Legends of Avantris - Stardust Rhapsody: Overture | Ep. 4 | Stone Temple Pilot

Episode Date: June 28, 2024

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Hey everybody, welcome to Legends of Aventriff. I'm chuckled in space, and you're listening to Star Dux Rhapsody. Here's what happened last time. A job is a job. We don't need to get wrapped up in anything that doesn't concern us. Solid gold-plated space station that spins like a top. As long as you have the bounty. If you do not, you will be killed.

If we can all keep it together, we might actually pull. this off and you enter into Elysium. I believe the jobs was for 50,000. It was for 50,000 but you docked in my hangar. Somebody opted for premium super repairs inside. Oh. How about this? How about I offer you another job? And I'll double the reward. Somebody took something from me and I won it back. But this one, I want alive. It was, it looks almost like a planet covered in ash. You are hit with a blast of snow. and cold. Oh shit.

It's something kind of spooky monster or something coming. You start to feel the ground tremble. Two massive snowy land sharks erupt out in a massive open jaw motion. You're firing off desperate blasts of solar rays. Twelve black penguins slut down the hill and crash into the side of the land shark and knock it off the cliff face. Each one of you will take a penguin, the motion for you to get behind one, and invite you to go penguin sledding. This is so fun.

Oh, so you made it, Rhapsody. Space. The infinite void can be crushingly cold in its darkest depths. Not half as cold is where the Rhapsody's latest bounty takes them, however. Provided once again by the boss, the party finds themselves on the trail of Rex Maxim, notorious treasure hunter. Trudging through the snow, land itself seemed to rose up and greet them.

Monstrous wolves, enormous predator, sharks, and penguins paralleled their journey. They now find themselves at the doorstep of a primal temple that feels as though it predates the planet itself. They pursue their prey within. They have no idea what truly awaits them inside. You shove.

and press and push. You push all your might into this door, and you fight through as it creaks and ekes and swings wide open. You pass through the threshold, and you see the smiling visage, the orange leading into red of streaming hair, in a hologram that stands in front of you.

You see Rex Maxim, the light gray duster, the white hat portrayed his smiling face. Hello, Rhapsody. If you've come from me, you might as well turn back around. You'll never catch Rex Maxim. And he swipes his hand across the brim of his hat. And he winks and smiles, and the corner of his mouth catches a glint every here and there.

And as you walk in, I need everyone to roll a perception check. And you are all dreaded. Oh, dumb, a long boy. Another opportunity for disappointment. What's the lowest? Oh, man, I got a 19. Oh, I rolled 16 and 17, my God. He said perception. Perception.

Disadvantage? 23. Everyone is dreaded. So what is that? This is a disadvantage. 20 is where you a disadvantage? Take that, Brett. Okay, okay.

12. Lucky number 13. What did you get, Andy? 13. I got 13. As you enter into this temple, it is absolutely enormous. You glance up and the ceiling extends.

You feel like you can almost not even see where it ends. It extends so high above you. This is a grand entryway. It walks open. You see the jeering, smiling visage of wrecks at the top of a set of stairs that leads down, extending out beyond it a stone-like gray bridge that extends over a chasm that seems to fall

to unknown depths. At its far distant edge, you see a small jut of rock that comes out, just sitting in front of a oval cutout in the wall. But you also feel this immense pressure. You don't know what it is, where it comes from, or why here, but almost like the force it takes to breathe, to inhale, to fill your lungs is a battle. every breath you take.

You feel, for a moment, all of you feel very briefly an impending sense of dread. Oh, boy. All of us. After having Rex just delivered his snappy one-liner, I will take a deep draw on my cigarette, finishing it. Throw it to the ground, stomp it out, and say, All right, Rex, give it up.

We all know you're not a real, cowboy, you're a trust fund kid. Come on. Just come talk to us and doesn't have to be the hard way. As you address the hologram, it says once again, ha ha, Rhapsody.

If you've come from me, turn around. Because nobody captures Rex Maxim. That may be so, but clown gun! As I shoot my clown gun in cast hideous laughter, on the hologram.

Okay. How does that work? It fails because it's not a creature. Oh, yeah. Okay. Well, it's not a creature. So you cast, you pull out, you cast clown gun, or you cast hideous laughter. The clown gun, you draw your laser pistol, you pull, and it goes, bang! And it shoots out a little flag, or whatever it shoots out. and it seems to just sail through the,

what do you call twin dinathores, a parodactyl. That's pretty good. It's good. I'll look to it and I'll say, I should have known. And then I'll kind of turn to the cave and I'll say, come on, Rex, you couldn't have gone too far, you don't have to do this, you're in way over your head,

you don't know what you're dealing with. Clearly he had time to prepare for us. Yeah. Anyone else feel that, or is that just me? He left his bike outside, so I don't imagine he's anywhere else. He has to be hiding. You mean this feeling of being under pressure, pushing down on me, pushing down on you?

Yeah. That's pretty good. If I gave out inspiration, I'm certain I would earn. I'm a certain point of view. That's exactly right. Yeah. Oh. Oh, da, da, da.

I feel it too. Do-de-do. That's okay. A hologram. Gosh. I can't believe all of us were fooled by it. Yes, all of us. Yeah.

Is there a signal coming from it? Can we track it? Maybe we can figure out where he is? Or is it just? Please record it. I mean, I'll take a look. I want to, I guess, investigate whatever device was emitting this hologram. Roll, you walk up to it, and you can see it.

The visage of wrecks protrudes. The light emanates from a small disc on the ground. Three metallic legs spring out and clamp into the ground. Roll a tech investigation check adding your proficiency, and you are dreaded. Are you sure you want to do that? Yeah. Oh, for the tech thing? Yeah.

Oh, yeah, that's one. Yeah. You deserve it. 13. Plus 20. Yeah. Problem investigation? 46.

Oh, my God. Where is it? Did you say the oval thing? What's the oval thing? Is that where Brex is being in? In the far distance, you see a small stone jut, like, jut out. That's what I'm fixed on.

And they're behind it almost like an oval cutout in the back of the wall. And there's also a plaque that says, make sure you drink your oval thing. 27. Oval thing, please. All right. You're reminded the proficiency. Oh, jeez.

Oh, geez. 14, or 10 provisions. How do you approach this? The disc. The disc, the skittering holograph. In terms of how do I like walk up to it? Yeah. Oh, no.

I would just, I wouldn't think twice about it. I would just sort of like kneel down and grab it. Perfect. Anybody near you? Nope. Nope. I would walk up with it. Look, all right, fine.

I would walk up with it, but be like, look at this copy. I think I'm actually like a little bit deeper into this space fixed on that oval thing. So you may have moved just right past the holograms. You'd be pretty close. I don't give about the hologram. Okay, you're pretty close.

Yeah, all right. So you walk up and you lift and you lift and grab the hologram. And you will say extending from your hand, there's a little, the same implement you used to connect into the computer system on the meteor you can use to plug into this hologram. And with whatever the hell you just rolled,

immediately, like you sink into this thing, like it's your freaking job, because it is. And you know a couple of things. You know that it is sending a shortwave signal to Rex, who seems to be about 15 stories beneath you. Whoa. It is also sending a shortwave signal outside, you would assume to his speeder,

and it is two seconds away from detonating. Wow. The disc is or the speeder is? The disc is. Get back! And I'm gonna try to like knock the pike back as far as I can, and I guess like turn my back. I need you, you, and you to roll a deck save. This guy's a, dang, I thought we were having fun.

Now he's making it like, trying to kill us. You said, you're dreaded. And you're dreaded. That means I roll three things. You realize that. I'm pretty good. No, not on a save throw. Not on a save throw, you're good.

Only an ability check. Come on. Oh, I think Jane was wrong. Okay, ability, got it. Ooh, ho. My lowest is a 15. That's a 23. Oh, my.

18. 18. I move. Oh, wow. I move like water. On the dreads, everybody's. I move like water and as soon as he gives me the warning, I'm like out of the way and I like tumble and tuck and dive and I'm just sitting on a number box. 16. That would be horribly unfortunate. We all roll well. Nice job. Yeah, two for eight.

So with Rex, with Rett's connection to tech, not only do you get a little bit of heads up warning that disconnect is about to go off, but you're able to add two seconds to the counter. You pump it up just a little bit and give it a quick throw up in the air. The blast comes down. You're knocked down a little bit. Danny catches you off guard. Everyone passes, so you'll just take half damage, we'll say six points of blasting damage. Six points? And that's already halved.

That is the half, that is the half. And then with the push, the additional push, from Rhett, you kind of, you, you easily, acrobatically almost move back on one hand, the other holding your cigarette in your mouth, as you do kind of like a back flip cartwheel to move back a couple of feet. I'm like, oh, yeah. You just kind of take the blast.

Hey, everybody all right? Yeah, are you okay? Oh, did I do that? No, it was Rex. This guy's a maniac. All right. This fucker's dead. Not dead dead, but he's fucking trying to kill us.

It's good thing we did not mess with the speeder. I will reach my hand out to Rhett to try to help you, you know, reach out a hand to help you up. Yeah, no more messing around. We're taking this guy out. Isn't his whole thing being a cowboy? What's the very cowboy-like, like proximity minds from silver nose? I tried to tell you this guy's a total poser.

Okay? His theme's all over the place. Yeah, God. It's really like, it's kind of more like, and then, and then. Pick and see even stick with it like the rest of us, Rec. You all right? Yeah. I'm just like focused, not in, I don't even care.

What is this plate dandy? I don't know, but I really would like to go up to that oval thing. Just be careful. We don't know what else Rex is down here. Let me, uh, guard you. Okay. I am not that scared that Rex can hurt me here. I'm gonna walk towards the oval thing.

Wait, hold on. Oh. Just be careful, all right? Okay. There may be more traps. If this fucker is used to sneaking around tombs in ancient places, you never know what's slurking around the corner.

Are there any gems or anything on the wall that I can notice? Roll a perception check and you are dreaded. And perception is ability, right? Yeah. So that's three. Yeah, so that's three. Got it.

Ooh. Oh. That's okay. That's okay. That's decent. 12. It's not bad at all. Given the circumstances.

All things consider. As you begin to walk forward, you go down the steps. There's a long, medium grayish stone. platform that you step and level out on that extends this bridge to the other side of this great chasm. As you look around, you can see it on the walls throughout this room, you see once again etched

a series of bass reliefs. Though it is still incredibly cold in here, and the ice has reclaimed a lot of it. You can see throughout certain depictions, that there are within the walls in certain spaces inlaid gems. You can see it begins with a similar race of ancient aliens that look very much like what was on the door out front. Collection of them, different styles.

Some look like T-seratops, T-Rexes, stegosaurus, different sizes, shapes, but they're just a little more primal than anything any of you have encountered before. It then goes on to depict what seems to be a struggle for survival against the land until they discover, and this is where you see inlaid a gem in the wall.

And it's at that point, they seem to have it revered, uplifted, above them. And it's at that point that they are then depicted as strong, upright. They're now kind of like, not in like regal garb, but they carry tools, weapons, power. They've evolved throughout the depiction. There's one final scene, and the ice has. overtaken a lot of it, but you see them all kneeling and looking up. But what they're looking at has been overcome. It's been overcome by ice? By ice. So it's just covered,

so maybe it's still there. Do the gems look familiar? Like maybe something that's on my body? You could possibly draw that parallel. I'm gonna touch the gems like on my head and body chest and I'm gonna cast I'm gonna cast lesser restoration on myself to see if that helps me like with the feeling of pressure or any of the stuff that I'm feeling so that's a condition afflicting heals a condition or what disease or condition afflicting myself I don't know if that As you cast that, your gems start to glow and sparkle. The familiar stardust starts to almost hum around your body.

You cast this spell, hoping to cleanse whatever is afflicting you, all of you. And as you do this, your eyes turn white. And for a moment, you imagine yourself at the body. of the ocean, the crushing pressure of the bottom of the sea for a split second, surrounded in the darkest depths, no life anywhere, choking, gasping for air that could never come. You can't tell which way is up, down, you can see no light.

For a split second as you attempt to cleanse this from yourself. I'm gonna, maybe like let I'm gonna just let out like a moan that's that I would hope would be audible from everyone I'm like close enough to everyone that I'm like letting out a moan I don't want to do that but um oh this is it mason is yeah what he said this is an anime And I'm going to communicate that to the rest of people. I'm going to say, you guys, I think that what we're feeling is maybe what the people here felt. It felt as though I just saw and felt as though I was at the bottom of the ocean. But I still feel the pressure, even though I tried to get rid of it with my powers. But I cannot get rid of it.

And it's possible that's what the people who once lived here, maybe the people in the pictures had experienced. I did not know. How could we, how could they have experiences under the ocean? And as this is not the ocean, it is frozen. In the glimpse that I had when we were still on the Stardust Rhapsody, what was the land like? Was it with all the dead people? I didn't ask you that.

Hmm, cool. What was the condition? Uh, you thinking back, you would feel as though the air was cold, but there was no snow. It was solid ground, it was like dirt ground at the time. I think that this planet has undergone climate change. Like, it's an ice age now, but it wasn't always this way. You think that this could have once been a water planet? Yes. Possibly these people drowned?

