Legends of Avantris - Stardust Rhapsody: Overture | Ep. 10 | Dust in the Wind

Episode Date: September 20, 2024

Kavir comes to terms with the loss of a friend and Dandy's past catches up with the crew...   Gain access to an exclusive campaign, Shroud Over Saltmarsh, over on Patreon: https://legendsofavantris.com/patreon The Crooked Moon, a folk horror supplement for 5e, is available for preorder! Get the Crooked Moon at: https://thecrookedmoon.com/ Watch more D&D adventures in the world of Avantris live on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/legendsofavantris Check out our merch store: https://shop.legendsofavantris.com  Join our community on Discord: https://legendsofavantris.com/discord Watch our many campaigns on YouTube: https://legendsofavantris.com/youtube  All other links: https://linktr.ee/legendsofavantris   Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/vY1bcniS-Bk?si=oxp03lV6ROmSSvQh

Hey everybody, welcome to Legends of Aventress. I'm chuckled in space and you're listening to Star Dust Rhapsody. Here's what happened last time. Time runs out for us all. To the crew of the Rhapsody, please help. Sorians have invaded and they're cut off our contact to the Empire. Cavier, if you can hear this, you're our only hope. I have to say, once you are down there,

you're going to want to wear clothes that cover any openings because the sand, it's coarse, it's itchy and it gets everywhere. I hate that. You see fading black smoke rising into the air. We need to go. We have to go now. That's my town is that way. Something happened here, visibly becoming a little more angry. Are you here still? Gresh? Anyone?

They came. Unexpectedly. The Empire did not... They didn't anticipate them. They weren't ready. The Empire found that they could use such christmas. to power their engines. Their entire armada works off of the fuel source that's built here. So does that mean that this was just a strike force and that more temple ships are coming? And then that would also mean that what soon as the Empire knows they've lost contact

and their fuel sources are going to dry up, they're going to bring an entire fleet, and so we're going to be caught in the middle of a war between the two major superpowers of the galaxy! Is that what you're applying? And I regret having to call you back, but... I just didn't know what else to do. You take air for a moment as you crest over the dune,

and it's when you see it for the first time. Nasorian warship planted in the ground and take you to the door. I can open it and we can end inside them. All right. Let's do this. We're already this far. Get out.

Let's make them pay. And as he takes one step forward, up from the sand in front of him, shoots a large wooden pole with a jagged claw tied to the end of it. It shoots directly up and slams into his chest. Grace! It is the end.

Watch out the trap. Space, where all stories go to end. And this is no different. But with every ending comes new beginnings. After receiving a distress call, the Rhapsody took off to Zaradun, the home world of Kavir. Shortly thereafter, they meet Rache, a childhood friend who provides the terrible background to this particular adventure.

Sorians arrived and have brought death and destruction to the land, seeking to claim the power so far reserved for the empire. Emboldened with furious vengeance, Kavir joins Rache in leading the party to their doorstep, ready to banish them back in blood to the edge of the universe. However, Rache's story is cut short at the mouth of the temple. Covered in blood, their mission has never been more clear. Heading into the nest of a Sorian war party, will this be the crew's final tale, or will they tear down everything the Sorians have built brick by bloody brick? You find yourselves, once again, at the mouth of the aqueduct that leads into the Sorian temple.

Rache lays in your arms, just having died, your face covered in his blood. Dandy, your hands coated in his blood. The words, his final words ringing in your ears. I don't. Look out. Trap. I'm going to destroy everyone. Not a single one of the Assyrians is going to survive.

And as I'm sort of like seething here, and I don't quite notice it, but the sand kind of comes out of my hourglass, and it's sort of just swirling around me at a speed that it hasn't really been seen before. And it equates to what I have flavored as razor sand. So it's surrounding me, and it is just whipping. And unfortunately, out of my rage, I can't control it. And anyone within five feet of me has to make a deck saving through. I'd probably be within five feet. It's also like, be-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-d. Yeah.

Caview Sandstorm. Yeah. What the flip? What the flip? Deck saving, which is not stealth, right? Correct. So when I roll two, I don't know what I roll two. I'm just going to.

Is that something I consult you on? 22. Is that something I could sort of. I think you, you know, is that something you have to cast or activate? Technically, it's a special. So that's fine. You activated in rage. It's a cantrip, you're good.

Yeah. You let it rip. 14. 6. 22. 16 is the save. So we fail. Dandy and I.

This wouldn't 1 D6. It's not bad. It's not so bad. You weak bench. Oh, there you go. It's done one damage. Only one point of damage. You just get ripped up a little.

get ripped up a little bit. Yeah. So I think with that, I realized that I'm surrounded by my friends and kind of, one point. So it's one point out pretty well. Okay. Yeah. And I'm sure everyone takes one damage.

Covered in the blood of Rache, you can feel the rage coming off of Kavir as the sands begin to whirl about him, almost unbeknownst to him in response to his anger. anger and they whip around and you feel it as your friend starts to lose himself. Kavir! Kavir! Kavir! Chill! I don't answer to Red. I'll goop my hand forward, pushing through the sand and grab onto your shoulder and sort of give you a firm shape.

Kavir, I know you're upset, but save it. Save it for them. Sorry, it's... We have to go. Ed, I have to make sure they pay for this. Stay, stay here. And I will turn and I will push my hands out 10, 15, 20, 30 feet, and I will start to break the sand back and forth like this to see if I can trigger more of these deadly traps, these spikes, these raptor claws to shoot up.

And I will start to sort of mind-sweak the area as making my way to the entrance. Just to, was this the only one? Did Rage really get that unlucky, or are there more? Roll 17 deck saving throws. Okay. Just roll a deck save throw. Oh, okay.

A lot cooler if you roll 17. That would be really cool. Howe Libushi. Can I? Are you the Bukkah? Yeah, yeah. The old twistery. Now.

All right, that was a natural one. And that is a, let's do that. I'll do a 22. There ya. The 22. So you'll just pass for all of them. But you trigger nine additional traps as several of these spikes.

shoot up out of the ground as you sweep the opening, the entrance with your arms. And each time I see one, you'll see my hand wrap around and snap it like a toothpick, and then snap the next one like a toothpick, and just clear the way as much as possible. Stay behind me, everyone. I'm starting to sort of come down and realize

what's going on and gradually start to collect the sand back into the power glass. It's okay, Kavir. I know that that Rache didn't deserve that, but people didn't deserve that, but don't lose yourself what we're about to do.

Everything we said to dandy is the same for you. We're here for you. We trust you. But just remember who you are. Don't lose yourself. That's what I did. And look at me. You don't want to end up like me, do you? You don't want to end up like me, do you?

Err. A hilarious clown who's there for his friends, I would count myself so lucky. But you're right. And thank you, my friend. All we could do is soldier on, focus at the task at hand. This may not, I think Chuggled is kind of on the mission and is kind of like inherent, motley and cunning is coming out.

So I would justify listening to see if we think that triggering these alarms, we know that they don't, we know that they, use more like Magitech and not like Tech Tech, right? It's like Danny's all like gems and stuff. Yes, yes, yes. So I would be listening for horns or looking for flashing crystals of like, oh, even if it's not some like wiring that's doing this,

presumably there's some sort of magical field that they now know that we're coming. That's my guess. Nice. Roll a, you're attempting to see if there's like a magical output running like running back into the Allow me to rephrase that. Dandy, do you think we triggered any kind of dino magic

from what's just happening? Can you use your scanners? Yes, I can. Roll an archana check at advantage. Yeah. Arcana. You can hear the alarm going off now. ROW.

That's right there. Can you add a sufficiency? Yeah, add your dino proficiency. Let's go. Dino proficiency. Dino, dino proficiency. Oh, okay. It's plus 15, so you just automatically that pass.

Six and that's right. What was it? 16. 16. With a 16, you know very firmly that Sorians kind of operate off like Magitech crystal magic, almost like not runic magic, but gem stone magic. You get the sense when you inspect these traps, that this feels very, very, like rudimentally displayed. Like they almost didn't care too much about putting it up as they didn't think that

really anyone would attempt to come this way. And if it was a Zorvun, as it was intended to stop, no one would have tried a second time. And so I know how to disable this rudimentary magic system? It's not magic. It's just like, it's sticks in Raptor. so I can look at it.

You know that it is not something that routes back to them that has alerted them of your presence. Got it, okay. So I'll communicate that with everybody, including chuckles, you know, loudly. And suggest we should look around and see if we can disable these sticks and stones. I am doing the best that I can to rake the rakes.

Yeah, we'll just follow you, LaBusch. and we'll just go to the entrance, and then we'll start breaking some skull. I try to stay as low as possible, but a few surprise me, and I get stung by them. And you can see a few gloops of Labouche just sort of splash into the sand and get absorbed, reducing and diminishing my form just a little bit.

But I restore my hands, and pretty quickly, we're making our way to the entrance. Follow me. I, if at any point it feels like I can go and pick up a couple of the Raptor Clause, I would do that. I would say it's in this moment that as you're deciding you'll move on.

Rett something catches your eye. And as you're looking at Kavir, you happen to catch a glinting from Rache's hand. And in it, the schematics for the temple. And Shuckles, you can use this moment to gather, we'll say, if you want six raptor claws

that didn't crack or destroy upon Lubush's sweep. Or end up in my friend's body. The point is that you're still alive while they're eating you. I will say, even before I noticed that, I would have turned to Kavir. I'll say, yeah. We don't have to leave him just lying here. Maybe let's put him back on the skiff

and we can take him with us on the way out. I appreciate that. Yeah. And I'll sort of reach down. I don't know if you want to help me or not, but I'm happy to sort of like, we can kind of lift him up and carry his body to the skiff. And as I'm carrying, I'll notice in his hand the schematics.

I'll say, it's a hell of a final gesture and I'll take the schematics out of his hand. You do so. And you would be able to import them into your internal system and have access to them. The two of you move Rache onto the skiff very respectfully. You lay him at not final rest,

but at momentary rest as you turn back towards the Sorian worship and you set forth clear-headed. And I would follow Laboosh into the temple. I've got one eye forward and the other eyes pointing backwards towards my friends, just keeping an eye on everyone. You continue down and up this aqueduct.

It kind of inclines very slightly. A tiny stream of water runs down and out the end that you've come in. Do you continue sweeping in the manner you had been? I would continue to, as long as there's sand, that would indicate that something could be hidden. Yeah, I would absolutely continue to clear a path out. Just a swoop of one arm and then a swoop of one arm. I'm trying to keep my distance effectively disarming these traps by triggering them,

Since if I keep my hands low enough, I feel that I shouldn't get snagged. There's no sand in this tunnel that leads up. Okay. But as you continue to sweep with your arms, as you move up, you'll feel sections of stone that are pressable. And you get the sense of pressure plates ahead of you. There are plates. sensors. Something is in the floor here. I can feel it. Do I trigger or do I, so do we just go around? Can we go around it? You can, it's like you're starting to feel, uh, like it's almost like

cobblestone as it runs up. So there's a lot of small sections of stone that you're walking along. Uh, as you kind of like, almost like, uh, you know, like a giant farm, uh, you know, plow, you're like moving your arm across the ground. You can kind of like a thresher. As you're, a thresher. As you juice forward in thresher forward, you can feel sections of these stones that feel, they feel pressable,

but they're very much avoidable should you choose to do so. I will point them out. Just don't step here. Here is another, don't step here. Here is another. Don't step here. I'm gonna take the wall. And I'm just gonna walk alongside on the wall.

I'm not checking the wall. I'm checking the floor. I'm presuming that they're hoping there's not someone gonna walk on the wall. And if that fucks me, it fucks me. Yeah, that's very reasonable. Yeah. Yeah, no, they didn't anticipate anybody

who could walk on the wall. I'll pull that curtain back. You move forward. up this aqueduct you ascend very slightly as you start to you can see an opening is approaching you light begins to pour into the tunnel and you start to hear a clattering like a bestial snarling clashing of teeth, a thumping of blunted objects. I think there is a Saurian up there. Are we past these plates?

Because this is not where I'm a viking. Do I think so? I think as you begin to approach the mouth, you feel like you have cleared the plates. Oh, what? I think we have cleared the plates. The plates. It's a place.

This is a place. I'm just like walking. As we were walking, I'm kind of just like slowly soaking it all in, like looking, looking at everything and just, you know, trying to see how this place is. How are you feeling, Dandy? You okay? I am okay. But I do not like these sounds.

Kavir, don't do anything rash. Kavir, do you want to do something rash? I think for the sake of all of us, I should at least show some modicum of control. I was going to say we could show them the same hospitality they showed our friend. It is fair. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Why do we have to go in and just bum rush him? Oh, we don't know if there's just one or if there's more than one.

Let's just play it cool and it'll get our eyes on it. I don't want to do a whole dinucals thing, so let's not... No, we're going to go together. We're going to stick together for the sake of brevity here. Okay. Dynucles. Dynucles. That is just...

Dynical. Danycles. Danycles. That's hilarious. You continue up this tunnel. And as you approach carefully, the mouth of its opening, you'll see Rett kind of as on your dungeon map as the layout, you're entering into what looks like the main chamber. You step out, or you come to just the mouth of this tunnel, that water falls from a plate,

a plate, water comes from like a section of flooring just in front of you, elevated just above that slightly. is another floor that you'd be able to pull yourself up onto and there are twin steps that walk up to yet a second rise and on that you can hear and you can see

very plainly where the sounds are coming from. You see about 35 Sorian standing there a large portion a large portion

a large portion of the war band. They are almost all Raptor kind. You see a large collection of them. They have giant ruby gem mallets

and they are circled around a couple of their comrades who are battling each other. And they are slamming into each other and when they do, the gems that are almost like just tied to the ends like clubs like tied to the ends of a stick.

They extend out on a dual-headed, like great mallet. Every time one connects, Osorian goes flying through the air. And there is a red glow as they crash together. And they're snapping and snarling and clawing and what sounds like cheering, but they speak in a primal language you don't quite understand, a language lost to time. There is one figure that stands just a little bit bigger than the rest. A large raptor that wears a crown

that has two feathers in it. What? This guy's full of himself. What is the average height of these raptorssarians and weight? Like how big are they? They're not themselves like massive and physically imposing. They're probably, like on average four and a half feet if you were to look at them and kind of track

if you were to look at them and kind of track their like trying to just get a sense of their physical nature four and a half like maybe some of the bigger ones like around five feet and you know a hundred and twenty pounds I was expecting them all be like eight feet tall. I'm much more confident. I'm on the busia side. I was thinking like chickens. These, they are adorned with

like light cloths. They don't wear too much, but they do have tribal gems adorned about them. Not too unlike those of dandy. But the gems that they

wear are much, much smaller. And no one wears more than one, except the crowned raptor that has two, one on a ring, one on each hand. I don't like this guy. No, I like this guy at all. Popas. Can you understand what they're saying?

Can I understand what they're saying? That was my way of asking the dungeon master, but doing it in character. Yeah. Yeah. Roll a... Roll a history. check.

Oh. Frederick, I find my portfolio is lacking. 16. What do you think about your mutual investment fund? Well, I don't know. Tough down, the economy.

Pick a direction. You can hear, you do pick up elements of this language. You can't understand what they're saying as much to speak it, and you cannot understand everything they're saying.

As most of them jeer and loudly applaud and cry for blood and blood and bone, you hear somewhere in the crowd in slightly lower tones, you hear the word Archon mentioned. Shit. Multiple times. Okay. I do not understand exactly what they're saying,

but I'm hearing Arcon, Arcon, a bunch. You're talking about Arcon and smashing each other. Arcon. That word doesn't mean anything to us, right? Doesn't mean anything to me. No, it doesn't. I want to Google it. Not the purpose.

It does not mean anything to you, But I will say that the second you hear it, there is a spark within you for the briefest moment that feels immensely powerful, almost like a rush of adrenaline that kicks in the second you hear the word and fades just as fast. I don't communicate that. I just feel it.

