Mayday Plays - 💀 KULT: Divinity Lost 🪽 Mayday plays The Atrocity Exhibition, Episode 4 - "Le triomphe de la mort"

Episode Date: July 26, 2023

The survivors of the Cecil Throne exhibit finally come to understand the meaning of the Atrocity Exhibit. The grand finale of KULT: Divinity Lost. Cast: Sergio as Cecil Throne "The Careerist" Lev as Cole Dubois "The Descendant" Caleb as Hugh Letho "The Cursed" Zakiya as M.I.N.T. "The Artist" Amanda as Dr. Isadora Swan "The Scientist" and Eli as The Storyteller Check out KULT: Divinity Lost; kultdivinitylost.com/ We've got merch! https://ko-fi.com/maydayrp (t-shirts and stickers) Thanks for checking out our channel! We offer a bunch of art, music, and behind-the-screen access including Vegas By Night 1-on-1 sessions on our Patreon; https://www.patreon.com/maydayrp including access to our discord server! We started as a podcast! Listen to us @: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mayday-plays/id1537347277 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5vdTgXoqpSpMssSP9Vka3Z?si=73ec867215744a01 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/mayday-roleplay Here are some of our other socials; Twitter: https://twitter.com/maydayroleplay Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maydayrp/ Website: https://maydayroleplay.com/ Thanks for your support! Broadcasted live on Twitch -- Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/maydayroleplay

Oh, that's a really nice one. I know. Hello. Good evening. And welcome to Made a Roll Play. Thank you for joining us at a more nocturnal hour as we continue to view Geva Queen's Atrospe exhibition, a published module for cult divinity laws. But before we get into our final festivities for this evening, some things to mention and

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are used that are table and X-card can be employed at any time. And unless we have an card can be employed at any time. And unless we have any, oh, Jesus, now unless we have anything else to say to talk about. No? All right. Let's get started. Consequences must be accepted. There is no choice in the matter. All things are paid their due. Because there is a certain point once awakened, you start to realize this was all a part of the grand design. You were meant to stumble, find the things you weren't supposed to.

Make deals to quell fears. Inperred into the idea that what grows inside you is just something meant to be sacrificed on the altars of old gods. There is no amount of truth, no amount of action, no amount of consequence or acceptance that will change what you deserve for being awake. In the hearth of the Cecilthorn Art Center held by the scruff of

his jacket, a corpse drags the living. He sobs and begs against his actions, listing the myriad of things to appeal to the humanity of this being who does not hear him. Entering the main floor, the new found being that was once the body of Alonoto set, labors hellishly to complete his work. The corpse drops the man at his feet and has set cranes to inspect the material with gouged-out eyes that drip with black iker. As one of its limbs scoops them up, cracking them open and dispensing the insides amongst paint pots fashioned from discarded bodies. Once satisfied, he dips his paintbrush and stirs gently. He returns to where he left off painting, a sigil on the floor. The details is tedious, but he remains focused and continues as the eight paintings and the triptych of the atrocity exhibition hang above. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room.

I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room.

I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. Welcome back, Jesus. Maybe. Why don't we quickly go around the table, introduce ourselves or characters and what not. Starting with love. And what not. Hey, I'm love. I am playing your resident. What was the word?

I lost it. I had a quickie one liner that I was gonna say. And I'm called a boss. I'm called a boss. I'm called a boss. I'm Amanda and I am playing Dr. Isadora Swann. Not the one. Swann.

Okay. I'm Caleb James Miller. This is Vince, and I'll be playing Hugh Letho today. I'm Sergio, and I don't know who this is. It's just a person behind me, silhouetted. But I am playing not Caleb from Seasal throne. You're doing great today, Gain. My name is Zach and there's nobody behind me yet.

I play Mint. I'm Eli. I'm Elie. I'm Elie. I'm Elie. I'm Elie. I'm Elie. I'm Elie. I will Eli. Are we lost them in? We lost them in?

That's the game. I'm Eli. I will be your storyteller for today. Some housekeeping. Let's keep this this happy momentum going. We have some general housekeeping to do. Let's start with our two folks that need to start at roles at the top of our session for their curses for their

shenanigans. Caleb, Sergio, let everybody know how you guys are going to be doing today. Well, at the start of every session, I rolled to see how condemned I am and I rolled a 16, which is very good, so I'm not condemned at all. I'm just going to make it out and then I rolled for six cents and I have two options for my sixth sense. So I rolled this well. Good news, good news. Thank you for you Caleb. So for condemned I roll a six meaning that I have this many to live. That's only four. Four X's. I'm dead, folks. And for academic, I have three options. God knows what the fuck that's going to do for me, but you know, they're there.

And that's, oh, and I'm not cursed this session, thank God. God. Yes.. Curse but not cursed. It's fine. Nah. At the start of every session we go quickly around and temperature check our relationships. Some of us got to break off into smaller groups and got to really get to the core of some of some of this exhibition. So who wants to go first? Who who is adding to any of their NPC or PC relationships, who's subtracting from it? How are we feeling? I can go first. I'm adding to Mint because I said that we're going on a date in France and they got flustered. Hey. Hey.

I'm not going to film it. I'm going to film it. Ah! Beautiful. Simple to the point. We love it. Who's next? Mint, do you reciprocate?

Do you got other feelings or is other people? I was going to say can we add one to Vaqueen, or to at least baby Vaqueen? That queen was not technically people on your list of relationships, so this is more centered around your PCs and NPCs. Okay, then I was at coal, yeah, cause on account of it, making a date in hell.

Okay. Gotta take the chances when they come. Beautiful. We love that. I'm probably gonna have to take a negative to Brahim Nasra, the Tunisian art dealer, because I tried to throw him to the crowd. Yeah.

I'm surprised it didn't work. It really well, but he stayed alive. Oh, I mean, others did step in to kind of help out, so that kind of helped Ricky him in the end, but, you know, that's voices. I just don't think he's gonna like me much anymore, so they can one of that. I mean, it's a very short list of people

who actually like you, Cecil. Um, as a door, how are we feeling? Who are we connecting with or or retracting from? Well, actually, we're going to go ahead and add one to Hugh because of the, uh, what happened with the courtyard in the eye, uh, the eye storm of the arm or something whatever you did. Ah, that was, that was very good. Mm-hmm. Good, good, good.

Is that everybody? Oh yeah, no, Hugh. Who are you feeling? Who are you not feeling? What's the apps? I think I'm going gonna add one to the doctor because she was sort of instrumental in like helping to persuade Carvaggio and our boy, our demon boy, I forget his name.

Vaqueen. Vaqueen. So her help with Vaqueen and carting him over with the wine and everything. Vakuin. Vakuin. Vakuin. Vakuin. Vakuin. So, her help with Vakuin and carting him over with the wine and everything. I think that whole moment was very special for you. And while he's already connected with Cecil and Cecil kind of pointed a gun at Caravaggio, it was a little easier to take the positive with the doctor there. So plus one to the good doctor. Good. The doctor is in.

Doctor is in. In fact, in in season. Beautiful. All of you also did occur three extra points of experience. It is not enough for us to do any more additional advancements, but I do believe you guys learned the lesson or two yet last session, so I will give you the full amount. So close. So close yet so far. I have a question. Sure. Since it was like my birthday, can you get a point? We'd have to right now figure out what we're going to do with all five of them. We just automatically at your. I will say because it's your birthday that you will have one special move that you can use.

To get through this this at any time. The precedence we are setting will be advantageous. Give it to the one of the most biggest chaos monsters on the show. I love it. You know what? I accept this because I know this will come back and bite me in some way in the future. How? How could it possibly?

Is it or you're having a, you're doing very well. You're of the most composed of all of the, all of those at the gallery. So you guys after choosing to let William Rive and Rahimasar into your office space, after you manage to get past some goo, and Rahim Masar into your office space. After you manage to get past some goo with some quickness and some inner power,

you guys ran towards the tunnels, the back surface areas that make up this gallery. It hopes to get down to the vault. You're hoping to get to a friend, Mary Jensen, who's down there, and maybe just regroup in somewhere that you guys might find safer to spike, and pray that slowly you're starting to taper around you. But as you got into that hallway and expecting the staircases to lead you to your destination, you found yourselves intrigued by something above as well as something below.

As you guys venture and investigate that and find yourselves in various parts of Europe, meeting and understanding parts of that queen's life that seems to be spilling out all around you You guys speak with Vaquine engage with them and relatively sort some of what was going on with him and once you found it's satisfactory you all decide to press on to hopefully reach your destination.

And as you meant and coal, kind of go through that door way, the lead of that Queen's childhood apartment, and as you as a doerah and Hugh and Cecil, you guys kind of go through the darkness of further into the ruins of the gallery in Italy. You all come out on the other side in what feels like the heat of an expansive desert. It's dry, the wind is hot and it wafes down all around you.

And as you kind of come out of the tunnels or out the doorway, you see sand billows all around you. And when you look down at your feet You're you see you know just warm sand kind of shifting with each step you take sunlight is harsh and it blazes ahead of you and You are looking at sand dunes and scrub brush And everything feels oddly quiet and peaceful in this moment but you're

somewhere even further than the parts of Italy, the parts of Paris that you were at, you're in this rural area. But as you guys come out, you all seem to kind of collage together as if, you guys come out, you all seem to kind of colegate together as if you're all meant to diverge in one space and place. Cole admits that the young back queen who you were carrying with you is not there with you as you guys are standing there. As you're now, you know, you had him in your hands,

but you look down in your hands still kind of of clenched around like it would be around someone's hand, but nothing there to support that. But you're all here. I think Cecil was kind of like running, hoping that, you know, finding the way out was gonna lead somewhere, it leads somewhere completely different. I think he stops and like pants and like looks out and turns, sees the other three.

Doesn't even give them a formal hello and he's like, you know what? Screw Mary Jensen. God damn it. Where the hell are we? I'm just looking around. I'm gonna turn around. Is there everywhere all around like the everything is now just sand dunes 360? Yeah, um Yeah, you're like up down it's just sand dunes. It's sand dunes in sky. I mean like everything around you looks pretty like desolate like you're in the middle of just Just you know just a vast kind of desert.

Anybody recognize where we are? Sure. How similar is this to the painting that Queen made of that man climbing the sand in? It looks very true. Do I feel like I'm like like almost one to one. Yeah, you you you you kind of recognize as you kind of notice some of the the way the the the the do it's slope and stuff like that that it resembles a much of the painting is you're kind of been you kind of trying to string together images and correlations. It feels something like that.

Eli? I'd like to because that is true with the painting. I would like to observe the situation, especially around particular sand dunes where that body or the man would possibly be. Like because if it was on like the slope, I'm going to specifically try to look for like slopes to see if I can find. Okay, like that. That image. Roan B. Roan B deserved the situation. Does anybody else want to be looking around investigating, um, sussing out where you might be here. I would like to... I think you is... I think Cole is going to start calling out in French for the key that we had with us. And I'd also like to use enhanced awareness as I look around to see if I can see through the illusion. Roll roll that and hold that roll and I'll call upon you in just a moment. He, what did you want to do?