I don't know. When she was casted, was there any, the gems on the wall were they reacting at all? Or the alternate, you're. Roll a perception check, and you're dreaded. It feels good. Doesn't it feel good? Roll higher. Do better.

Wow. Damn. You think maybe you've been pretty focused on kind of what's going on in your immediate vicinity. This has all been pretty unusual, pretty strange. And you still feel not necessarily that impending dread, but there's a weight on your body. There's a weight on your soul. And you're focused here. But you think that maybe, maybe out of the corner of your eye you caught the faintest glint off the wall while she was casting.

but you wouldn't think nothing of it. Rex, you said Rex is below us? He's, oh yeah, I should mention that. He's 15 stories down. There's gotta be some sort of an elevator or something, right? There's a bridge that leads across. Who knows how the hell, there's some sort of chasm down there. Maybe he repelled or hovered down there.

What if he had his own pair of sticky squeaker? I can go do a little look you, Lou. 15 stories? I would be careful. If we're feeling pressure now, think about the pressure going down and how it could increase, like going to the bottom of an ocean.

The endless call of the void? The inevitability of entropy and oblivion. Jesus. Is that what awaits all of us, Dandy? Tuckles, you are scaring me. I'm scared. myself. Dandy has clearly some connection to what happened here. My eyes will like blank at different times. I think we got to get down. We got to follow him before we

mucked anything up. Well, does anybody have any way to protect us? I tried. I tried to protect myself and see if I could heal or not feel this pressure, but it didn't work. I think what's really in here is not something we can protect against. Ma Chuckles always called it the Jibli's. I got the Jibis Ghibli, Ghibli. I think it's more than that. Well, there it is. We don't know what

we need to protect ourselves from. But we have to go down at least. Do we try the ridge? Or see what's on the other side? No way but forward. I think we cross. Well, let's keep your eyes. option in mind. We're gonna have to go down either way.

Right. Okay. Maybe that's an easier way. One where we can stick together. And I think that we don't need to sneak. He already knows that we're coming, so left be quick. Yeah, if I see this guy, I'm knocking him on his ass. Me too. Oh, we can run across that. Everyone raise your weapons. Buh-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.

Why, you fool? We cross the bridge. You make your way across this bridge, and it extends out further than even you thought from the one side. It feels as though it is a long extended walk. You take step after step, after step, heroically moving. forward, but you just can't shake that feeling, that pressure that surrounds you. It sends a shiver down your spine. But you clear the bridge. Maybe for a moment you look over on either side to see what is on, what is under you. See if maybe you can catch a glimpse of Rex. Does anyone do that?

I have dark sight for 60 feet. That's why I'd like to. Yeah, absolutely. I would peer down over the side as well as we crossed. Both of you roll individual investigation checks, and you are dreading. Seven again. Can we twist a dread?

Nine. No, you can't twist a drug. Just negates it. Yeah. You, Rhett, you move to one side of the bridge, Kavir, the other. It's about the width of it is probably about 20 feet. It is a large elongated structure.

As you look over the edge down into the depths, everything, your vision disappears into mist, as it swirls and is consumed beneath you. But with those roles, you do feel that impending fear deepen, And you feel it in your, you feel it in your, in your core. You feel it as if something is reaching out from below. Both of you have the same vision for a moment of being at the crushing depths of the bottom of the ocean. Gasping for air.

No clue which way is up. No light pierces anywhere around you. In the darkest, darkest depths of the bottom of the ocean, you hear, you see, you sense nothing, but it senses you. And then you snap back. Please. Are you okay? What the fuck is this place? I don't know.

Did you? What did you see? Felt the fucking bottom of the ocean thing that Danny was talking about. Yeah. It's just dark. Focles sorens were messing with something dark. No doubt.

Red, come on now. Keep it together. You guys all right? That was terrifying. Wouldn't be surprised if they brought the doom on themselves. Do you think there's a chance that they dug too greedily and too deep and awakened and

ancient Smalrog of Shmorgoth? Is that anything that impossibility? I mean, we can rule it out. That's exactly what I'm fucking saying. Oh. Or something. Magic, I don't know. It's cursed?

I won't say that, but sure fucking feels like it. I do not know if it's cursed. But there's, we have to keep going. Agreed. This podcast is brought to you by our Patreon. Become a patron today at patreon.com slash legends of avatress and gain access to tons of exclusive purses. including a monthly movie night and a weekly Patreon exclusive campaign set on the high seas

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are you sure you're all right? No, I'm fine. I'm fine. Just reminds me of things. We're good. We're good. Let's keep going. I'll hold up the back here.

I feel takes de front. I'll be, I'll be buying a little bit. helping kind of look for potential more Rex traps because he's a bastard. I'm gonna be a little shaken up kind of like Rhett, so I'll actually be kind of towards the back with Red. Yeah, I'll keep my eyes open, just looking around, basically trying to be a shield. You move forward beyond the bridge to what is kind of a mirror image of the space you just came from. A slight set of stairs that raise up to this rocky outcropping

that flattens off at the top of it, almost like a small pyramid whose point at the top has been cut off. And just behind it, there is a large tubular structure and the base of it. made of the same stone, carved into it the sigil of the Tyrannosaurus Rex's head. There's like a cylinder on it?

It is an open cylinder. Oh, okay. Hmm. I'm gonna go up to it and touch it. Touch what? The cylinder, the drawing. drawing? Is there any stones around? If you

walk up to kind of like the pyramid section, that would be the first thing you'd encounter. It has a little bit of like a shaved off top. Yeah, it's like a, you know, it's about the size of a palm, the shaved off piece, but it's this rocky

like rise up. Kind of like a stalagmite, but less like juddier rocky, but it rises up to about good job for no one. Shoulder. Shoulder height, and the top is shaved off to be kind of flat. And just behind that, there's an open cylindrical space with an ornate bottom.

Does it look like the thing that shaved off was recently shaved off? Roll an investigation check. And you are dreaded. Dreaded, that's ability, so I'm double. You roll three. That's triple. Three. Triple, yeah. Sorry.

You're lesser rest, though, I think it drops a level of exhaustion. No, it's greater restoration, the drops exhaustion. That would have been good. I am. I got a two. What was the question? Does it look like it's been chopped off recently? You're no rockologist.

Wow. Though you're made a big year. I'm 16% wrong. Who are you, Rodeck and Brime? You look at this and it is, And it is flat and it is smooth and it is devoid of dust. But it is very impossible for you to tell whether or not it was cut off recently or if it was designed this way. I was thinking that maybe that guy, Rex, shaved this off.

What if there's a piece missing and that's what the boss is looking for? I don't know. It looks open. Do we think something was inside it? Maybe. Or there was something here, and he just snatched him his way down.

Hmm. He probably did. We can shoot to kill the guy now that he tried to blow us up, right? No. Not yet. Job's still alive. He does us. I keep forgetting that part.

Don't you have some sort of stunts, I think? I mean, I really don't know what this thing does half the time. I just point and pull the trigger and just whatever happens, happen. He just let it ride. Stuntz him life. Got to keep him alive for now, all right, Chuckles. I'll fit it to laugh.

Thank you. You're welcome. Is there any other either way out or way down in this one? Do you step into the cylinder? Oh, I thought it was the size of like a palm. That's the thing just in front of it. Oh, okay. So it looks like effectively what would be some kind of console or maybe like a pedestal.

And then just beyond it, there's a large cut open cylinder in the wall. And the base of that has the ornate carving of the Tyrannosaurus. It's an ancient elevator. Yeah, I mean he's gotta be right. That's what we're looking for. It seems like the only way down. Do we know how this works? Well, between you and Dandy, I feel like somebody's got to be able to figure it out. Or I can just give it a try.

I can tell you that if that's an elevator, it ain't mechanical, it's all dino magic. Dino magic. No offense. It is possible. And I'm not offended. I'm not offended. If anybody here's going to know how to work it, it's dandy. Let's step in.

Is it big enough for all of us? Oh, yeah. It's big enough for all of you. And then some. I'll go towards the actual carving. That's on the floor? It's on the floor. Yeah, you step into the structure.

And the second you enter it, as you step onto its platform, Ruby lines will ignite from its core. And they will start to do exactly that. They will start to pull out from its central edge as it spider webs out and fills in lines on the ground. It reaches the edges of the cylinder and they begin to climb the walls. And it almost purrs to life.

Are you seeing what I'm seeing? We better get on if that thing starts moving, let's go. Yeah, I would dash quick. Yeah. You all move on to this ancient elevator. A little bit. As an ancient levitating platform. And as you step onto it, it briefly kind of shimmies and shakes for a moment.

And you've never been on something like this before, but you understand that if you were to swipe your palm, just right in a downward format, right by the opening. You have the sense that... She just knows. It would close and it would take you down. It's innate?

I'm just going to walk up and be like... Almost like automatically. Yeah. Nice. Like Spock sitting in the seat of his ship and starting the hit classic film Star Trek. I'm kind of like eyes wide. You feel the knowledge come to you

as you swipe your hand down. You don't know why or from where. But you understand that this is exactly what you're meant to do to operate this. And the platform, you can feel it. As you become a little lighter, it starts to go down and down and down and descend.

Two stories, five stories. As we're starting to go down, I'm gonna mention to the group. Now it's probably not the best time to say this, but we don't know if Rex is alive. And if we go into water, hold your breath. Oh, you see this a possibility? He just stumbled in here and died instantly? Unprepared for the crushing horrors that await us down below?

Yes. Well, we lose a lot of money. And also be dead. Yes. I certainly hope that's not the experience because it was, even for that moment, awful. Also, I can't believe you did that, Dandy. Did you just know how to do that? know anything. You apparently

know something. You just use dino magic. You just cast the Tyrannosaurus hex. Listen, Chuckles, I'm definitely connected to this place somehow, but I do not know. And every single time I try to figure out

how I am connected to this place, I am more confused. Well, either way, nice job, is what Chuckles is trying to say. unless, of course, you've led us to our ultimate demise. I do not think so, but I do not know. Only one way to find out.

Speaking of this, I'm not making a joke. I swear I'm not making a joke, all right? What if that Rex Maxim's name, speaking of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, is deliberate? What if he's like, I don't know, descendant from dinosaurs? Or what if he's descended from these ancient thorians?

How can he become an elf, though, after that happens? Or he's just very weirdly into dinosaurs. Between you and me, I'm 99% sure that that's not even his real name. He just picked something that sounded cool. That's what I mean. It may be everything

is leading here, because he's like, oh, I'm going to steal all the dino magic and call myself Rex with two of it. It's probably the jackass. Although that is pretty cool. I suppose anything is possible. Oh. Well, he doesn't have actual dino tech here, does he?

I mean, no offense. I mean, that's, you know, technically your tech, right? I do not know. It does seem that way now. So then how would he work the elevator? Because of the name Rex. He also has dino magic. This is my...

theory. Wait, what if he's with someone? What if he's with someone that I maybe would know somehow? Huh. Or what if he just repelled down the ravine? Or flew. Or flew or hovered or descended in some way, right? Maybe we're the first ones that use this elevator in thousands of years. He might have the really new cool grav booth. Miss the list squeaking.

Yeah, they're really cool looking. I can't afford them or ever hope to fit into a pair. It looks so cool. Whatever happens, there was some sort of signal going down. And if it's down to his dead body, something he was wearing, so be it. It moved out on the 90,000 credits? I mean, at that point, it is what it is. well we still bring him back

maybe he has something on him who knows but we'll find out soon enough I guess before we step out I'm going to cast cosmic omen forgot I had it and so what that's going to look like is as we're like all talking about

this there's going to be the cosmic dust and colors that look very similar I believe to what is the ruby light coming out of the ground and cast cosmic omen just to And as you do it more so

than ever before, the dust that normally pulls from the ether from the stars themselves that usually will swirl around you, it is like a torrential sandstorm as you draw upon this power. The ruby light in this space from yourself and from the

room around you glows with an immense power. I don't know what that's spelled those though. Oh, I just rolled an even number So basically, I can, when a creature you can see within 30 feet of you is about to make an attack roll, a saving throw, or an ability check, you can use your reaction to roll a D6 and add that number to the total. So it's just support. So. That's awesome. Can you consult?

I think you might be able to actually do something to do wheel or woe if that's what you were trying to do. I'm wheeling. Because I rolled even, so I'm a wheeler now. If you're trying to, like, discern, like, get a vision or something. I don't know if that's what you were trying to do. I think there is a feature that does that. Maybe not. Maybe not, but yeah.

Oh, it's the ruby light. Anyway, the doors open and water plunges in and we'd round the way. It's been fun, everybody. Thanks for playing. The doors swing open and you were immediately met with a blast of cold. You find yourself at the top of this structure,

the elevator having taken you to your destination. walk out and there is a flat outcropping at the top of this in the center of this space similarly to what you found at the at the elevator two twin pedestals just separated by about an arm's length in the center of this platform above you a domed structure four pillars extend down and connect to the roof of this pyramid. And looking up, you see four pterodactyl creatures that rim around the edge. And in the center, it looks like something had been there,

but the center is blown out and is open to the sky. Wow. Look out, it's two paradactyl! So this does up? Oh, come on, that was pretty good. Thank you, Kabir. So the top is open. We can see the sky.