What do you think it means? Is that the name of this energy source? Or what they call it? I don't know the meaning of the words. I do not know either. We could use space, Google. No, I'm just gonna. I do not know.

Well, I got my space of your will here. Let me just, let me ask G's real quick. Hey, G's. Well, I mean, do you want to try to listen in more? I could perhaps decode with my special hat. What do you think? I want to look at my map and my dungeon map and try to find the, like, power core.

We just ignore our jobs. You pull up your wallbats, walled at that. You pull up your dungeon map and you look at the layout that it provides you and you see a kind of, you see a very similar schematic to the temple you were in when you battled with wrecks.

There is a circular platform that all of the Sorians are on currently. There is a mild, there's a thin bridge that leads from behind them to an elevator that looks like it would take you upwards to a different floor. But up one landing just beneath where they are, across the room from where you are currently,

and you're kind of like, if there's a platform elevated from where you are, and then on that platform, there are stairs that go up to where they are on like a circle pedestal almost, you are behind that section effectively under the bridge that would walk towards the elevator. And if you were to make your way to the other side of the room, right behind, walking directly behind where they are,

and you elevated one level, you'd be able to go downwards a spiral staircase that would take you to what looks very much like the energy source. And it is marked cleanly on the map. that Rache provided. So we feel like we don't have to use the elevator. Correct.

You feel like if you were to just cross the room you're in, unseen, and you went through the opening at the other end and went down, you would reach the energy source you seek. I don't think there's any other way but the elevator. And just to clarify out of character, the energy source was what we believe to be just a collection of the fuel, like a stockpile of fuel crystals.

Well, they have their own energy source that they use primarily, which is what powers this temple to fly. So separate from a stock of collection of fuel crystals that they've allegedly been amassing. Whoa. And they're storing it at the same place. Yes, they are storing it in the same place. So you expect that if you were to go to this, you would see their power source as well as maybe like a room littered with energy crystals. Yeah, very dangerously collected, poorly planned. Definitely an ocean has won't yet.

They did not follow the ocean handbook. No, they did not. Right, okay, gotcha. They did not store their meats on the lowest shelf. A rag-tag group of honey hunters to come in. I would, while they're discussing their plans and magic hats and things, I would just be standing over Rhett's shoulder looking at this map and watching him

kind of figure out where things are. While they're looking at the map, I'll cut my eyes will kind of flash that same kind of like dark motley and magic as I'll blink. And then suddenly, like, my mouth will turn into, like, pure white with, like, a wave of a black wave going through as my nose will turn into, like, a radio dial.

And my little halie, beep, wee, be. Well, shut down it, buckaroo. Okay, there it is. And I will cast comprehend languages. I was good. Brilliant. The little ball on the top of my hat will Brilliant.

So good. Like Rosie from the Jetsons? As my mouth will kind of trigger the radio waves. And I'm going to attempt to listen as I tune in onto what I hope is Sorian to comprehend what they're saying. And hopefully over to hear their master plan if that's allowed to master. Man, you ever think they have comprehend languages? If he didn't cast it, I was got on it. Everybody's got confidence.

Everybody's got comprehend languages. I too would like to cast comprehend languages. I have it too. All I've got is, motherfucking, our call. It says right here, burning hang, I mean,

comprehend languages. Okay. What does that let you do? Comprehend all languages? Yeah. That's what it? 100%. Oh, man.

Okay. You tune in. Open the door, get on the floor. Everybody walked the dinosaur. I mean, all night. God damn it. There's only one joke I want to make.

There's only one joke I'm going to make. It's like I got some raptors. You do that. You go, the Archon. You tune into the language that they're speaking. And you can hear the same jeering, clattering, cheering of the masses as most of the Sorians battle above you.

But you hear, the larger Raptor speak to another on his right. And you hear him say, if the fool executes properly, the Archon will show shortly. You can kill all others, but we claim her for the expansion. Okay, one more time? Blacked out. If the fool, yeah.

If the fool executes properly, the Archon will show shortly. Kill all others, but we take her for the expansion. Mikey knows what that means. Does Chuckles understand the implication? I think that depending on how much you think you

would put together, you would hear the ringing of rations' final words and say, I don't look out, trap. That was what I'm right to- It's picking up. You would understanding the speech of these raptors maybe start to draw towards he brought you here if you think Juckles would draw that conclusion. But I will leave that to you.

But we just walked to you a trap and they're trying to bait our d'ambi and take her away. What do you mean? Archon. What? Dandy is the Archon. I don't know what that means. This is a trap.

I don't... A friend may have betrayed us. Probably, he was trying to say, sorry they got here first in a Landau, their Landau, Calvician, Lee. It's just, it's all, this whole episode.

How can you be so sure? What did you hear that makes you think this? they said that they're going to kill the fog and take dandy a few people have said that what makes it seem like this was a trap where he led us here because they know that they know that we're coming that they said that if the fool did what he was going to do I don't know if he knew me I don't know if they know that there was a very kill and successful well-accomplished fool

damn it they would have no other way to know that we were here or involved or that dandy was even a part of any of this He does not want to be taken? It's the only thing that makes sense. It's how we got down here so easily. It's how no one was there. It's how he was still alive. I'm sorry about your friend.

And he tried to warn us. Oh, that's funny, man. It wasn't the trap. Trap. It was the trap. Trap. And I don't even have to say this. But nobody's taken, Dandy. No chance.

Oh, what do we do? We're already in the temple now. Do we leave? Do we try to sabotage it? We're not turning back. Do we think that the map he gave us is genuine? I do. Do you remember when I asked you if we could use the ether thing for something? Yeah.

Could it help us here? If they're waiting for us, they're gonna know something's up if we don't show in the next hour or two. And so for us to get all the way back. there and grab it. There's just no time. What do we think about that map? We know where we have to go, right? I think so. I mean, if there's the power source that's down there to be destroyed, theoretically we could still accomplish our plan. Your tech is far more sophisticated than anything Rish had on hand. When you in took the map into your arm,

you would know immediately that it's a reflection of the structure you're in. For whatever else was going on, whatever circumstance brought you here, it seems as though the plan up to this point is truly

to get you to the engine room to destroy this temple. I think we stick to the plan. We can sneak around behind them. We just hug the edge of the this open room here and just not get sighted. And then we can work our way down, no elevators, and we'll get to the power source.

How long do you think we have if we set the trap or set off some reaction? Because we're going to need to figure out a way out. I don't know the first thing about Sorientec, so frankly, I don't even know how to answer that question, But the best we can hope for is we take a look and we try to destroy it or trigger some kind of explosion and hopefully we have enough time to get out. We should look for some kind of transport. Maybe Danty can pilot. We'll keep an eye out, but I'm not optimistic.

Okay, you stick to the plan. Just know that they're probably waiting for it. They're going to kill us all. that's worth case in there then let's get this done before they know that we're here you're right okay let me still hear hear me um we kill chuckle no he just blow his feet off you know he's what my heart's are I die. Oh, Derek, I love you, buddy. We're gonna try to steal and follow the map and follow, I guess Wreck would lead us with the map.

And we would try to steal and stealth following this outer pathway around and down and hopefully not be spotted by these raptor people. Roll a group stealth check. Oh. Oh, my friend, you're advantaged. But I'm disadvantaged. I'm disadvantaged. Come on.

Pretty good. Oh my God. I'm twisting this if I roll morally because I have a huge plus. Give you a twist. I got you, fam. I got you. 16. 12.

Taking my face. 15? 18. Tonight has not been a good night for rolling. I'm going to pull out one twist if that's allowed. You get a twist. We say yes. We say yes.

15. 15. I think my issues I've only rolled like four times tonight. I gotta get more rolls. I gotta get more. Don't you want. I got to touch people. Don't you want to punch people.

I need to punch people with the power of the sun. You're a thousand dragons. We can go through dinosaurs. There were 35 of them up there. I was on board with that plan, okay? I agree. We could. Frederick, where do you summer?

I get out of dinosaurs. I get out of diet. of Dino City to avoid the plague. Oh, I'll go to the waterfall homes. The Dino Hampton's nice. Okay, you stealth. You move very sneakily. As you hug the back of this wall,

you stick just to the edge of the shadows. The clatter of the warriors above you crashing together helps to cover the squeaking of Chuckles' shoes and the mechanical warrant. of Wrette as you move towards the other side of the wall or the other side of this opening. To go up, to raise up one landing, it's maybe a four foot incline. Most of you can just palm up to it and step up and I would say that together you're able to move easily. on the other side of the room

you see what the map displays. You see not even a door but just an open section of a wall that leads downward to a staircase. All right, this is it. Before we go too fast, we need to keep an eye out for any other security measures. All right?

There could be traps and there could be I mean folks waiting for us. Although I think they're the ones waiting for us. Idiot, they're being ready to walk into the main room. They really don't know what they're expecting. Or they heard exactly what we do, normally. Pike, why don't you lead the way, Danny? You stay right in the middle.

Gladly. And if it counts for anything, my passive perception is through the fucking roof. And I would basically try to go first, try to go first, and, you know, walking very lightly and deathly and moving stealthily the best I can walk while keeping my eyes out for any other additional pressure plates or something that might alert others of our presence. Okay.

You descend down the staircase. You twist and you spiral and you drop and drop and drop. Until Pike, you feel it first, but you feel the strong, present thrum of ancient magics as you get lower and lower. As you step into this section, Dandy, it is the sensation of a fish return to the ocean. As you descend this staircase as well,

you feel not necessarily a sense of. safety but a sense of comfort a sense of familiar power and as you take the final step down you enter into a room that has four large crystals about the size of the bush planted in each holding section of the room and in the center a small raised pedestal, very similar to the other temple. Scattered around the room, you see a collection of chaotically formed white crystals. It looked almost like frozen lightning in the midst of striking. Those are the gems the empire uses to power their fleet.

With the plane, it just like blow them up, so it blows up the pyramid? You can't do it right away, because we're still here. But I think that's the long and the short of it, yeah. Let me at least take a look and see if there's some kind of, I don't know, control panel. I don't know how they control these fucking things. And I want to walk up to one of the dino crystals, the dune spice crystals. The dino crystals. That's not what it is.

Even remotely. Lightning's light. God. And just sort of investigate to see if there's like a big red self-destruct button or like a power off or any kind of controller. Are they using magic or like some sort of ancient dynotech? Just tip it like this. Yeah, oddly there's a teacup sitting in the room.

You roll an investigation check. Gladly. Big money. Do you notice anything different about dandy? Roll a perception check. Red. You, huh? Can I do that too?

Sure. 23. 23. With a 23, you start to investigate the gems. This is very firmly not Ethertech. It is not high-level, sophisticated engineering. It is primal gem magic. And it's not your foray.

However, you understand the basics of power manipulation, and this operates under a similar philosophy. These seem to be rooted into something that is drawing power from them and feeding towards the central terminal in the room, though it has no way, it has no UI, it has nothing to plug into, It has nothing to click on or press, but as you look at it, it does very much feel like it begs for a gem. The center begs for a gem? I'll sit there with my hand on my face.

Lean in close. Yep. All right, yep. Well, okay, I think I got it. The big crystal. here. Or gem. Let's call these gems and then those things crystals. What's the difference? You know,

crystal in the sense we're like all sand. It's basically crystal, right, and glass and all that stuff. So those are the crystals. These here are the gems. Gems. Gems. Like Gap and jab. There's a difference. Yeah. Exactly right. These jabs here, you see.

I missed that one. They're magical jabs. and there's four of them. Are you following me so far? Yeah. Yeah. They're full of energy, right? I can sense that.

They're using some kind of magical laylines through the ship or the floor or something. And they're all connecting to the middle here where it feels like a gem should be. And that's all I got. What if we put a gem in? in the centa spasiae then. You got a

labo-sized gem line around anywhere? It is not laboose-sized. Oh. It is maybe fist-sized. I'm just going to start looking at myself. Feeling myself. Dandy. Do I immediately think of Dandy when I see

the because I think she has one right here. I would say yes. Yes. and something else clause at the back of your memory. That's a pretty good in-roll. That's pretty good memory check. That's like a 20 for memory check. Sorry, I'll let you guys.

Did you, you two rolled? Not well. Yeah, I rolled a. I rolled the six. Seven. You don't know what's anything. Get out of here. Neither of us see.

You're not paying attention. Do you feel like you were drawing drawn here like you were at the archon you arrive and you say, I need to do arc-com things, maybe. I'm gonna, I do not feel as if I was drawn here, but I do feel pretty good here. And I'm gonna start walking towards what you're looking at. The pedestal?

Just out of curiosity. Yeah. Kind of wide-eyed. As you step deeper into the space, the gems respond. And as you approach the central pedestal, you begin to your form reacts

to being in this space and you begin to glow lightly as the gems glow in resonance. Wait. Even with a seven. You can see that. That was a joke. It's very obvious, thank you. I summon Marlon Brando and we're all

thought. Wait, if the historians wanted her here, what if this is what they wanted her here for? I don't know. Do you feel like you can interface with it in some way? Because I just had another idea. Like the elevator? Yes, I do. I will. I wouldn't get any closer to that thing. But, like, is there any chance you have that blue gem that we got off Rex still on you? Well, I don't have it, but...

certain somebody does. Then I'll snap my fingers and out the wrist pocket comes to the gym. And then I'll hand it to it. Yeah, you hit me and then I'll... I don't know if I need to be the one to touch it, but... I mean, what do you think? I'll hold it up and I'll do this, and I'll like, eye it up on the thing and I'll move it aside and try to see if I think it would fit.

As you size it up against the opening in this pedestal, You get the sense that it would fit perfectly. Well, Dandy, you or me. I mean, I know that I feel like a fish who's in the sea, you know, for the first time in a while. But like, what am I feeling compelled, like, to do it myself? I would say that you don't necessarily feel compelled, but you feel in control. And you have in a neat sense that this. will work for you. You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. That's why I'm asking.

The choice is yours. Do I know it will happen if I do it? Do I have like a sense of what'll happen? No. No understanding of consequence. I can do it. As soon as she says that, I'll toss it to her. In like a very deft manner, just like, you know, it shatters on your ground. I'll catch it. She fumbles in. I dodge. It's one of the energy.

crystals and everything starts exploding and changing each other. Thanks for joining us everybody. Start us Rhapses over. Well, well, hold on before you do anything. As soon as she catches it though, I'll have a smile on my face and I'll say, good choice. Before we do anything, we don't know what's going to happen when we put that gym in there, all right?

We don't know if the colors matter, if it being blue versus red matters, or if they wanted us to bring the gem here, and they clearly wanted you here. Oh, God. Let me let me a think about this for a second. But you will protect me, right?

Do our best. So it will be okay. Yes, Fandy will protect you. Look! And I'm going to make a pink pterodactyl. Just like your spaceship thing. It'll full circle around you.

Aww. Listen, Rhett. I know. that I'm thinking is your thing, but let's just let it ride. Whatever happens, happens. We're all here together. Well, maybe if you take the square root of Q and... Ah, come on, knock it off. As he's James, I'm going to take the one out of the center of my chest and put it in, or wherever it is on me. Instead of that one we, they gave you?

Instead of the one you gave me. Is it removed? That's not removable. Oh, that would be like ripping your heart out of me. Hot swap, hot swap. Gotta leave him up. I don't feel like I'm telling you what I just said. Instead, I take the one that he was giving me

and I put it in. Well, now if you're following, you're into the second you put the gem in the center console. The gem erupt around you and you respond in kind. Your eyes turn white. Everything glows as the laylines pulse brightly with power. You can all feel the thrum of ancient magics erupting and swirling around you.

You know in this moment that you have become the ship and you have control. And should you choose so, at your beckon, you can destroy it. Oh my gods. Danny still in there? Can you hear us? Whoa!

You did it, Dandy! Do I feel compelled to do that? You're in full control. Oh, Lord. I don't know what it is that you did, but you did it. Whatever it is. And we're not dead yet. I can't hear any.

