrick to start the riot and to kill Mrs. Goans. The inmate Brapp Zanagan, I'm told.

I am to meet with him as well. Yes. As soon as you're able, he's ready to testify against Captain Terrick, feel free to use whatever magic you need to. I swear on all the gods, my life, and my dog's life. And what I say is true. He stares at the crown of your head as the gems swirl around you,

never once shifting from the shade of jade that alights the walls. Hmm. Concerning. You will be escorted back to your cell. you have my word that I will launch an investigation into Captain Terrick myself. I will speak with this Mr. Zanagan. And should your stories align, the action will be swift.

Well, I trust that if what you find out is true, you seem like an honorable man. I trust that you'll take the murderer Slezno off of Dredge's record, and you won't send them to the hot pot or whatever it's called. Oh, the colloquial name the inmates refer. The cookpot. Hymax prison at the center of the volcano. He will not stand charged with a crime he did not commit, should he be proven innocent.

We will remove the alleged strike if that is where the investigation leads. I appreciate that, and I hope you understand that all of this, I think we can both agree adds a level of nuance to the attempted murder of the high channeler. You've no doubt been told the mental state of Mrs. Goans doesn't make sense to me, and I feel like there's a conspiracy for it. So if I could just ask one favor for helping you all get under this,

potentially wiping out some corruption within your own ranks, if you could just help us get a single conversation with the channeler. I know Ziggy would, Zygman, would love to speak to his brother and just to see him and just to make sure that he's okay and just to explain what happened. I believe your words to be true, Mr. Indigo, but you must understand as well that until you are, cleared you stand accused of the attempted murderer of the man you attempt to

orchestrate a meeting with now that is simply impossible all right well whatever you can do to expedite the trial or whatever you need all right I just we got to get this over with and get on with our lives please if you can rely on one thing it is that I will get to the answer I appreciate that, Inquisar. That's all I have for you, and I wish you all the best in your investigation. You will have my guard protection

on your way back to the cell. They will be taking over watch of your block. Rest well, Mr. Indigo. Take care. I'll get up. And I'll wait for the, wait for whatever guard. Presumably no captain in sight. Nope, no captain in sight.

Another guard walks up similarly armored, similarly armed, pistol and rifle equipped. He takes you, not by the arm or anything, but just walks with you as he gestures you back down the hallway through a familiar path until you eventually end back at yourself. It was a late night when this occurred, lights are out, and it is now time for rest. It's late. In the morning, you are once more moved out into a common area.

And it's as you take to beginning the day that you suddenly hear the marching of feet. as heavily armored Sorok's soldiers burst into the room, passing through the common area, you are shocked to see that they're not here for you, striding past you toward the door to Captain Tarak's office. They bang on it, commanding him to open, but there is no response inside. A moment later, a burst of crystal light, and the door is blasted open, and there is quiet inside. Whatever you said, big guy, I think it works. Let's see what they drag out. The soldiers stop their shouting.

They chat in low voices. Not much longer. Two soldiers emerge, carrying the corpse of Captain Tarak. Blood staining the fur around his eyes and a sickly colored foam dripping from his mouth. You see the soldiers that are there

to investigate the scene, the inquisitor amongst them. He walks up to you. Sir, your investigation was swift. I commend you for that, thank you. The pompous fool did very little to obscure his treachery. He thought himself above being caught. That maddens me almost as much as the crime itself.

Wow. There has indeed been a corruption discovered in this prison and it will be rooted out with extreme prejudice. Any word on the trial for us?

I trust that you'll be able to take care of things. I just I know. I don't have to tell you to be careful with assassins afoot

Mrs. Goans or otherwise. The trial Mr. Indigo is now out of my hands. A call was placed to his parents. The Senators They have arranged for the trial to take place not on CRETA

but at an independent tribunal on Mavros. Political complications abound. You are to be moved immediately. Immediately. That's good, right? That sounds like a good thing. Wait, we're not gonna get split up or anything, right?

Cause, cause, right? All those accused of the assassination attempt of channeler Callicus Woug will be moved to Mavros together, while you will await the tribunal. That is all I know.

This is good. One thing at a time. We're getting through this. We're one step closer to putting all of this behind us. That must be really good. If Mama and Papa Wug want us in a special place, it's because they want to protect

Ziggy, right? Right? Did the call work? Did the call work? I have no idea. What call are you referring to? I made a call to my brother. I didn't call him directly, but I left a message at the temple. And the only explanation for why maybe he came back and he got the message and then he talked to my folks.

And now they're intervening. They want to make sure that there's a diplomatic way to handle all this, right? They understand you seek comfort in the knowledge that your family has rallied. around you, but I have no knowledge of the channeler reaching out on your behalf to confirm or dissuade otherwise. All I understand is you are to be moved to Mavros and that your parents had a hand in it. Whether he intervened on your behalf to them, I cannot say. Maybe they, maybe, maybe they have like a an alert.