You're at the top of the pyramid. You're surrounded by open air. The snows swall around it. Yeah. Here, I thought we were going down. Well, I think we were hoping to go down. But nonetheless, here we are. Dandy, did you palm the pad correctly?

I do not know. Should I palm it again? Oh, no, you forgot to... We forgot to set it to inverted control. So maybe I needed to go like that. Y-axis inverted. Well, you think back to what you did and the feeling you had as it struck, and you know that your intention was to descend. And you know that as you did it, as you moved your palm in a downward motion,

you felt lighter, implying that the elevator was going down. Oh. The world? is upside down? Uh, are you insinuating that we were headed down, or we did head down? We did head down, but remember the feeling of the pressure, we didn't know what was up or down.

It was like we were in the ocean, so deep with so much pressure. So maybe our senses were off. That can't be right. And we really went up. I wanna run to the edge if I can. Oh, I don't slip. And look down,

to see if I can see the speeder, speeder bike. You do so. Roll a perception check and you are dreaded. For an investigation check, whichever, an investigation check. Totally used this wrong. That's a 16 and a 14. Okay, huge.

14 plus 8 is 22. You come to the precipice of this structure. You see down its side a massively, inverted slope of ice creans down to the snowy fields beneath you. You look out, and in the distance, with your equivalent of Hoth spectacles, you look out and you can see the black mass of the speeder at the base of the structure. This doesn't make any sense. Do we all feel lighter? Do we all feel lighter?

Like the pressure is relieved? No, no. Sorry, you never felt lighter as though the pressure. was not present and you feel it currently. You felt lighter implying that with the platform going down, you felt like... We felt the G-forces like lifting you as if the elevator was descending. But you still very much feel the pressure of just this space. Alright, give it to a straight, right? What is it? I mean, the speeder's right there. This doesn't make any sense. Although this This is the top of the structure.

Is there any connection to the shaved flat thing on top of the rocky stalagmite thing? It's like all representation of this temple. What? There's the platforms. As you look at that central structure with the two kind of shaved pedestals out, you notice that above them,

there seem to be small inlays. And this is a relatively, This section is it's icy all around but more towards the edges, not in this space. And you can see familiar lines from the floating platform that brought you here, that

run throughout the pyramid. Should I make a quick perimeter check? Sure. Just to see if there's any, like, balcony or anything like that. Might as well. Okay.

And I just completely walk off the side and just walk along. the pyramid and just try to basically get down, not too far, but just walk with my sticky squeakers making a perimeter check around the pyramid and just to see if there's anything, can I discern any kind of symbology or other passageways or balconies or anything like that? I would say as you go off the side, the rest of the structure is covered in a sheet of ice. So it is still a little bit treacherous to move around. But you start to spiral downwards a little bit.

And you slip here and there, even with your shoes. You slip and slide just a little bit. On the east and whatever you would assume to be the east and west sides of this structure, you encounter spaces where, though you think you're walking normally, you then kind of loop upside down. So your head is pointed towards the ground. and this whole space is still covered in ice, but you get the sense that you stand next to

or above enormous statues. But you can't see what they are as they're covered in a thick layer of ice. As I'm slipping, I'm getting a little nervous and sell them. Man, I don't want to trust the thickiness of them to be squeaker. I don't have any cool grab rocket boots. And I'm gonna walk back up.

Man, I bet wrecked had the newest model. Ridiculous. And I'll walk back up. So there's some, those giant ice pillars, right? Ice pillars. Well, actually statues, I think. I think I saw some feet shapes. What if this was a temple of some kind?

That makes sense. But you said the... Sorry, go ahead. No, no, go ahead. The shaved, like, not platforms, but like the shaved mini-piramint things. They're kind of pedestals, yeah. Petals. They're about arms length away.

And they have inlays at the time off? Like cuts, like, they look like... Like a slot? Like black, yeah, like kind of a slot. Like something you would hold on to? Like legend in the hidden temple where you put the Golan Monkey in the... Oh, yeah. Yeah, kind of like a black point that delves deep into the structure.

Oh, man. Sounds like a temple puzzle. So that means we have to go down to go up. So we can kill, I mean capture wrecks, take them alive, steal whatever we need, and slot it into the top of this thing. And maybe it'll activate some crazy power, and you'll turn into a dyno god.

And that thing is missing, because something's missing where the T-Rexter. The dead center right above where the pedestal is. Right above where the... right about the center of the structure, which is also where the twin pedestals are. Maybe Rex already tried this. And he took the thing.

It's missing. Well, if he's already been here, then again, keep your eyes open. Don't trust anything. What does your scanner show, Red? Is he still farther below us? Well, what I was using to locate his direction, exploded in my face.

That's right. You would have a copy of that signal. Once you identified it, you would be able to, you'd be able to tap into it. Love that. Let me see if I can hack it to his IP address. I just send him his home address. I'm in the mainframe.

Don't worry, I've got this dungeon map now. Now it's on my mini map. There he is. A horrible retrovirus. Oh, it looks like the boss. keys on the seventh level, so let's stop there first. Yeah, I'll try to sort of get a

sense of where he is based on that signal. The signal is lighter now, but you get the sense that he is now about 40 stories beneath you. He's at least 400 feet below us now. So we went up and he's still down. So let's try again

and chase after him. Yeah, maybe we'd go back in and you just do the opposite, whatever you just did, to get us up here. We'll see if it all fucking flips around. All right, back on the lift. And then I'll do that. As you turn to leave,

you feel a unnaturally primal draw towards the central pedestal. I'll just start walking, I guess, towards the central pedestal. You do so. You intend to turn around. You start to move towards the floating movable platform. As you do, something reaches out and pulls at you.

You spin in your spot without saying a word. You start to move towards the central section. And the second you reach it, without intending to, your palms fly out over the center of each pedestal. And as you do this, you see an image. The skies turn red over where you are. the ice melts away. Growth overtakes the land.

And sitting atop this structure, you see a figure clad in black with a magnificent crown that sits upon its head as the land is completely overtaken by nature. And you all will see as she moves out

and her hands snap over the pedestals. Bandy? The ruby light will pulse and glow as her gym erupts with energy. It pours into the structure and you would be shrouded in a burst of mist. And if you run to the edge of the pyramid,

you would now see that that is exactly what it is. As the thick sheet of eye, has been instantly evaporated from the covering around it. Can we see the statues? Looking down, you would see two twin giant, well, if you're on either side of the edge of the area, you would see twin enormous triceratop statues, one with, both with giant double-edged broadswords.

twin glaves. What just happened? Hey. What the fuck are you? Can you hear us? I don't know. Can they? She doesn't respond at all. Dandy. Come on. Stay with us.

Hey. No, no. She's, she's fucking attached to this thing. She's plugged into it. She's part of it now. What in the fucking hell? I'm going to run up to the side and just give a sense to see like if I can see the extent of the ice melting? The entire, this is now made itself aware to you that this structure is an enormous pyramid.

It's bigger than any like humanoid shaped single structure you've ever seen, especially built at the time that it would have been. The ice is completely evaporated off the sides and you can see that happened instantaneously. You can see that slowly, the ice begins to creep back from the edge of the pyramid at its base,

but very slowly. Like it started to re-freeze. No, no. Like the frost is battling. Continuing to melt. It's moving. Yeah. Continuing to melts.

Correct. Much more slowly. But the frost is fighting back. It's moving down. Very slowly the further it moves away from the pyramid. Got it. Is there anything going on between her and the hole in the sky, or in the roof?

Nope. I don't know. Do we rip her out of there? I've got her. with my hands on her shoulders. I can pull her free. Does it happen when the bush touches her? No.

Do you talk about it? He thought about that way too long. Wait, hold on. Dandy. I'll walk right up in front of Dandy. And are her eyes glowing? What's the? They're glowing with a ruby light. And the gem at her chest is erupting with energy.

I don't think we want to just pull her out of it. Dandy, snap out of it. I didn't want to have to you. This. So I have like the big po-po ice climbers thing on it and my hat's on top of that. So I'll pull it off. I'll reach in. I didn't want to have to use this dandy and I'll pull out the seltzer bottle.

And I'll spray dandy in the face. Roll a wisdom saving throw advantage. Oh. Wow. Nice. Good thinking. But you were dreaded. So roll it straight. Oh. Okay. Ooh, saving throw. That's 26.

Yes! 26. With, you can, you start to feel on your shoulders, you see ruby skies in all directions over this planet. You see a dark monarch lording over this space. As you're watching all of this happened. Whoever ruled this, this was their throne of power. As you see this unfold in front of you,

you start to feel the weight of Lubush's hands at your shoulders. You feel a moisture, you feel a pressure on your face, and the ruby light fades from your eyes as you snap back and you may step away. Step back. Do I know what just happened? Do I remember it at all? You remember everything, but you don't know what to make of it.

And then the one thing about the image and the guy, the monarch, was that, did it seem like that was from the past? Asking good glasses. Time is a flat sir. Is it quantum mania? It seems as though that was from the past and simultaneously from the future. Dandy, are you all right? Are you back with us?

Is all the red gone, she's back to her normal blue? Just her normal, as the light fades from her eyes and she stumbles back. The gem pulsating with a ruby energy slowly fades back to normal. How many fingers am I holding up? Four. Four?

Oh, no. She's miscounting. Oh! Molly has only had four fingers. Sorry. It's a D-4. Sorry. Has anything like this ever happened to you before with this group?

Is this the first? time. Um. That's kind of like gone, you know. Any, this would be the first time that this like particular experience has ever occurred to you. I think that that is all I'll say. Okay.

I thought we lost you there for a minute. You saw what happened? Did you see the sky and the man and the black and the plants and the ice? Is all the ice still gone? ice still gone. All the ice is evaporated from the pyramid, but with you not touching the paneling anymore, if you look out over the edge, the ice is already refrozen to the base of the pyramid, though it stops there. It does not attempt to climb back up. The ice and the plants and the dark man and the sky, the red sky. All we saw was the ice disappear. What else did you

see? What did it look like? It looked like the planet was overgrown with plants. and the tower and this pyramid is the biggest pyramid I've ever seen. I've never seen anything like this. The sky was red. It seemed dark. I do not, it seems as though this happened, it's happening now and also then in the past

whenever this was built. I wanna kinda pull Pike aside. Okay. I would say, I would sense your vibe and immediately know, and I would kind of step away and, like, turn away from the group. What's up? This ain't too dissimilar from when we found her.

You're not wrong. I was hesitant to say anything to anyone else. He's got to keep an eye out. You don't want her to lose control and hurt others. Yeah. All right. And I'll approach the rest of the group, and I won't say anything else. I'll light another cigarette.

I think we gotta get the fuck out of here. Like, back down or leave? Down, whatever it is. What's about the Rex? That's what I mean. We need to fucking get, or either leave and say, fuck it, or we try to find him. I don't think we should be anywhere near this place

in case it calls out to you again. We've come all this way. I think we just find Rex, and if he can do it, so can we. But if we can't find him, We have to just walk away, all right? Trust us. We have.

Can I say something that was bothering me? The dark man, I think he was bad maybe. It felt bad. Right, felt bad. It felt extremely ominous. Yeah, it felt really ominous. It felt also inevitable. It felt as though that dark man was bringing life

back to this planet. And it scares me because that is all I wanted. do. I just want to touch the... I just want to... I want to grow the plants and not make this land so barren for the penguins, but then I don't know. But then all the penguins

would die. I know. I do not know. And then all the ice sharks would die. Maybe it is okay. I just... I feel connected to the dark man and I do not want to feel connected to the... Are you sure? You weren't seeing you? It looked like me.

You said I didn't look like me. You have to... I had the sense that you were looking at a larger figure. You would not draw a connection between yourself and that figure. You did not walk away thinking that that was you. That seemed very much like another. Have you mentioned the crown?

No, I didn't mention the crown. I forgot about that. There was a crown. The dark man had a crown. What kind of a crazy crown, like a king's crown. Looks like an ornate, like a large, golden, ornate tribal headdress crown. Similar to mine.

Similar. Similar. Is that my daddy? No, I'm sorry. So it was some kind of king? I believe they seem to rule the land and they were here. This was the throne.

This is the biggest structure we have ever seen. I imagine the person sitting in the chair with the crown. is the one who rules everything. It's... Is this perhaps an old Thorian planet? Well, I think that's fucking... I mean, look at what we're standing on.

That goes without saying. The statues... They point to the same thing. Well, if this got annihilated, why wouldn't the empire set up shop here? I guess there's really nothing to... Nothing here at all besides penguin ars of this thing? Maybe.

So I am Saurian? We don't know. You're... Some level of separation from the Saurians, but... Probably built by them. It's my current estimation. Thorian adjathan is what Red is trying to say.

Well, I guess that's good to know. It's not to say that you need to make whatever you just saw come to pass. and that's why I want to get off this fucking floor of the temple right now. I think we should leave right now. Not the temple entirely. I just mean like let's get back on the fucking elevator.

Agreed. Let's head down. Let's try to find it X. We're all accounted for. We don't want anyone to get left on the top of this pyramid. Okay. Yeah. I'm sorry I left. I don't know what happened. It's okay. Oh no, it's okay. It happens. Happens to all of us. And sometimes we just you know, get out of our heads for a little bit, all right?