I'm not even, it's just... Can she actually hear us? I would say that you can... You understand that they're talking to you, but it's like shouting into a hurricane. The force of... ancient energies that swirls around you in this moment is almost intoxicating. You have expanded your perception beyond mortal means, and you don't just grasp that around you.

Though you still understand it, you grasp everything within the core of this ship and its immediate vicinity. So I'm just thinking all of these things, and I'm thinking to my sense. about how I finally kind of feel this, I for the first time feel this sense of like belonging, like true, almost like origin belonging. And I do feel like maybe this is worth, like I need to explore it more before, like, destroying it. But then I remember my family

that I've never, like, that I've never, I've never had that feeling before and that And that sense of belonging is way more like true and rooted in like a real emotion of love and joy and happiness. And so I decide to destroy the ship because they're they're threatening us. You do this. And as you make this choice, you send out the command that only you know will accomplish your task. You overload the energy gems in this room. and you understand that very shortly

they will chaotically boil over and shoot out unfiltered energy into the room and almost assured they created chain reaction amongst the crystals that are here destroying this entire ship. I think everything's going to be okay. So I mean, real quick,

what are we witnessing happening while we're watching this? The rest of us. Since she doesn't even be reacting to what we're saying. The rest of you would see the gems that were in the edges of the room, Labush size, have erupted into bright light as well as her. The laylines in the floor crackle. They don't just illuminate. They crackle with visceral energy that you can almost taste as it licks up from the ground beneath your feet.

It just thrums and pulses and gushes around. dandy as her hand extends over the gem and her hair almost flaps and flows into energetic winds. Dandy? I give Pike like a grim, knowing look for a second. And you can see that I'm kind of like breathing heavily and I almost have this like again this wry smile comes across my face almost wild looking like I'm excited and I don't know what's going to happen and then I'm kind of enjoying the chaos. Is white good? It's not red. Is white good? I hope it's good. I like look up the stairs. I mean, is, like, is it pretty obvious that it would be?

Like, the light and the pulsing energy feels a little like it's contained in this space. However, you do start to feel the ship itself tremble. And so you're, it's shaking. The gems are starting to crack and crackle as Dandy drops her hand and steps away. from it and the energy this the second that I see her like come disconnected from this thing I would turn to Rhett and finally answer him you know after having just kind of stood there and taken what happened I'd say I think she made a choice and it looks like this thing might be coming down we gotta get out of here and as I take my hand off I'm gonna say like let's run out of here let's run and like start running like I'll lead the way you heard her Come on.

Let's go. Here we go. All right. Good choice, Dandy. The important thing is that you made the choice, and we keep going. You'll race up the spiral staircase as you take turn after turn. The energy, you can feel it. As you move away from it, you can feel it as it starts to overload behind you.

As you move away from the gleaming light, you crest back out of the doorway. You are not being stealthy. this time and as the whole temple starts to struggle and shake from what you've done, as you skip out, you see the same Sorian war party just above you, but they've stopped battling each other. They look around, confused at what's happening to the ship. They can feel the shaking, the trembling as the surface is unsteady beneath their feet. Two, three of them fall over as you very blatantly just start. sprinting out of this space. You start hopping through the aqueduct behind them.

You chase over the other side and it's at this moment that they would take note of you. And you would hear snarling, clanging. You hear, even anyone at this point can hear calls of the Archon bring out. As they start to make their way down the staircase and out at you, they begin to give chase. You sprint down the aqueduct as you make your way back. Having cleared, I'm sorry, having not cleared the floor, I'll need everyone to roll a deck saving throw. Everyone remembers those spots I pointed out

an hour ago. Dexterity? Dexterity saving throw. That one I like. I'm gonna taste on this one. Come on. Come on. I'm twisting as well.

There we go. I got another 15 and I feel like I should just try again. I'm keeping my 15. I'm keeping my 15. 15's pretty good. Yeah. I know. So I'm such a plus though and I just can't rely on. For now. You're saving the goods for that. I know, I know.

I just gotta crit some people when I punch in that face. What you get for doing, you're going to do sex guys? You're right. 23. 23. With a 15 and higher, you pass the safe. You navigate through this tunnel. But you are not being careful this time.

You understand the stakes. The temple is getting ready to explode. And the crackling energy that will cause from this will level this entire space. You're running through as you step on the stones as you go, traps start going off. Darts start flying and hit other walls. Other sideways blades come out attached to wooden planks. as you dodge and you miss, but here and there, cut, a slice, text at you.

And you take anyone who did not pass. She's on this math before it. Uh-huh. For red. 27 points of damage as the drafts go love it. If you pass, you will take half. Oh, I don't have like evasion yet. What type of damage?

It'd be like I have the slashing piercing. 18 13 13 27 is the total So whatever Yep Holy fuck Got it Oh fuck

I I would try to like help him If he looks like he took a big hit I would put his arm over my shoulder And like try to keep urging him to run Yeah I would say absolutely You do that You pick and you start to run together

As the traps are going off And you're not even attempting to dodge them Right you're just taking them as you're trying to get out of this space. You're tanking it all. Do it, does it feel like the Sorians are gaining on us? Roll a perception check, a disadvantage. Wow, that's my bad.

15. 15, it does feel like, 16, it does feel like they're starting to gain on you. Even as you run, as you're popping off these traps, they understand where you're headed, and they're trying to follow close by. behind, chance of the Archon, fill your ears as it reverberates down the tunnel. Are they taking any hints? I'm going to be running along the wall and I'll say, oh, they're gaining us.

Take off my head, reach in and pull out a pinata of a Lama corn. And I'm going to put it back on and throw it back as far as I can, 60 feet behind me. And as it's going to then kind of dance around magically with a rainbow tailing from its tail, and then burst in a 20-foot cube, and I have to roll basically what the effect is. I don't know if it's more than a 20-foot cube. This space is not larger. This entire opening of this tunnel is not larger

than a 20-foot cube. So it filled the entire hole with, as I cast in the Thayer's mischief. It's a piano. It bursts into a bunch of pies that lay on the ground with all, with these, the steam rising from the pie, takes the form of like a shapely dino woman. As it's going to, with its slender fingers,

kind of, it's going to, like kind of beckon towards them. And everyone who goes through that cube must make a wisdom saving throw. 35 wisdom saves. DC 16. Or become charmed by me. And so the pie is gonna say, you're down.

Take a rest. Take a rest, sleep, sleep. Enjoy the pie. Sleep. You've been arch on this whole time. Why not take some arc off? You see as you chuck this llama corn behind you and it begins to circle and explode

and becomes this voluptuous dino woman. With comprehend language is still in place, you hear, Jeffrey, I know where I'll be vacationing this. And as you see a great many of them stop and are caught up watching the gyrations of this of this image as it goes. But there are a couple, there are just a couple left that were unfazed by the attempts and carry on after you. Oh man, sorry, that's going to be gruesome.

But no one can resist the smell of pie. do I remember what kind of like door, was there any kind of doorway or gate that we can close? Just totally, like, but did we even see like a, like a groove for any kind of door gate? Or is it just like, is this like the... The act, not the act, yeah, the exaltzance.

It did not look closable. Like there was a door or anything like that. It did very much look like it was just drain of sorts. I'll be hobbling as fast as I can, just getting hit with blades and darts and and getting stabbed and everything else. And you all

continue to run out of this space and you make it out, you burst out onto the sands right to where you were, the sand steamer right ahead of you as you see probably four or five Sorians that didn't get caught up

by Chuckles's mischief. a little bit further up the tunnel from where you are now. Still racing after you. Do, does it look like we have time to get onto the speeder and escape? Or does it look at the way to see that is one of the- You absolutely have time to get on the speeder and escape. If that's, like, just to get on the speeder and escape? We've got two options.

I can get this out of here as fast as we can or we can try and stay and fight, but with that thing exploding, I don't know that we want to stick around. We run! Let's get the fuck out of! And I just hobble up onto the speeder, onto the skiff. Same. You hobble up and you slump onto your back, bleeding from cuts in your arms.

You look just to your left and you see the corpse of rage. As everyone else jumps onto the sand speeder, Kavir, you start your familiar path, you race through the, what you know you need to do to unfurl and make this movable. The historians hot on your tail have now just exited the mouth of the opening. As you whip the sand speeder to life and you start to careen back towards Gitter Bay, you blow the distance between you and them apart.

You are soaring off of the off into the distance. As you start to careen through due. dunes and it's in the moment you start to crest the larger one that cuts off your vision between the bay and this temple. That in the back you see almost as the sky goes dark as the temple itself begins to crackle and pop as strikes of lightning erupt from inside. Debris and brick and stone fly in all directions as an electric lightning exploits. explosion tears the entire ship to pieces and destroys out for what looks like probably half a mile as you come over the dune and you solidify your way back to garyubay oh my gosh the the moment that like this explosion has happened and there's light and everything kind of like calms down

and we crest over this dune and uh you know there's a relative calmness and silence kind of comes back to us, I would take a deep breath and knowing how close you were to, you know, probably dying. I'll take out a cigarette, light a new one, and just look at everybody to say, man, that was close. Not even close, baby. You can kind of get the sense that there's a level of, like, enjoyment pike gets out of almost risking his life. The close calls. I'm just staring as we're like in town, just kind of like staring back at it. Dandy, are you all right? Yes, I am.

Good. Good. Kavir, are you all right? I'll look down at Rache's body. I presume with us. I don't think it's been, you know, disturbed. And I'll look kind of at the utter ruin, I presume. I don't know if the whole like fucking desert's been glassed behind us or what that looks like.

You actually see what's happened is the eruption of, these crystals has created a like super storm and over the destruction of where the temple was are these massive expanse of dark clouds as almost like returned to nature the energy that was captured in the ground has gone back to the sky and erupting in a natural rage it strikes back at the land and there is like on the just over the horizon there are wild light lightning storms. Now that they destroyed that ship and the Sorians on it, I'm a little better, but I still feel for my friend.

He had no choice, and he tried to help us in the end. How do you think he knew that I was with you? Who the hell knows? Unless Kavir. Well, he knew I was with a crew, more than just me and the boo. But I didn't, at least as far as I can remember, go into much detail. Considering he had a way to reach out to us, there's a very good chance that he had a lot more intel than he was letting on. I mean, the boss could have been the boss, could have been folks have seen you.

Maybe someone put it together. I don't understand why he would betray us if they had already taken everything. from him, his family. Is that true? Did they really kill half the town? It seemed like it. It was much more empty than I remember. It's possible he was saving the rest of them. It's also possible he was doing it because he believed that we really could get rid of them. And that was his inn. I'd like to hope, but I can't guarantee. I just know that he told us enough, and he gave us a map that was seemingly accurate. So you're saying he was a double, double agent?

I can't even pretend to begin and assume anything at this point. I don't know. I don't know. I hope so. As complicated as that is. Well, I'm not going to search his things out of respect, but if you as his best friend were to come across some kind of communication or agreement or anything written or otherwise might provide some insight.

Are we back in Gervais or we've kind of stopped in the, like, just over that dune? I would say you've probably, you've crested over the dune and you've made your way back and you are docking the sand speeder in that, like, drop-off, like, almost like a carport kind of space. And you can choose to walk in. And I would say even at this point, you would catch the, almost like on the winds. It was very quiet when you came initially. You would catch the chattering of people on the other side of the doorway. That sort of red's suggestion.

I'm going to lay him to rest. If I can find where his family is buried, then I'm going to bury him there. Before that, I will check and see if he has anything on him. But for now, I just need to pay respect to him. I will have, and I'll gently pick up the body of Rache and just sort of like turn to you almost like a in service. Lead the way. Thank you, my friend. This is my body language.

And so we'll walk back into Garibet. And then is there, are the people, do the people scatter again? Are they? You walk back into Gary Bay. back on that familiar matted sand roadways. And you see the people now out in full mass throughout the town. And it definitely seems like far less people

than you would expect to be here. And they are all looking out over the horizon at the storm that's been created. And the explosion being absolutely voluminous. They have a sense of what's gone down. And as you look out in the crowd, there's an old woman. You kind of see it on the edge. And you recognize her to be Soraya's mom.

I'm gonna sort of address everyone, the whole town or whoever's there. From what we can tell, the Sorians are gone. At least the ones that we're here. Raish helped us. He gave us what we needed. He was a hero and he died that way. I'm sorry I wasn't here sooner. But for now I think we're safe, or at least safer than we were.

Where are the rest of his family buried so that I can lay him to rest? As you address the collected people, they'll, most will turn to look at you as you start speaking. And the woman on the edge, Saraya's mom, once she realizes who you are, and she does, and she sees the body of Rache in your arms, she approaches you. Kavir, I'm glad to see you are okay. I can't, with the guilt of Soraya, I can't look her in the eyes, so I'm kind of just looking down. I'm sorry I couldn't do more.

It is us who has to be sorry. Rish knew that he led you into a trap, but the sorry and sorry came days ago, they killed everyone, half of everyone. And they said, if we did not produce the Archon, that they would come back and kill the rest of us. We didn't know what that meant, or who they looked for. But someone knew. They spoke of a captain who. who had seen you all together. They knew who you were. And they knew that if they applied the right pressure,

they could bring you all here. Do you know who this person was? How fucking... Did you hear her name? Bracken. That's all we heard. But Rish, he didn't want to. He didn't want to do that to you.

But he believed that if he brought you here, You would succeed in the plan. He thought that you would be able to destroy them, all of you. He never doubted. He never wanted to lead you into a trap, but he knew that there was a chance that they would capture whoever this Archon is, but he couldn't watch the rest of the town be destroyed.

He did what made the most sense. He was always an idiot, but he was right. You both were. Give me his potty. spotty? I need to be the one to put him to rest. Where is his family? Where's Soraya? Maybe we can, or at least. I will show you the way. And she starts to guide you deeper into the town to a section where you see what look to be innumerable freshly dug grave. And she directs you to a section, very quaint, and you see Saraya written on a very modest headstone.

Next, you see Raceous Family. Used sort of my sands to split the sand in between the two plots, big enough for Raceous Body and to to the bush in the bush my friend please put rachel's body down I don't have to lean to extend my arms and very gently get the body into its resting place and thinly pull out from underneath disturbing the body not at all as little as probably yeah little as possible before I sort of lower the sands down I am gonna check him just to see if he had anything else that he wanted to convey to a us or had for us.

Not so much rifling through it, but almost fixing his tattered clothes and sort of checking it at the same time. Do I find anything on this person? Bowling investigation check. Twisted? Twisted. Yeah, 100%. Seriously, my God.

40,000 twists. Yeah. I got dice over here if you want. It was sitting on a 19 and then it was like, ah, three. 15. With a 15, as you spread the sands

and LaBouche lays him in and you write his clothes and you get ready to put him to rest, you find one thing and it's a what looks like a hand drawing of you, him, and Soraya. It probably 15.

The closest thing to like a, like a picture that we would have. Yeah. So I'm going to well up and tears won't fall yet, but I am obviously very emotional. And I'm going to slowly let the sands fall behind him so that he lowers, let them close and cover over top. And it's much neater than the other plots around,

almost pristine, I'd say. And then fold up the picture. put it in my vest and turn away. As you close the sands around him, this, and you put him to his final rest, this plot over him takes almost a pristine shape and has the faintest shimmering of bronze

scattered throughout the sands that cover him now. I'm sorry I couldn't do the same for Soraya, but now at least they're together. And then... We never blamed you for that. I could only blame myself. Thank you for everything that you have done for us this day.

Rish believed that you would be successful. And I'm sure that he died knowing that you have freed us. I'm sure that's why we were successful. But thank you for your kind words. You need to go now. With their ship destroyed, the Empire will know that they were cut off for a brief moment. And it's also possible that the destruction will cause, will call to a larger soaring force. You don't want to be here when it all shows up.

You can't be here either. It may be time for us to leave entirely, leave this planet behind. There is nowhere for us but here. They're always stubborn. I was born here. My parents were born here, their parents before the world. their parents before them. We are people of the dunes, and we will stay that way. Whenever we figured out this Arcon business and everything else going on, we'll come back.