I was just saying that he probably reaches down and picks up some of the sand and looking towards Cecil's question and he goes, I think somehow we're walking through each of these paintings. Before we were in that hoarder's house, the same from the lovers, right? And here, you remember the nomad, him walking through the desert, I think we're walking through

that queen's paintings as memories. This is bullshit. There's like 12 paintings. No, it's actually, think about it. It's quite logical. What's the point? What's the point? We get to the end of the paintings and then what we're dead or we get to the end of the paintings logical. What's the point? What's the point?

We get to the end of the paintings and then what we're dead or we get to the end of the paintings and we find a way out. I think we might still be in the middle of the ritual. If they needed us dead to achieve immortality, we may be trapped in that same room we left. I think all of this is an illusion until we're dead. Or immortality is the end of the painting. Oh, yeah, I'm sure this leads right to everything being hunky-dory.

I think he's just another option, it's gonna be. He needs help. I mean, when Mint and I were in France, we kind of talked him down almost and he came with us. He ran. He seemed, I don't know, cogent for a little bit. What if we just have to walk through his memories and give him what he needed?

Maybe that can... You saw that being... Two. We met him, but he was a trunk. He was a sprawling idiot. We introduced him to paravaggio of all people, but... You're not breaking paravaggio. She had to help him. Yes, yes, yes. It does not speak much English, but it was incredible. I mean, I must have tried to talk to him for as long as I could pointing at every intricate detail, but nothing.

You, my foo. How'd you? You. It was one body in the photo. Yeah, it was one body in the photo. And the painting, correct? In the nomad, you mean the desert? Yeah.

I believe so. Just one person climbing the dunes. Isadora, what did you roll for your observed the situation? I rolled it 12, and I could ask one question. What is the question? So... What is being hidden from me? Where's the dude?

Where's the dude? Does the dude acquire? Where is the dude? Where is the dude? Where is the dude? Where is the dude? Where is the dude? What did you roll for your enhanced awareness? Oh, because I get perception, right? No, it's a coal.

Oh, me, I'm so sorry. I was reading other things related to this. I got a 16. OK. And what grants you a 16? On success, you have visions about the place and may even be able to speak to entities tied to it. to it. Is it or you're scanning the sand dunes and the first thing you clock is that kind of in the distance you're starting to see what looks to be a sand storm picking up and

rushing and moving towards you guys at a rapid pace. And you can even start to feel the wind starting to pick up and kind of blow between your hair and and against the sweat that's acclimating on your brow from this heat. And as you're kind of like scanning the dunes trying to like photo match what you saw in the images taking on what he was mentioning about the connections between painting and real life. And you kind of see that notice this kind of dune that kind of matches that formation that was kind of painted and stroked by that queen. And as you're kind of seeing that, you're noticing in the distance that there seems

to be structure there, but looks to be stone work, that as the sand is starting to move kind of displaces, and it's starting to see, so, Cole, as you're just kind of also just standing there in the silence as everybody's trying to figure out what to do next, as Cecil's growing irritated and is adora and hue are trying to figure out what this all might mean. You start to get flashes and images of what looks to be sand-weathered snow and an ornate fashioned mat and the sounding of chanting and prayer

and a bone-looking knife and other artifacts that seem to be placed and what looks to be that queen praying and and rocking himself in a manic kind of state and you see just kind of like the archway amongst like a sand dune, as you kind of get snapped back immediately into this, into back to the heat of this dune. Could I understand any of what he was chanting? Was it a language I knew? But it felt familiar. It was not something that you could understand, but it felt familiar. Like I'd heard it before. Hmm. Okay. I guess I'll turn to everyone and say, we're looking for an archway and stones. There's a, I don't know, a place of prayer somewhere out here.

That's where we'll find them. I think, maybe. Hugh. Hugh. Yes. Your arm. What about it? Does it sense any, and I'm going to point into that general direction, especially where, or like a compass? I just want to see if there's like a reaction.

Like... Yeah. or like a compass. I just want to see if there's like a reaction. Like yeah um Eli I'll put out that disgusting now larger arm since he's used it um and I guess I'll try and observe the situation. Yeah, Romeo, Romeo, that's not- I get anything extra for using my big spooky arm. I will say add your relationship modifier from Isadorus and she is the one enticing you to do this. What do your horribly cursed eyes see? Oh, yeah, baby. Okay, I have a 19. So so beautiful. That's what three questions. Yeah. It's two questions. It's two questions plus an advantage. Honestly, I think that I'm

just trying to see what I can get out there. I'm not sure what questions I want to ask here. It should be go towards or hold on. hold on to those questions. If you guys have intentions to move forward towards this structure that that is a door is clocked and and Cole has Cole has also seen or has inclinations towards and as you guys see the storm continuing to get closer and it's starting to like blow against you guys as you're feeling hot warm sand just like pelt on your on the back of your heads and then off to your sides. You guys start heading towards this this dune. Yeah, anything is just cover from the storm. Yeah, I try to get out of of where you currently are.

It's a very expensive shirt. I don't want to get ruined. So not already ruined? Yeah, there's probably a lot of blood on it. Yeah. It's expensive. I don't know until now. Like goddamn it. Clepsota and lemon. Oh, I usually have my maid do that. I'll have to remember it. Tell them that. Gee.

I'm just going to give her a new one. Eventually as you guys get closer to this dune, you do find that kind of painted archway of claying and stone. And it's you know you can't quite see further in, you would have to kind of go in further as there's no interior light, but the wind is picking up and it seems the only cover for what seems to be miles. Uh, we're heading in. Yeah, I'm pushing to head in there, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you guys all, um, clamor inside. I'm still looking for doll supplies. I know everything is sand. Sure, but maybe there's a Joanne's. What exactly? I don't know if I'm... No, not see through the illusion.

Somebody have any light or anything they would like to help them see as you guys kind of clamor into this what just seems to be a little small outcove which is enough to shelter you guys from the sand but it goes deeper. As a lesbian is a door instantly pulls out a lighter. Okay. Trash. So flame is fighting to stay lit because the wind is still kind of whistling through this little alcove and kind of pushing flickering it quiet. But if you go deeper in, it probably stabilizes.

Is there, I wouldn't bring it up against the walls. Is there any mark? Hmm. Sure. Let me see my environment. Yeah, I mean, as you kind of start going a little bit further into the tunnel and you kind of start putting the the flame up against the walls, you do notice that there are things carved and etched into the sides, what looks to be ruins, pieces of lettering, things that you don't necessarily have, like specific knowledge on,

but it seemed that it was intentionally put into the walls. Cecil. Cecil. What? You're sure. How ruined is it? It's ruined. Yes, what okay? I'm gonna go and see if I can rip off Oh, no, be sure give me I need I need you have a white shirt. I need that really quick. Give me it's not white It's a delightful

Like green. Oh even better Not even gonna put up with it. I'll let them do it. I just want the reason is I want to stretch it. If nothing else, it's just because I've been working out for a few months. I have nice arms. I just want to show them all. They are very, okay.

I'm going to grab it. I'm going to grab those that because they're sand everywhere. I want to see if I can get some of that on the lining. Like if I can actually see a little bit of the carving. Like, you know, we sketch a pencil up against. Oh, you're using the dirt like to. Yeah, it's like an impression. Yes, yes, yes, yes, I understand.

My art students, yes. OK. Sure. Yeah, you start to collect that data. You start to make impressions on the shirt taking the time. Are you continuing to go further into the cave? Is anybody like, is a door is like not going in? Is a door is like doing research at this point while you guys are just standing here in this little outcove. As always, ignoring the fact that wherever you are,

who knows, but sitting there taking impressions. Yeah, I think we all realize this has nothing to do with why we're here. And I will at least pull out my cell phone and start moving deeper into the space. Same. Especially if Cole mentioned anything about seeing Vaquin, I think we're probably trying to look for him.

Yeah. I'll just say he was praying and there was a mat. I didn't really understand it, but I think I heard it before. I don't know. Okay. Does it seem like there's anyone that might be following us? I don't know. I'm glad. Does it seem like there's anyone that might be following us? I know the wind isn't really making tracks happen, but like... Does it seem like there's anything else that might be out here other than us?

I mean, you look out the, you know, out the little archway that you guys entered, but the sandstorm has picked up to the point where like you can't really see beyond a few feet. It's whistling hard. If there was something out there, it's trapped by the sandstorm. And who knows, like when you're in sandstorm sounds like that, you know, directions are weird, so the odds of something following you seem slim. I think he looks at Mint seeing that they're looking for something out there, and he speaks up and says, do you see something in Paris? Something following? Not exactly. It just...

Is that just him? Yeah, I was, I mean, the, whatever the fuck that thing was, that maybe was supposed to be his dad, but he was just already in the room when we got in the room. But there was, there was a big... Tall got in the room, but there was there was a big Yeah, like demon in a corner and If we're going through phases of paintings or phases of his life, I think there's a demon at every stop Or something scary. There was something in hours. We were walking through the museum. There was something tall and spindly moving closer to us every time we looked away. Dressed like a local, but far too large to be one.

But you didn't see him show up. He was just there. When he was getting too close we left, we didn't want to stick around and find out when he catches us. Let's just find this guy and get out of here. Get onto the next one. Again, Hand on Wall just walked deeper and deeper because it's getting darker, right? deeper and deeper because it's getting darker, right? Yeah, yeah. Okay. And on walkie-wobbing. With each step that you guys take and Cecil's leading the pack with the light, the first thing you kind of smell is that like the room is the the air around you starting to grow a bit stagnant, but it also has the hints of incense and also the lingering smell of rot as you guys get closer. Even with the little bit of a cell phone light and the lighter

that is a door it has to kind of flick on and off because it only stays illuminated for so long before it kind of extinguish itself when she removes her hand from the trigger of it. But with each step you guys get closer and with that smell in mind and the voices that start to kind of get picked up as you hear kind of Repeatingly over and over something being murmured in the distance There's also another feeling there Isadora and and you you would kind of clock that feeling first that feeling of impending dread the the the sensation that first that feeling of impending dread, the sensation that the cessation you would get if you were like teetering on the edge of a cliff knowing

that there's nothing there to save you and the only thing at the bottom of that cliff would be the end. You know, the feeling that you kind of been stowing away you every single time you feel the pressure of what's growing on your arm reminds you of the inevitability of it. You're just on the edge of that hallway and you could enter into whatever the next room is, but to do that you have to really push through that feeling. That seems to kind of wash over all of you. Do we move forward? Here? Can you grab my hand? And I want to extend my hand out to you, see if he'll take it. Which hand? Yeah. Whichever he get put, whatever he... Whichever he get put, whatever he...

Sure, you're a little scared to move forward, I guess, and he's lying to himself, but he does reach out with this human hand Part of him, he thinks he is If he does then I'm gonna go ahead and move forward in Yeah, you you feel fingers interlock between yours as you accept your requests and you to move past everyone and enter in is everybody else following or you guys standing on this bedpest. Could Cecil attempt to maybe hang back and maybe sneak in so that if attention is drawn to the group,

he can maybe at least be in the shadows. Sure, you can not enter last. Yeah, absolutely. I'm not trying to do anything, doctor. I'm just trying to keep us safe. Let's see, what do I roll? Act under pressure. pressure. Yeah, after the pressure, after the pressure since you're trying to be stealthy and and not falling in line with what everybody else is doing. Mitt Kol, are you following behind Hugh and Isadora who are now hand in hand walking into this ominous feeling? I'm gonna hold my hand. Oh my my god I knew we were gonna say that

shit look I have to keep some level of normalcy right for the symmetry of it all sure for the symmetry of it all yep they yeah they go forward. Cecil rolled a 15, so he succeeds. 15? Yeah. All right. Then you get to do what you intended to do, Cecil. Sneak into the shadows, my god. Eli, while I'm walking with Dr. Swan, I think he is gripping a lot harder than he expected too because he's scared of that crevice, that precipice that you've

set him on, but I think he's trying to remind himself that if he truly is trapped in the paintings, if this truly is the ritual, then what he's experiencing right now is what the world wants him to. And so while he's doing that, I think he wants to reach down with his other arm, his eyeed arm, and try and grace the ground, and I think he's trying to break the illusion. Okay. Can I make a break the illusion, Ro? Yes, you may.