You don't feel bad about it. Let's just get back on the elevator and we just move on. Everybody's got something that draws them in. I think I have to go up in order to go down. So I do the opposite of what I did last time. You all step into the moving platform, the doors as they shut closed. You move your palm in a very familiar way. You slide it up.

And nothing happens. What happens if I slide it down? You slide your palm down. And once again, you feel the familiar feeling of yourself almost floating against the G-forces as they release upon you as the platform descends. We think. Spike is kind of audibly grown.

And I'm going to turn to write and say, occasionally he likes to use words like non-Euclidean. I'm not even going to begin to try to explain that. What? Yes, Kim. You haven't heard of non-Euclidean? Have you heard of non-Euclidean? Oh, I know all about non-Euclidean.

What? Look, just don't be surprised if those, when those doors open, somehow 400 feet in the fucking air. What is, uh... What are you doing back here? What? What are you doing back here? You don't have the, you don't have the bounty.

You said we were going to set up a delivery system. I was expecting to send them out to you. What the hell are you doing back here? What the fuck is going on? I like Blake rubbed my eyes and look around. You find yourself in the office of the boss. You're surrounded by golden walls. Silken red floors.

The boss stands atop his desk, ears briefly, smoothed the back over his head. My cigarette falls out of my mouth. Pretty good. I'm going to go up to the boss and I'm going to say, do you know what I am?

What the hell are you're a freaking bounty, hono? What the hell are you asking me if I know what you are? Hey. Where did we appear in his office? What do you mean? Where'd you appear in the office? You walked in the stupid,

what are you dumb as rocks? You look like you made of rocks. You got anything up here besides rocks? This can't be real, right? This is, we're all fucking imagining this, right? Yeah. Can we, like, go back to where we came from? Hold on.

Everybody take one deep breath. How long has it been since you gave us the bounty? You just walked out the door, like, maybe five minutes ago. I thought you're in the hangar bay. This isn't real. This isn't real, right? There's no way. Dandy, try doing this again.

I'm doing down. What are you having a fit? I got to call somebody. What are you doing it? doing? This isn't real, right? I'm going to point my cannon right in his face. Just to see what he does.

And the large enforcers come in from either side of the room. Oh, no, no, no, no. Oh, man, not like this. Just some kind of fucking trick. You had one job to do, huh? You had one job. You go pick up a pretty boy, stole something very important, okay? You just had to go get him.

I wouldn't even match you. 90,000. Now you point a gun in my face. You're trying to fuck with my hand. One of the bouncers reaches out a fist, pulls back, and throws a punch at you, right?

The gauntlet connects with the side of your face. A tremor shoots through your body. Pain like you've never experienced. You're knocked down onto the ground and reeling from it. Ugh. Oh!

You sit up and you find yourself in the middle of a rowboat with all your friends in the center of the open ocean. Do we all experience this? Yep. Wait, like, we're now all in the rowboat? Did we, do we remember what just happened? Yep. So I would have been, like, seeing this creature go to punch rent, I would have attempted to, like, intervene and try to redirect it, and then all of a sudden I find myself in a rowboat. I was also gonna try and attempt that, but cast druid craft and have snow and snow and red rubiness and plant growth happened to try and distract him. But it didn't work.

You all, you all do so, except for you who got punched in the face. You, you sit up. You are in the middle of emotions. I'm like in a defensive stance. Yeah, I'm like, I was like trying to protect my friend. you're standing, your base wide, you erupting from your hand, snow, attempting to make some kind of thing that would disrupt the moment. And I immediately like sit down in almost a cannonball position on one end of the boat. It's heavy so the boat might even do this a little bit. But I'm trying not to trip the entire thing over because if I were to stand, I'm sure I would.

Are you all right? What was that? How did you get here? I don't fucking know. Did he take damage? I mean, does he, like, look like he's been beat up? Does he look okay? No, it was totally fine. I'm, like, looking at your face.

I feel, I feel okay. This is, uh, my jaw didn't explode. God. No. LaBouche, punch me. Are you sure? Yes. Punch me as hard as you possibly can.

Why? It's the only way to get out of this rowboat. Wait, wait, wait, wait. He might only ever ask you to do this. this one time. You better make it count. Wham! Uppercut style. You spin your arm and it starts to kind of elongate as you whip it and whip it and whip it.

And then you bring it around and in an arcing slash, the fist comes up in next row. Chuckles, he lifts up out of the boat. See? K-O. You know. Yeah. You're rocking a second robot. Your neck along gets.

And I'll, as I'll fall up and I'll almost like rock it into the air cartoonishly and spiral back down and crash into the boat. And I'll just be sitting there with my shoes, split out like that. And literal canaries will be spinning around tweeting around my head as long as, as well as stars. I rolled love. So only seven damage. damage. Oh, good. That was, that was filled with intention. As you say that, and as you land back in the boat, that its base cracks, a tremor runs the length of it, and water starts to pour in.

Oh no. No, no. What if I do this again? Dark black water pours into the boat. Is there anyone here who can't swim? I, in a panic, I'm gonna drop down to the base of the boat and lay my hands down and run, I'm gonna cast mending, which is flavored as reverse time. Oh, it's gonna be cool.

Oh, badass. I'm so confused. Hopefully the crack starts to reform. The clock tattoos on your person begins to glow and shift as the crack in the boat seals and the black water pulls out of the bottom. Thank you. That was close. Nice work. Why with the spooky dark water on color is the ocean here? We're not at the bottom of the ocean, are we? We're on the top of the ocean. Is this looking at it familiar? You look around and you are surrounded by my crum.

crystal blue waters. Crystal blue. What about directly, like if I look over the edge of the boat? You look over just the edge of the boat, and as you peer in, it is beautiful crystal clear waters. However, you see the faintest, it's hard to place. Almost like the faintest amber glow that moves just beneath. you, as the boat, in full repair, is dragged beneath the ocean surface.

Oh, shit. And you all start to descend. Did it work? Blah blubbblah. As you move down and down and down, the light from the surface, you realize, only pierces about 20 feet from the top of the ocean. It's actually very quick that you begin to lose the light. And it's also in this moment that you realize you never had an opportunity to take a final breath.

So as you descend, you feel your lungs empty. You become cold as the depths start to crush in. The pressure returns. The darkness returns. You lose sight of your friends. The boat is gone. You float there in the endless black surrounded by no sense. sound, no sight, no feeling, except cold loss. When you start to feel, when you start to feel

not a current, but the water move around you and a swirl, as if something circles you. Do we still have our equipment or it's more like a, more like naked just ourselves? And the door's open to the elevator. And you find yourselves. Oh, you'll come back. I'm screaming and I'm like firing randomly out, like just in whatever direction I was facing. Three or four bolts, I easily.

That's not a blast. Let's see. You blasted a bunch of holes in the right. Stupid bitch. Are we soaps? Are we dry? Like what's going on? I mean, like, no, it's our current state. We can breathe again.

Oh my god. You can read again. You're not soaked. You, in fact, looking around, your hair has its normal level of moose. Everyone seems, you look at... I don't need a product. You look at... This is all natural.

It's all natural, baby. Just like... You look at rat. No, no bruise to the jaw. Um, everyone dry clothes. Um, you were facing out of the front of the door. It says my D4. as the door spread open.

Quickly, as you look at your ether blasts firing out, you very immediately see the room in front of you. Ice stalagmites reaching up from the bottom, forming, forming like chunks and shards of ice in the ground. At the far end of this room, you see the entire floor covered in a sheet of blue ice, the walls covered in ice. At the very far end, you see a, not the very far end, probably like, you know, 100 yards away from you. You see a large, almost what looks like a frozen waterfall.

At its peak in the ceiling of where you are, you see a large hole that was black. through the side of the underneath of this pyramid that exposes out into daylight. By red? No. Oh. That's so good. I was putting in a guy on like you were, we were going to see Rex there and he was going to have a hole in his chest. And then I would be like, yes.

Gotcha, bitch. You do see Rex. His light gray duster, his white hat, he's at that wall of ice. of ice, several floating drill bots hang in the air, laser beams attempting to pierce into it. As your ether blasts, boom, boom, boom, come a knocking into that wall of ice. And he spins around. Oh, Rhapsody!

I didn't think you'd ever catch up. Finally something I can get my hands on and I'm going to start running towards him. Whoa, whoa, why the animosity? Is this fucking real? Oh, yes. Why wouldn't it be? You caught up with me. Famous treasure hunter.

Rex Maxim, or Maximum Rex for the ladies. He stares over a dandy. And it gives you a little bit of a wink. Pike, you look happy to see me. We've had quite the day, Rex. Don't get me started. Oh, well, you made it here. It was touch and go for a second.

I thought you'd get here at least 10 minutes sooner. I don't know what happened. I've been trying to cut through this wall of ice for what feels like a day. Haven't been able to penetrate it at all, but this whole thing just started heating up. And it's melting now. And thanks to your ether blast, I think I've cracked a little bit into it. And if the tails are true, there is a mighty powerful treasure behind here. Let's cut to the chase.

What'd you take from the boss? Oh, he sent you? Oh, man. You have never been able to pick a good boss yourself. I can't tell you that. Is Laboose there up to him yet? I would have been running, but if we want to say that when I don't see everyone else immediately running, I can stop halfway and we can do the monologue.

It's fun. But I also would just run up and just be like, tackle him. I would say that when you get about halfway, he'll flail his duster out to the right, and you'll see hanging his side, not on our name, but a very mechanical-looking, what you believe to be a shotgun. And he would say,

now hang on, the boosh. You just hold right there. A man of taste, he watched the Terminator. How far away is he from us? About 100 yards. About 100 yards. You're about the distance of the room. He's on the other side.

We'll say Labouche is now about 50 yards. I'll turn back and roll. Come on. Oh, I'm sorry. Actually, as you came to a stop, I need you to roll an athletics check, and you are dreaded. But as soon as you make me roll, I die.

Athletics, you say? Uh-huh. Use a different... What do you mean use a different dice? I only have the two. No, I'm not going to. It's ride or dice. The least are, like, weighted.

In a bad way. You know what? 15. Oh, yeah. Beautiful. You are able to... That's good enough for government. You're running up, right?

You have a lot of weight. You have grim purpose. You're pissed. You're angry. You don't know what the hell you've been through. But you understand the evolving situation. You come to a stop. You, however, understand that the floor is ice.

And as you come to a stop, you slide forward momentarily, But through your sheer force of will and brutish form, you're able to plant your foot into the ground and stop your forward movement. Yeah, well, I have no idea who you are, pretty boy. The name Chuckles the Cloud. It's not ice to meet you. As I'm running behind Laboosh, and I'm going to try to do like a, like a, what is it?

Hikis. Yeah, skin do a stop. Yeah, it's getting to a stop. All nice. Roll an athletics check. at advantage. Advantage? But you are dreaded.

So roll it straight. Oh, yeah. I do have the thickie squeaker. Oh, I think that's just a 12. Hold on. I don't know how to... It can be athletics or acrobatics. Well, I'm very acrobatic.

Well, not really. A 17, though. 17, you're able... You feel the exact same sensation, but you'd plan for this. You watch LaBouche. You ran up and you kind of like squeakily ice skate over to his side. I love that.

Watching them just having done this, I will pull out a fresh cigarette, light it, look to Rhett and say, I'm going to close some distance, and I'm going to calmly saunter and walk towards Rex, not in a rush. I don't want to slip. You do so. I'm right behind you, buddy. You start making your way. That'll walk in the speed. One hand in my pocket. Half a man behind Pike, I'm just going to sort of back him up and just slowly walk as well. Is there a pedestal in this room? ones that damn you? Good question. Looking around, you do not immediately see one. Though you cannot tell what is behind this sheer wall of ice, it's clear that he seeks something. You also, all these stalagmites that are rising up, you also can't quite tell if they like house something.

They seem to be very solidly ice. Are there two that are like similar distance to the pedestals at the Roll an investigation check and you're dreaded. As soon as I see my friends approaching, I'm gonna look at choccol's and give sort of a juicy head nod and start to walk. Juicy head nod. Start to walk closer towards Rex. You don't see any that look too close together.

Most of them seem to be relatively spread out, from what you can see. As you start to walk a little bit closer, almost imperceptible, you'll catch this, but almost imperceptible, the duster swirls out to the left. He taps his hip and bang, bang, bang, three shots go out into the ground in front of you. You don't even see the gun.

As soon as I see the duster go, I would have also shouted loosh as a warning sign, but it's the same time that the boats go off. And I'm almost like startled for a second. In the same moment you call out your warning, Oh, ho! Good eye, Pike.

Uh, hang tight there, big guy. Alright, I'm working on something. And really funny joke there, friend. I see why they keep you around. Yeah, that was bottom of the barrel trash. I waved on a punk like you. Wow. How's that supposed to make me feel? Yeah, your name is Rex, like Tyrannosaurus Rex?

You know what killed the dinosaurs? The Night Page! Idiot! Oh. Oh, man. You guys, great group of friends you're running around with here. Yeah. Can't...