We will have this planet again, we will be free. It would be nice to see you. Likewise. Then we'll turn back. I think it's time to go. Yeah. Yeah. I'll put my hat back on.

Let's go. I'll sort of look to LeBusch and kind of reach up and have kind of my hand up and on his shoulder as we walk away. Yeah, I'll have my hand on your shoulder as well. And I'll be muttering myself in the language that I don't often speak. Oh. Sort of... Uh... Um...

Murmuring, bubbling, hissing. It sounds a little bit like the curing. But I'm saying... That's very funny. That's my way to do it. Oh, good-bye during this moment. I cast copperhead languages so I can understand that.

Oh no, that's gone. Burning head erupts in a graveyard. Just kidding. Ah, shit, that was my other one. Cavier, I'm sorry about your friend. Thank you. Do you know any local, I don't know, kids that would have scavenged the barracks by now or know anything about it? It's tough.

I mean, I'm sure there are a few scavengers around. If anything, it's something to sell. I can ask it around. Would I offhand know of a specific group that would do that? I've been away for a while, so that's a bit of understandable. Yeah, I mean, I think you would know that it would be pretty... Normally, the barracks would be up and functional, so they would not, like, have scavenged the barracks. But it being ripe for the taking, I think you would, like, have a clue that any rambunctious scoundrel would have...

Scrappers? Would have, yeah, got in there and taken what they could. But they could have spread out anywhere. They're hard to track, which is why they typically don't get caught. All right, well, on the way out, I'd like to see if there's some sort of battery or armory or something where they stored the weapons, because if we can, we should try to make that look like an accident. It's on the way. Let's get out of here.

So we'll jump back on the sand speeder. You jump back on the sand speeder and you make your way across the dunes away from Garou Bay, and you make your way back easily, solemnly, but easily, to the barracks, until you arrive at your destination. I'll walk in the barracks and, you know, presumably all the devastation is still there. I want to sort of look around and just kind of investigate the place to see if I find any storerooms where they would hold, basically keep explosives. Ooh.

Or any other kind of weaponry. I would say that it's all pretty cut open, and you would see their blast or burns throughout the walls. There are, on the imperial guards themselves, there's a collection of, like, Imperial plasma rifles and, like, glowing plasma grenades. just scattered across the floor. Are they the gems or the crystals, like the fuel around?

No, not here. Do you see anything that might be useful for it? Just a few grenades. I was hoping we could blow the place sky high and, you know, maybe they blame it on a, you know, spare spark in the battery or something like that, but... I will say the... Carnage here isn't like my people, so I don't know that they would connect the two.

What I'm worried about is them coming here, realizing what happened, and closing their iron fucking fist around your planet. Yeah. And maybe that's fucking better than being torn apart by dinosaurs people, but. That's effectively how they lived. The lesser of two evils, for sure. And even though this was just one barracks on one outpost on the planet, the fact that this was able to happen at all, they're going to come back in their full force.

And the only reason why it won't get annihilated is the crystal. And the Thorians are going to think that it was the empire that destroyed their temple ship. Which means the empire might think it's the Sorians that started everything as well, so hopefully they see that and not my people in the middle of it. Well, even if they don't blame the Zorvun, I think they're going to get themselves in the middle of a terrible intergalactic conflict. Casualties of war.

Begun the Dune Wars has. I propose we killed Chuston. And you make it back to the Rhapsody. Does the Rhapsody have room for the Sandspeer? Yeah. The Rhapsody has a pretty big hangar band. It's absolutely not filled. I like to keep it for sentimental reasons and, you know, fold up the...

Yeah. I imagine we've got to be able to break down this, the Sandspeeder to someday be right. You wouldn't even... You absolutely can collapse it, and the tubes at the bottom are a sort of compression air, and they're deflatable. I'm imagining like a sand catamaran. Yeah, it's exactly. Very exactly correct.

So you can absolutely work the Sam streamer into the bay and collapse the sail and tie it up and deflate and kind of like shift it as much as you'd like away into the hangar. a little piece of home. And then I'll head into the I'll head into the sort of main quarters area. And you can park it next to the warthog from the junk planet

and the slid from the ice planet. It's like a lacking V. They're like the key blades on the other world. Yeah. Exactly right. Exactly. I don't know why they call it a warthog and all we look more like the Puma to me. anyway

can we go back I forgot to play Gwent against that old lady I fast travel I fast travel real quick the hangar door closes behind you on the Rhapsody you park the sand streamer

you head back into the lounge area the pilot's chair and you get ready to leave this world behind for now. You push forward on the throttle. You feel the familiar thrum of the engine war to life as you take off. The Rhapsody twists up into the air, breaks out of the atmosphere,

and finds itself once again surrounded in space. and as you begin to discuss what lies next on your journey, you see on your readout a blinking from Hank pinging the radar. What is it, buddy? Large vessel rapidly approaching. Oh, fucking hell. What is it? is? Is it? Iron Sards? Breaking into view, moving

unbelievably fast, an even larger temple destroyer rapidly approaching you. Oh, fuck. Blasting onto the display in front of you. You see an immense creature. You see a large T-Rex head, a mantle that he wears about him. No crown, but a mantle of no less than 18 feathers surrounds his shoulders. Almost a kilt of furs, leathers, it's hard to tell, as this creature appears

on your screen and says, present to me the archon. No can't. do, boss. Let us be on our way. We won't have any trouble. I'll hit the emergency. It's glowing red. It's flashing inside. It is flashing red. The alarm bells are going off. This is not the gathering summonings. This is the battle station summonings. As he says, that was not a question. And erupt. from the base of this temple structure, you see ships begin to pour out. And I need everyone to decide initiative.

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as it races towards the hangar bay. Okay, the cuts thing we're all running down. Sprinting, yeah, very Gundam, very Gundam-esque. Sprinting down the hallway, you all burst into the hangar bay, Pike first. Once my boss man here, he punches that warning sign, that

warning siren and it blairs and we all make it to the hangar. I would take one last drag of my cigarette as I stamp it out and say, they always want to do this the hard way. And I'll put one foot on the ladder leading up into the sparrow, vault in, and as I

close the hatch above me and turn the key and give it some gas to take off, Jason by the midnight begins playing on my radio. I take off from the Rhapsody into outer space and I will, I'll take my turn. Hell. I'm gonna move 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60,

and absolutely just lay into this guy. As I use my blasters to attack twice with plus eight on both two hits. It's gonna be a 20 and a 21 to hit. Oh, it's actually good egg. Oh, they'll hit. Yeah. The first one, these are both on number three. That's gonna be eight plus six is 14.

14, 19, 20, 26 total points of damage over two blaster attacks. 26. On number three. Yeah, on number three. Exactly, as you race into the sparrow and you take flight, you burst out of the... the Rhapsody just gunning, laying

on fire as your blasts shoot out and easily land in to this ship to, chew, chew, peppering the front of it. It looks incredibly beaten up. That's my chair.

Cavir. How do you get in your ship? Oh, yeah. You're racing down the hallway. You burst into the hangar bay. You see I jump. I lay down the sands.

I kind of surf on them straight into the cockpit, and then just slam it forward as the echo busts out of the the Rhapsody, straight into combat. I am, busting. You forgot to assign home, homework, but doesn't it make a ship go before. Oh, shit, yeah, yeah, you're right, you're right. And for this is all, the getting the shifts

is all for flavor town. We've already gotten in our house. Yeah, everyone's in. We can fight all of us. Yeah, I'm not, yeah, I'm gonna fight everybody. They just, I have immediately, like, eviscerated my ship is just like the last to the turn and then just get absolutely, like the Swiss cheeses. Like, they cook.

In Chambles dies, I'm playing Glopshooter. What, uh, who's number one of you? I'm just, I'm gonna say one six. All right, this ship will turn towards, uh, having approached. We'll go... Two. Now he can turn.

Yeah, he'll just go forward. Three. And he'll take a couple of blaster shots at... Oh, fuck, you got to roll the attack. Can he? Is that his cut? Ooh, baby. He's in the cones.

Oh, okay. You're about to get a cone. We'll see. You think an ace pilot doesn't have tricks up to sleep? The American... 23 and 25 to hit. You were just out of my ace maneuver. You got out they'll hit.

Oh, do you literally have the spin? I have a reaction. Were you deflector them? I can increase my AC by four, but that is one shy. Wait, you see 23? Yeah, the first was 23. I will use my reaction. So I will expend 10 feet of movement on my next turn

to do advanced reflexes, which will increase my AC by four until the start of my next turn. So I'm essentially seeing this come in and I'm able to definitely maneuver out of the way of one of the hits. Yeah, and I'll get hit by the other one. So my AC for my AC until, oh no, no, no, I'm sorry, it would only be 22.

I can't get out of the way of either, right? You said it was 23 and 25. Yeah, that's what I thought. Okay, I take it back. Oh, cool. Yeah. Yes, it's like a, it's like a minor shield. Try it.

Do about some gangster ass. I'm still gonna hold on my reaction. All right, you want it all back. I just take it. I'll walk it all back. I try to get out of the way. and my ship is grazed by these shots. As you see almost in these like prehistoric like bug-form ships

pouring out of this temple ship, you see red lasers blast out of gems fixed to the edge of these cannons as beams land into the sparrow and you take 17 points of blastered. It's a good chunk. It's gonna use the rest, or it has to be the rest of this. It has to use the rest of its movement. How much do you have?

Use three so far. It has 15. One, two, three. So does the turn count? Four? No, no, you can just turn as long as you're more. And it will turn towards, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly right. One more.

That's that, right? Yep. Cavier. Two, three, four. You've entered into space. Perfect. Now that one has conveniently placed itself in front of me, I'm gonna move up one, two, three for now.

And I'm actually going to use my guns on it as well. However, I'm going to target its cannons or its guns. The gem guns or canons, whatever you mentioned. I'm going to try to do that. So I can use this twice, right? Is what it says? I believe Blasters is like a double attack. Yeah.

Okay. So we're going to do two of these. Oh, yeah. Plus seven to hit. So it's a 26 and a 24. Damn. Oh, both those. Yeah.

All right. So they do each two D8s plus seven, which is the D8, it's this one I think, two, four, roll those. Five and eight is 13, seven, twenty, twenty four, plus seven, thirty one points of damage to the ship number one. Thirty-one, you blast out at this ship firing at the crystals on its blasts. crystals on its blasters. As your beams fire out, its coalesced punches of condensed sand as they land into this ship. As the sand hits, it begins to eat away at the hull and destroys this ship, obliterating its pile into oblivion. So number one is gone. Number one is gone. Awesome. And

then I have to finish, I have to finish my movement. Yes, that's correct. We always don't perine through him. So that so I would have moved three. So I can turn now? I have to move one again. You can still turn. So I can't turn. And I can't turn again. As long as you're moving, you can turn. I'm going to line up right next to the pipe. You just can't turn on the first movement. Every subsequent. The first movement has to be forward. Every subsequent movement, you can turn an angle. Okay. So I'm going to line up next to pike.

Nice. And two will go. Which one's two? It will move. like up one through its people, up two through its people, and then, yeah, four. Does one turn in five? Yeah, can it hit, who can it hit that is not dandy? Oh.

I mean, basically, anybody who's not red. So yeah, basically we just continue these lines out. Yeah, anyone that's, even me, I'm kind of in his art still. I would say me or LaBouche, if you like it, reasonable. All right, it will shoot at, it will shoot at Chuckles. Oh, oh no. 20 and a 13. The 13, I, so my reaction, uh-oh,

if Chuggles is the target of an attack, he can choose to redirect that attack to any other target he can save. Wow. Any other target he can see? Can I basically redirect it that? back to him. Yeah.

100% you can. It's going to, the first one's going to miss, and the second one is going to be direct hit. I'm going to think, oh, oh no, oh no, oh, thank goodness I have this. And I'm going to reach out and put on a sweatband around my head, and then suddenly a sweatband is going to go around the top of my saucer as a big arm with a giant tennis racket is going to appear, and Mario Tennis hit back and thunk it right back. back in him. It arcs through space as your Mario Tennis arm knocks it back and the hit lands on, that was number two?

Yeah, with like the rocket laser. You're gonna go with one of those curbs straws. Oh, that next time, okay. It's gonna change every time. As the red, as the red blast lands back on its issuer and that was its full movement. Is that just your reaction? Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah. Dandy. This is Pike, right? Yeah, this pinkish ship.

Do it how much damage. Do you have to do. I have to do. So I'm gonna go. One, two, three, four, five. This turning's not moving. Yeah, you don't have to. So you get a free.

You get a turning for eight. Oh, okay. So you're at five right now. Yeah. Okay, so one, two, three, four. or you would turn five four would be there

wait so you were you here no choose here here okay you got it one two three four and then you can turn five and then you can turn

and there or go down six yeah oh but my butt is towards here yeah so so career will yeah

I don't know when they do that so you can end here or you can end either here I want to be behind you behind you You can come up this direction instead. Yeah, let's do that. I'll be right behind you.

On your aft. You can end this way, point in this way. Nobody collides into anybody. You just do whoop, blah, blah, right? You're flying in formation. The Rhapsody crew. Oh, that's pretty cool. But can I be facing towards you guys?

You can. That might, well, we'll see what happens. You and I made. We just want to make sure you go collide. Yes, I think that's totally. Oh, because you have to do that. Okay, got it. You're good.

I'm going to, as the terradactal, Terry, summon the constellations, and I am going to target Pike and repair 2D10. Yeah! And once per turn, you can choose to gain advantage on a roll. That's sick. Oh, Dandy. Just activated Godmove.

I think I do 2D10, right? Yeah, I do that. You're the best. Yep, you roll 2D10. As your form flies out of the hangar, You would step onto your ether platform, and the energies would swirl about you as you use your druidic might

to take shape a giant tiradactyl. You fly out into the hangar bay, and you fly out of the hangar bay, and you come behind Pike and Kavir. You summon the power of the stars themselves. You draw upon the constellations, and immediately, Pike, your ship will swirl with the energies of the stars

as you repair damage. Huge. Thank you. You will hear overcoms, not directed at any one of you, but it really is her.

Oh, shit. The third one will move. Yeah, he's... He leaked his help. Come on, bring on me. He has a guy there. Okay. And he will gun straight at Pike. Right directly in front of him.

Oh no. He's just flying straight at him? No, no, no, no. I mean, he'll, like, shoot him. He'll attack first. Yeah, he'll attack first. He's going to do. He's going to give it up.

He's going to drive by. He's going to drive by. Yeah, that's what I'm doing. 17 and a natural one. They both mess. Wow. He will turn. He will turn kind of towards Derek

and then just move. Two, three, four, five. That's it. And that's three. It's two chuckles. Oh, yeah. You chose the wrong crew to attack. I would have gotten in, basically.

Oh, ho, ho. And it's like basically bop it, bop it. Twist it. And I'm basically just pushing a bunch of shit that shouldn't actually work. But very much like the, oh gosh, can I say the orcs of 40K? It doesn't because I believe my monolith magic. It's good fucking works.

Redacted. And then the headband is gone. Flip it around. That's the back. That's like the little. Oh, yeah. Dumb. But you're just a circle.

So I was here, right? Yep. Yep. One, two, three, and then I'm going to turn, actually. You can? Yeah, you can turn. I'm gonna stay here. Can I, are they in my cone?

Hold on. Yes, right? Is this kind of my firing cone? I guess I'll wait here and I'll, where? Are they in my firing cone? They are now. It's- You? So, you have a special room.

That's true. Yes, they would be in your fire. That's one. That's just one. Yeah, you turn. Yeah, you're good. No, that's right. Okay, so I am going to.

He's very weak. Don't worry about it. Pull out, I'm going to press some buttons and I'm going to smack the flower on my lapel as a large flower on the lapel of the clown on my saucer will emerge and a blast of acid is going to shoot out and it's going to fork and attack both of them. Nice.

Two and three. Cheese. Okay. Um, because I actually don't know what my pies do. I guess that's probably that you roll, but I'm going to do my flower attack. Uh, holy shit. What is it? It's plus seven.