And just because a Wug ended up in jail somewhere, they got a call. Maybe my brother doesn't even know. Do you even know where he is? Do you have any news about him? As I told your friend when he attempted to intervene on your behalf last night,

until you are acquitted, you stand accused of his attempted murder. The whereabouts of the channeler I could never, in good conscience, reveal to you, nor his movements, nor his words, nor his actions. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. You are a threat until you are deemed not to be. Hey, kid, Siggy, look for me.

One thing at a time, it's going to be okay. Yeah, we didn't do anything wrong. And Inquisitor, even if you didn't have anything to do with it, can I shake your hand? I feel like one way or another I asked for an expedited trial and seems like we got one. So, thank you for caring about your station. I sincerely hope that in the future you stay out of trouble, Mr. Indigo. I would have to, I would hate to see any of you return. here. I don't plan on it. So this is probably it then. Goodbye, good luck with the rest of

whatever investigation you have to do internally and uh, right at a Mavros. Yeah, sorry for calling you all those names. You understand, I'm sure. Name calling means little to me beyond getting to the truth. I got everything I needed from your small friend there. Your conversation was simply a formality. You promise. No, dang, I did promise. Oh. You already told me that you said everything. Well, I know, but that doesn't... It wasn't a secret anymore. Yeah, but they don't call him Narcala. No, she's right. They don't. I did promise and I didn't keep that promise. Hmm.

Well, good luck. Unless you are convicted, then I hope your executions are swift. Same. He turns with the guards that now carry the body of Captain Turok, out of the common room and away. know that you have a very short amount of time before they will be back for you to transfer you to your next port of call, Mavros.

Well, we have to very quickly go in and say goodbye to all under the rest of our friends. I know we never got to 15, but we got to say goodbye to all of them, especially Wormo. He's really going to want to rub your back. Goodbye, Pike. Yeah. I'm gonna be here for a life sentence. Um, is Dredge back with us? Is he free? Is he cleared?

Yeah, we look for Dredge. Uh, I would say that if you move into the mess hall to begin saying goodbye to everyone, you see familiar crowds and you're looking around and you're checking and you're talking to people and you're doing whatever else you might be doing in this moment as you have just the shortest amount of free time.

at which point, a sound that reminds you of Portiabella, the door's opening out of, out of timing, as Dredge almost has to duck under the entryway. Dang. As he walks back into the room, his hulking form released from solitary. All right. Looks like it worked. Thank the gods. one thing at a time we're getting there

We got some news Come over Everybody Ermo One last meal Grim Greg Oh yeah I'm here

I'm here too I'm Greg The rest One last meal What's going on everybody We're out of here Yeah You're out of here

We're being transferred to some other place You're being transferred to some other place You're being transferred to some other place where you guys were going? I thought we were making an escape. What? No. No. No.

No. No. But you talked about taking me. Pigs? No, we'll come back for you, though. Once we're... No, no, we're not coming back for anybody. I promised him the slime room.

You promised me in the slime room. You said there was a whole room of slime. That's not an option. They were breaking the law and then we deserve to be in here. And worse. We're going to clear our name. and we're going to continue to abide by the law and not come back here for any reason.

For Wormo. Especially not for Wormo. All I'm going to say, Pike. Just a... I got a minute. I end up a double, double, double... You're in a cup of man.

You're a life sentence. You just leave me... I'm going to tear up my character sheet. I hear of your double life sentence. Well, Hermon, you'll be okay. You just keep doing them taxes, and, you know, just keep hanging up those greeble pinups on the wall with the draft. Yeah, and I'll write to you. I'll send you any greeble pinups I find out in the wild.

You send me more greeble pinups? Yeah, of course. It's not as good as being free, but I guess... You know... We're, Mo... I need to be honest with me. Okay. Is Wormo really your name?

How did you know? I just didn't know if it was like short for like Wormothin or something. I have no idea. Do I just stumble into something? No, no, no. You weren't here for tax evasion at all, were you? No, no, no. No, something else is going on.

Wait. What's going on? Did you, Wormo, did you murder your wife allegedly? Allegedly. Were you framed for murdering your wife? I was framed. To sell more sublaxen? That's exactly right.

That's exactly right. So you're innocent? I am innocent. That's what I've been saying this all the time. Are you just... Are you just... Are you just... ...to anything that anybody asks you?