Go ahead. No, no. No, no. I insist. Can't we just have a conversation, Rex? Let's not let this fucking lead to violence. It doesn't have to. Maybe we can come to some fucking agreement. Hey, I have no problem just chatting, friend. I'm just drilling through this wall and there's something I got to get to. get to. There's a big treasure down here, and I can't say no to that. As long as you don't have any

intention to stop me or take me in, nobody's ever caught Rex Maxim. I'll talk to you as long as you want. I just want to shake your hands. I know. Walking forward again. You just never learn, huh? So much respect. Oh, man. Once again, the last Again, the left duster goes out, taps his side hip, in the same format, bang, bang, bang. But the second shot will tap your boot. Oh, I think I just take the shots, right? So we always do it, come on, what are we waiting for?

How many feet away is he? Before I responded to him. Probably, well, from you, unless you were moving with him, you're probably about 50 yards, so like 150 feet. You're- I've tried to make it all. another five or ten feet. You're probably, yeah, okay, you're like 40 yards. It's just a couple of more steps. I'm right behind it. Okay. How did you get down here? What do you mean? I just

had my friends here. It just was at the robots. They just lowered me off the bridge. You just jump straight in. I mean, it's just open air down here. How'd you guys get down? Lower to the group so that he can't hear. You guys seem very gung-ho, and I'm going to lean in and just just loud enough for everybody around me to hear, but not for him to hear. I said this guy's kind of a jackass, but look at what kind of weaponry he's working with here, all right? Just everybody calm down.

Is anybody back with me? You are back? I'm going to talk to you and be like, I think that we have been seeing the future. I saw us at the bottom of the ocean in my head. I felt it. And we were then there. I think the only thing that did not actually happen yet is that the planet was ruled by the

dark king with the crown. I just wanted to, I just needed to say that. So you think that could happen? It could happen. It seemed inevitable at least. Do you feel anything down here like you did up there? I don't know. I'm gonna try and actually like kind of look around see if there's any gems, anything that looks familiar I'd be attracted to.

like I was in the top. Roll a perception check, but you are dreaded. So three? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You've done so many perceptions. Oh, gosh. Nine. Quarsh. You look around in this room shrouded in an ice.

You see the stalagmites. You see Rex. You see the... Gosh, not yet, Rex. Not yet, man. Chill out. You see... the stalagmites, you see the ice wall. You don't see anything that's strictly Sorian down here that you can tell. However, for the briefest moment, and it's

fleeting, you catch through one of the blasts into the ice that's chunked out a bit. You catch what looks like the faintest glimpse of amber light coming from behind the sheet of ice. the light that was in the elevator the light that came out of my body it is behind the ice no it is not the light that came from you and that was in the elevator was ruby oh what is this color

amber which is more of an orangeish yellow it never mind it is the color of the light that Kavir saw as he looked over the boat into the depths of the ocean Oh. Did we see Amber somewhere else or no? It was just when we were in the boat and then I thought briefly beforehand you mentioned it once but again it was like a part of the visions or something.

While we were doing all this time, whiny shit. It's possible. I forget. And I was getting vertigo. Yeah. Do she mention to me that she sees the ember light? Yeah. I'm going to mention it.

Yeah. I saw an amber light before we went into the water. Did any of us see anything when we were at the bottom? of the ocean, do we notice anything except for just like the dread when we fell into the water? Just crippling inevitable dread and the swirling of the waters around you, leading you to believe that something had begun to circle you. But every time you thought you could catch the faintest glimpse of something, just on the edges of the dark of the water, as quickly as you think that you begun to form the shape of something, something in your eyesight and it was gone. Maybe this light brought us down here.

It was in the boat. It's behind the waterfall. Maybe we need to let him make his way through, help him get through this waterfall. Head up to Pike and Red. I think it may be worth our time to help him right now. I just want to make sure you didn't hit your head. I know. I know.

But there's something back there. He's trying to get to it. We're trying to get to him. Why don't we get through and then we'll deal with Rex after? I'll tell you this. If you manage to make peace with the guy and you get us close enough, when the opportunity arises, we'll take care of the rest. I could try. Sounds fucking mad, but if we can bargain with him and if we help him,

He'll give us information. We can get to the bottom of this. Maybe work out some kind of deal. I'm in if you are. All right. Meanwhile up ahead, out of earshot, from all this. Okay, Laboosh from me.

I'm gonna get him right to you, get ready to crush his skull then. Can you convince him to play a game of paddy cake with you? Oh, that's a devified. Then I will snap his neck like so many broken pencils. Devilish idea theme or, I mean the Laboosh. If no one stopped me, I'm going to as soon as Chuckles doesn't earn any of this.

And so my intention, as soon as I get 90 feet of Rex, that I Frisbee my Looney Tunes, Roger Rabbit Hall and try to just deliver them directly to... Oh my God, I love it. Deliver them to deliver them to... I absolutely love it. You were only about

40 yards away, so it would take about five seconds for you to close that gap. Have I noticed them started moving it? You're talking to Red and Pike? You're talking to Dandy? I would say it'd be pretty. All right, so you start.

by saying, you know, just introduce yourself. Just be nice and charming how you do. You know, flash that nice smile. All right. All right, and then. You're there. Oh, no. Clang, clang, clang, clang.

Hey, Rex. What's a Beechurger's favorite game? Well, I don't know. Paddy cake! Ah! And I catch Vortex warp. Beautiful. Are you throwing your hat?

Yeah. It's an odd job style. No, no, no, it's like a rolled-up. A little of, black hole. Like a portable hole on us. Portable hole. And it'll just like this truck do desk. I love you, Krillin.

If you're watching. If you're out there, Krillin. If you're out there, Krillin. Big fan. I'm addressing the strongest. Yeah, he's the strongest human. Everyone else is fucking God. He needs to make a con 16 saving throw.

Oh, boy. Please don't shoot juckles. Or maybe you shoot jocles. He fails. Wow! Where is this portal going, by the way? To the bush. And so it'll slide underneath them.

And I'll say going down as he'll completely disappear into a black hole. Holy shit. And he might be traumatized from the horrible things that he sees in the haunt stream, as right in front of Labouche, a human-sized hole will open up, and he'll just, almost like a whack-a-mole, just be ejected up and standing directly in front of Laboosh.

If I can, I will attempt to basically bear hug him and wrap him again and again and again in my gooey arms. What's it? That's a grapple or I mean, I don't know how you want to do it. If you want to make it a contest. Let's do a contest. Okay. I can do acrobatics or athletics, your choice. You may choose.

You are also dreaded. Okay. So I'll go. For a grapple, are you the grappler? Yes. For you, it's only athletics. It's only athletics. Yes.

He can choose, if it's a grapple check, that's what's happening. And I have advantage on them because I am amorphous, I believe. I'm not sure why. I think it might be, I don't know, D&D Beyond says I have advantage, so it's gonna be a straight roll if that's long. Come on, dice, baby. Nice. Wow.

With a natural 20. Oh, wow. Your arms extend out. and look to wrap around him. Like a thunder clap, he kneels. And in an instant, he explodes upwards, kicks off your chest, flips backwards about 10 feet,

and very quickly fans the hammer on his gun. And... Toast. Yeah, this could be real bad toast. I think all this guy, jackass, you might not be a pushover. Get Rex. Yeah, maybe. You take 11 points of force.

I got you back. We're sending you back to the cune. You guys just hit lit out of it. It scared me. Looks like it's just about time to limber up. I'll have to pick up my hat, though. And he slams a, like, almost like a wristwatch he's wearing on his left arm. You hear from, in a distance, you hear the charge of an end.

engine roar to life. And I need everyone to roll for initiative. Oh. Wow. Not bad. Classic, Derek. Not bad. Do I roll a disadvantage for the initiative?

Is that bad? Yeah. Oh, it is a ability to check. Nice job, though. Okay. And as soon as we just want to job. 20 to 25 24 22 21 Jesus

We all went we went down Who had 24? It's a name I was a knack 20 plus minus Kevier pipe red Yeah You can just keep you Who is wait Kivir Piedrette

Piedrette Get wrecked rats Poo's in that ass And then Lebus you're down Chuckles Dandy what did you get 10 10. Is he a large creature?

Or is more for representation? You will be. Oh, jeez, Louise. We can fill the few of the situation. Why do you say now? I love that. That's so funny. We come in peace.

I changed my mind. To have this fucking neck. You were just kidding. I need me. You need me. You just a train, bro. He's going to go! We did that job at each other all the time.

Cheehm! Oh, God. Thank you. I didn't know you were in the poker game. Kvir, it is to you? To do it here. Okay. So after just shaking my head at the situation,

I'm gonna move up. That's where I have. 30. Six. Yeah. That should be good. How do you move? What's the first movement you make?

This way. Straight up. Before you're capable of turning, you have to make an athletics or acrobatics check. Ah, okay. It literally is the Pokemon ice caves. Or ice caves. You said the acrobatic or athletics?

Or athletics? Acrobatics or athletics. Ooh, a twist. Give it a twist. Will you get a twist? Yeah, we'll give a twist. Yeah, give it a quick. Give me a twist.

Oh, okay. Not much better. 10. 10. With a 10, you race forward. You see the action is on. Chuckle's hat flew out as it extended towards Rex. It hit the ground and turned into almost what felt like a shadow

as it raced out across the ground towards him, opening a black circlet beneath him. Boom, boom. You see him kick back from Labouche. Ba-a-ba-ba-bow! The fanning of the gunfire going. out. It is on. You race forward to help your friends. You quickly pivot, but you lose your footing, and you will continue forward until you strike an object.

Oh, wow. It looks like that thing. Let's take me to the slide. Yes, the points are objects, right? They're still acmites. Correct. We're stealing this. Do I take damage? You take four points of damage.

All right. And that will consume your movement. Interesting. Okay. Question for you. I have the ability to fly, technically. So I can float off the other. Okay.

Is that for, as a bonus action? Oh, is it a bonus action? I can take it as a bonus action, and then it lasts for 10 minutes. I have a flying speed of 30. Oh, shit. Oh, that's level set feature. And I can hover.

Oh, see good. That's right. Yeah, the sand. Yeah. The sand billows up. So I'm just making sure that's kosher. Yeah, you're good. Yeah, I mean, that's what you do.

Absolutely. Well, it's good. Okay. Well, then. Okay. Does this impair my view of him at all, the slag might in front of me? It looks like I can accurately see him, but.

No, you got a lot on the side. You got a line of sight. So I'm going to hit him with my sand blast. Let's see, sunny a. This is tight. It's sad. Oh, a 10. Oh, twist it?

Two twists. Alright, I'll twist that. Yeah, yeah, come on. It's a first one in a combat. We got to be got them. 18. 18 hits? Yeah.

Hell yeah. His head explode, killing him instantly. Is it a D-10? Yes. Thank you. I don't like sand. 10? Oh!

10. It's hard. It's coarse and it's coarse and it gets everywhere. I love it. And then I can... 15 points of damage? 15 points of damage, yeah. Jesus.

And then my sands of time will take an action, so I do one D6 piercing damage. Gutsche. There's the old gold dice. So six, that feels pretty good. So he's 21 damage so far. Is that max damage? That's max damage, yeah. Jesus.

And then I will cast my flight. So I will swirl the sands beneath me. the sands beneath me and sort of like a nimbus cloud almost below me, and then they'll lift me off the ground. They swirl and shape and form beneath you as your legs do kind of disappear into the cloud. As you levitate briefly off the ground. You can see just over this stalagmite, and you now get the sense that you can move freely throughout the room. Excellent. Pike. Okay, I am going to use some of my movement to move forward.

I'll move 5, 10, 15, 20. And then before I hit the stalactite, with a flash of radiant, like, magenta light, I will disappear as I use Starlight Step to appear beside him. Both of my fists glowing with radiant light, and I say, surprise, jackass! And I'm going to multi-attack him.

Uh, roll in athletics or acrobatics, check. Okay. You got this. You got it. Acrobatics, I guess. Oh, boy. Ah. Uh-oh.

It's still good. It's still good. Twit. Twit, twit. No, no. What? I don't know why I'm not proficient in acrobatics. You are.

We'll fix that. 100% accurate you to that. Yeah. Uh, that's still only going to be a 14. You shout surprise jackass. That's your... Yeah, we're going to twist it. We're twist it.

Okay. No good No good 14 So even though I'm blinking I'm still moving I would say that even though you blink From the movement

As you approach to slagmine You would carry that inertia Through the movement Sure I think unless anybody It's your your call I disagree I disagree

So you You get up right next to him And your fists Flaming with a With a punch ready to go So you say surprise, jackass, as you start to just slide towards the ice wall. I will, however, give you an attack of opportunity as you're moving away from him. And you have enhanced agility.

But you can't attack him multiple times. Okay. Well, you would, yeah. What is that? You saw a movement last. This is your turn, right? Oh, yeah. I only used 20 of my 45 moves.

So the question is, did he slip when he first started? So he slipped and he's going towards here, and then he can teleport and attack wallprone. Oh, that's a good question. Oh, I slip before I even teleport? So that's the question. Do you slip at the end or the beginning of the movement? You would slip when you like pause in your movement. What I would say is if your intention was to move towards that stalagmite,

steady yourself, like stop yourself from moving against the slagmite and then teleport. You will not have to roll an athletics check. You would kill your momentum. If I can do that, then sure. Yeah, then that's fine. Yeah. Any movement. Totally up to you.