So a 19... Can I twist? Yeah. Yeah. 19 and then a 23. Uh, to hit. And then... Both hit.

What's the lowest of hit? Was it? I don't know. Mine was 2021. Yeah, I was like 26. It was like, 208. What can I find the end? Okay.

To number two, it's going to deal seven plus seven, 14 points of damage. Big money. Nice. And to number three. He's out of here. Get him out of here. It's going to deal 16 points.

Get him out of here. Melt that guy. As you spray out in this cone and it collides with both ships, you'll see as your blast lands on them, the acid eats through the holes, and they're both destroyed in space. Ship two.

That's what I said. Two, three, four. Contra style. Five. You did 16 to 10. So four. I present my broadside. I present my aft to them.

Yeah, I know you do. All right, do you actually present your app? Yeah, okay. Which one's four? Four is all the way back here. Okay. Definitely not in range of juggles. Four will begin to fly, if it can.

It's not going to collide with its team, but it will try and fly in the direction of juckles. One, two, three, four. Should be able to shoot five. Yeah, I mean, it can definitely get him from here. That's four. And then if you want to make your tack there and then choose where he moves at this one.

And due to do it. to my ability, my feature, the caboo. Easy, easy. You do not get a bonus for attacking my apps. I wrote these. Damn it. You should have studied the caboose. I was so excited. I was like the fool forgot about the aft rules.

Get a good at my caboose. How did you forget about the app. Oh, gosh. You really made you look like an asshole there. Got him. Very funny. That's very funny. That's very funny.

Imagine that death, it seems silly, but like the kind of acid that comes out is like this horrible demonic. They probably mutate so fast that they like die. Like being killed by that. It's like a really dark one. It's like horribly pungent, terrible green demonic acid he hits away and horribly disfigures them as they disintegrate. It might turn me in a spawn chaos and then you die. It's like the troopers get hit by the yellow acid in starship. Yes.

Oh, yes. 100% of it. So four will hit one with a 17 probably. What was that? 17 to hit. 17 to hit. That will hit.

Nice. Score one. Some good news for once. Oh, 10 points of damage. I'll redirect that. No, you used your reaction. It was my turn again. You're going to take his turn.

It's back. So out of my a half, a curly pea straw. It'll go in, thunk, zuzu in my-the-funk McDonald's place. Spiral. Yeah, and then it just swings back,

like so. Oh, fine. How was that? How dare you shoot in a clown of ass? It's not very polite. You can prepare all you want, but you'll never be prepared for me. Oh, God. Oh, God.

I didn't even do any of them. That's what I have. That's very fun. That's very fun. LaBouche. to you. Does Dash exist in this world? You sure? Yeah. But it would take, I would say, you can boost. I didn't have boosting rules.

I'm not going to look them up. You can boost, but I believe it is your action. The dash, just like it would be. Normally, right? So I will be running through the hallway, and I will have essentially left into the air and Metroid balled into an orb and then land into

the chest of the Legally distinct... The Noghre! The Nodre! The net dropped. The chest like closes over and like veins my goo will flow through and actually like take over this hulking form and then it will start to run through and launch itself out from the runway

out of the port of the side of the Rhapsody and out into space. And I'm not in range. of anything. So I'm going to boost with my action. I'm going to go one, two, three, four, boost. One, two, three, and then I'm going to just crash through this moment. I'm going to use my bonus action to target that ship, making the arranged attack. That's usually 27 to hit. That hits. Sorry, sorry. 25 to hit. And just tell me your actual dice roll as well as what you get. It's 19. Okay. He's adding them all up, and when I cross a certain threshold, I fucking explode.

I die. And... And... He held the video list of my head read free now. It's come populate. And so then I do 2D6 of the damages. That's going to be seven plus eight is 15 points of damage. to that one, and I'm just going to ram into him.

Which number is that? Four. Four. How many points? So I use my unstoppable approach. I essentially seeing him, I will reach out with my extended hulking arms, grab onto him. The crushing damage of my fist does the 15 points of damage

that I, as I tear into the wings of this thing. And then I just pull myself and go, boom. Athletics contest. Trying to rip the ship in two, basically. He's got to deserve it. Get wrecking balled. Get wrecked nerd. Athletics, you say?

Mm-hmm. Oh, good. I have advantage on those for some reason, one moment. To initiate or escape a grapple? Yeah. Yeah. Ooh. It's gonna give me a...

me a 14. Natural one. Yeah! So you move one square fort and it's the equivalent of just whatever your standard attack is. So basically you attack one more time. Do we scatter by this guy? Do I just roll that or do I just hit it?

No, you roll your damage. This guy's just roll it back to the damage. No, he's 2010. He's my 10. Oh my God. Oh, my chunker. He's a nice. He's gone.

14. of additional, that's exactly, a legally distinct damage. You blast forward as you beat the Rhapsody, your feet lock into like jettison trays.

And it fires forward as you blast quickly. It ends right at the end of the opening. You launch out into space careening towards the Sorians. You fire your arms forward.

Jets erupt from your fists as they reach out. You punch, punch, grasp, and then you pull yourself forward the rest of the way. If I pull in in, I tear him apart like a telephone button. Exactly. I don't even wait for your body to get there. As you close in, you just rip him apart and cast him away.

As you end in his square. He goes, Let's really listen to it's a condo. It's a good news. You're going to check that. You know, no, Justin Famedish. Five, five. Oh, that's go.

Which one's five? That one, I can't. He's facing the Earth. It's on the planet. He will fire at Kivir. It's because he's about to get flying V'd, you know what I mean? Yeah. It's right.

It's good. 19. Yeah, that's... Okay. You'll take nine points of Ruby Blaster damage as it fires out and shoots beams into the echo. It will move forward one and then attempt to

loop back around towards Rhett almost. To turn right and that you're straight. Yeah. Three, four, five. Yep. That was four. Oh, right? Even more. Okay. I mean, like, you know, it would be cool. Ret, it is to you.

I would as I hit the alarm button and I'd turn to Hank and I'll say you take over, buddy. And he would jump into my pilot seat and put his paws up. I'll run down behind everybody else

slow as my little dwarf legs will take me. I'll jump into the cockpit and I'll try to get this heavy piece of machinery off the ground and out. And I will immediately turn to this guy and I'll say

hey, give me a scan on this guy. and I'm going to use scam which I can target a ship and ask the DM for its specification including AC, HP, and potential weapons. If this gives me advantage... That's what I go.

You you send out, you jump into your ship. You punch in, you plug into the ether engine. you feel the familiar gravitational war as it homes to life, and you scoot out of the hangar bay.

Immediately, you scan the ship. Classification swarm. AC 18, speed 50, two ruby blaster shots. It has pack tactics. And how much HP? 30. All right.

It's whole rating. It's 30. It's maneuverability's 15 class. So now everybody knows. That information. 15th, they see. And so I will turn. It's loud and clear, big guy.

I know. I just performed this game. I'll turn the, I'm thinking ether barge. Is that fun? Oh, yeah. So going forward, and I will, so use my ether blasters. My scan used one of my blasters. my second one. We'll just be an attack, but I'm advantage because I scanned it.

Oh, that's great. 10 plus... I only eight. Only eight more. Six. So that hits, right? 18. 18.

18. Oh, it's 18, 80. Twist it. I'm twisting. Twist it. Twist it. You never gives you space combat. Boom.

Yeah. That was a near... Boom. So that is... 2D10 plus 8. Wow. Put this out of here. 2D10.

It's very funny nearly too. That's very funny. Uh, 20, 22 points of force damage. To who? To number five. Uh, your gravitational blasters war to life as the energy fires out, boom! As a large orb moves forward, crashes into this ship and explodes with dark...

Nice. With dark gravitational energy. Damn! And then... No, it's fine. It's not dead. Oh. 22? I think it said it explodes. No, it just like hits it.

Oh, okay. The energy damage. It's got 30 HP. All right, that's my bad, everybody, but the blast exploded. All right, I hear the ship exploded. There wasn't explosion. I'm all recognizing that 30 HP. Consider yourself on notice.

Jeez. And then I'll just move the rest of my movements straight. Okay. And that's my turn. And number six will go. Number six will attempt to just start off by blasting. So don't fly too close to pike.

That would be terrible. No, no. Fly over here. Oh, I'm so scared. 20 and 21 to hit. Both of those hit. My ASE is 14. Wow.

Damn, really? Because you're so big, that makes sense. Yeah, but I've got like 1,500 points. How many? $1,400. How many? He's 1,400. But I get resistance to all physical style,

which is why I ram every day. You just destroy it. You take 18 points of Ruby Blaster damage. Because the ship will move forward and then fly towards Puddle. Oh, you idiot. You felt right in my trap. I was kidding about being scared. One, two, three.

How would you like, this is three? Just turn at him. Four and then five. We're just going to collide. Oh, yo, yoy. He's not going to worry. He's never going to see another turn. This guy, that was the last action.

This guy has taken in his entire life. Thank you. Thank you. I'm going to need it. That's fine. If you want. Oh, I want. Mike?

Oh, no, I'm so terrified. Just kidding. Once per turn, I use my ace pilot maneuver. Before you do. Oh, no. Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up. You don't seem to understand. Nothing will keep us from the Arkon.

We'll place that. We'll keep you from the aircraft. Coming from the ship. Oh, like just right here in the back. erupting out of the temple ship, once again comes an immense form. The T-Rex, Sorian, piloting his own ship, joins the battlefield, flanked by five more swarm ships. You put them back on the field.

Oh, we also killed them in the perfect order, one through five. Why am I missing one? Oh, no, five's not dead. Do you have an extra one? No, there's only six. It takes to the field. I'm saying they don't have five more. Oh.

So he can be flying to my four. Oh, four. How do we have four of them come? I have no one. There's four. We're gonna have a new one in a minute, Darvader style. Okay, ladies, let's get information.

How's that? Everybody look good? Have that awesome? Yeah, that's cool. We're ready to be killed. Pike, you will go first. Hearing this, uh,

I am, I've not, changed what I was planning on doing. I see the sixth ship flying towards our formation, and I hit a few buttons and crank the sparrow into overdrive as I activate my ace pilot ability, which is once per turn, I can use my ace pilot skills to quickly flip the sparrow over my target and repositioned behind them using 30 feet of movement as I literally do a barrel roll and I end up behind my target. You flip the levers, you twiddle the pedals, you crunch down on the right and lift with the left. You corkscrew through the air,

up, forward, and over, positioning yourself behind this ship. I will have advantage on the attacks that I'm making. I'll start by making one attack, and if I crit on a 19 or a 20, if I'm behind them. Oh. Damn. I forgot about that.

That's going to be a plus eight hit, plenty to hit on the first hit. I will roll the damage, which is 2D6, which is going to be 8 plus 6. It's 14 points of damage to number 6. Okay. And then I'll make another attack if he's still alive. Oh, shoot, I got an attack again.

Plenty to hit. Eight. Twelve more points of damage. Something he hasn't taken him. You corkscrew over this ship. You definitely move behind him and immediately fire out your blasters into the aft, the aft space of this ship.

And as you hit it, it blasts and the ship explodes. And you can remove it from the field of play. Thank you. And then... Just added as a new ship. They came from behind. He says more... We'll keep it.

They're called swords. I thought it was... It's true. It's a swarm class. And then having used my... I have to use ten more... I have to move two more squares. So I'll move here, turn, and here.

And I'm good as I'm kind of flying. making my way to circle this, the rest of these jackasses. That's my whole turn. Uh, sure. No, I'm a riot. You're good. The, the leader of the Sorians will move. Oh, yeah, he's a loser.

That ship will move towards Dandy. He's, like, enormous, so help me figure out how he's going to move here. I guess we'll just, like, assume it's the one underneath of him. He wants to move towards Dandy so we can go five, or that's a lot. So if he's technically large, he's at the center point of three. Is how a large ship works. Oh, this. Yes.

Yeah. So then how does he chooses, he still chooses his direction this way then? So, oh no, because he has to move on points then, right? I guess this still works. I'm kind of dumb. It's fine. Just move him and what it feels like. How many movement?

50. Jesus. So if he wants to get to her, he can easily run through all three of our formation, destroy us. Well, five would be, I mean, one, two, two, three, four. No, no, no, no, that's way too few. That's right. And just move them right up in front of Kavir.

Because it would be one, I'm working like, one, two, three, four, five, as opposed to like five. You know what I mean? Just move them in front of Kvier for right now. Okay. There you go. See, this is what you just have to tell us what to do. Yeah, we're too dumb.

Yeah. Nice. Good catch. Then we get. Five. Five. Three horse. I'll put it down.

It would be like there. Looks a lot of rolling, buddy. A giant energy cannon descends from underneath. Oh my god. That ends in a ruby gem. It pulses as red light coalesces at its center and a massive beam of arcing energy fires out at the echo. You take 18 points of Ruby laser damage.

The echo. Circus. That's your ship. Cool. That's very cool. Thank you. Thank you. Confirred.

Uh-oh. Rattled by that damage. I don't... Question. The Sandstorm ability. The Sandstorm ability, does that negatively affect every ship or just enemies? Because it does say enemies that enter the sphere. Enemies.

Just enemies. enough to know it is. Yeah, okay, perfect. Well, you're controlling it. Yeah. Okay, perfect. And it follows me as I move? Mm-hmm.

It swirls about your ship as you move. Yeah. Sweet. Good to know. Yeah. To start your turn by crashing into the... That was question number two. Is this ship big enough that there's no way I can avoid it?

Or can I kind of like maneuver underneath it? You gotta crash in. I gotta crash in. Oh. Here goes nothing. I wanted it to be 3D, but I didn't have the brain to create it. So, you know? Science fantasy.

We talked about it. Yeah. It's a dexas? It's a dexif? Surely it's got trenches. Huh? What is it? Athletics contest.

Hey, you might get scattered out in the sparrow. So I mean, that's... There you go. That could be nice. It's smaller. Sorry. Athletics. Or acrobatics?

Athletics? Acrobatics? Uh, I see acrobatics. Actually, I'll give you that. Athletics or acrobatics. Okay. I just don't see athletics, so that's why I'm asking. Okay.

It should be... 22. Oh, wait, I don't have a bonus to it. 18. 19. Okay. So I lose that. You take eight points of damage

as you crash into the main ship. Roll a D-10. D-10. Instead of... Because it's large. And re-roll tens. One. That's right back.

He bounces right back. What was that for? It was a scattered down. So normally we do the D6 for the Scattered die, but because he's large, there's more spaces around. Oh, much space together. Okay. You can now choose the direction you would like to go.

Okay. You can read position right left, you go around him. All right. I'm gonna swing to the right here. Do I still have my pull movement or minus 10 for that initial attempt? I think it's minus 10. I want to 10, 10, okay.

Two, three, and then. And then. four and I'll turn this one. You get one turn, so you would need to do this and then if you can want to turn early, right? What's your total movement?

Right now, four. 40, 45 feet. Oh, after the hit. Yeah, after the hit. Sorry, that's after the hit. You can turn. I just want to be in your way. Yeah, that's true.

Yeah. Just go where he is now. You can do this, but then just turn one. You just can't turn two. I see. Okay. Let's do this. Yeah, so let's do one, two, wait, see, one. You can go out here and then turn back in. Or if you come out, that's too much.

One, two, three, three, four. Yeah. Yeah, okay, so then I see that one. It's kind of like a false number one. It's usually way to figure it out. Yeah. All right, so ship number, it's very fun. I love this.

One-1, I will target with my, uh, my blasters. Let's see, this is... Sorry, y'all. Not as cool. One, two. Shoot that. 2.14.

So neither hit. Neither hits. Okay. I attempted to attack. What would you roll? 7 and 7 plus 7 to hit, 14s. Yeah. And then I guess that's my entire...

That's movement and attack. Yes. Yep. Two. Or, that was two number one. That? Yeah.

Well, I took that for number one. Yeah, let's go number one. Is that so on the board? That's the one that... That's the one that's what I just tried to attack, yeah. Frush. It's fresh. You won one.