I've been discovered, though. So it's been a fake... No, it was always me. I was always like this. I don't know what to trust. Are you even... You know, If you know a worm, I will be back,

and I'm gonna put your head on a pike. So sleep with one eye open, Marlowe. That's so cool, because your name's Pike. It's funny that you should say that. Grebel's always sleep with one eye open. That's Grebel biology. No, I know, I'm an expert on the Grebel biology. Oh, that's not, you seem to be an expert,

you see to be an expert on Grebel biology. Put it in the wiki. I just wanted to know what your name was. You've helped us out so much. Oh, it's Wormo. All right. Thank you. I think his secret wasn't his name,

but what he was in here for. No, I don't want to know that. I'll look it up when I get outside. I was attempted murder of my wife, but that was a legend and that I was framed. You know, Wormow, I think you're doing okay in here. You seem to be tight with the warden, and even though we can't help you out,

I feel like you'll come up with a plan to get out of here. I feel like, no matter what you've done, you'll find redemption. Cool. I think you're right. Good. Well, so it's cool you guys are going free. We're getting out of here. We're going to an independent tribunal.

What? You're just going to a different prison? We're going to a different prison. Oh, you're not getting out of here? You're just going to like a worse prison? No, we're getting out of here, but going to a different prison. We don't know if it's better or worse. It's on where, where is it? Mavros.

Yeah Mavros Dredge Picks I wanted you to be my next shit mouth shit jaws But Brett told me

I can't take any of you guys And so I'm sorry that I Individually promised Every single one of you That you could stay in the Slime Room Picks I get it

I don't know what Most of those words mean But I've heard from most people that you promised them that you would get them out of here. Well, I wanted to. I just didn't. They're pretty heartbroken now.

Yeah, I feel bad about it. But it's not that I didn't want to or intend to. I just didn't understand the logistics, which meant like, you can't leave. That's how it works, yeah. Yeah, I know that now. You have a good heart. Oh, thanks, Dredge.

Don't ever change. He hoax over you in his mouth. as just terribly jagged tooth mouth is... I wish I could give you another cup and cake goodbye. I don't need it. Your friendship is the real cup and cake. Oh, I have these five notes. That can help?

Yeah. I know the cup and cakes are six. But here's five. What am I supposed to do with five notes? I know you can buy a candy bar. The fast breaks are already. Thank you, Zicki. If I get out of here, I'm going to help you.

I'm going to help you, Wormo. Oh, me? I don't know the rest of you, really. I've been in my own head for the whole time. Hey, you're not going to help us too? Are they cool? No. I'm not going to help you.

No. You're not cool. Hey, Dredge. Dredge and Wormow are cool. I'm glad that you made me realize I was, being a real jackass. Thanks. You're too good for a galaxy

that seems to be preoccupied with war. I hope you find whatever piece it is you're looking for, man. Many inmates threw themselves at me to take down the biggest guy on the first day. You were the only one who stopped.

You can thank a time. tiny little, like a lady. Name Mrs. Ume for that. And I'll give him a firm handshake. All right, I'm going to get my stuff. Yeah, it's been real, but we got a court date. I wish you look. Goodbye, guys.

Goodbye, Wormo. I'm going to miss you. Goodbye, Pixel. Goodbye, Rhett. Come on, go-bye, Ziggy. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye, Noakalus. I've never been to Mavros.

Ziggy, didn't you say that that's where you grew up part of? Isn't that? Well, sort of. I mean, you know, we have a... We have a place there, but, like, you know, it's not like growing up on there just because you happen to have, you know, a tremendous amount of private land and a bunch of servants. There's nothing like...

It's nothing like it. How many houses did your family have? It depends on how you count houses. All right, Ziggy. I thought Ophelia was lowered. I'll catch up with you guys. I'll meet you at our cell. You'll be all right?

Yeah. All right. Don't get in any trouble. I'll see us, I won't be long. I head back to the cell. I'd like to find Bronius. The rest of you make your way back to the cell

to pack whatever very small amount of items you would, accumulated in your time here. You takes no time at all. Just at the end of the table, as people start moving, scattering away, dispersing as the goodbyes are being said, Bronius sits alone. Bronius.

Looks like it's time to say goodbye. The Oculeoc stands up, turns towards you. You know, Rhett, it's... It really was nice meeting you. I'll reach up my hand and I'll shake his hand. I'll grab with my other hand and I'll say, I hope you found peace in your final days. I hope you build something.

Not that changes the world. That's a young man's hope, but something that makes the smallest piece of it, just a little bit brighter. I'll do what I can, Bronius, and I just wanted to apologize. I want to apologize for

somehow getting out of this fucking war-torn galaxy with my life. When an engineer as bright as you could. I think maybe you've come to find like I have that life is a battle. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. Well, if you believe what you know, they say about the faithless in the harmony,

you know, we all return to it as one, right? Doesn't sound too bad, right? Well, maybe someday I'll recognize you there. Wouldn't that be funny? You see a fellow named Brock Indigo. Tell him Brett said hi. Oh shit. I'll pass the message along.

Goodbye, Bronias. Fear well, Rhett. Fare well. I'll put my hand on his shoulder, look into his eye, nod, and I'll turn. And head back to myself. Dang. He sits back down. You all find yourselves packing up in the cell when the guards come.