Any movement where you move in a direction and then either try and turn or stop, you will roll on athletics or acrobatics check or you will continue to move. Oh, okay. So I could just like... If you ran up to this stalagment directly at it, you slide into it. Yeah, you like brace against it, then you stop your momentum. And then if you teleport, you'll be right up on them.

Okay. I apologize that for not understanding the mechanic. No, no, no, I'll take whatever damage. I have to take it nor have we ever used it before. For the, uh... Four points of damage. Okay. And then I'll blink and yell surprised jackass.

And I'll attack him twice. Ha! That's going to be an 18 to hit and a 24 to hit. Sorry. 18 and then whatever. 22. 18 and 22 to hit. Both hit?

Okay. Then I'm going to spend a key point to make one of them a stunning strike. Oh, shit. So he will have to make a DC-15 con saving throw. And if he fails, he'll be stunned until the end of him. my next round. You launch in with these flaming fists. The two of you trade blows.

You throw the first. He spins his pistol and redirects your fist off from him. He goes, he draws his weapon. He begins to grab the shotgun as he pulls it up. You reach out with your foot and you disarm it, kicking it to the side. And then you jab him twice quickly in the center, landing solid blows. When you go for a third to stun him, he reaches out. fast with his now extended hand and grabs your wrist,

stopping the stomach blow. Okay, but he'll still take from the attacks 16, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 22 points of damage for two attacks. As this radiant light is exploiting from my fish as I'm making connections, and then he'll grab my wrist and we'll be like locked. That's my all turn. Incredible.

Rhett. Oh God. My range is really short. One, two, three. I don't get closer. Use the momentum, Brett. Oh, God, here we go. One, two, three, four, five, six. And then acrobatics are athletics.

Acrobatics are athletics. We're doing athletics on this one. I'll double check my character sheet while we're doing this. Natural one. Oh, no. Twist it. Twist it. You got a l'boot.

Did I twist it? Yeah. Especially for athletics. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, way. Okay, okay. When can one use a reaction? Is it one time for rounds?

Once per round. At any time. But then some reactions have like a trigger that need to be hit, but sometimes you can just choose to do it depending on what it says. Basically, you have a reaction at the start of your turn and at the start of every one of your turns,

that refreshes. Yeah, you wanna roll it metal, though. I like to think about it that way because sometimes you wanna use your reaction on your turn. It's unusual, but it happens. Yeah, good explanation.

It's like the sands of the Gatt Drive dealt damage with an attack, they take damage with the sands of time. That's specific to your ship. That's a ship ability. Not. Okay. I ship you. Nine? Nine. It's so funny how often I never think about

what colliding looks like. You, you race forward. Come, buddy. You're moving. You're a fucking turtle on your body. You slip on the eyes. And you definitely do that. You slide.

You're spinning on the either engine. You collide with Pike. You're like, like a fucking group of them. We're like watching come. We're like lots in common. You're like, oh. Watch it!

What the hell? Oh, hell this is going to be funny. He breaks free of holding you quickly. As the two of you collide and both slide towards the ice wall. Oh, God, how far? Until you collide with the ice wall. What? Is there no way for me to get out of the way?

Oh, this is where the amber light is coming from? Oh, my God. That's funny, holy shit. As we hit the wall, I'm going to yell. Get off me, you big luck. Oh, God, I'm going to stand up. You're like, oh. You don't have to use half your room, man.

That was just for flavor. You're not prone doing it. That was just Coupishol was the best way to do it. Oh, God, it's Pike. I told you to do it. Watch out. Do I still have my action? Sure. Oh yeah, absolutely. However, Pike,

yes. When you collided with the wall and you touched the ice, you, for a brief second, saw yourself once again at the bottom of the ocean in the crushing depths. Surrounded by no sound, the cold, but not the crushing darkness. just in front of you

you see the faintest glow of an amber light and then you snap back I went from yelling at Red to like all of a sudden being like catatonic and then I come back and I'm still holding onto him it's like that avatar moment where he hits his back

on the rock and then the flash shoots through him like a lightning strike but you're immediately back like for the split of seconds you have that vision Okay. Sure. Can I see his

can I see either of his guns? Do you need to visually see them? Yeah. I would say that probably his shotgun is exposed to you. I am going to

okay, let me do. I'm going to yell out to him. I'll give you one last chance, Rex. this doesn't have to end in blood and I'm going to turn a knob on my cannon and it's going to start to spin and churn

and kind of turn you know use alchemy on all of the ether that is pumping into it as instead of the normal lob or shot there's almost like this pinpoint beam of gravitons that shoot out right at his shotgun and basically like a particle condenser

and it will speed up the particles of his shotgun. Is it made of metal? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm casting heat metal on it. Oh! And so... Holy shit. He's making damage.

So he can choose to drop the shotgun. So he can disarm himself if he wants, but he chooses to hold on to it. He'll take some fire damage. It's the same. We'll say. That's incredible. He does take 2D8

5 am to start. Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me. I was a pain who's doing great. Excuse me. It hurts a little bit.

It's not too bad. Brett, look at where you are, friend. I'll give you one last chance. Head back to the Rhapsody or be buried here. And as he says it, the drill bots that have been carving into the ice wall, turn. Stop drum. and they turn.

We just don't have to turn. So he takes nine points of damage. Uh, so excited to fight. Oh, you need to make a constitution saving throw or drop the object if it can. So during his epics one liner, you might scream in pain. Or be buried here.

Ah, fuck! He drolls the shotgun, levels it at you, and says, Or be buried. here. Oh, fuck! And he cast it to the ground. What the hell, man? That's fighting dirty. Like I said, last chance.

That's my turn. Yeah, I think that's it. That's incredible. Cross that, I can't talk. Oh, right. Uh-oh. And it's at this moment. Can you place those out and put those. I remember they're only being two. Where would you like the nice?

Kind of, like, along the wall? Right next to Red. They'll be fine. They're gonna kind of be like here. You win a drill bot, and you win a drill bot. Reasonable? They're all at different points. Totally perfect.

That's great. They would have been like spread out drilling the wall, so I think that's perfect. That's perfect. We both stop and like, right and I look at it and they were like, uh-oh. Uh-oh. The two.

The two furthest back to the ice wall will move towards Redden Pike. The other four, and they have 30 feet of flying movement, they will move towards the party. And whoever they can try and get towards. How much foot movement? 30 feet. Where? Probably one. Who can they actually hit?

Oh, are they melee only? No, they have like, we'll say 15 feet of drill range. They can't have a huge. And one area? And you two? Oh, 15 feet? Yeah. No.

They can only one. Only one to the Cavier. Not only two, we buy you guys. Yeah, so it's just one Pike, one rat, and then one on career. Okay. Wow, it's close. So we'll do Pike, Rhett, Cavier. Danny's back here.

You try. The robots wave in. This is not a drill. Oh wait, it is! Sheets. Uh, 19, 20, and 16 for Pike, Rett, Cavier. Hold on.

The 19 Tyson hits and hits me, but it's, um, me, but it's melee, so I'm going to use move like water, which is my reaction. If I'm the target of a melee attack, that, oh, shit, that's to miss. Fuck, I thought I could fucking, ah, you mad, a trick, you bad, I take the damage. Does it have to miss? Yeah. Okay, that's it, 20? Okay. You said 20? 19, 17? Yeah, that's what you said. Pike. 20 misses. What? What a son of a bitch. Yeah, because Rich always somehow manages to find 23,

8C out of Pazzo. Rhyphys. His hits his back. He's on his stomach. 6-8, okay. It's a collector shield. It's a melee attack, right? Yeah, it's fine.

It's kind of like, at that range we can treat it in melee. It's also, it has, like, a range-attack component. I'm trying to be sneaky. So, the first hit deals seven points of fire damage. The second deals five points of fire damage. Five to me, seven to him? Works. Yeah.

Seven is whatever it works. Seven. First, seven, five. Yep. Ow. Question. When we hit the ice, the slide mites, is that technically bludgeoning damage?

Yeah. So I would take a half. Oh, cool. Okay. Damn. Heck yeah. Okay. It's at this moment.

You understand what he was doing when he clasped his wrists, when he slapped his wrist? Because exploding through the opening at the top of the room, the black speeder jumps in, as he calls it to us. What a scumbag.

It crests out and then falls towards the ground. As it's like hover, as its hover ability, ice and mist shoots out as it zips towards him. He leaps onto it, grabbing it with his right hand. The hover bike spins in a circle. Here's my fans. And as he says it, he fans the gun. I need everyone to make a deck saving throw.

So we see a large creature now that he's on the bike rack. I love that, man. Well done, well done. All of us? Dude, isn't there a boss in fucking Shadows of the Empire? 18. It's a guy on a speeder bike. Yes?

I'm like getting visions of fucking some game. There's a speeder bike level. There's a guy on a speeder anyway. I was saying this guy's something like 15. Dante's the DC. So if you meet 15, you'll take half. If you fail, you'll take full. The damage.

is 12. Oh, that's so six if we hit. Six if you pass, 12 if you failed. Is it force or piercing? I am dying. It's force damage. Oh, from the pistol. As he spins around light blue beams fire off

in everyone's direction, as he was briefly standing on the bike, his dust or swirls about him. It's so hard to actually catch the pistol in his hand as the blasts fire out. You, however, Ken. Dandy. All right. Oh, no, that doesn't count as an ability.

I'm gonna move up right next to you on your right. Yeah. One, two, three. I have to know what direction you move first. Oh, is it diagonal? Diagonal. Yeah. And I think I could move one more.

Can you move one more? Yeah, I'm trying to get around that thing. Yeah. You have to make an acrobatics or athletics check? Check. which means no disadvantage. It is an ability check. Huh?

E-R-R-E-R-A. Oh, oh, y, y'-oy. Okay, I'm twisted. One twithed, leifed. And leaped. Sorry, wrote them both again or just one? Just one. Well, okay.

Okay. Let's do 11. Oh, no. Eleven fails. You start, you run up towards whoever you're going there. You come to a planted stop. to stop, you start, your energy will glow and form as you, as you continue to slip and you'll collide with the stalagmite

that's diagonally, whatever that one right there. That seems fine. That's right. You'll take three points of bludgeoning damage. Oh my gosh. Dandy, I'll help you. And you'll grab my hand, my glove will just, oh. Oh no, my cat glove!

Why did I have that? I'll move the glove is another glove. It's the exact same glove. What is this in my hand? You would even put another one on. It squirms a life and then just walks away on two fingers. I look, I can still shoot Rex even though he's on, he said he's on a bike now.

Oh yeah, yeah. He's a bigger target. Yeah. That was weird. Yeah, what's on a hair. I was like, you didn't touch it. Yeah. There was a lot of hair in this house.

Okay. There's some hair and there. There's some hair. in this house. This man, or in this house. I'm going to attempt to attack him. Oh, I love you, man. He needs to, I need to hit.

Do we know his hit? No, I don't think so. We don't know. And I'm at its ability, so I'm at, ooh, that's okay. 18 to hit. 18 hits? Yeah, all right, so I'm casting guiding bolt,

which is gonna look like the lightning, but the color will be red, the ruby color that everything was. Oh, yeah. And I'm gonna be casting it'll like come from my like forearm and go towards Rex and it'll hit. And also whoever goes after me has advantage.

Nice. There's gonna be that color glittering around. Oh, sick. And the damage. Your arm glows with a naturally bright ruby light that forms all around your forearm as it spins and swirls and forms at the end of your palm as you blast out a larger beam of guiding light

than you have before. as it lands squarely on Rex. Nice. And the damage is, ooh, 11, 12, 14. 14 major damage. And I'm gonna cast as a reaction the Cosmic Omen. Let's see what I got. Yes, so that adds six points.

Six additional points of damage? Yeah. Let's go. Hell yeah. I love guiding gold. This is move. So is it only for the next person's turn until he gets hit? It's for the next attack.

Until he gets hit. Yeah. Well, if it's an attack left. So let's say, if I use something that's a saving throw, it won't use up the guiding head. But if if LaRush attacks and misses, it's still going. It's still going. So it's only once he's hit.

It's basically used the guiding bolt to hit. That's for a single attack, whether hits or not. No, it's just for the next hit. I think you have to land it to consume it. Oh, okay. That was pretty good. So piano plays like in Breath of the Wilds. It's okay.

When one of the Colossuses comes and turns red and kills you. This ruby guiding light stretches out as it blasts over the floor, almost like a mere glimpse of it in the ice as it travels over. It lands squarely into Rex, rocking the speeder. Oh! As it hits him. Chuckles. I am going to run forward.

As I run and as I'm dressed in my fold. blue parka thing, I'll reach into my hat and I'll pull out that big wooden mallet. Acrobatics or athletic check, please. Oh, really good. Like a, hold on.

23. Dread. Oh. Nine. Oh. Oh. Oh, no. Nine. I'll do it.

I'm spinning around like an ice climber side bee. Oh. Oh, my gosh. That's actually incredible. Yeah, it's like King DDD as you swirl around. Oh, yeah. And you will actually...