One dash one. It will fire on Pike. Okay. They'll use crab hammer. It'll miss both shots. Nice. As it will attempt to move, yes, that direction. Two, three.

Three, four, five. That's, yep, perfect. Well, wait, he's that? Brett. Whoops. Yeah, that's fine. I steer into it. Now it's Dandy's turn.

Dandy. Get out of their Dandy. Stay away from the ship. I can hit the main guy right now, right? I'm just going to attack magma shot. So I'm firing my guns for my teradactyl. And they deal, oh, to hit, I have to hit. Chuts of magma.

To hit, it's 24. Definitely hits. So it's going to do. Oh, we don't know his is. Yeah, right. It's going to do, it's going to do nine points of damage. and then I am going to this guy's here yeah I have what is it 60 so I'm gonna go I'm going to go one yep okay go into him yeah right one good good yep two and while

doing this I'm gonna pass as a bonus action primal screech I'm gonna screech and enemy targets within 30 feet, so I believe that's these two, are disadvantaged on their next role and cannot take reactions. Nice. Cic. So where are we?

That was two. Moving into the score was two. Now you can still turn. Either way, yep. Four. Yep. Five. Six.

Nice. That's great position. Do you want to use your second magma blast into his aft? Yeah. For sure. You're at advantage. At advantage, oh, to hit.

It's been a while. Yeah, you know. It's been a while. Oh, boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Oh, boy. 14. 14 is not hit. Can I, can I fucking do the thing?

Yeah, hell yeah. Yeah. Is that just one real? Yeah. That's just one. Yeah, you take the highest out of your three rolls. Oh. Oh.

You want to take me? And then I'm a lover rising. I'm a foist in war. I'm a fooze in war. A fooge war. Is this a double crit? It's 11 points of damage in this aft. Will you double your dice if you want

with natural targets? Oh my god. 8 plus 8. 19. 19. That's huge. Magical magna damage. That's huge. Oh, right in my aft.

Ah, fuck. Magma coal damage. Oh, magma cold damage. I love that. It's all those chilly pounds. It's all that. You fire out these blasters of magma. as they land squarely into,

not only do you fire and you hit him clean on, but you deftly swoop around him, come behind, and then blast a massive blow of magma at the back of his ship. And you'll hear the clear power of the archon. Oh, look at that. Dice read the story, folks. Oh, and two.

Two is this guy. Next to L'Avush. He probably turns this one. Yeah, I was gonna say we didn't position these guys when they came in the pl, I just put them in the sports. He's fine, why do you move five? Stay right there. He will attempt to, he will move forward.

He will fire on Red if he can. He can. Yep, he'll fire on Red. Try it. He destroyed one. That is a 24 and a, 15. Those both the hit.

Oh, no! Yeah, he's terrible. Yeah, but they just have a bazillion hit points. And they're like resistance to damage. I think LeBusch technically with resistance has four times my health pool. That's crazy. It's like actually nuts. Because I'm in to laser.

No, I wouldn't think so. So yeah, basically he just smashes them. I'm resistant to lasers. Oh! So he actually has four times my health. You have four. That's really good. Really good.

Very nicely done. 17 points of blaster damage as the Ruby light fires out twice in twin beams from this ship and crashes at you. And then he'll just fly like as best he can. So yeah, he'll go straight to that. How many G is? Oh no, it's just one. Eight, two, three, four, five. Yeah.

Perfect. What did that? I thought that was a chick. Me too. What just happened? I would just scream. I just said, Chuckles. You can just give a good point.

I'm going to go... I think you're moving backwards. He had disadvantaged. You had showed your aft, didn't you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yes, you're right. You just, like, shuffled. You just twerked your way through space.

Was I faced this way then? No, I don't. You had exposed your bum. You can't tell your aft from your back. From your map? Jesus. Three. What's my map?

Four. Right here. Hey, baby. I am going to, in my console, I'm going to go over to my trusty slot machine that of course I have a gambling habit. And I'll reach in and it'll say on that honka, honka, honka, honka. And I'm going to reach up and crank the lever. As a bunch of fruits are going to spin, as a giant hand with a pie will emerge, I need

to roll a D6. I don't know what the other than pies do. Good luck. Who are you targeting? The big guy? Five. I forgot about this thing all. So it will determine.

There'll be three different fruits of whatever it is. I shouldn't figure it. What is your all? A five. Did you explode. That exploding pie from the beginning comes back for a vengeance. I hope so. It's a good pie.

It's good pie. Living lit. I mean, just immediately into it. Good job. If you got a job to do, you're gonna do it with... I hope it's the wormhole pie that rips them to peephy. That's the best one. Pie peepin.

The pie rips to pfim. I think Mesa's learned his lesson giving you wormhole related items. Yeah, he was like right on there. What fruit in the? It's apple pie. Oh, the apple, classic, classic apple pie. Ding, ding, three apples emerge and flash as an apple pie emerges hot and steaming

and just yeats it towards the main chef. The main ship? The boss. But your arm launches this apple pie hot and steaming. It flies. Is this a, did you have to land ahead or is it a save? It just says roll D5. Or it's Roll D6.

Bad at this. You launch an apple pie straight at this boss, and when it lands, you're exactly correct. Because what is in apples, but worms. And you may swap his position with any other ship on the map. Oh, that's cool.

No. Oh, no. No, no. I'm so scared. I hope it doesn't go away. What should I do? I'm just scared. I don't have these things.

It's too many said that was on the map, you know? Things could have gotten real fun. Probably. Yeah, probably here. So I'm with the temple ship. Yeah, far away. I can deal with that. So we'll put the closest tri-corner there.

Yeah. And that's my turn. more nerve. Nice job. Get out of here! Way to glow. Oh, that's my moment. And that would be

three? Three's not gone yet, I don't believe. Three is still fresh. Yeah, three's fresh. Where is it? Right here. He's down here. Dandy and Pike and Kavir are in the cone. You can also shoot the Big Bat. If you move forward to, No, I'm out of the time.

And turn towards the other way, other way. And fire on the bush. No. You son of a beach. Oh no. 19 and a 10. A giant suit of armor. What is it?

19 and a 10. It's a 14. Wee. Wee. Wee. 14 points. points of Ruby laser damage as it fires out and crashes into your form as streaks of red energy wrap around Joe. Okay.

Well, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, how do you like them grappled? You're welcome, Labooch! Thank you very much! Labouche, it's your turn. I am not for five. That's very funny. That's very funny. Oh, I think that's a move through more squares.

I think. Oh, he does. Yeah. Yeah. So he's forward three. Does he take an opportunity attack? No, no. Maybe, I don't know. We haven't gotten there. Okay. LaBouche. I have to move forward one. And then I will... My momentum is still carrying me forward, but I kind of twist my body in such a way that I turn and look. at the other two ships that have just flown just behind one and three like this.

And I will stretch out and grab one and grab the other and then attempt to crush them against each other. Oh shit. Did you need to face them first? He just turned his body. Not according to the ability. One for combat if Lvush is within 30 feet of two ships, you can fire his hands out grappling them. They'd both need to make dexterity saving throws.

Just leave me there. This can't end badly for me. Your arms shoot out behind you as your head spins around. 10 and a 14. They both fail, which means I launch them together destroying,

I launched them together destroying ships under 50 hull points, otherwise dealing 6D12 plus 8 damage. So I think I just destroy both of them. That checks out. I crush them against each other in a massive flap, and then I flip around

and I continue my way. Gosh. One, two, three, four, yeah. Jeez. That was my action, flinchot slam. I do not. I could use my bonus action. I can use my bonus action.

I'm within 20 feet of number two, right? Yeah. Oh, 20 feet is two squares. Yes. That's 20. That's 20. One two. Oh, sorry, sorry.

I thought you were talking about the big guy. I'm like, what the fuck are you? Why don't these are friends? Well, you kill an Amola cars, bros. No. Would I be able to do it to 4 through Dandy? Because if I use this ability on 2, then I'm going to end up in front of Dandy

and she's going to crash into me, and I don't want that. What is the ability to say? It's a bonus action target to ship within 20 feet and make a ranged attack dealing 2D6. If successful, LeBusch can pull himself to the target. Oh, I don't have to pull myself. So I'm just going to make the ranged attack. That's not gonna hit.

And so I miss in an attempt to seeing Danny flying through. I'll retract my arm and then I'll literally crack the knuckles of my suit and continue to fold. Those make noise. Yes, those do make

crunchy metallic noises. Just get me in range of that large ship. And that'll be my phone. Oh, and I have on my radio playing also a song. Everyone's listening to badass music. Why can we be friends? Why can we be friends? Very guardians. Yeah, Alex. I'm having the best time.

Is number four so alive? I don't even know who you killed. Two and four. Four is one. And five. Okay. Then four will, which one's four? Between Dandy and, sorry, they're both between Dane. It will also fire on Kibir. Come on. With a 17 and a 14, 17 hits. Only six points of Ruby damage as the blasters, one sails clearly over the echo, the other lands in the hull of your ship.

And then it will attempt to move towards its boss. Two. Right? Yeah, that's fine. Three. And then down. This way? Yeah. Four, five.

Yep. I am going to... Oh, boy. Surely you have some sort of mega bean. I do have a mega bean, but that is awfully close to you guys, so I don't want to do.

Surely you have some sort of rail gun. So I have to go before one in the first line. Then I'm going to turn this way. And then I'm going to go here. Landmaster. Landmaster. Landmaster. Where was I? I was...

You were right here. Landmast. One, two. Yeah, you only used two. So three, four. No, three, turn. Four. And I'm gonna turn this way. Right, I didn't do it.

Oh yeah, you should be. That's fine. And the... I'm a little overlapping there, but we'll figure it out. There's gonna be a big purple button on my comments. console that starts flashing. I got you in my sights.

I'm going to smash it and shoot a massive, like, purple, almost like black hole bombs and shoot towards the middle of this. Step all in the guy. Vessel, and I'm going to use Dark Star Missile.

See ya. And... Oh, no, can I twist that? You made it. It comes back. You can get it. It wouldn't hit once. by the way.

Oh, can I close them. We have them for a reason. You all did this. Oh, no. There we go. 20 something to hit. Yeah, it hits.

I hope he's got 400 hit points. And so it's like it's like Django Fetz bomb. It gets to the middle. And then all of a sudden all the mess starts to form in the middle. So the missile itself will be

four D12 plus eight damage. You're like once a day. data, right? This is your gig of fuck-you missiles. Yeah. And this was screwed his last one. No, no, indeed. We saved the day. We're trying some of ice suits here. We're getting paid an ice cream. They're all dead now. Oh, fair, fair, yeah. All I wanted was my ice cream! They got atomized over ice cream.

26 points of damage. 26? Oh, my God. And then, I think we said to the start of my next term, so it's just like one round. There's a 30-foot gravity pulse. Instead of taking damage at the beginning, if you start your turn there, you need to make a Dex or strength saving throw. And if you fail, then you take the 2D10, and you basically, it's harder to get out of this hour. It's exactly what I was asking for you to do. Yes. You fire off this massive blast and the dark energies warble around and create this swirling, almost whirlpool of gravitational force.

force. And it is five's turn. Oh. He has to collide into you. Yeah, he's gonna walk. We'll collide into juggles. He's long. Athletics. Can you, ugh? Ooh.

Uh-oh. Are you a flat, mister? No. That's a 14. Wow. 13. Wow. So how did that work? Roll damage. Roll damage. Me? Yeah. Roll just like a normal blaster damage hit. I think it's 2d8.

And then it'll D6 scatter somewhere around you and I roll the three. One, two, I'm fucking sure about this guy. Uh, night, is that right? 19 points of damage. 2D6. Oh, never mind, it blows up. 2d8. Yeah, shit five had nothing. Yeah, I forgot five was in a bunch. It's flying, and as is trying to crash into me, I, and a big gloved hand goes up, bink.

And it just doesn't even launch it away. It just explodes the ship into shrapnel. As it blasts through space. And it comes back to the top end. And you hear the large T-Rex call out. You still don't get it. The archon will lead to the expansion of the Sorian, and there's nothing we won't do to claim it.

And all of them will spawn back on the map. Excuse me? Where? There aren't any tokens left. All of them will spawn back on the map. Where would you like them? Yeah. Like all from the same side again or different places on it?

It's all just continuously like pouring out of the ship. That's fine. You can put them a little, yeah, you can put them off to the side there. Just a third night? Just haven't resurrected. Anything that has not died, yeah. If I had more tokens, if you find, you'd be getting fucking swarmed. You, you will see that the ship's now warble with a red energy.

Yikes. A bike. Yeah. you. Okay. One, two, three, four, five. I don't know what you're doing. If the Ram Kabir evil. Just take me out of the picture.

Seeing that Red has like engaged with the large ship, I'm going to pull like an awesome fly-by maneuver as I fly around. Are you in the gravity behind? No, he's like way up there. It's 30 radius, right? You were just out of it. Okay, I'm trusting. Oh, okay.

So it's one, two, three. I was more curious, because I'm trying to figure out what 30 looks like here. So I'll have just used my five movement, my 50 movement, to loop around Kavir and giving a vet support fire two shots maybe at its aft. I don't know if I can see, if I can see the back of the ship from there, is that? Am I in my two? Yeah, that's a half. Up to you guys.

That's probably a little generous. It's a lot. No, it's a nice. I don't know. You're nice pilot. I take two shots. You're nice pilot. It's going to go win it immediately.

I don't know what that means, but I'm disturbed by the cross. I'm disturbed by it. Oh, do I no longer have the advantage? You don't. 60 seconds. Got it. 60 seconds is 10 rounds. Oh, I just assumed it was not just the next attack or is it forever?

60 seconds. Yeah, 10 rounds. Damn. Let's go. I don't need to be behind him. I don't give a shit. I'm going to just attack this guy's twice. First attack will be 24 to hit.

24 hits. On the big. I don't know what is he sees. It's not 24. That's going to be a 21 to hit. 21 hits? Okay. Both will hit.

So it's gonna be five plus six is 11 plus 12 is 23 points of damage over to blaster attacks. a blaster attacks. Thin, think, thunk. You hit the big guy? Yes. Oh yeah, you're right there, got it.

You fire out these blasts at the ship, and they land solidly. And as they crash into the hull, it almost looks like the blaster energy kind of just moves off of its sheening surface. I'm about to tell them base maneuver d's, you know what I mean? That's the end of my turn.

The T-Rex ship, will move and turn. He struggles to turn. He has to make a strength or dexating. I think he struggles to turn, though, because it's like. Yeah, he can't really like reach the controls. Yeah, it takes him really on time to a cage turn. He needs to crumple in this fucking thing.

Yeah, let's get him out of here. That's not enough. I think 15 is the same. No, he dies instantly. I think that barely passes. Bullshit. Dread against the dread against the dread against the .

It will move strongly against the current of the gravitational pole, and he will shift around. Like this one? He basically wants to go exactly in the opposite direction, so whatever he needs to do together. So like around this, so like one, two, three, what's the speed? 50. So he's like here. Good enough for me. Ish.

Oh. Good enough. Hey. She's in shadow over him. Cavier will. Oh, is that all he's doing? Okay. Yeah, she's moving, I guess.

For right now. Oh, oh. I have a feeling things are about to get out of control. I have to move to start or I can shoot and then move. You have to move forward. Forward one. Okay. Go ahead, move me forward one towards number.

doesn't matter. So that's six. All right. I'm going to fire my blasters directly at it. Hopefully hit it this time. Here. Number six is going to go downtown. Downtown.

That is a 20 and a 19. Do you ever think this is going to end? I don't know. They won't stop swarming from their pyramid ship. 20 and a 19. And then it's war. Both. Who are you saying?