Awesome. I have a 16. You you reach your your cursed arm out and you kind of drag it along the floor. And what you're expecting is the predipest, you know, that sinking feeling, that death that's on the horizon, you just realize it's just floor. And it kind of breaks that fear for a moment, that you're not on the edge of a cliff, you're not going to die here. You are just crossing the

line or the illusion or whatever is occupying and holding onto this space. And whatever it is that that holds power here is associated with that sensational feeling, that lingering death, that that that thing that fuels you to to to fear it. That's what it is ultimately that's what's in the illusion is just the lingering power of something greater that occupies here and you guys push past this feeling and you enter into this cave and it opens into a cavern-like temple and you notice now that getting past this darkness and this wave of fear that it's lightly lit with a shrew of candles all around. And there seems to be a silent congregation in the lingering areas of of what looks like those corpses that you guys have been kind of running up against.

And they seem to be also participating in this chanting and in the center of all of that is just a collection of tombs and parchedments that kind of sit, organized haphazardly into a circle, and at its center is back when, and he's crouched upon this old mildew-looking prayer mat, lost in chanting that he just kind of murmurs over to himself over and over again. He's right around him seems to be just a singlet ring of ruins that that are been carved around him. And you even notice as as the light

kind of you adjust to the light that whatever those other corpses and stuff like that every time they try to get a little bit closer towards backuene. They brush up against that ruins and it seems to be the thing that deters them away from him as if it's protecting him. But Vacuene is just sitting there. And as he's praying and stuff like that, before him is like several items, a rustic crown, a tarnished knife, a wanned card from bone, or a knife card from bone, and a wand that is obsidian in color. And he does not seem to register, you will, at all. And he's preoccupied on the continuing to pray amongst these items.

Would you like to do anything? Question. I'm so sorry. Caleb, do you still have those two questions? Yes, Caleb's still not so sure. Yeah, yeah, I do. Nice. Not saying Adam, telling you how I'm just...

I don't know if we have that. not cuz I love it. I think it's totally the time to do it You said the pull up the little reference she here and see what we can ask there's like a force He has grew like ruins that are carved into the stone around him. And it seems in observation that these corpses, you know, you've noticed that they've attacked you guys before and was relentless and single-minded when it came to brushing up against the living. But every time one seems to break off from the pack, they brush up against that ruins and it seems to push them back away from what. You know, in the same way that like a electric fence protects cattle from wandering away. What are those questions you? So, Eli, what can I use to my advantage here?

Eli, what can I use to my advantage here? What you definitely can use to your advantage here is the fact that Vakuin is preoccupied and it seems to keep the calm of this room. And what you also can use to your advantage is that that protection ring that has been mentioned. That is, seems to be a source of keeping back queen where he's at and keeping him unbothered by the other thing, the unnatural that is occupying around him. Does there seem an obvious way to get to him or is he surrounded by these zombies? He's not completely surrounded. They're kind of just ebbing and flowing. They're just kind of walking through the darkness.

You could easily walk up to Bakuini, who's sitting there praying. Nothing seems to stop you. What was the second question, Caleb? What is my best way through this would be my second one? When you were in Italy and the way you engaged with Vakwingen seemed like a good option,aging with him did something for you, and maybe that's enough to break the illusions that are held here.

You also know that the best way to- The Cecil's just gonna put the glocton. Hmm. I'm possibly. You also, you. You know, you notice that of all of these, all of these encounters, this is the first time you've noticed specific, ritual items that have been used that are there. You also notice that there is a like, we're back when is sitting. Down the way looks to be another tunnel and hallway. And you get the inclination that sometimes

maybe the best course of action is no action at all. That's true. I mean, at this point, we're just seeing him at different points in his life. What would be helpful is if somebody asked him, where did you learn this information? Is this where you learned it? You know, it'd be nice to confirm if he was actually just looking for a way to live forever. In that similar vein, Cole has been... Cole's been on their way to Vakuin pretty much since we enter the room.

I think I dropped Maint hand, so it was not to drag them with me. And I think Col's just trying to walk up as calmly as possible through the monsters and sit down next to him if I can. To sit down and talk to Vekwin? To get out. I thought to get through the monsters I might have to roll something. I don't have to. I'm cool if I don't have to.

I think I think you're going to, but now that you asked for it, I was going to say, it's what I guess you feel the need to prove yourself. Oh, I don't need to. I don't, I don't, I don't need to. You know, we know that I can walk through monsters, right? I don't know, we'll find out. Fuck, I'll do it.

All right, I'm rolling. Active to pressure would be your role plus your coolness. That's cool, that's all right. But acting of pressure would be your role plus your coolness 16 16 All right, yeah This is the first time I've locked your creepy temple Yeah, despite no seeing these corpses Walking about you they seem to ping you no mind as you cross through the small area in which

Vekuin is praying to, and you sit down across from him. And he is just head to the floor amongst this array. And you look at the papers and there's like, there's mentionings of Texas and diagrams and things that he seemed to have been writing about and discussing, but you take his hand and he seems to stop for a moment, his manicness, and he kind of looks up to you. And he seems, you know, you didn't realize that he had such really deep blue set eyes

as he kind of does that. And it looks like he's about to well up and tear as he kind of scans your face, coal. And he seems to murmur something to himself in French as he kind of smiles upon your image. What does he say? Because I speak French. You speak French. He kind of murmurs to himself that you look like an angel.

And he seems settled in this moment as he's looking at you despite the manickness of everything that's going on. I think I'll say I even have wings and I'll kind of like pull my jacket off just to like show off my wing tattoos. Yeah, you go, you know, with shaky hands, if you allow him, he'll kind of touch the top

of your shoulder where the feathers are. As if, you know, like a painter, like a sculptor, kind of taking in the art on you. Is there anything else you're doing here with him as he seems receptive to what you're doing? I think I'll just ask, what are you praying for? Who are you praying to? When you ask what he's praying to, the smile starts to dim a little bit as the manickness

starts to kind of there. Um, he mentions to you that, you know, um, and then as, and then as he's kind of looking at the both the crown and the wand and the knife. He continues in French a bit, mentioning that he is praying to who he serves. The one who will grant him immortality. Torugini is what he says. He says the name over and over again. And the seems to be caught in a repetitiveness as he says that name over again. Torugini, Torugini, Torugini.

And it causes him to just return back to the prayers as he fiverishly continued on as if he's taking too much time in this interaction. So I try to catch his chin and stop him from like going full all the way down. If you do that, he grabs your wrist with swiftness and with a lot of strength that he's squeezing hard on it. It's okay. Why do you need to live forever?

What does immortality give you? This life can't. He doesn't answer you. He begins to murmur those prayers again to you as if that is really what it is. Is the prayer getting any more familiar? Is it an actual experience I've had? Does it remind me of where the temple I was in? It kind of does. It remembers the time you spent in California.

And though a lot of that experience is lost to you, except for the moments that it pops and scrapes into your mind. You find the words that they're saying comforting and familiar as if you have kind of heard them before. But he continues to go pray as he sits amongst those items and he seems to return to ignoring you. Can I pick up at least the papers and try and take them back to you and isadora? Yeah, it doesn't seem an issue for you to remove the papers from the circle. seem an issue for you to remove the papers from the circle. But she bring them back to Hugh and to Isadora. And I'll say, Torgh, meaning that he serves, that's who's going to make him a mortal.

I don't know what it means. The prayer sound familiar, but I don't know what it actually means. Maybe the papers can help. And I'll all help in like translate where I can, if it's in French. And I'll pass the papers off to those two. I'm gonna go ahead and, you know what, I gotta investigate the actual paper. Like I wanna actually investigate the actual paper.

Okay, cool, that dice. Cecil Mint, are you guys doing anything here? How are you guys handling this stuff if you're watching? VecQueen is back to his prayers while Colin and Isidora, who are discussing papers, there's still those artifacts and items. There's still the hallway in which maybe we'll lead you out. What would you like to do? Go ahead, Dumbin. I'm thinking about the hallway. I think once Cole exited the circle, Mint is just slowly starting to go that way

and say we can look at these and walk, right? He's not going anywhere. these and walk, right? He's not going anywhere. Cecil heard the name Togorini and it sounds weird, like another name that I know that Cecil knows. And I don't know, he feels tempted to say something. I think he says, hold on, quick. Cole, call me back to him and I'll try to lead them back to... Okay, fine. Okay, fine. What? Ask him if he's heard any other names.

Other names besides Hogorini. Okay, I'm gonna try for the gentle approach again because it worked the first time. And if it helps, I'll like shrug my jacket off and just like have the wings on display because maybe that'll be a little more, I don't know. Angel like and give him something to focus on. And I'll catch him when he's up from prayer

or take his hands, whatever it takes to get his attention. And I'll ask what Cecil asked me to ask. You're able to get his attention again as he kind of seems to round out the first bit of his prayer, and you ask if he knows any other names, like the bones, or creatures, or whatever it is. As you ask that, something seems to come over back when as he avers his tension from you, and averts his attention to you, Cecil, as he's looking you like clear blank in the eyes. And he says that there is no power, no authority of yours here in the place of Torragini. And your time is coming up, Cecil Thorn. Your contract is

due. And it seems to snap away from him. I think we just probably, yeah, probably in vain. I'm just like, well, then where, where do I find Thomeo? Where do I find where Thomeo is? Doesn't seem to answer you. Yeah, if he doesn't answer that I'm just I just get frustrated. I probably kick him to the side and I drag cold. Let's get out of here. There's no need to kick him. You kicked the back. Yeah, I'll probably probably just dismissively push him out of the way. OK. I'm kidding. Oh, isadora and Hugh? What are you?

Isadora, what was that role for your investigation? I got an 11. Yeah, 5 plus 6, that's 11. So I could ask one question. But the information comes at cost, determined by you as acquiring someone or something for the answer exposing yourself to danger or needing to expend extra time or resources.

What do you do? So what was the question you want to ask? Fuck, this is, I'm going to have to change the question, which is going to be what's is my gut feeling about what I'm investigating. about what I'm investigating. Because coal was kind of ripped away from you and you do not speak French, you can't quite place a hundred percent what this is.

It would require accurate translations. But what you were kind of getting peace together with what coal could tell you and what you're kind of looking at seems to be instructions, words, so how to do things. There's diagrams of what symbols and sigils should look like. So it might be the foundations of what It's almost like rituals. You just don't quite know what it says. Oh, sorry.

You? Listen, I'm thinking everyone. And when we were in the hallway, we mentioned it as above so below. And I'm thinking about it now. Traditionally, it's the transference between the laws of heaven to that of man. But it translates to everything.