Oh, wait, which one are you? So you will... These things are light. These drill bots, you will move forward and you will continue until you collide with the ice wall. And as you do, the force of your... No, with the ice wall. Oh.

You as you... You will take that with you. Oh, you take it with you. As you get there, you will destroy those two. Right there are still like, like, all tangled up. We just like cover each other as shrapnel explosion. I'm spinning, I'm spinning, and my hair, my mallet smashes into the first one, and I'm spinning, spinning, spinning, spinning, and smash into the second going, oh.

It's an escalating way. As I am going to, as I just completely lose control, as I smash. into the wall and I'm flavoring this as being unintentional Mr. Magusha, but as I cast a third level catapult, as I smash into the thing, the hammer goes flying towards, towards what's his face, towards outroats. As you're swimming and your hammer spins around you as you spin to and throw while wearing your blue parker,

your hat on top of it, it collides with the ice wall and a squeaky, like that red super smash hammer, smash hammer and a squeaky like when it hits the wall, it bounces off of it aggressively, flies out of your hands. You can't hold your grip. It spins through the air and it catapults towards

Rex Maxx. Dexterity saving throw. This is terrifying. 13. That failed. Get Rex. You excited. This hammers a piano.

Oh, it didn't do very well. It was coming later. Yeah. I know the theater's coming later. Yeah, at some point. It's gonna happen. That is four, five, ten, 15 points of, I believe, bludgeoning damage.

Didn't do very well. Is it bludgeoning? Yeah. Yeah, it threw a hammer at him. Yeah. And it completely smacks its splinters as soon as it hits some. And it does that.

You'll also see that as it collided with the ice wall, A crack shot up from where your hammer landed on it. The length of the wall of ice to the ceiling. It doesn't look deep, but it is penetrating. And as you connect with the wall as well. Nope. We don't want that. Oh, I didn't take damage.

Oh, right. Five points of bludgeoning damage. Lord. Uh-uh. As you connect with the wall, you find yourself in the ocean's depths. You cannot breathe. Your lungs have no air. You're surrounded by darkness.

You can't hear. You can't see. You don't know which way is up. You don't know which way is down. You search, but the panic begins to set in. The dread. You reach out, and you start to swim. and you try and you struggle and you fight and you start to move in any direction at all

but you're surrounded by the deepest black waters of the darkest depths of the ocean until you the faintest glow of an amber light and then a second and then a third and then one beneath you and then behind i might be wrong i was on the song as the hammer explodes as it connects with with Rex Maxim. Bha-ha-ha-ha. Oh! I make the same polar bear in the pink speedo of the last as a balloon animal

when I sent it over to you with these part of the race. Ah, what am I supposed to do with this? Let it inspire you. I'm just holding it. We're like showered and like shrapnel. You just were sleeping. It's giving you a weird balloon thumbs up.

Ah! How's he looking? He's looking confident. Oh, I need to check. We've been very touched him. And do I get the feeling on his bike that he is resistant to sliding on the ice? His bike is a hovercraft.

You absolutely get the sense that he will have, similar to what Kavir enjoys, he will have uninhibited movement as he traverses his terrain. So if I were to move an accidentally crash into him, he would be unaffected, probably. We'll see what happens. Yeah, we'll see what happens. So this entire time it's been chaos, but I have gotten a couple of wounds in my arms

and some of my non-armored areas and they're just starting to close up very Terminator 2 style. And I've been watching and I put my hand on the actual ice sheet floor and from the wrist of my bangle, let it ooze out almost like a pancake getting wider and wider and wider. And I let myself get cold. I let my hand freeze. And then when I crunch it out, I have a giant circular shield for one arm. And I go into a rage. And I, because I can reach this far, I pull back with my other arm and come back down with a huge cannonball crash, just slamming into him from that direction.

And I say something really badass. I don't know what it is, but it sounds really cool. You all love it. It's ice to meet you. I already said that. LaBouche, what the fuck, man? What would LaBouche say? Come on, man.

No, and what I will say is that, I know what I'm going to say, go to sleep, because I'm going to use non-lethal attacks for this. And I'm going to do a reckless. I know that guy in Walt, Derek. What do you mean? Tell him he's going back to the cooler. You're so cool. Wait, no, fuck.

Oh, say we're going to turn him into the tree. Tritherecop. This was cock, hold on. Three, again. T. Natural 20. Yes. Yes.

These dice are rolling horribly except when I want them to. I'm already, it's right or dice, baby. Rider dice. So what could. Okay, that's my first attack. The goose is ODing on gopia. And I have a second attack and I'm just gonna.

Oh yeah. The other one is gonna be a 28th, oh seven. The curse is wrong. Okay, so that's gonna be three of these. Yay. That's acceptable money. Acceptable money is what I was called. 17, 27, 37,

huge. 31 points of non-lethal bludgeoning damage as I crashed down attempting to knock him the fuck out. And then I look behind my shield, go to sleep. Oh, tell him with that hat. He looks like he should be named Taranathoranthorah's text. Oh, yeah, that's absolutely what I say. You look like it.

All hat and no cow cattle. You punch your... Good try, Laboose. It's not my thing. I just hit through the heart. You punch your fist up into the air. It becomes enormous. Like a crashing meteor, it picks up speed as you launch it down on top of him. And you hit him so hard you have pushed the hover bike into the...

the ice and the force of the blow cracks its body slightly. It still hovers and is operable, will operate. However, it is at, mechanically, you will understand it is at half the speed it would have had before you did that. And he would have enjoyed offering you disadvantage on opportunity attacks and now that will not exist as well. Nice. So he will effectively move. That is what I was expecting. That's very on brand for Derek. What am I doing? It's been a long day.

It's been a long day. It's back to you. All right. So I actually forgot that my sandblast is two beams in the first round. But anyway, we won't forget this round. So after having seen Lubush's incredible display of strength and what happened to the speeder, I'm going to target him, but specifically the speeder with my sandblast. Sandblast.

Twist one. Twist one. Yeah, just one. All the twists. Oh, that's a hit. 26. Oh, that hits. That's a hit.

Nice. And then so we'll do the D10. It's a 5 plus 5 is 10. And then the 1D6 from the sands of time. Nice. So it's 14. 14 damage. 14 points of damage.

Is your sand like pouring out of your hourglass thing? Yeah. So it's all basically. out at this point. The majority of it is using, not majority of it, but half of it would be around my legs, like, keeping me afloat. Oh, yeah. And the rest is all around you at this point. You're just like, oh, that's sort of whipping. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. The sand swirling at your feet, drawl around your arms and almost like swirling solid bangles. And as you gesture your arms out, they swirl into your palm and fire forward. And both will fly out land solid blows onto wrecks. as they deal

really big amount of damage that wrecking ball attack coupled with this has pushed him over the edge so you're dead of a reason oh okay

why he's the speeder the speeder the speeder or she's shooting for the speeder it's it's coarse and it gets everywhere It does start to get into the... There's an open crack in the speeder.

There's an open crack, and you can, looking closely, you can see the mechanics of it. Nothing seems to happen to it as of yet. The bots have explore, the shrapnel, we're screaming, Chuckles has handed me a horrific Coca-Cola bear. I'm like, ah, damn it, chuckles, I'll be back. And in a flash, I start a step again. and I peer behind him, behind Rex.

And as you step, the pull up, bears like right in front of you as it's walking, float here on, God. And then as I, as I land in front of Rex, I'm going to again, or behind Rex, I guess, depending on which way he's facing, I'm going to deliver two more punches with radiating light emanating from my fists. As I say, giving up Rex, you're just an amateur.

I'm going to use my inspiration on this five here, which is a what D? What D is it? For the inspiration? D6, right? Let me make sure about D8. No, I think it's a D8. Oh, D8.

And you can add it to damage to attack roll. So 20 to hit and then 17 to hit. 17 hits, that is the AC. There we go. For inspiration. Fucking huge. That's gonna be 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 27, 27 points of damage over to attack.

Oh yeah. Again, non- lethally, but I want to, I'm going body shots. I'm trying to like break some ribs. I'm kidding. Kiddy punch. Yeah. I make him with a, you know, a swift kick to the ribs. You're throwing in blows, punch after punch after punch, kick lands down. He's matching your movements as you throw them out. But that was just to faint him into classic maneuvers. As he begins to catch the cadence of your blows, you ship the speed quickly. And when he goes to block, you faint in and catch him right.

in the kidney. Two quick hits, you barely even pull back as the second blow lands right behind it in rapid succession. And you deal enormous damage. And now he's starting to like, he's gripping his side. He's looking a little rough. That's my turn. I'm there face to face with him. Is his shotgun still on the ground? Oh yeah. Okay. I'm going to maintain concentration on it. Just to keep it hot so that he doesn't, he's disencouraged. He's not encouraged to pick it back up. And I will, am I able to take shots like an aim for his bike, hoping that that would at least be less lethal

if I'm like just trying to destroy it from under him? Sure. Yeah. All right, I'm tired of this, and I will turn a knob on my cannon and it will start to sort of like almost supercharge. It will grow that sort of deep black hole. The edges will grow a brighter purple as it spins faster.

And I will take two super-powered shots. Let's go. Ahem. No, not the Gassetron Hovercraft 5000. Infusion powered. Say goodbye. You're just sending me. You're just seven.

present, Chuddles. December ween. I will take a step away. Oh, November wean present. Oh, I'll take five foot step and we'll just see what happens here. This is important. As I'm powering up, I just walk forward.

And... All the way down. I think you should twist it. Twist it, twist it, twist it. Twist it. Twist it. It looks better. Can't tell what? 13. 13? What?

13 is my athletics role. To not a slide. Oh, now. Yeah, you're sli. he's 15. Ah! Does he go all the way to the... Yeah.

He will move until obstructed by an object. Oh, I'm like walking combat with him and I look as you go by and like, where are you going? Come on, buddy. Well, Guy in Zooks.

That's fucking... You will take 10 points of bloods from crashing into this stalagmite damage. Is that dependent on how far you travel? That is a factor. Fuck this eyes! The little arms on my back will stand me up

as I'll just turn and I'll fire two shots. Oh, that's actually pretty fucking good. AT-17. Huge. Yes, both hit. Nice. So I will do, look at all the dice that I need. That's one, two. Three.

Come on, where's a D8? Some dice, I got some dice. You want some nice? I got some nice, right? Some dice. Got some chips. Ooh, that sounds good. A better seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, fifteen, fourteen, fourteen, fifteen, fifteen,

seven, plus twenty seven, plus twenty is forty seven points of force damage. Now, you want to do this. do this. Oh! Holy. If I can flavor it this way, I'll step forward and get away from this bot so he doesn't, like,

he doesn't fuck with my shot. Get the fucking away from me and I'll take two steps forward and I'll slip on my back. Oh! And I'll start sliding. I'll be like, ah, and then as I am passing, I see I'm passing right by him, I'm just going to turn and like supercharged my cannon right as I'm sliding past him and do like a massive blast just right under his bike and explore from under him as I slide past. And then hit the stalagged mic.

You take two steps forward and immediately slip. Your feet go out from under you. You land on the ether engine. You begin to spin. The room is just is a mess of swirling ice around you. You can't tell top from bottom. But as you approach, you gain pinpoint on wrecks. You draw the cannon, the ether engine starts to whir up.

A coalescing blast of force pools at the end of it. And as you're right next to him, as your melee range, he looks down laughing at you. Oh, fuck. As the cannon finds the open space, you see the crack where Lubush had smashed it into the ground and it split up in its center. You see the sand starting to erode some of the metal, opening it even further.

The machinery already starting to go a little down. And as you spin by a freeze frame for one second, as the cannon blasts into the center of the bike, it immediately explodes in an ice-blue electric flashing. He is flung up high into the air. and he will be sent towards the ice wall. Can I try to catch him? You're 15 feet of... Right now my reach of 30.

I just want to see if I could grab him out of the air. But if he's already on his way, if he's already on his way, if he's already on his way, if he's already on his way, it's like 14 turns later. I would just be like ducking cover from the blast from the bike exploding and like trying to cover my head. Matrix, dodging all the straps. What do you want me to walk?

Acrobatics check. Do a straight act? Oh. Is the Kirkman? Classic. Seven. You fire out your hand. The blast

is, the blast is forceful. This is not just a normal canon. The power that coalesces when Rhett pulls energy together is the reversal of the gravitational pull itself.

He is launched back at a speed that is similar to the movement Pike does when he throws a punch. Rex is flying through the air. It's frightening. And he, you fire out an extended arm as you go to grab and you just tickle the bottom of the show. I grab the shotgun. Your head falls and it lands right on top of the shotgun as the heated metal. And Rex slides back, hits the ice wall, and slides down. We killed him, killed him.

We don't know yet. Are these bots still attacking us? No, they exploded. When the bike exploded. Yeah. You all do something absolutely fantastical. Lived to die. It's split in three jumps.

Magenta light, gravitational bombs, punches, sand, ruby, and pies fly throughout the room as the bots all explode. Yeah, excellent. I just, I don't, I really check myself. I'm right. I'm right next to him. All right, my, my butt is against the ice hole as my legs are up against it after like, uh, like I'm like, where's my hammer?