Oh, sorry. The little. Ship is 18 AC. Sorry, I forgot about that. Okay. And then it's, it was it to... D6s plus seven, right? Okay. Two D6s is... Let's roll that sucker. It's a six plus seven is 13 points of damage and it is also affected by the sands of time now. Oh good. So on its next turn it takes two D's 26 damage. That's cool. Oh, I'm sorry. 2D8 is the damage for the blasters. My apologies. Let's run that back real quick. Do you get your all? Run that back. 12. Actually that's funny. Oh, plus 7. 19. So 19 points of damage to that one and it's now affected by the sand of time.

You fire out that same condensed blast of Vrons sand energy as it launches in to this show. ship. You have to finish your movement. Yep. I'm going to turn. You have a turn. Left. Yep. So that's one, and then that's two, three, four, and then five. And then from here

I'm actually, oh, actually, that doesn't matter. Sorry. Don't worry. I'm going to be able to grab you and throw you like a fireball. Okay, I'm going to cast. Can I still cast Sandstorm or is that it's either an action or that is that right or does I use it once per combat and it permeates around it but I don't know since I've

already attacked can I now cast it or do I have to cast it instead of attack I believe it's in action cool I believe you do have to use your action to activate it all right I am going to end my turn and where is number one right here yeah facing dandy right behind all everybody yeah it's got it in our sights. Oh, my butt. Number one will fly directly into LaBouche. The Fool. Yeah, yep, call this. Can I twist? You may? Yeah. Unless he dreads against the DM. I mean, you are resistant. You're 11. 11. This thing's gonna like detonate or someone. It's gonna TN. This, uh, this ship flukes.

flies into you and collides. And upon hitting you, it explodes. Oh. That's really bad. Yeah. Especially if it's gonna be like AOE here. Around the bludgeoning damage. We gotta take out the main ship here.

You take 17 points of explosion damage. Not physical damage. Everyone in the vicinity. Is that physical damage? So that would be dandy and, uh, dandy and fire yeah fire damage I'm resistant to physical style damage thank you you for sure I would call it fire yeah I would call it fire is physical explosion damage I'm just trying to get ruling here yeah what he's saying is no no full damage

yeah I said that's elemental and to both the both of you yeah yeah we get it yeah oh yeah I'm already damn oh that's not good I don't I don't feel good about the same longer. Okay, I'm coming out. It's hot. Final might. As I pull out, I'm going to screech again. Take it.

I'm screeching. I'm screeching my primal. Oh, yeah. Nice. That's really good. Screech. And these two will have disadvantage and cannot take reactions. Let's go.

That's huge. One, two, three, four. I'm going to shoot out. to the big guy, the magma shots. And yeah. Is still a disadvantage? No, not a disadvantage anymore. Ooh, natural 20.

Whoa! Oh, you got two shots too. I had two shots. So for this, it's plus six, eight plus six is 14 plus, oh, 14 plus 18. 14 plus 18. I can't do map right now. Wow. 32.

32 damage. Holy. To the big God. That was crazy lucky. And then I have to finish. So I did one, two, three, four, five, six. Nice, nice. Two, right?

Yep. Two. Disadvantage. Where? It just hasn't moved for a very long time. Okay. Which one's two? Oh, actually they're both at distance.

Two needs to roll a strength saving throw before it gets ripped a piece. No. Two's... Was it here? Oh, no, no, no. It was down here. Four does. Oh, four does.

Yeah. It's here. So actually, you speed up running into it. So you would have to move an extra one more. Dandy. Yeah. There. There?

Yeah. Because of that you get ripped by the... the gravity. Oh, gravity's on four. Two's going to run into Dandy then. That's fine. Two will do everything that it can to not run into Dandy. It's facing four.

It's facing four, so it's going to hit four. It's going to hit four. It explode? Yeah. And then they're just going to show back up again. We got to take it. We've got to take this guy out. Yeah.

Every single one of these, even though it's the dinosaur lead, every other one is piloted bike. Shit, though. This mercenaries. I choose to quit the kids. They will collide. They won't explode.

And, and... Oh, two. Oh, that's on top of dandy. That's how, at least we... Oh. Oh. Swoon.

Pinball style. Athletics. Oh my gosh, just a D20? Yeah. Do you add me thick? Yeah, plus eight. Okay, got it. Fee-hoo, that is 14.

Yeah, a natural one. Nice. Oh, good. It takes the damage, and it's now, now what's, roll another scatter. Another scatter. Three. So if it was starting here, technically,

because it's in here, then one, two, two, three. That's in front of the day. This thing is just being hung up around. Where? So it would be minus 20 movement. Yeah. One, two, three.

No, it's only done. It's only done. It's only moved once, really. Technically because it's gotten bounced twice. But every time it hits and bounce, it loses time. Yeah, that's right. That's right. So one, two, three.

Yeah, okay. 30. Four. And which one's that? Let me just make sure I'm in two. Two? Okay, no. Okay. No.

Can I get to Rett? Five. You get right behind right, yeah. Yeah, not quite in my ear. Yeah. I'm, yeah. I'll get you right there. It will turn.

Is that the aft? Yeah. Oh, yeah. It will turn and detonate. Oh, my God. It's not good. Right in my trench. No, careful with that day.

No, not good. Are these piloted by end? By anything? Yep. Each one is piloted by a Raptor Sorian. Oh my god. And they're hired for ice cream. You take 18 points. You take 18 points of fight.

Oh, wow. He's gone now? Explodes. It's gone? Yeah. For now. Tell my daughter, Porsche, to finish her master's. When it says one use per combat, that means one use per combat.

That means one use. the entire time. Furiccom. I just like Raptors. And I believe it's two chuckles. Me? Raptors 100% percent. Did you know?

You went out. Yeah. Chuckles. Oh gosh. You guys just blowing up. What the heck's going on? We got to take down the big guy? Uh, one, two.

You're in my aft cone. If I'm going to, my flowers are going to, uh, or one flower. or one flower, and I'm doing this attack twice. For my aftone. Can you just target your aft? I'm gonna use twist, because we can't, we can't waste the damage.

They can't waste the damage. No, we gotta finish the guy off this. Easy. Lowes is a 23. 23 to death line hits? Yeah, we know 21 hit. Great, great, great. So the first one, I'll just do total.

That is 14 plus 3 is 17. 17, and then 14 plus 5 is 19. So 17 plus 19. Whatever that is. 36. 36, on the big guy. Pse. Goodness.

And then you have a turn left. I have a turn? Yeah. Is that gravity still? So you're probably gaining speed, right? Oh. I just don't know where it is. The problem.

It is right here. I think that's where I am, right? Well, and so it would have pulled you in, so you have to move like two more. Oh, it doubles your speed. You're the remainder of your speed. Slingshots you out. Bam, okay. And then I'm turning this way.

I'm going to just put this here for the black hole. Perfect now. Okay. Oh, absolutely perfect for it. Three. Oh, it's actually. Three is facing me. Be gentle.

He will careen into your ship. I said gentle. Alright. I'll do it. Oh no. Is there any way for the detonation to miss or it's just he, they, there's no athletics, they just detonate. If they hit your ship, they detonate? Yeah.

You take the damage. You'll take 15 points of fire damage. And LaBouche. You and LaBouche. No save? No save. I guess by sacrificing their lie. It's like an electrode.

It just does the damage. It does the damage. What is normal damage? normal damage. But not in this case. This is fire damage. This is not normal damage. Labouche.

I will move forward to, or I'll move forward one. Because I have to. You facing this way? No, I was facing. This way. One? I guess I will use my juicers to choose. What?

What? Oh my God. Both days. I've got a juicing for Christmas. Which means that I'm going to do 4010. God. Oh, good.

The other, yeah, close. Ooh. Could be worse. Could be better. 13, 16. 21. 30 points of damage exactly. Damn, okay.

To who. Two, number four. Oh, thank goodness. He's trying to hit the self-destruct. I would like to think that I actually come upon him, and, like, I grabbed this ship briefly, but I'm, like, focused now on the larger ship, so all I do is just, like, reach in and grab through the hall and pull out of a, like, screaming tiny dino-man, and then just, like, whip him behind me, like, a piece of trash out of his face, and then launch myself off from that thing.

Can I use this fucking black hole to give myself some extra, like... Absolutely. Yeah, 100%. So hold on. So how much movement do you have? I just used one. One. Okay. So I have three more.

One, two, three, four. So you go in here, you spend one, but it doubles the rest of your movement. Yeah. Oh, that's cool. So I have four left. You have four left. You have three shot by it

and like turn away from it. Or like... One, two, three, four. Can I trigger a collision on that? That's how we've been doing it, which I think is fine. Huh? Can you trigger?

There's new save to get out. Is that? I'm going to use my bonus action to do, you just start your turn to make the save. To do, uh, to make, yeah, I'm going to use my bonus action to get, uh, 21. Yep. Sounds good, so I'm going to do two-de-six of the bludgeoning damage as I reach into his aft hole and pull out a T-reck. Jesus.

Uh, 15 points of the bludgeoning to him, sir. Thank you. And then you're going to eat yourself into his person, right? Um, if I, if I, If I have any movement left, I will ram into him. You say 15 points? Yep, 15 points. And so with the remaining movement, you're out of movement.

Can you pull yourself with the... Yeah, no, no, no. If successful, I can pull myself to the target using no additional movement. Yeah. So I'm hoping that I'm grabbing onto him. I'm holding on. If he moves, I'm going to go with him.

I am going to monkey on with this motherfucker. Okay, that's fine. Four is gone. Yep. Four just died. Four is dead. Five and six are alive. So this is gone now. At least how we're ruling it during this session. And I will immediately go forward first. All right, buddy. Tell me what's going on. And I'm going to scan.

And so I need this AC, HP weapons. Yeah. ACE HP and potential weapons. You better hope he has like 500 points left. You better hope you're rated. Because we're all coming for that ass. AC. Yeah, that aft, we're coming for that ass.

So right this down. AC is 15. Okay. The weapons are Ruby Blaster Cannon. Okay. It's main weapon. It's HP produces a number you don't understand. Yeah.

It's good for him. Not bad for us at all. He needs that. What kind of a number is 11D? I'm getting 10ish. Altering reality, reality altering missiles for it. He's got some sort of a power drill that breaks reality.

He's... Power level. It's over 9,000. What? 9,000, his whole integrity is off the charts. That's impossible. I don't understand! And I'm going to go, p-too, and use my,

so that was my first attack, was the scan, my second attack, will just be a normal ether blast. I can't stop it! I'm gonna use one twist. I'm not real, boomers, remember the train level? Two fives. It was meant to B, I miss. Okay, you fire those blasts at the ship and they soar,

maybe with potential care not to land on the l'oosh who is strapped onto the top now. They soar just beyond him. And it is number five's turn. Top corner. We do with six, too. So we need to work them into the position. Okay, I'll just go five and then six.

Perfect. Five will fly at Kavir, six will fly at Pike. Six to society wants to go home. Both, if they can get there, will fly. And if they can collide, they will death. Yeah, he can. Yeah, they're both. I would like to go back to ship.

I would like to dodge. 17 points of fire damage for You said if he can collide with him. Yeah, he can. Damn it. He's right there. I'm... Explo.

Roll very low for me, man. I'm gonna hit, hang on. 24 points of fire damage for flight. Oh shit. That's a lot. That was a lot. Are you up? Yeah, I'm good.

Okay. I'm at negative 12. My ship doesn't do well when it's things that auto hit. If I can do it. I have a much better chance of being okay. But my health fool is very much. I'm down. Just turn Kavir's upside down.

Yeah. He doesn't go back to the Rhapsody. Just turn it upside down. Oh, he's derelict. He's floating in his face. Oh, zzer. Sam is pouring into the cockpit. Um.

Kavir. Like. Hearing what Redd has told us. I'm gonna shout back into the comms. Yeah, well, I'm done holding back! And I'm gonna move 10, turn, 10, turn. And I'm gonna fire my solar flare cannon. Nice. One use per day.

I fire an arcing beam of flame and lightning, radiant that deals 5D12 to targets in a line that is 10 feet wide and 50 feet long. So just this absolute pillar of radiant solar flame will pierce, attempt to pierce through the hull of the ship, the ship like going right past LaBouche but it's not gonna head. Mike is taking an energy. That's right.

That's right. Yeah! Only the sun is out, maybe it's a sunny day and I'll have to charge that shit up. That's gonna be 14 for the first two rolls. Amazing. Plus another eight is 22. Okay. Plus another 10 is 32.

32 points of the 302. 32 points of the- this solar flare can and damage. And given that he is rock ground type, that is quadruple effective. That's right. So in these crystals and vessels, you fire out this pillar of flame and lightning as it courses

through the air striking through the hull of this ship. And as you blast this beam out, you'll hear him say, like flies to a dragon. and all the ships will spawn back onto the field. Sond of a god. Okay, I had to finish my movement. Um, here's just you take that. I don't want to look at that anymore.

Uh, I got to move. I did two movement, two, three. Oh no. They'll pour closer to the set, like four more. This is towards Andy? Yeah. No, fuck you, five. Yeah, there's Pike towards the end. Yeah, towards Andy.

I heard what you really meant. Exactly right. Yeah, I'm going to try to fly away from these things and cross over the middle and get absolutely crushed. That's my turn. I'm done. And I don't have any more solar flare cannon. Do I have a chance to use the comms back to what Pike just said? Yeah.

No, you stubborn jackass! We got it back to the Rhapsody. Yeah. That's all I have time for. The profit moves. forward one. And he's still holding on. The looser is holding on.

So they will not collide. Oh, no, that's backwards. Oh, sorry. Oh, he's going this way. Oh, no, no, no, no, he turned to do you're right, you're right now. No, yeah. He will go directly at Dandy. And if he needs to, he'll sprint.

He can turn a boost. He can probably make it. Well, either way, he can make it if he doesn't need a boost. but I it's gonna be his movement is just kind of walkie he gets there yeah he gets there I think he's gonna ram a motherfucker with another motherfucker at the very least start no he will bonus action grapple oh no and this is an athletics contest he's behind me I can't do anything I add twisted that's do I add eight or no it's just straight you add eight or no it's just straight uh you add eight I think

21. 26. Oh! As giant grappler arms extend out from the side of this ship and grab you by each wing holding you captive. No! We're all, we're just in a having an entanglement here. Number one, we'll go.

Which one's number one? Right here. Right there. We'll fly directly at Red. We'll fly in between Rhett and Chuckles. Yep. Yeah. Hit their button. He can like ram, right.

It's fine. I can't shake him! Yeah. Clever girl! That's what I was waiting for. You take 22 points of fire damage. Shoot! As they detonate.

Shoot, shoot! That was my first damage, but I'm really six. That's a present. I can't let you do that star. Well, because I can't redirect. I can't redirect shots. I can't redirect explosions. Yeah.

Dandy. What can I do be grappled? You may attempt to break free. Okay. Where's blast out? It is a, it would be another athletic contest. Or, yeah, if you choose, you can fire your magma blasts from your mouth and you can just continue to attack blasting him right in the face. I'll try to get out.

Okay. Ooh, 22. Natural 20. What? God damn it. He's rolling like hot fire. Holy shit. That's my action.

That was your action. When a bonus action screech so he has disadvantage. Still good. Yeah. And cannot roll reactions. He's like, what a disaster.

I'm looking in, I can see like troops running around on a pole. Yeah. Two. Can anybody heal Kavir? No. Oh God, two is right here. Just the rhapsody.

Well, two, will explode down. If it can get towards Rett and Chuckles, it will try. Oh, easy. Yeah, three, two, four, maybe not chuckles, but definitely, definitely, yeah, we can get to RET.

It will attempt to get to RET and detonate. Oh yeah, it certainly does. It certainly does. I was. 19 points of fire damage. Oh, God. As it would explore. Right over here.

How much? Sorry. 19 points. Oh, it's 30. Oh, fuck. Okay. Don't worry. Oh, I should have saved my pie.

Okay. You know, Chuck, I never did. Yeah. And you've never fucking. Oh boy. Juggles. She. Oh.