What is happening there happens across all planes. In essence, what this man is doing here is happening the same second that it happened to us on Earth. If we can stop him from doing what he's doing here, I think we can stop what happened to us there. We can stop the ritual. We can stop the ritual here. I'm going to immediately draw the gun at Beckween. Wait, wait, wait, the items, the items, the stuff. And what's keeping the runes in the ground? It looks like they're painted on the ground?

Yeah. Then Mint starts trying to interrupt the runes on the ground. Okay. What going on here, Cecil, are you intending to harm Vackwing? Um, I will harm Vackwing if I am convinced that it's the right thing to do. I probably like draw the gun in his general direction, minstarts moving towards the runes, and maybe I'm going to let them do that first. But if I'm thoroughly convinced,

I will probably shoot at him. Okay. Listen, he controls this place or something in his power does. So whatever we're doing to disrupt what this is, we need to be careful he has more power here. I still stand by what I said, but it has to be done in a way that doesn't get us killed here. You, Lohmich, these are instructions. Look, these are instructions right here.

If... Those items said Juan, Nye, Fand, what else was there? It's Crown. Crown. Crown. So... What else was there? It's crown. Crown. Crown. So any of that in the mean? We could find out what he's doing here if we can read these. I can translate for you. We just have to make sure hot trigger finger over here isn't going to kill him before we get a chance.

You kick. You start kicking. We have to make sure that he doesn't finish those prayers either. Matt, you start kicking dust, you start kicking the dirt around the sigils and it starts to cover it up as you kind of just take out two bits of it, just a little bit of the corner of this overall circle. And when you do that,

there just feels like a rippling that kind of cascades severed this protection. And as you do that, all of the corpses around you start to react to that and kind of start to what was just mindless moving and murmuring, chanting of aimlessness starts to just become aggressive growling. And they start to react and starts to converge towards the center where that queen is. What are you doing?

I might have messed up. I might have messed up. You didn't think that was going to happen to be getting? I just wanted something to happen. That was quite a move. No, it's fine. Isn't this what we want? We want him to die? We Isn't this what we want? We want him to die?

We don't know. We haven't read the instructions on the fucking ritual. Thank you. One of the bodies grabs onto that queen who was initially like getting up from you, kicking him to the ground, and it started to enrage him and it almost seemed like he was going to go for you, Cecil, as even though you were holding the gun to him. But as the first moment he stands up, he's immediately grabbed by one of those bodies and they bite into him and just starts to, overall, corner part by these bodies. Time to go.

Take the leads to accept death. Maybe this works. We need to go take the items. I'm good at how I was gonna say. Yeah, dang it. I mean, let's go put the item. Yeah, okay. Well, I'm close by.

I'll go for something. Right. What item do you want to grab? I want the knife, the wand, and the crown. I'll grab the bone knife. Or a point. No? I want the knife, the wand, and the crown. I'll grab the bone knife. Or a point. No, I want the crown. Because I don't want, I don't...

No, I've had a bone knife. Yeah, yeah. I guess it was taken. I'll think the crown and the wand. Okay. And is it where you're grabbing the knife? Yep. Okay, yeah. In this manic fray, you're just all hearing the screams of that queen as the pile of corpses

start to grab onto him and as you're seeing him being just eaten alive, essentially. But you grab those items and I'm assuming you are heading towards that hallway in the back. Yeah. Someone keep a light close to cold, cold start translating what those papers say. I've got a problem. I'll need someone to hold my phone so I can hold the papers on one hand and my cane with the other. Then I'll do that. Okay.

Yeah. Guys, here the equine of the pain and the torment of Vaquine who is slowly succumbing to death. And you can even you call here the in between some of those screens. As Vaquine catches you on the way out, he screams the word angel as she would French over and over as eventually the more you go deeper, the less you hear and you are so common by the darkness and on the other end. I think Cole is just like kind of silently crying. No one's really ever... is just like kind of silently crying. No one's really ever...

I don't know, seeing him in that night? Or as anything kind of holy even? So I think there's like a little bit of grief in like losing that. I think that Cecil completely like misreads what Cole is feeling and is probably like, don't worry kid. You know, they're dying so that we stay alive. Your muted is that Cole goes to correct Cecil

and then knows it's fully in vain and just starts translating and has their own little private grief for themselves. You enter into the darkness of that tunnel escaping whatever is behind you because you do not know if that once that queen has been consumed if those things will come for you. But as you guys push into the darkness, eventually you are almost snapped as if you opened a door and now you are somewhere completely else. You seem to be on the inside of the entrance of a salon and a small villa. There's tiled rooms decorated with an array of art from renowned artists, Borsch, Carvaggio and Dali. It leads to what seems to be an open-style studio

with a kitchen and bedroom and a study off the main room. And in the distance, if you look out the window, you can see what looks to be a cliff side that overlooks the Mediterranean Sea. What's this one? Which one is this one? It's the one we fucking need it. Are you kidding me? And mint is crafting immediately. I've you guys figured out whatever I'm here. I'm doing this. And that's where they're at. They're going further into the studio. I think that there's an extreme level of fear, the second that Hughes lays eye on the Mediterranean. He says, we need to find out where we are quick.

We need to find out where we are quick. It's got to be some time in like the 60s, right? If dollies on the wall. At least. The wear. The wear. It's in Mediterranean. It could be Northern Africa. It could be Southern Europe. It could be Greece.

If you look around the house a little bit more, you do see architecture, inspiration, and furniture that is both Tunisian fashion as well as French and fashion. Damn, most of you have brachine with us. Question. What is the sun out or is it not? It's daytime. It's sunset. It's sunset. Yeah, muggy heat inducing almost summary. What about that? That's on the east side, on the west.

Let's just start looking for a queen, and I think I'm probably starting to, you know, kick open doors. You can be gentle. There's nothing wrong with it. You're still a dude. I like kicking. God. Mint is ripping shreds of paper together or apart. And so try to look for newspaper or something. I mean, I mean, there's more than just paper here. This seems to be an artist's studio. Artisan studio.

So there seems to be, you know, if you continue to look just in this general area, seems to be easels canvases. Maybe if you look more in depth around, you might be able to find more sturdier materials for you. Yeah, I think they grab like a roll of raw canvas and they just tuck it under their arm and they keep digging against it. Like if there's like a cubby's drawers looking for something to put inside to make the mass of the doll. I guess everybody can investigate. If you wanna see through the illusion

of avert-serve a situation, let me know what you're choosing to do. I kinda wanna be observing like the situation for like, any and everything that could be helpful guess in any way she could. So hold the your intended action and the role you get and we'll go around and we'll see what we're working with. I guess all rolled to observe a situation though I have nothing in perception. You can investigate if you want to be more thorough. I mean, I'm even worse at the reason.

I roll the 13 which I can ask one question. I guess. You were like to ask. My question would be, what should I be on the lookout for? I mean, I know that we need to find that queen, but... What you should be on the lookout for, that as you kind of start looking through rooms and looking through places that you're noticing, you know, unfinished artwork. You're seeing early iterations of paintings, and the way that you've been in artisan studios, and you've seen unfinished progress work and stuff like that.

But this, as the more you kind of see it, the more you notice that these are like, early renditions or the starting of organization for paintings that would have made up the atrocity acquisition. And you're noticing that in various places, you know, various sketches, images that kind of resemble places and inspiration, the looks of people, you know, in the same way that somebody would prepare to compose art. So this is where it all began.

And you also like kind of feel a lingering vibe here from that, from these, these just in early stages of the exhibition. This is the start going with that idea, Hugh, do we burn this building to the ground? Yeah. Yeah. We might as well, right?

We get rid of the paintings. Let's just find an exit and you got it. Wait, no. OK, maybe after we're done in it first, I mean, we should find him first, but that should be the move. After this is done We we get rid of them. Is there a non-linear? There's no need for them to exist. It's this

Zara concept he's convinced himself that he can live forever Paintings are what he poured all of his power into He's just a guy who's been fucked up by life. We can't Told you But don't you get it. This is all connected. He was right Is it so those paintings? I Look where we're at

Who else have served this situation? I investigated. Or in that, Cole, what did you roll over the questions to add? I don't know. I don't think I get anything on that. Nine, I'll observe the situation. You get to ask a question. Oh, I get to ask. But you get no bonus for it. And if it misses something, you would track unwanted attention or expose yourself to danger. So you get to ask the question. I just want to add on to this conversation that you're having with Isadora.

For sure. I think I would like to ask, uh... Ah... What is being hidden from me? Isadora kind of tells you to listen and it causes you to pause as you're kind of feeling well worked up by the desire to just actively destroy everything around you as beautiful as this place is. That's when you hear it. This is a second story apartment or a studio. There seems to be a loft area that goes upwards

and that's where you hear it. You hear something slide above you. In the way that like if you were to move something of like a heavy stone or marble, marble, it would drag and make noise above your head. And that's what kind of interrupts your conversation as a door is trying to get you to listen to their point. Oh. I'm going upstairs.

Okay. Who else is investigating? Okay. Is it or you also were investigating as well, right? Yes. I did observe the situation Did you ask did we ask her and ask and answer your questions then? Oh, you told me to hold on the roll Yeah, what was your role so we can ask those questions meant what did you roll for your investigation? I rolled a 14

Mine is two over the 12 You still ask one question. Yeah. I want to know what's weird about what I'm investigating. If like I know that this is like an illusion and that we're probably going to burn this place down. But other than the strange noise upstairs does this seem like, does it have the feeling of like the apartment that someone's been murdered in and that it's normal except it's quiet? You know what I mean? Like is there something just a little bit off? I mean there's definitely something off about this place. In the way that you when you have to push through that that feeling of fear and death, you feel

that on the predipest. Mainly especially when you start touching canvases that of like unfinished artwork and stuff like that. It feels like it's attached to it or it's let, it's letching out of it. It's a part of it and it has energy. As if whatever vacuum tried to put onto canvas gave it power. Is it a door? what did you roll? You're muted. You muted. It's all lining up. Yeah. I dang it. Sorry. You're right for once.

No, I thought I really effed up, but it was a seventh, thank God. I can only ask one question. But you attract and want to detention and expose yourself to danger. Oh no, no, I'm so sorry. I'm terribly sorry. I got like with that math correct, I actually have a 14. That's, I got the seven and the one mixed up. That's what I see. So you have a 14.

Yes, so I can ask one question with no Think rings attached What's upstairs? So what is the question you would like to ask what can I use to my advantage? No, because we already did the botan for me. Yeah, what can I use to my advantage? Okay, hold on for that for a second. Hugh, was there anything you were rolling in participating in the investigation? No, I'm just gonna follow Cole upstairs.