And I'll just look over and he's right, is he unconscious against the ice wall? You have to inspect them. Oh, sound off. Is everyone all right? I will move my shoes forward and then stand up vertical along the wall. I'll then walk back down onto, or actually I'll walk along, I'll step back down here. And I'll say, hey, buddy, are you alive? Bounty Fed alive, so I hope you're not dead.

As I'll walk over to him to check them out. I'm fine. And I'll let my shield hand disconnect from my goo, and it'll shatter into, green pieces at the floor and then my hand will reform. I'll start to make my way. Roll a medicine check and you are dreaded. Oh, oh, that was a 20. Just roll high again.

Oh, 15. Beautiful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. As easy as that. You're very confident that he's dead. Oh, that's probably true. Hold on. Medicine, medicine, medicine, medicine, medicine. Plus one.

Big theme. Hey, I'll have my hat on top of my parka and I'll pull out a, like, a stethoscope, and now I'll put it around my head like Dr. Mario. So I have a parka with a bowler cap and a stethoscope. Dr. Chuckled it in. Oh, boy. Okay, and I'll just, I'll grab him up by the scruff.

Hey, are you live? You slap him forward and backward on the face. you move your stethoscope to and fro first to his neck then to his eyeballs then to his thigh then to the large piece of metallic shrapnel sticking out of his abdomen at which point you shout out hey I think I found the problem oh here's the problem there's the giant sard of speeder bike middle in his bowels it's more like in his rib cage you get the same thing it's in his ribs it's ribs he's He's bleeding, and he's bleeding not, what I would describe is not heavily. Not not heavily. Something that approaches heavily.

So, moderately? Moderately, for sure. The blood is starting to pull out. But it is so cold in this room that it's slowing the flow of blood. Jocles, whatever you do, don't pull it out. No, no, no. Don't pull it out. He's just like, e-r-r-r-e-r-e-r-e-er.

The arms on my pack are going to stand me up again, and I'm going to be like, all right. And then I'm going to sort of slowly, almost leaning back, and the arms are going to be doing this along the ground behind me to give me extra stability. And I'm going to approach chuckles and rocks. I'll be approaching with the rest of the game. Yeah, I'll be floating over. We'll make our way over slowly. How's he looking? He seems to be breathing. Although he's breeding bleeding profusely on account of the speeder bike shrapnel that is littered all throughout his body.

Hold him still. And I'm going to take out my pack will pass me this big stim pack that has like a big needle on the bottom of it. And I'm going to stick it into his chest and you'll hear this like, casting, Spare the Dying on him. Yes! Wow! Clever son of a gun. First time I've seen that used in six years.

and actually used him like a legitimate bounty on our campaign. You're staying alive, you son of a bitch. The spell makes him stable if that all work. Also, he's immune to rapies now. Without healing and making him conscious, if you don't want. It does so. I would say with that movement, the shrapnel will actually be pushed out of his abdomen and from the injection in his chest

in his chest, you pull it out. And before the blood explodes and you realize what you've done, you actually see a white line of foam start to fill in the wound is almost like an expanding sealant closes it up. Though you don't get the sense that this is healing him, just that it has spared his life. Before-had, Red. I like the flavor if the Douglas Masser will allow.

Before Rhett says anything or I'm not listening, he's stepping over. There's a bunch of shrapnel in them. I'll, like, pull it out. And then it'll, it'll plug it. And then it'll plug it. And then it'll start cleaning another. You have observed. Yeah, it's not trying to basically plug off

his wounds that are, guys. Oh, oh. I walk off. Okay. Oh, gosh. Is he still alive? He'll live. I don't know how long it's gonna be until the weeks up, but we should have at least an hour or so.

That should give us time to get back. Yeah, can we please get out of here? I've had enough of all this ice, this frozen wasteland. We got the guy. Let's just get out of here, all right? We've got what we came for. No, but... No? Yeah, no.

We need to find answers for dandy creation and origin and her strange vision. of the bleeding star and the tomb that was heralded by it. Then why did we just destroy all of these drittle bots? Oh. I guess they were trying to kill them. All I started walking up

and like thinking like well, Rex was looking for what is behind this wall, the amber light that we've seen. The boss wanted us to bring a thing. He thought Rex would have. Should we get the thing? Should we try and blast this wall?

Whatever's behind that wall. As soon as I touched it, I had the same experience that you guys had on the bridge. I don't like whatever's behind there. Oh, me too. I think we're dealing with things that we don't understand. Those of us that hadn't touched the wall during that interaction, now that we're close to it, do we feel anything? The closer you move to the wall, the more immense pressure you sense around you but if you're not touching it nothing occurs beyond that can I see the amber through that big crack that chuckles

created can I see an investigation check and you are dreaded oh man beautiful fucking go 20 you walk up to the ice wall you get close enough to the ice wall you get close enough to the visher that formed. Rex was already drilling into this. Prior to the temple warring to life, he had described it as entirely impenetrable.

The freezing cold, so impossible to cut through. You may think he was moments from giving up. But the temple coming to life, heating up, had gotten it to a place where it had begun to give away under checking.

The drill, the ether blasts, the hammer uh ret smashing into it with his giant body um it has loosened the hold that this wall has on whatever it contains

and as you walk up to the visher you uh might even briefly just put your hands in just to kind of glimpse in uh and as you do that you find yourself deep beneath the waves your hands extended out in front of you. You can't breathe, you can't hear, you can't smell, you can't feel.

You start to move your arms, flailing, desperate for any movement, not even to just escape, but for any sign that you aren't alone lost in a endless void of which you can never escape. It's in this moment, like stars start to erupt around you. A shimmering, hazy black obstructs your vision. You feel as if something has reached up from the depths and wrapped itself all around you. You try and push it off. Well, there's nothing there. But the crushing sense that you're being held and dragged.

ever deeper. In front of you, you see an enormous amber light. You moved back from the ice wall. Oh, God. That was the worst one. Caviar, are you okay? I think so now that I'm here, but that was terrible. There was something dragging me down. The light was bigger and brighter than it's ever been. I don't know what's behind there. If these visions are getting worse, I really feel like we are messing with stuff that we don't understand. Our only way out is back through the lift. Oh, here's the thing. Is it safe to say that I have restraints on me, being a bounty hunter?

Check. Yeah. So I'll once I make sure that he's not dead, these like grab cuffs, these like these like grab shackles will, I'll put material. in his wrists and his ankles. And I'll say, well, here's the thing. We know Rex was looking for whatever the fuck that is. And who's to say that if we leave it here alone right now,

someone else won't come back for it, the boss won't send somebody, because he knows where the fuck we are. We still do not know what Rex stole or what he was looking for. Does he have anything in the way? his pockets? Hi, did you not search him yet?

I was a little too preoccupied with the wall of ice, and I'll immediately like, kind of like scoff, and I'll begin to go through his jacket, his pockets, and see what I can find. Roll an investigation check. I'd be honored. And you are dreaded. Of course. Would I be able to assist? I'm sorry, you're all coated in it doing blood.

I tried to thapa. Sure, you can insist. You can roll at advantage, but you're still dreaded, so you're roll straight. Oh, oh. 17. 17. With a 17, you pat him down. You check the duster. You find his pistol at his left hip. I pick it up, I look at it, and I go, ha, man, not my style. You toss it behind you. It clatters onto the ice and slides towards the center of the

roof. It continues until it strikes a slagmite. You search the rest of them. You find a large sapphire about the size of like a deck of cards. And you find a golden ornate key that has an embossed end, two points that extend out, and two keyheads that move outward from it. And the end of it, like where you would hold, 7-7-7. And that's everything I find. That's what you find.

I think I know where that goes. After searching for a few minutes, I'll stand up, I'll walk over a ret and say, jackpot. And in one hand, I'll have the sapphire, and the other hand I'll have the key. 777. What in the hell? Is it the key to a locker? It must be. And either the boss wants the sapphire back because the sapphire was in some sort of lockbox,

or he just wants the key. How much do you think that sapphire's worth? Enough to make us sitting pretty for quite a while. Well, seems like we could finish the job right here and now. But we could learn something about your past, Andy. I don't want to take that from you. I will bash this wall down if you want to meet the wall. I think we should bash the wall down.

I think the boss, when we saw the boss just before, he didn't seem to know anything about this place. It also didn't seem like we were gone long. To him, we were gone, what, 10 minutes? And it had been days. Yeah. I think that was- Or has been days?

I think that might have been just our heads. Be a mess with. All right, well, if we're gonna knock down that wall, then, let's get ready. I'll stick the key in my jacket pocket. Kavir, and I will toss you the sapphire. Keep it safe. You got it, and I'll stamp my fingers,

and I still have room, the old wrist pocket. All right. Does it look like it'll take a while to sort of work through it? What can we do it? I'll answer that when you start. I'm ready when all of you are. I'm ready.

I'm ready. And my flower. I am going to see if I can just do this in like one strike. If I look and get a sense of where the weakest point is, there have been drill holes going into this whole thing. I do have this amorphous quality where perhaps I could go in through a crack and hold onto something on the inside of the wall or expand and just rip this thing.

Instead of slamming on the front of it, I'm going to try to weaken it from within, like breaking its back, its bone, whatever this ice wall is. How can I endeavor to, can I? I find a hole like that first and then continue the logic of my idea. Roll an investigation check and you are dreaded. Oh, good. That would mean I'll have negative 30s. Yeah. And their faces are going to go insane. Oh my god. What is it? Investigation.

Did you break their hers again? This is a 13. It's the highest roll I've rolled all night. Please don't hurt me. You find exactly such a hole. You think that if you were to strike, in this spot, hold your fist there and allow yourself to pierce the wall, you would be able to delve beyond it. I'm going to try to reach into the hole and start to pound my way through. I assume that this means that I am touching the water. You start to, you're touching the ice.

As your fist lands, nothing happens. As your fist lands a second time, it starts to shatter. It starts to crack. Iceicles start to fly off in all directions. You pound, you pound, you pound. And as you get ever closer, you feel like you no longer have the ability to stop if you wanted to. You are determined to break through this sheet of ice. You start to crash through it.

You open up the hole in the wall larger and larger and larger until a crack, instead of running vertically, runs directly horizontal deep into the sheet of ice. It's at this moment, you stop striking it. You put your hand to the wall, and you begin to ooze into the opening you've created. You reduce in size by about half until you touch something.

Oh, Kavir is he's quid for you. You're inspired. That's Labouche. The Bush. Not Gavir. Oh, Laboosh. It's just the clown madness. I love squid. My best impression of him

when I'm not doing the whoop-whoop sounds like Dracula. You watch Laboosh do this as he blasts through the wall, punching and punching and punching. The ice splits. It separates. He digs deeper and deep. He digs deeper and deeper and deeper. He says nothing while he goes. It's at a certain point that he opens enough space that he understands that he can get through it. He puts his hand to the wall. He starts to shrink. You can see a portion of his form entering the ice sheet as it moves towards whatever is within.

There is a moment for about three seconds where he stops shrinking entirely. He pauses. says nothing and turns jet black. The bush, are you okay? The second you say that, he explodes into black seawater that fills the room. The five of you are in the depths of the ocean. Oh. You cannot breathe, you cannot see, you cannot feel, you cannot hear, you cannot hear, you cannot You cannot sense.

However, this time you see each other. Swirling around you, you feel the presence of something. It's impossible to call it a creature. It would be a mockery to do so. Dandy. You see yourself atop the pyramid. You see yourself clad in a crown. A black cloak flows from behind you.

Your hands atop. hands atop pillars that pulse a ruby light into the depths of a planet. Your energy reaches its core, erupting out from every space, nature retakes the world. All inhabitants are killed. Rhett, you find yourself in the middle of a battlefield, the ether engine warring at your back. go out. Gravity rips people from limb to limb. You see bone, you see blood, you see death, everywhere you turn. You're drowning in a massacre. Pike, you were on a similar such battlefield.

You were fighting a creature you do not recognize, clad entirely in black armor, a silhouette Eerly familiar, but you cannot place it. Wielding a large dual glave. From behind, it slashes you. It cuts you through your core. You fall to the ground. Come here. You find yourselves thrown from a sand ship.

You're on the sands. Creatures start to come at you. massive, hideous worms. They erupt from the ground and like cascading ribbons crash through the sky as their hideous maws come down about you and tear you to shreds. Chuckles. Oh.

You are in the honk weave. The air is red, ground, covered in blood. You see in front of you another clown. A female, hair in the shape of a you coming to points, large pantaloons, skin ghost-white. She has a llama-corn on an altar. She looks at you with dreadful glee in her eyes as she cuts it from throat to stem. And its blood drifts into the ground, filling an altar as an explosion of, of hideous energy erupts into the air.

Are we dead? Do not pass go, do not collect $200. Do not rule that saving throws, you weren't done. Do not collect $90,000 credit. Yeah, there you go. You're waking on the ground of the ice in the room that you were just in. The stalag mice that lined the floor

have melted away. The ground is covered in spots in a black gooey liquid. The ice wall is gone. Behind it, you see the crater of something that looks like it had crashed through the ceiling, fell to the floor, and indented a hideous scar forever in this temple. It sat waiting, and it has been released. And as we're on the session. Oh God, it was the bleeding star! Oh my God!

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