I am going to, I'm gonna listen to Tourette and say, we gotta get Kvinier, Kvier, do you come in? One, two, three, four. Wait, yeah. Five. and I'm just gonna try to blast this guy

because he has dandy. I can't do anything to help Cavier right now. Blast him. I'm just gonna blast him twice. Oh god. Do I hear any come? 19 and 16. Damage? No, no, 10. 19 and 16? Oh, but he's his ass.

His AC's 15. Oh, both hit anyway. Well, I'm gonna fish for the... Yeah, I'm gonna fish for the... Yeah, the natural point. Okay, now, so both head. You can hear comes. But your ship is just...

Yeah, your ship is like, describe, you know, like, it's cracked. You're like spinning, your thrusters are out. Your energy's at zero. Okay, I got it. 25 points of, 25 points of damage for my flowers. Does he get defected by your acid? I think he's affected. Yeah.

You blast out the flowers, both hit solidly this huge blasts encounters the whole of the ship. Three. All the way by LaBouche. By Kavir, sorry. It will go forward and see if it can get to Pike. Oh yeah, four, by Pike and LaBouche actually. Yeah, five. Yeah, for sure.

It turns completely yellow like in Gundam before it blows up. Oh, yeah. And all the lights and the lines go out. Do you do, do, do, do, do you, do you do. Does this also damage the profit? I mean, yes. Yes, it would. Yes, it does. Yes, it does.

Also damage the prophet. You would damage Dandy too, on the graphic. It looks like that right? No, no, your ship was by my gosh. 26 points of fire damage. Why, it's not dread. What? It's not dread.

Is it not dreaded? As the ship is coming in maneuvering and looking like it's going to detonate, I hear the message from Red come through about saying, no jackass. We have to get back to the Bab City. And I fire back into the mic. Listen, Rhett, he's got her.

We can't go back yet. I'm not going. And a hole rips in the side of the sparrow as all comms break. And pieces of the sparrow jettison out into space. And you just, the comm's cut off. You can no longer hear what I was saying. And then I'm down.

Holy Levine. They're like the side man from the Sayans song. Yeah. I just rewatch that. Oh my god. Oh. We're ace pilot. I scream briefly.

I attempt to rip this ship a new one. I am just straddling this thing. I am also like falling apart. I'm scorching the material that's holding my ship together. You can see like, like, like what would look like blood in space, like dripping ooze coming out, like this translucent green material,

but I am still slamming down and slamming down. I am going to put two juicers and my bonus action unstoppable approach on all of this. And I'm gonna need one twist. Would the thrusters, because he has to keep moving though, right? So is there anything to resolve it? Oh, I'm grappled. I actually think that as a part of your thing,

you don't have to keep moving. I think that's written on your sheet. Yeah, that's actually a good point. That makes sense. That's a good thing. That made a lot more sense. Yeah, yeah. You're not like flying through space.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because you don't have like boosters that are constantly, you're not flying a plane, you're like, you're a person. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm just, I'm just the suit that attempts to fight in the age of Ultron. Yeah, exactly right. And I, Robert,

the lowest I got was a 16. That's right. 16. A 16 away. Okay. That's going to be this amount of D-10s and this number of D-6s. And we're going to go 6, 11,

20, 26, 35, plus 16. 51. 51. 51. I do 51. of physical damage as I pulled the hull back. It's the scene from Ghost in the Shell when she's trying to actually lift the top

of the fucking turret off of the tape. It's just that. And then she fritz that off, and then I go in there. I'm throwing dino people out. I'm looking for the captain's quarters to see if I can find and crush this fucking T-Rex. You?

and I'll resolve this in turn. But before you start attacking, when you look where you had previously, we'll say that you'd see him piloting the ship, he is no longer in that seat. And as you slam and crash and punch into the hole and you're about to throw a final punch to crack open, it opens of its own accord.

And it is number four's turn. Over there. Four is, yeah. Going for Rett or I assume not. Probably right. Four will go for Rett? That's smart so it doesn't have. Roll low, roll low, roll low, roll low. He's rolled pretty good.

This is 17. 17 points of fire damage. Kind of roll that against me. I'm not complaining. For the old lines. Okay, 77 close. Rezellant. Seven is Oh man.

Would my would my ship have like a crane or anything on it? Like a like grabers or anything to kind of like jet ship? You have those little arms

with 2001 of space out of it? I think you would have kind of like well you have a giant cannon. Yeah I think you would have a crane arm maybe from like underneath so you could like salvage and... Yeah, salvage.

Yeah, I'm thinking this is like a heavily modified barge that I took from my time and gruntor and just threw cannons all over. They did a barge thump. Barge Simpson. Homey. Homey. Eat my shorts.

So I have to go here. I'm going to turn here. If I can try to collect the sparrow. with my crane. However, that works. As an action. As an action, I guess.

I would say, oh, you give me free object interaction. Nice. Do I see, with an acrobatics check. Finescing it. If you beat a 14, it's free. Okay. I can't see it

Oh man Cavier is down with two guys right next to him Can I add my space vehicle proficiency to that? Sure Okay 16 It's a free object interaction To pick up Pike

Nice Pike You okay buddy I'm going to grab It's a good depth thing The sword fit or the Pieces of the sparrow I would say you'd be able to get it

Like the cockpit and like the wings are gone, the nose is ripped off, the weapons are off. I mean, whatever the main cockpit. You can grab like the only remaining chunk that contains Pike and you just like grab it. And I'm going to boot, use my action to boost towards the Rhapsody. Which would be in which direction. This way. This way. This way.

So where did I go? I was here. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. And I'll say, LaBouche, you gotta grab Dandy if you can. Hank, try to. Do we have a, do the tractor beam on the Rhapsody or not? I don't have a word. I don't.

That's how we like ruled the like getting knocked out last time, but I don't, I don't know if it's auto-pilited back to the Rhapsody. Or however. You're basically StarFaut tools. I gotta be it off. Yeah. It was like, yeah, when you hit zero, you just flew back to the Rhapsody. I don't think you tried it.

They're saying something different is happening here, clearly. And it might be because of the detonations. I'm going to, in the, in the comms, I'll say. LaBouche, grab dandy. We've got to get back. That's it. Five and six. Five is near me.

I'm between five and six. Yeah. They will both fly towards chuckles. Oh shit. One, two, three, four, five, one. Oh. Oh. Oh, shit, sorry.

I'm just looking here. It's not getting any closer. Four, five. So, uh, oh, you're like in the middle of a bunch of squares. Yeah, I don't know where you were. So they can boost. Oh, yeah, because if they, Explosion doesn't count as an action.

If they can get to you, they will both get there. If they can both do it by boosting. Yes. Easily. Oh, no. This is very bad. In an ironic twist, one of the ships pulls out a tiny little forward and it goes, Ah, ooh.

Got it. 32 points of fire damage. I'm still alive. Oh, oh. Oh, wait. Shit. So that's good. Um.

Oh. Oh. Oh. Uh-oh. Seltzer water is spraying out. Ha! Oh. You shit, like, takes the silhouette of a human, like, bends out of the way.

Like, at cartoon. Yeah. Dodging the explosions. The little on your dash is frowning. Yeah. Oh, yeah. LaBouche. As you wail.

It's really. On the ship, the hull opens, and you lean back for just a moment as slowly the prophet ascends out of it. He is wearing the same mantle of feathers with a gemmed necklace around him now. He has leathers that wrap about his legs, but otherwise unclothed. At his side, he has a giant two-faced Ruby Gem mall. He looks at you on the ship and he says, You still don't understand. We are not the same.

And he'll strike at you with the mall. With the mall? That's the bad moose bad assed ice he's ever happened with his campaign. He's going to send him a fly. That is? He's gonna fucking send you in the shadow really? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I don't think he has time to do this.

I fucking grabbed his tiny little ass and crush him like a can. You can actually see that as he rises from the ship, he is a little bit bigger than you in your armor. Damn. Okay. I think to myself for a moment, trying to think of something bad ass to say. We're a non-profit organization.

Damn. Not good enough, LaBouche, come! You still all, you're like, you're like, you can't forget it. You take 22 points of bludgeoning damage. That knocks me out. I'll take it on the bottom of the chin of my hulking armor,

and I just, from the front of the ship, floating out in the space suddenly, completely above it. He, as he grabs the mall, it glows with that same Ruby light. He swings it up as... He swings it up. If it was physical damage, I had 10 hit points left,

it would have been 11. It was physical damage, yeah. He swings it up as the ruby light of the mall crashes into your chin. You float back from the ship. powerless in the sea of space. He walks forward slowly, finishing his movement along the hall of his own ship

until he gets to the front to where Dandy is held within the arms of the ship. He reaches out with the mall and he points it towards Dandy. The ruby light of the Dandy. gems begins to resonate. You shift back from your tyrodactyl form. You shift into your normal form. The ruby light of the mall begins to resonate with you. You glow with an awesome power and it

begins to turn your form ruby red. No. As your shape begins to change once again, you grow a darkened crown. A long black cloak of thorns emanates from your shoulders as it stretches off behind you. And he says, I came to awaken the archon of destruction so that the Sorian race could reclaim the stars. I have regained consciousness at this point in time to see Labush's form in the ship coming at me and seeing what's happening with Dandy. And I quickly look to see if I can see

if the Bush is conscious still. And I think I'm just derelict. Having disabled the arms, I've like suctioned in and whatnot, but the armored, the normal armor, Labouche is still in the chest looking around frustrated trying to decide what his next movie is going to be. So I catch eyes with Lubbush and without saying anything he can tell that something drastic's about to happen and I take the hourglass and I rip it open and until now you've only seen me use a fraction of the sand in it and so I rip it open my hair blows out. Two giant dials appear behind me. They're bronze in color, a clock of sorts.

You hear, even in space, you can hear this. The tattoo's glowing. I pull my arms back and move, and you hear me, in a language that none of you understand. Dashthoa zaman. Zen nigiro ham shurummi Konan, and then... As you watch Kavir do this, erupting from his...

form like a cascade, a terrible tidal wave of sand. Seven enormous, 12 enormous, almost like hydra heads, cascade towards dandy as the energies swirl and creep and reach out and they blast towards the ship. As they get there, attempting to turn back the sands of time to prevent the change of dandy. As they strike you and the prophet, for a moment, he is stunned. For a moment, the red energy is fallen back to the bronze of the sands until the ticking, and you hear the words, time runs out for us all, and the red energy snaps back. severe in my form with the crown and the cave and I say, you meddle with powers you do not understand, but I do.

Erupting back along the strands of sand, they fracture and they shake and they fall apart. As tendrils of ruby energy erupt from Dandy's form, they meet you as they battle back at you. shattering the dial at your back. The archon is awoken, the insects to the swarm. And the prophet and dandy fly away. Towards the temple ship, you watch as they board,

as they turn back, you see them look out at you. One final time, as the platform of the temple ship rises up, rises up and they disappear. Six more ships spawn on the field and they head towards everyone. One final approach. They fly in each member of the swarm, seeking your ships as you attempt to flee, as you are derelict in the wastelands of space. They are but moments from you. when suddenly they explode into roses. The temple disappears and quiet returns to space. Yes, and I'm gonna be slowly kind of working my way.

I have Pike. I'm gonna hopefully meet Hank in the hangar bay while the Rhapsody comes to try to collect the wreckage of everyone that's left. The Rhapsody spins around in its own battle with members of the Swans warm. As you look out, you see the shattered wreckage of probably 90 ships that the Rhapsody was taking on itself as just shrapnel cascades through the air. It swoops around

and Hank pulls up extending the hanger to you as everyone who tries moves into the bay with the exception of Kavir. I would, with my ship still going, I would see LaBouche still like Coms are gone. My calls are gone. He's fine. And I see the ruby blast that Kavir's ship took. And so I'm going to just scuttle on over to where I think the ship was of any kind of wreckage. I'm going to try to find Kavir.

He left us. Kavir, are you okay? What? You find him. In the wreckage of the echo, you feel like you can tow him back to the Rhapsody. I will, a large, gloved hand if I can do it. if I can do this, would basically hopefully be able to grab Kavir and then grab Labouche and pull them back slowly.

You tug along, slowly but with great purpose, as you bring your fallen comrades Labouche and Kavir back to the bay of the Rhapsody. You dock in the hangar bay. Come on, we need medic, I think we need a medic. I'm okay. Are you guys okay? You downed off. The second that you would have gotten my, the wreckage,

the remaining little bits of my cockpit that are now in the ship, I would have tried to loose myself and get it open. And I'd probably stumble out and I'd be pretty beat up. And I'd grab my side and I'd say, uh, nah, what the hell was that? Why? Why? I'm fine.

Check on Kavir. I'd be running down the game plank. as you're getting out. Are you sure you're okay? Get the fuck over here and I grab you and I stick you with a large sort of med pack with a sharp needle casting cure wounds. I'm fine, but they got her.

They took her. I couldn't stop them. There's nothing we can fucking do about that. We promised her. We promised her that nothing would happen. I know we promised her, Ty. I know we did. Damn it!

Can we hear? Can you fix them? Fix them. And so there'll be a large hand that'll gently... Are you coming back to that? I think I've probably come back and you'll see the clown car very slowly puttering.

Just dragging the cracked, derogic, um, uh, Mac suit of a of Labouche and dragging him in and probably maybe using the motion to kind of throw him into the hangar and then very gently taking the large,

gloved cartoon Bugs Bunny-like hand, I guess with four fingers, gently holding Cavier and placing him down as I will try to very softly drop Cavier onto the deck of the floor of the hangar as I will then go to my docking station and the hand will retract, both hands will retract as I land and slot in,

and I'll try to basically press all the buttons, and there's all sorts of fizzing as I'm trying to bang and get the hatch open on the saucer. What the fuck happened? I wanna run up to Kavir if I can. I'll manually force the chest plate open, but I don't wait to get my boots and my gauntlets and my chest plates, my head,

helmet through, at the moment that there's a crease, you will see the ooze that I am, and my eyes forcibly, amorphably push it out and through and juice it down, and then without the structure of my armor being what it is, just sort of slot forward and start to race over towards the direction where I think of here is. You do so.

Anyone who would be heading there can get to the echo. Rhett, you're able to punch, kick, slam on the hall, and click open the cockpit. And inside, you would be the first to see Kavir. He looks 30 years older than you remember seeing him when he entered the ship. And he coughs. He doesn't cough up blood, but sand. Oh no. What did you do?

I pull him out if I can and get him on the ground. You do? Can you speak? Are you okay? And you'd be able to get there at this point? Cavier, what did you do? I had to try. I had to try and stop it. You thought me you would never use this gift.

I had no other choice. Everyone was in danger, the universe in danger. What in the hell? You'll see one of the larger sort of tools switched to a huge needle and basically pierce cavier in the chest. And I'm gonna try to use Spear the Dying to try to stop this in some way,

knowing that this is probably way beyond the medical or healing nature of ether. I'll finally be able to wrench the dome off of the saucer and I'll leap into the air and a little red balloon. I'll try to basically coast over to close the distance and just stand over and see Rhett just trying all of his machines on Kibir and just take a step back, feeling completely helpless,

because I'm gonna like very clearly be hesitating as I see he's surrounded by Labuche and Rep. Is he okay? What a spare the dying do? Buh, ba-ba. Oh no, it's reloading. D&D&D Beyond, folks. Uh, spells.

I touch a living creature that has zero hit points, the creature becomes stable. The spell has no effect on undead or constructs. That's all it says. You pierce your needle into Kavir's chest, and it sinks in, and you pump in the ether. And for a brief moment, moment, Rhett, you hear the ticking of a clock.

Oh, that's... Talk. And it's at that moment that from the needle point, Kavir's chest begins to cave in as he is beginning to turn to dust. No. If he just stepped back. Cam here, don't go. Runs out for all of us, my friend.

Make the most of yours. I've enjoyed every second with you. I can't go through this without you, please. You can. You can. You've learned so much. You're the best. You taught me how to speak.

You taught me how about the world. And you disappeared into sand. As you were cast away into the endless void of space. And that is rolling in the session. Damn. That was heavy. These for a little while. Wow. LeBouche will repeat what he repeated in common this time.

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