I'm just following Cole upstairs, that's my only plan. Okay. Cole, you, after hearing that loud, scrapeage, immediately ascend the stairs to try to investigate what it is. And you notice that there's like a small room up here, and as you kind of continue softly, you kind of continue to hear that scraping.

kind of continue to hear that scraping. Can I tell what direction it's coming from? It's coming from that room, sorry. I just needed to pull up my note. You seem to come upon what looks to be like a study. And again, like as that, other people have noticed in other rooms down below and spread across this this artisan studio, what looks to be, you know, more paintings and sketches, you know, furniture that's speckled and covered with furniture, charcoal and crushed. And the first thing you notice is that in the corner is what looks to be the trick that you would saw,

but in its first early stages, it's just a wood frame that has been freshly stained. And amongst all of that stuff, you also see levels of debauchery. There's food that's been kind of thrown everywhere. And the bits of clothes, as if somebody, so many spent a lot of time up here and occupied a lot of space. Lots of urine jars. I love where you were going with that. I mean, that's

how you know somebody's been in the place for a long time. Yeah, I mean, it just seems to be like parting was going up here in that kind of way, not not like living in the same place. Not living in the same place, but just having just wild times up up here. And as you kind of get further into the study, you notice that there's kind of like a small bed. And it looks what to be bodies in there, but it's kind of obstructed a little bit by this little bit of like see through canvas that kind of is, you know, thrown about the bed. But on the other side of it, you notice what looks to be wings made out of stone and a

large statue of what appears to be an angel. But it moves as if it's a living person, as it kind of slides from the top of the bed and then moves towards the foot of it, scraping itself against the floor. It's Maryel DeVois, the angel that she had turned into, she's in this room and seems to be piecing back and forth amongst from the foot of the bed to the head of the bed

where these bodies are what you can just see is just two like two sets of feet at the edge of the bed. You would have to go in further into the room to see that a little bit more. She hasn't clawed you, but she does hear and notice like the rummaging a little bit of mint down below, and it seems to overt her attention slightly, but it always just, it wasn't quite enough to make her leave the room. She has yet to claw you. enough to make her leave the room. She has yet to clock you. Is she watching the people in the bed? No, she's, her back is away from them, but she seems to just continue to pace.

There's a window in that general area, so she's kind of like sliding herself back or so much more as into what she is, than what is behind her in that bed. In a protective way. Does it look like she's searching for something? She seems to just be pacing aimlessly, not really looking for anything,

but just rocking herself back and forward. I'm up there with them, and I think maybe Cecil just kind of puts a hand on Cole, and it's like, I don't know if you want to do that. I look in the direction of Maryl. I don't know either. I mean... Why is she here? Maybe she's always been here.

What does that mean? I don't know. If time doesn't matter, if we're going in between these different periods of time, and like Hugh says they're all connected, maybe she's, she was always meant to become that stone gargoyle. But why wasn't she and any of the other ones? I don't know, but he's kind of got a point. I mean, you can ask her, but that's your dead mom.

Well, she's not dead. I don't think. I mean, what if we shouldn't we want to take her out? She's the one that started this whole thing. She can be sure to stop her. More worried about whoever's in that bed. The bed that reminds me of the coupling. That was one of the paintings.

Coupling. It's probably the fact that that Queen and someone else. It's like the painting. Yeah. I mean, does it matter who it is? Do we need to know? I think we need to see this. Then I, I guess I should go in.

I don't. I think if she's gonna... We get the others? She, I think you and I get the others because I think if anything, we might need to push this angel out of window or something like that. Yeah. You keep an eye on Cole. I'll go get the others and I'll go back down the stairs quietly as I can to get Mint in the doctor Okay, Cole, what are you doing?

I think like without turning my eyes to my mom or away from my mom, I'll just say really quietly to you. He called me an angel. And now she's one. And there's something, a shitty in my brain about becoming, or her becoming, or me becoming. I don't really know how to verbalize it but I am upset by it

That's okay. That's okay. I think you're allowed to be upset when you're stuck in hell I think that you're awarded that but I just want you to remember when you go to speak with this thing You ask me what a cult was you asked me when all this was about it's another idea that breaks you it changes you it becomes you you're gonna think you're talking to your mother you're gonna think you're talking to something that's really there. And then he looks down to his own arm and then back to them.

We both know there's nothing there, just the idea. Do the prayers sound familiar to you? Did you recognize it? I didn't recognize a language. I didn't recognize the name. I didn't recognize the motions, but I recognized it in a way that speaks to everything that I am, in a way that I think only a few people on this earth can. I recognized its intent. Right, Pete. And I'm sure you did too. Yeah. Do you mean to ask for anything? For...

Oh, gesture doesn't... I don't... I don't fucking know. But I'll be standing right next to you. I'm sure I won't keep my mouth shut. I'm counting on it. And then I think I'll just start walking in. You walk into the room and

Mario continues to piece amongst the bed and as you get closer you notice that the people in the bed are both nude, but also torn to shreds. To the point where you can't even really recognize them. And as you kind of round around the foot of it towards where Maryelle is pacing back and forth, you notice that like she's covered in these dark stains that look and appear to be blood. And she's just in as like if if she were human and her body wasn't made of stone, you would swear that she would be in anguish, hyperventilating, sobbing, you know, doing all of that, but all you see is just that pain kind of fashioned onto her face in a permanent, in permanence. But nothing more,

she seems hurt, distraught, upset, and in pain. Are you just walking in front of her to get to make your presence known to her or are you continuing to stand in the back and observe this manickness? I think once I notice that she's covered in visceral gaur, some of that anger that Cole was feeling earlier kind of ignites again and kind of washes out and you have the weird grief that they'd been kind of struck in. And they'll just kind of march right up to her kind of back in the old patterns of my mom's and asshole. What am I going to do about it? And say, I guess I don't have to ask if this was your fault. I guess I don't have to ask if this was your fault. The body naturally moves as its head moves upon its shoulder into your peripheries as she

takes you in. And without word, she moves to you, cold with swiftness, as if she would go to attack somebody. And you kind of get to that moment where you're about to embrace yourself for it. The scraping stops and you realize that, you know, there's a little bit of wind of displacement from how swish she was moving, but she seems to stand right there in front of you. And even with anguished expression, the hands kind of reach out to you and cup the sides of your face in a way that like your mother hasn't done to you since you were small. And it's just towering over you and you're kind of like stuck like as if you were a part of this statue in this moment, Jess, her reaching out to you.

I don't know what you're trying to fix, but it can't be. What did you do? Why did you start this? What? You're just sentenced a gallery full of people to death for what? You were sick and you were scared? Yeah, Cecil told me, by the way, thanks for giving me warning. power, yes, Cole? Yes, I do.

So roll that. Ten. As you're kind of, like throwing out the responses to Maryl, expecting that she's just going to be able to just be honest with you in a moment, you know, you realize that you are, in fact, still talking to a statue as she seems to not have moved since she had embraced you in this way. As if she's still trying to just get you to, you know, understand, but you can't quite, because you can't articulate it to you. You just see that tightened, anguish,

spread, and just...if it's stirring that those parts of you, that's, you know, that you've seen the colors of the watercolor, the power that you had had noticed that it seems to be amplified more here in this space. And you kind of start seeing it, kind of leak out from your skin, that bit of yellowish color, the prisms of the watercolor that makes up your power, but not enough to really do any more than that. The others, Cecil has come down, those who are still on the bottom floor, as Cecil comes down and mentions that Maryl is up stairs in the study. Are you going to follow?

We might need to push somebody out of window. Come on. Okay, that's exactly what I need these for. I'm almost done. Why don't we just burn the house? The stone doesn't burn. Oh, yeah, and put. I guess that's true. no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no Absolutely certain that this is an advantage that I should be rolling about. Yes, I believe so. I believe this is either snake trauma or forbidden inspiration. Mm-hmm. Maybe he's already got little Russian dolls that you can just...

Forb an inspiration. Well, that's lovely. Okay. That's a number. Sorry, that's... 13. 13. 13. 13. I would say you can in this quick amount of time, I would say you can make it between like three to four. Okay, cool. But you're like hastily slapping them together. They're not definitely not here for show, but they are more functional than the paper when you had paid earlier that didn't have much movement and joint edge to it. But you have

four dolls that you can use. Isadora, you earlier was investigating something to your advantage when you get up to the study and realizing that you're amongst some of backwings, other tools and stuff like that is easy using this as a place to work and study. You notice that there are some chisels and some like hammers and mallets that were probably used in sculpting or erecting the triptych frame that you see tucked in the corner. Cecil. Yes. Um, Cecil. Yes? How would you like to take out some aggression? And then I'm going to just point to the tools.

I don't think we need those tools. I think we literally all just push this thing out of window and it's going to smash and break. Yes, okay. I'm going to just grab it. I'll take a crowbar just because I feel like it Mint is running upstairs with these dolls the forbidden inspiration means I Rolled a 13 so I get one option

Mm-hmm if I can hold enticing the beast in my direction, I want to be like, luring it to the window when it's when I'm up the stairs. Okay. So you want to use the dolls to distract Maryelle while you guys attack them. Is that what I'm getting? Okay.

Yeah. Unless anyone has any objection, the idea is we go up there and basically push this stone thing towards the window, preferably out the window, and just let it smash and break on the other side once it falls out that window. Oh yeah. Yes. I will be grabbing a big ass like that hammer because just in case we might need to smash some heads or heads. That's fine. If we're going to, if we're all in agreement that we're going to do that, then I'm going

to use my, one of my sixth sense allows me to act first in a threatening situation. This can include even acting prior to a surprise attack. Could I use this as the group surprise? We all just on three bum rush this thing. I will give you the advantage of Maryl not clocking you as you guys rush in here as she's extremely preoccupied with Cole in this moment. Is that so is that just the just the media see once you guys to the top you guys are just all together rushing in there as you guys

are looking on to Cole as Maryl seems to be kind of enrapt around her like her wings are kind of almost like spread and folded as they're kind of just embracing Cole in this gesture of kindness. It's the absolute most tragic time to do it so I think yes. I was going to say I kind of want the dolls to be the first thing that makes it over the top of the stairs. And they start just like walking towards the window. So as Cole's mom is looking past them behind them while hugging, they just see three little,

like big little planet looking mother fuckers going towards the window. Yeah. Cole, you, you know, you're, you're, you're still trying to like get something out of Mario and it's so typical of her to not give you the answers, you know, to, to anything. And, you know, it just seems in this moment that she's just trying to ask for some forgiveness or trying to get you to recognize why she was doing this in the end in some way. But as you're kind of seeing that you also clock those little dolls of mint kind of skittering, slowly path you. As you still see the bits of your water color power still working around your fingertips. As you still look on to at Maryl, is there anything you would like to do in this final bit of interaction with Maryl before the rest of your party enters

in the room. I think Cole's just kind of frozen in this weird moment of hearing, hearing Hugh say, it's not your mom, it's like your mom is not your mom anymore you know this is this is the cult basically. And knowing that but also like that weird need to be close to her because she's acting like a mom for a second mixed with all the rage from before I think they're just like this weird storm of emotions and are kind of just stuck. I don't think there's much of anything they can do right now. Okay.

You caught in that moment, you're wanting answers, you're not getting it. The well of power as Maryl just keeps looking on you anguishedly, you know, holding you so gently. And maybe you're about to say something, maybe you're about to just let go of the feeling that's just been welling up inside of you, you know. For a long time, you know, Mary-L has always been at opposition with you. There's never been something since you were very young that you guys shared outside of name and blood. And once again, you're at odds with her, you know, this is once again just she does something that

realizes isn't the the thing that you were expecting wanting you know needing from her and she is trying to convince you that she's right and as you sit in that moment frozen frozen more of that watercolor starts to kind of leak out of you and as that feeling starts to well up you that's when everybody rushes into the room. Everybody will need a engage in combat. As you guys are impending to harm Maryl and get her to be pushed out of that window, I will collect that with and take into consideration with Cecil's six cents to see how well you guys owe. Such a statuery requires the power of all of you. I got a nine.