You are shackled and escorted to the landing pad where an armored prison transport is waiting. You see Portia Bellagones being loaded into the holding cell of the small transport as your personal effects are being stored in locked compartments. Her expression is just as empty and pleasant as you recalled the day of the riot. You notice that there are two pilots, preparing for the flight on the ground when a third pilot approaches. There seems to be some confusion between them before one of the original pilots turns to head back into the facility as the new one climbs into the cockpit.

You are launched up the landing ramp and are commanded to sit in the seats along the sides of the compartment, with restraints placed around your wrists and angles. Two armed guards moved past you through the fortified door into the capital as the hatch of the transport closes and the shuttle powers up. You lurch as the shuttle lifts off and soars into the sky of Kreda. You see the detention facility shrink beneath you until it disappears from sight, wondering if you'll see any of those new friends ever again. You hear the powerful Gemtech drive surge as the entire chamber is filled with prismatic light.

Reality leaves you for just a very time. you for just a moment and in an instant you teleport across the galaxy. It is a horrible feeling in your stomach, but you can deduce that you've made it to the closest possible warp crystal to Maverus. And now you must continue the journey through the ether currents. Is that what the Saurant pilots deal with all the time? Holy fuck Ziggy, how many times have you done that? This is really unpleasant. Yeah, it's how me about it. Portia, how you doing? You're still with us?

Oh yeah, she's there with us? Or not a different, so? Oh, you're in kind of like an open, if you've ever seen like a military transport? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're in kind of like an open bay, and you're sitting strapped on these kind of benches against either side of it. Ancles and wrist strapped, and she is there as well. Yeah, I'm here. Are we going to meet my quibble?

to meet my Quibbley Gones? Well, I don't know where Quibbley is. I think we all might meet him one day. Oh, I sure hope so. I mean, these nice men knew I was waiting for them, and they put me on this ship. And they sent me off, and I don't think they would have done that

if they weren't sending me towards my Quibbley. I think no matter what happens, Mrs. Gones, you just keep thinking about your husband just keep thinking about Quibbley and don't have any kind of horror or sour thoughts all right

no I can't have a sour thought when I'm thinking of something as fresh as my man my old honey badger my little muffin top that quibbley gones what a sweetheart oh I just hope he took his medicine you just keep thinking about that

and if you start to get a headache, you let us know, all right? Well, okay, okay. And the good news is, is, hey, even if it takes you a long time to find your Quibbley goans, I'm sure wherever he is, he's in good company. Well, I'm sure of that, because my Quibbley, he's real charismatic. He makes friends everywhere he goes. Everybody loves Quibbley. Doesn't matter if you went for business or what have you.

But if he's somewhere. People are loving on him. Well, I don't think you're too wrong there, Mrs. Gones. I don't think you're too wrong. Might be an uncomfortable couple days, but I think no matter what, this will all be over soon. I got a feeling about it. It's almost as you say that, that you hear, that you see through the viewpoint. the red planet of Mavros.

It grows larger and larger until the shuttle begins to make the descent and enter the planet's atmosphere. Wow. The shuttle rattles as it descends, and you see vast stretches of barren desert wastelands below dotted by huge mesas and rock formations. But that's not what has your attention. There's a commotion. A muffled shouting from the cabin. from the cabin before it's quickly snuffed out. A moment later, one of the shuttle Extertel engines explodes.

You see a prismatic fireball as gem shards fly in all directions from the right viewport, and the rear hatch crumbles as violent wind rips through your chamber. The red skyline of Mavros beyond as the entire ship shakes, as if threatening to break apart as it careens through the air. Then the fortified door to the cabin opens and a figure emerges. It is the pilot who was the last minute change to this flight. He pulls off his helmet and you get a better look at him.

You see a Genoven step into your chambers. He looks at the six of you helplessly fastened to your seats. He has sallow skin and a shimmering domed, crystalline top to his head, from which a long, fleshy tendril grows. A large tail, fire. follows him gracefully as he peers at you with glowing, nearly expressionless eyes. He strides towards the burst opening of the transport.

Then he speaks. Do not feel fear for your end. All will end soon. It comes for all of us. We chosen. Few serve. The perfect being who shall. albeit's herald, space, time, all.

The fate is the same annihilation. The galaxy rests on our shoulders. The beginning comes to an end. The circle closes. The serpent eats its tail. Be glad. Your sacrifice spins the wheel. Century 21.

12 will be a century of war, the final century, our century, the century of Atlas. With a single step he lifts off into the air as a burst of energy seems to surround him as he takes off into the sky and disappears from view. As his unsettling voice fades, all you hear is the screaming alerts and violent shaking of the burning transport as you all plummet toward the ground below. And that's where we'll end the session. Holy moly. Thanks for the session today, Mays.

Oh my gosh.