I got a 14. 14. 11. 11. 10. 10. 10. Okay, so whenever you fight with no regard for your personal safety role, plus violence, and I got a 17, which means I get three edges when I'm gonna use vicious and reckless, which means I get to deal plus two harm with one attack, and I get a plus one ongoing for the fight. And in addition to that, I'm just gonna roll my violence for you, being right here. Yes, please.

Who knew Hugh would be the muscle? Oh, hell yes. Demon are the power of a curse. I have a 17, meaning that I do well. I do well. You reflect damage to your opponent and void. Yeah. Okay. So it's the damage plus an extra too hard.

Beautiful. I think that is collectively enough. So you, as you know, Cole, you are stuck and frozen in this moment. It's immediately interrupted with just the bomb rushing of just four individuals who have taken on this journey with you. And Huy, and not Huy, Isadora Mint and Cecil, you guys are the first to kind of like launch this assault. As just the sheer weight of you, is it or if you're using your hammer,

you guys are kind of able to just initially move Mary L towards the window as they were not even expecting that and the three of your weight was enough, but she comes around and she like claws at you guys. So you guys are going to take a bit of one point of of harm from that as she as you guys take consequences rolling in that rolling in that section. But as you, as that happens, as the sure force and show and display of power of Mary-L, pushes Cecil Isadora and mint out of the way

with just a strike of her arm, you come in there with the same energy and kind of tackle onto her. And you kind of like grab with your cursed arm as it kind of starts to kind of coil around parts of Mary L. As you just hold her, drag her, and just the sheer force of what you're doing is essentially cracking her hard

exterior and she's screeching and crying against your weight as you get her far enough to the window and just throw her. And she breaks through the window, you also getting into, you know, the, the sound of glass and stuff like that. It's enough of her body hangs out and she just teeters over. And she tries to like stretch out her wings and attempt to move into fly, but it just doesn't seem to work being made of stone as she eventually falls to the ground and collapses into various pieces. She's not completely destroyed, but it's, she's incapacitated as she's like her arm has been stretched out, her wings shattered

into pieces. She's just a broken statue on the ground still kind of moving but just writhing and calling out in anguish. It was enough for you to get her out of this room and on the ground. Not enough to kill her though but not enough for her to do anything more to you all. As you hear that below you. Well, shall we finish? I think Cecil takes at least one look out the window and it's like sorry Maryl and then he'll get it going. Everybody, warm me a keep it together.

As you guys have, you know Maryl. You've all had some intrinsic relationship with her outside of beyond what cold was to Maryl. And to see her both in this state and to all of that is putting more and more strain on you. As the further you go into this madness with Bequeens life, the more you're feeling that madness with it. How do we also real quick mark our wound if we took one wound?

You should have it on your character sheet. There should be a harm chart. I see wounds and I see that there's four check marks. I guess we just fill in one of the boxes. Yeah, just still one of the boxes then. Two of them. And then with our act under pressure. It's keep it together. Keep it together.

A little bit. Yeah. I rolled a 16. 16. A roll to 12. 17. 17. 17. Hugh. A roll to six. Cole. 13. Isadora Cecil? But what you guys have relationships with Marielle, you being so touched by the darkness and the secrets you know, are not feased by the fact that one would face final consequences for their choices and their actions.

And you find that unbothering to you as you want to just move on and hopefully escape your own face. Cool. And man, do you guys rule it? I had a... I'm sorry, I had a six, not a sixteen. A six. Yeah, I'm not a...

I only accepted one. I had the bad one. Yeah, yeah, I haven't gotten to you yet. Oh, I'm so sorry, I thought I heard my name. I'm dumb. Oh no, isadorin and Cecil I'm an idiot I'm fine. It's on the way Cole and minne Col and Mint. You will take further conditions so you can, let's see what is it, you can either become angry, sad, scared, guilt-ridden, become obsessed or distracted. I'm gonna take it angry.

She's probably guilt-ridden. Okay, yeah. Mark those stabilities. Act upon any additional disadvantages that might bring you. Cole, you, you know, watching these folks go to bat for you and do what maybe you feel you didn't have the courage to do, which was always, you know, confront your mother at the end of the day. And in her final moments, you weren't able to even do that.

And it just leaves that sour, angry, bitter taste in your mouth. As you look out the window and see her in pieces and nothing more can be done. I think Cole's just gonna start like breaking the sides of the window where it hasn't shattered all the way and just shattering out all the glass with their cane.

Okay, we did it, right? What's next? We did the bad thing. We're good now. We can go to the next one or whatever. We burn it down, right? We burn it down. Okay, then it starts heading. Is there anything upstairs that looks flammable? There's like booze and shit, right? Yeah, there's tinctures. There's a bunch of stuff. Things that cut oil things to stain wood that would be considered flammable.

Yeah, men starts covering the place, covering the loft upstairs with it and throwing some stuff over the side. Hugh, I think. throwing some stuff over the side. Hugh, I think... Do you think that this is emotional trauma witnessing the end of the burial or do you think this is a part of the life-changing lack of stability that you're finding in your life? I think that you're absolutely correct in what I think you're indicating.

And that is, I think this has way more to do with his body than it ever did his relationship with. I don't think he necessarily cared too much about this woman. And comparison to someone like Cecil. So I think it is legitimate and what took out of his body the second that he did this. I think that coming back from the window, he has this intensely labored breathing in his right side.

And the eyes have begun to propagate so much so that they're starting to show on his neckline and climb up. And he's almost taken on like the breath of an emphysema sufferer as he's very much leaning to one side off of his body and feeling an intense amount of pain. I'm gonna investigate him immediately and also examine his neck. Okay. Yeah he as you like you you committed the final act so you're the closest to the window. So you at this whole time, as everybody else is situating themselves, is just been locked on to Mary L. And that, and you've been kind of panting in that way.

It took a lot of exertion of your body to do this. And even in morality, you don't seem to be a man who's drawn to violence as the first course of solution. So being overcome by both of that, like committing essentially murder, and knowing that it's attached to a curse and an affliction that Mario had succumbed to, it seems to just agitate your body, and that's what causes it to start to spread. Both like externally and internally, that breathing is because something heavy

is starting to feel on that lung adjacent to the... So there's probably eyeballs in there. Yeah. And it's spreading up your neck. And it's even like on the bottom of your cheek where the mouth is, is an isolate that's slowly starting to stretch as you turn over as this curse agitated by stress. Stress is now spreading viciously through your body. Eli, would you say that me convincing the group to push poor Maryl out the window, put her in harm's way?

Put Maryl in harm's way? Yeah. Yeah I mean, yeah, it was you had intentions to harm you and intentions to and her and what she could potentially do to you. Right. I mean, I'm only asking because of my opportunist advantage. I might gain one stability for doing that. Yeah, I think that kind of can go alongside with the fact that you rolled that keep it together adjacent to it. You are slowly starting to feel no remorse, which has been a part of your thing, but you know, something that you're now practicing in day to day life.

I'm now merely feeling uneasy. Yes, you're just a little worried. You're getting confidence back. You think that you're regaining control over the situation, especially now that you can destroy something powerful and unnatural. So, we're burning the building? Yes, but I am going to make sure he like gets his breathing under control even with all of the eyes popping up.

Yeah, you go and check him out and stuff like that. You see how much that growth is going, but you're seeing how stressed and panicked he was feeling. He's in distress. No, no, no, no, no, breathe, breathe. That's what's cause. Just, it's not that, it's not that. I think they're inside. Okay, okay.

I am going to try to... I'm writing, doctor. Okay. Well, let me, let's get him out. I'm going to be very... May I touch the eye, or... Well, let me let's get him out. I'm gonna be very Yeah, I touch the I are like You okay with that?

Sworn doctor swan. Give me the give me your life before you go there toss it You know, yeah, I'll probably toss it to mint. Yeah Mint probably they trade that one of the bottles of booze remains on am.D. and Tosses it to the two of you. I'll take a swing. And they say we should probably all head towards any door or any exit they say looking out the window that someone just fell for. And sticks the lighter over the ledge.

I don't know if I can walk a doctor. Can you walk with me? Yes. I touch him. Like, is it like my hands are goopy with eyes stuff? I just want to make sure. Um, I mean, are you specifically touching that stuff at his heart? That's, that's, that's, well, it's like, I'm going to, I'm going to help him. So yeah. Yeah, I mean, you, it doesn't, you've rubbed your your eyes before so you know what an eyeball kind of feels like I mean you can't help but like I've seen some Over eyeballs like you know this is nothing I used to work in the ER. So don't worry I used to constantly like blinking and sliming across your arm. Yeah, they keep looking at you

Yeah, what color of the eyes by the way various colors looking and sliming across your arm. They keep looking at you. Yeah, like color of the eyes, by the way. Various colors. It's like a modelled red flesh around them, but all of the eyes have different irises and colors and scolaris. I will say if Mint walks past them with the lighter lit, there's like a wave of dilation that starts and stops.

It stops on the planet. Yeah, you'll notice the arm, everything a wave of dilation that starts and stops. It is stuck. Yeah, you'll notice the arm, everything on that right side of his body is very fearful of the lighter in the room. And he winces in pain anytime the flame gets close. Okay, we'll make sure that doesn't happen. So you're setting the building one? Yes. Are we, we're not trying to do surgery here.

No, no, no, I'm going to keep my, I just want to get us out of there, but I'm going to be, want to take a look over here eventually to make sure he's okay. Then yeah, she, she drops the lighter over the side of the loft. What do you do? Can I start just like moving the bodies around, trying to get any kind of sense of who they might have been? I know you said they were pretty fucked up, but like, I don't know, like any,

like a mole that Queen had that I might have noticed or, I don't know. Just trying to get a sense of what my mom destroyed. But, of what my mom destroyed. Honestly, the more you try to look into it, the more it's just, you know, they're disemboweled, there's no head there. The body was torn. What you can gather from it is that this was malicious and intentional. There was intentions to not, there was actually,

the letter was like raw rage and emotion put towards this. Okay. Somebody doesn't commit an act like this without feeling some heavy emotions towards it. an act like this without feeling some heavy emotions towards it. Just desecrate to lotty's like that. I think Cole feels like a weird discomfort at having just destroyed something to in rage and seeing the mirroring rage in the destruction of these people and kind of stumbles out of the room. Before you light this fire, a question for all of you. You have been through moments in these paintings and these regions.

You've collected enough information, and you have acquired yourself with weapons in the forms of tinctures and items that you've collected. Do you feel enough that you have enough here to be able to face the real source of the problem? the real source of the problem. Yeah. For anything else you need to acquire in this moment,

before you set this fireplace, before you destroy these, this villa and all the work in it. Is there anything else you would like to prepare yourself? I pick up one of my dolls on the way out. I'm gonna take a quick look, real fast. And make sure I have my mallet too. And that bone knife. You have the knife?

There is one thing he was thinking. I think he'll like, you know, call Cecil over and just fear dawning on his face again. There's still the security guard. He's still out there. There's still the security guard. He's still out there. There's still that other being. He's the last one I need to take care of. I know, believe me, I know that's why I have this.

Okay, we just need to be prepared. We need everything we have when we go into there. No, no, no, no, let's think about this. We, we, we, we, we, we desecrated the, the runes, we set the place on fire, we have to try that all over again with this guy. So somebody tried to distract them. Maybe I do with my gun long enough to, somebody has to try to break up whatever they're trying to do with the ritual. That's okay. I like that. That's the end of the... So, I'm gonna have to deal with my mom again. We're not having any. And...

And we look at you with all the eyes going to be like, do us a favor and just you know watch our backs So you have even guide could be a pretty good distraction if we I feel like you We may just have one last Tora but you sadly And I want to make sure we keep you around as long as possible Speaking of If you I want you to hold something well before we go in the next room and I'm gonna put out the contract

Pull it out. I'm gonna hand it to him Don't you don't decide it? But if you see me if you see I'm dying if you see that I'm gonna hand it to him. You don't have to sign it, but if you see me, if you see I'm dying, if you see that I'm damned, please, for my fucking soul, sign the contract. Would you like me to hold onto it? No, he has to hold it. Jesus fucking listen. I No, he has to hold it. Jesus, fucking listen. I don't know that there's going to be time for even that in the next room, so maybe we should handle this now.

If I sign this, if your soul is saved, if you get another shot at this and whatever is next, because if there must be something down, there must be up right if you get another chance what are you actually going to do with it? I'm going to be a better person. Oh'm not. You're sending me saying you are being a coward. Look at that. You tell me what you want. I promise I'll do it. He's just a whatever panic. No, it doesn't matter what I want.

It never did. This isn't my life to live. This is a chance I could give you, but I'm not going to give you a chance. You don't even know what the fuck you want to do with it, Cecil. You have been moving around this thing for all your life. You've been circling what you think you want. And if you don't have an answer, I don't have a signature for you. Okay, there's something. Or to me with the purpose or not. to me with the purpose or not. I have an answer.

Mary Jensen, I caught feelings before the show and I just want to settle down with her. I just want to love her and I just want to have a normal life with her. I swear to God. I'll be honest, you swearing on anything, it's actually. I see, I'm sorry, my God, and hell, and uh, uh, uh. Thank you. I don't even have the...

Later. There's not enough internet memes. It's... Capture the irony. See, so you... You promise this is real? You promise that you're not just saying anything to get me to sign this paper and I'll know You literally said screw Mary Jansen

two hours ago Don't it was just because of the desert. I didn't realize that it was so easy to traverse you Do you know you sniveling? You're could have literally sign over your problem to him Is this a new revelation to you doctor? We talked about this in the office. No, no, no, no This is but it's been getting more this is different Obviously, I don't contract you know idea I'm gonna sign it and I know it's a bad idea.

And I know you're probably gonna fuck me on this. I know that you're gonna move through life doing the same thing you're gonna do. But you know what, maybe there will be some level of guilt on your new immortal soul that will remind you that someone who cared about you, who thought you could be more than cheap champagne was looking out for you. So give it over. I'll sign it right now. I'll sign it right here. Oh thank god. Okay. Here we go.

Do we sign it to you? You will take whatever pen he needs to. I've got to pen. I would I almost have to feel like I have to give him a shot like are you sure? I'm I'm positive, but I have some stipulations in what I'm doing here. He doesn't have to finish his line. He doesn't have to see you finish his line. And it's finished despite what you thought Cecil, and it has been for a while. And I'm ready for it to go to the public, but I don't want it to until I'm gone. So I have two circumstances on which you can make money off of my name with your new immortal soul. Should you get out of here? You're going to have cold-dubwa,

announce themselves as the writer of this novel. It will be sold as a biography, not a biography, in a work of fiction so that no questions are asked. And you will publish. If you can agree to those terms, and you can do right by call, then I'll allow you that.

I'll sign this contract. That I can absolutely shake on. He puts out his hand, his good hand, to shake. Yeah. I'll shake it. Shake it. You are good here. You're a kindhearted fool in idiots, but...

Well, I think I've got maybe 15 minutes left in me. I might as well do some crazy shit before I go. And I'm gonna sign the contract, Dealing. Okay. You signed the contract, you will let go. And the moment the pen leaves the paper, the contract immediately withers and crumbles into dust. And you said, so you, ever since you came across thumbnail and made this deal with them, you've always had this like heavy weight on your shoulder, like something's been balling, chaining you, but the moment that contract kind of dissipates, you don't feel it anymore.

I just, like, there's, like, tears welling in my eyes, and I just, I grab you, probably in a place that he would feel uncomfortable I just hug him like you saved my god damn life man you saved my damn life I won't forget it I swear to god I won't forget to lose something with another 25 year old let's let's let's let's bring. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.

Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.

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Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. to spread through the house as you guys walk down the stairs through the remnants of sketches of the early iterations of what would have become the atrocity exhibition, this place in which Fakulin seemed to have been found inspiration in as you see those images of Caravaggio and Bask and Dolly kind of get swept up in these flames and burned. You head for the front door of this small little apartment and you all exit one by one. Cl closing the door behind and allowing whatever to happen behind you happen. And where you come out on the other side, passing the doorway, you find yourself at the end of a long arching hallway,

constructed from smooth plaster, it re-zembles like the inside of like a snail's shell. So the spiraling inward cracks and gouges kind of appear on its surface and number the view on, there's a greasy light that trickles through these opening, serving as windows into the purgatories, into the glimpses of that red subspace that you had seen when you first opened the window of the gallery, wherever this hell or wherever this place you had been taken to by that queen. And as you guys continue forward, you eventually enter into an all-dark room. In the same way that

the gallery of the Boz was when you first watched the, you first got to see the initial exhibition and in the midst of that single light as you guys spill in, seize the form of vacuum. Kind of in the way that you saw him in the cave prior praying, but he's just sitting there on his knees in the center of this light as you guys are kind of out on the peripheries of it. And he seems to have seen your presence.

You guys take a few more steps forward and realize that within this room as well in the distance like Duo Bois Gallery or the state paintings of the atrocity exhibition as well as the man's eyes and Vacquian kind of turns his head to you. All looks you all over for a moment, clocks you and pauses for a moment coal before he continues on to looking at everybody else. And he finally says, don't you see? He finally says, don't you see?

Don't you see? And then before you can even respond to that, he pulls out a paintbrush and holds it tightly in his hand. And then he just gouges out both of his eyes with that paint brush. As he rides in pain, falls to the ground, blood spilling all around as you guys just are washed by that sense of dread, of death, as the queen slowly just dies out on the floor in front of you.

And you can feel the rippling and the sh- rippling amongst the paintings and the tripting and the way that you first witnessed Mary L. do before. And then things go dark. The moment that Queen's last breath is uttered in the space. And the next thing you see, you're back in the main floor of the Cecil Thoroughorn Art Center. And what you are now witnessing is the works of the creature that came from Alano this entire time. Eight paintings kind of hung in the back, the triptych there, but the painting of a very detailed and intricate sigil made out of blood. And there's all those like living dead corpses that are

kind of shroll about and some of them are like underneath the paintings and murmuring ritualistic chanting in the way that you've heard before. And the creature is continuing to just fill out and finalize this sigil. As he is spent this entire time while you have been in whatever subspace you have been in and even if you look up you just see that red that red subspace and what looks to be like a black like moon in contrast hanging over the top of this the redunda that makes up the the building. But you're here back at the gallery back into that if that queens world or whatever Alano had become what are come. What are we trying to do? Actually, it has a notice. It has a notice you yet, but roll it, keep it together. As you've you've returned to the space, you're witnessing everything that is going on and you are about to make your moves to

try to end this madness. you try to end this madness. I got a floor. Hmm. I have an 11. 11. I got a 14. 14. 14.

14. You. I got a 16. 16. All right, you, you're more preoccupied with the state of your being than you are fearing the unnatural before you. So it is stronger than that so you're able to kind of hold yourself together. Isadora Cecil and Mint, this is a ghastly sight to see. You're seeing paint pots that were contorted out of human bodies that are now collecting a

weird batch of like what might be paint. It moves like oil, but it's stained in dark, eaglish colors that you can't quite make out what its source of pigment might be. You're just watching, you know, thrown throws of bodies of patrons of people you do, just scattered about and this is so unsettling and disturbing. What condition or what's what are we taking here? Are we angry or we upset? We sad, distracted. How are we feeling? I think Cecil is taking obsessed because right now his only on his mind

is trying to get out of here. So he's looking for ways and he's got some ideas. Okay. Sure. I'm also gonna get obsessed. Okay. Yeah, cause is the obsession towards back queen to the creature in front of you itself?

Or it's because I was gonna say that creature that I was, because I had that thing where I was enchanted early in the first one. You want to put that? You want to put that? Well, no, I didn't know if that was also like it absolutely can be. You have not seen that one since you last long. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no your obsession towards. It's usually towards the relationship or a connection to somebody. So you can either establish a connection here with the creature that you're witnessing or you can put that

obsession towards somebody else. Um, I guess I'll put it towards the creature because by proxy it's like Maryl. I already have someone of I have a zero with Alana to set but I think I might as well all right I got a relationship to Alana yeah um as that is becoming the source of you know raw a natural power like you you now with the weight of you know with the weight of, you know, thomial off of you, you know, are now just being able to recognize and appreciate unlawful, unhealing power. Is that possible? That, because that would actually really fit way better for, like, because I'd be stunned at the end.

Sure. You wanted to be that creature? Absolutely. We can do the same thing for you. to like, because I'd be stunned. Sure. You wanted to be that creature? Absolutely. We can do the same thing for you. Yeah, you both are succumbed with seeing raw natural power. And even Thomia wasn't able to give you what it seems Tori-Ginning could give back to Alano or to whatever this being is.

Cool. You rolled a four. And I would say at this point in time that you'll take the minus four to your facility. The light-engine trauma as... Welcome to the club, homie. Yeah, I got it. You're experiencing like no good, very bad day for you, my guy.

Yeah, rough. It's just compounding. You know, it started with the fact that you had to come to this silly affair. And it came to find that, you know, your mother had ill intentions and that intentions bled into the murder of your own father and the murder of people and the ending of even her as she succumbed to the madness. And now you're just witnessing just the final, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope as well as this seems to be swept up in a part of your life and was coming. Yeah. I think

Cole's reached irrational now and Cole is also angry. Yes. So I think, Cole just, as soon as I see Mario, I'm going to her, and I'm gonna fight her. Oh, Mario's not here. It's not. Alano, it's the being that will want Alano,

you already dealt with Mario. She's gone gone gone gone. She's gone gone as far as you know she's not here. You just thought I thought it was like training grounds and we'd kill her in one place. No, this is the being Alano. This being I described earlier but I'll describe it again. It stands about nine feet in height. He is, his skin looks like it's made of paper. And it even kind of stretches and moves like it is paper,

being stretch tight and taunt. And if you were to work even closer, you would even think that there's something underneath that skin that seems to kind of push out as like a face or like a hand, like something's stuck right behind the veil of his body. He's wearing this kind of funeral-looking shroud, all of white.

And the most notable thing on him is the paint brush that seems to be in the main pocket of what appears to be like an artisan's imprint. The same similar looking paint brush is what you saw moments before you got here. Then rolling back a little bit, now that I understand that my mom's not, my mom's done.

I think same energy, different target, coal just starts moving, not even trying to be stealthy, just mad and I'm gonna hit something and that something's gonna be you. Okay. You're going towards along this creature that was once Alano. Okay. Anybody else? There's a smile. Yeah, is anybody stopping that? Is anybody doing anything? Are you letting Cole take charge in the situation? They got it. If

If Cole is going out there, I think he's gonna take a quick little moment to take no pad out from his jacket right a little Some some put it back in his jacket and then chase after Cole basically going to do the same thing He's a little slower in step for sure, but he's got his arm out and he's ready to back them up. Okay. Anybody else doing anything important at this moment? I mean, I assume you guys are kind of tucked away hiding not like in plain view unless you want to be in plain view.

I feel like Cole and he will disturb that moment of not being seen. Sessel wants to see if he can find the irrigation system within the building, usually for fires and stuff, is hope is that he can maybe shoot at it or set it off and The water will wash away All of the art the runes all of that stuff that's been done on the floor Okay, I was gonna say Mint starts using that to cover the

Mint starts using that to cover the, like, starts using the, like, bowls of pigment and just starts adding to them to disrupt them instead of, you know, scratching the paint from earlier. You're going to those body pots and messing with that stuff. Yeah, if there's like a brush in there, then they're gonna use that, but otherwise they're just dumping them to cover whatever rooms are on the ground.

Okay. I'm gonna kind of follow behind Cecil. I'm going to make sure I have like that, hopefully like good, because he's gonna, that bone knife in hand to make sure nothing sneaks up. Okay. So you're supporting Cecil?

Yes. Or, yeah, because you're going to, where he's going, I'm gonna watch. Okay. So everybody will need, I guess we can put all of that under act under pressure as you guys are setting yourselves up to fight Fight this being and it has yet to see you so it has yet to really do anything else

I use my ace up the sleeve advantage where I roll plus cool and if I roll well enough I have cool and if I roll well enough, I have something, it says when, if someone has got you up against the wall or in a tight spot, and then I would have some edges that don't necessarily sound like they might be appropriate, but I feel like maybe you'll give me some kind of advantage. Sure. We can roll it now and even if you don't find something appropriate for this moment and second once things get into the fray You absolutely have that at your advantage May I also because I have a thing called genius where I find myself in a life threatening situation I can roll and get edges as well. Sure. Yeah, roll that now because you're definitely entering into a life threatening situation

So why not for yourself beforehand life threatening situation. So why not give yourself beforehand. So we'll go, we'll go by teams. We'll all address he and Cole together, is a door in Cecil and then mint on the solo dolo. So I feel mint, I feel he and I feel, I feel, he and Cole are the first ones out into this, as Cole is possessed by the irrational thought of confronting something ungodly. What exactly are you doing? Are you throwing things? Are you verbally accosting this being? Is there art on the way to it? No, you're in the main

gallery area. So like there was no art actually hung here. You do see in the distance behind that behind this being that it is the atrocity paintings, right? But nothing that you can just grab. Cool. Then I've got a cane and I'm full of rage. I'm kind of just trying to like, ideally, I think I want to just poke, it looks like paper, so I want to poke holes in it

and see what's inside. Makes sense. All right, then I want you to engage in combat. Hugh, what are you doing to, as you're like right behind the heels of coal? I think he slings out his right arm, concentrates very heavily, and then begins to grow a very dense collection of eyeballs at the very edge of his arm. Enough that they amass him, amass of weight. roll that at the head of this thing. The best he can using his arm like a mace almost. And I'm gonna use my inner power to use him. Perfect, roll your, roll plus soul for inner power.

And hold on to that for a second. Isadora and Cecil, you guys rolled your ace up your sleeves and stuff. Do you guys have, what are the results of that? I roll the 15 for my ace up my sleeve which gives me two edges. Perfect. Do you have something that you want to do currently in this moment? As you see Q and a coal just guns blazing straight towards this creature? I think I'm probably going to aim the gun up at some of the sprinkler system and try to shoot it so that it sets it off.

Okay, perfect. So, vol... Maybe act under pressure? Yeah, roll me an act under pressure. And then add whatever advantages you get with the ace up your sleeves to that wall or how that works. Well, the way it works is real quick. I have some edges.

One of them is you spot a way out as the GM what it takes plus two to your next roll. So I'll take that. I'll have plus two to my next roll. Okay. Okay. Damn, that was a nine. Shit. Get one, okay, yeah, nine.

Nine, there is serious consequences. You make a mistake or you're exposed to the danger. Good. Is it or what was your result for the genius? I got an 11. So I can choose up to two edges, usable any time in the scene scene while I'm still in danger. So that has to be key. Is there anything you You're getting outside of this porting so this using that gene is now Are you holding on to those until something seems more opportunity opportunistic?

I'm going to yes. I'm going to hold for right now. Can they help me on the next round? In some way? Like, that's a bullet. Okay. Yeah, let's see. But it's like, I kind of have to, I have to know if the shit is hit the fan it. Like, does that make sense?

And then, Romi and I act under pressure as you have already have a goal and intention to to disrupt by removing the materials from the from the field. Question for you. Can I add a soul and use snake drama? Okay, one more performance. Interesting. You got to describe it. You got to describe the shit out of the sick performance. It looks like a contemporary dance routine. At first she just starts walking up to bowls and kicking them over, but then she starts like swinging into it. She like takes her knife out and rips across a canvas and turns around and kicks something over. It's this like stomp like soft crump cutting dance that soft crump. Yeah, it's a soft crump, gentle crump. Yeah, it's a softcrump, gentlecrump. And she looks like a puppet.

She's just like, kind of going insane with it. Okay. That's a 16. I believe. Okay, if I got my soul right, 15. That's a pretty good crack. I got too excited. I'm gonna hold you over your final rolls for your engaging combats. I got it right. 15. That's a pretty good crowd. I got too excited. I'm gonna hold you over your final roles for your engaging combats.

I got a 10. Because I have a minus one in violence. And then for your inner power, Hugh. My inner power was a 21. You fucked, I guess. Two free hertz for you. It's called fuck the man. Three hurts for me.

Interesting. Oh, I also get to ask the creature something. Oh. If I roll, sorry. If I roll the snake drummer skill, I roll a 15, which means I choose one option immediately and I may choose up to two or more in the future. I just want to ask the creature for something that I desire, which is a way out. Oh, interesting.

One guy. So I know you just got punched in the face, but can you show us the exit? We are still going to kill you, but if you could leave a door open. Definitely. Cool. You're the first to make contact as you were the one to just blaze out of there without a complete plan after assessing the situation. And you go to strike this 10 foot being with your cane to give them a piece of your mind. And you do that. just to give them a piece of your mind and you think my mother's feeling in some way. Strike at it. And it feels it immediately.

And it looks down at you and when you make eye contact with it, you realize that it has no eyes. And there's nothing but black, it could just flowing down its face. And as you look at that for a second and realize how grandiose this is, it reaches down and it grabs you and it is now holding you up in one of its hands as you train wrecks in the moment like it gets it grabs you and it like pulls you down to look at you and you're like really looking into the eyes of this thing as it just pours more and more dark, dark anger out of it.

And before it gets to do anything more than squeeze you just a little bit tighter, that's when Q comes crashing in with its inner power as the the arm itself seems once again kind of take its control over for itself and just starts to rip into control over for itself and just starts to rip into the abdomen of what you think is backwing as it kind of tears like a paper and you can feel the creature just wore out in pain and still holding on to you and not letting you go but feeling the weight of the harm that has been inflicted. Meanwhile, Cecil, you go and all seeing all that, try to capitalize as you think that disrupting the sigil

by washing it away might be the way to fully support the situation, but when you go to fire, it doesn't seem to let off anything. But you swear, you swear it hit the target. Even though it's like so high up, you can't even really tell if it actually struck it. So you don't, you think it might be just poor maintenance. I shouldn't have skimmed on the inspections last year.

Mint meanwhile, all everybody is kind of distracted, you are doing your jive and jig. And it seems to kind of go with the general motion of the other living dead in the background that's also kind of gyrating and chanting underneath the paintings. So it seems like maybe you're just a part of the overall vibe that's being set here in the background. You're just one of the extra dancers in it.

Yeah. And while you're doing that, you're just accidentally going, you know, and things start to be spilled and kicked over as it kind of like spills out, it's like thick blood, like oil inconsistency, but deep, rich reds that will look almost black because there's just so much of it that you can't really see the rest of the pigmentation of that's inside of it. As if it's been collecting blood and viscera this entire time as it's kind of spilling on the floor. What are we doing? That queen is injured from from hue as that that that arm continues to kind of tear at it, but they're still being held by coal.

They're still holding coal in their arms. And as that's all happening and and the screeching roar of this being kind of rolls out, the creatures, the living dead start to kind of start to react to that. And they now start to seem to move towards all of you, both you, Isador and Cecil, who are together, mint, even though you're kind of still moving and gyrating. They're starting to sense you and not and sense you and not clocking that you are not one of them. Eli? Yes.

I'm gonna use one of my edges, which is logical. You realize an effective way to dispose of the threat. What is the effective way of disposing the threat? What is the threat that you're clocking? Is it the creature itself or is it the the the beings that are coming towards you? You tell me? Well, both of them are right. Give it, I'll tell you that. You have to tell them. I thought it could be slick enough. No, I want what you're putting it. If you don't reverse that shit.

It's actually what you think, instead. It's true. Really? Because I mean, if you want me to pick, I will pick the greater evil. In my opinion. No, it's like you're right. Okay. Fudge. Okay. Yes, the greater evil.

Always the greater evil. The greater evil would be all of the creatures around you. Because there's just so many of them and they're so close to you and they're starting to grab at you. You know, as you're trying to push them away in the first instances, you know that they can kind of, they're just one track minded, but you know, you kind of start shoving, but you know, one becomes two and two becomes four, four becomes six. Am I allowed to do, well, I have a second edge that I can use. Yeah.

Is that a mind? I'm gonna go ahead and use rational words. You realize how to save yourself by sacrificing someone else, pick the person, utilize, escape the threats, and Cecil's near me. So I'm going to sacrifice Cecil. Oh my God. How do you intend to do that?

I'm gonna sold that. Um, not for long bitch. I apologize that that bone knife I'm gonna go ahead and I'm going to aim for the bottom spine so I can at least get out of the way. So leave him behind. Okay. Bottom spine of the way. So, we pivot behind. Bottom's kind of... With that, I want you to engage in combat. Cecil, I want you to avoid harm because is it worth near you enough? And you're assessing the threat yourself as well. So, you wouldn't just let somebody knife you with that.

I definitely wouldn't because I still have one six cents which allows me to act before somebody else something to me. So I'm not going to avoid harm. I'm going to shoot at the doctor. I'm going to engage in combat. Oh that's awesome. We will contest. I get the role for another 10 for the birthday gift. You...

Not the other 10. That's the chart baby. Not the other 10 for the chocolate cake. That's the week of the last episode. Can test, um, can test, do the first contestment with me, Amanda. Absolutely. And then you will get an additional attack on that, um, depending on how this goes. Um, so everybody, it's like I had to.

No. Sss. Interparty conflict during the BBEG flight. It's a made a standard Vidge. I just didn't see coming in this party. We actually kind of liked each other this time. We did already like like three of you. It's not over till it's over. I liked Moe feeling. Sassal, what was your role? 14, which means that I do succeed but at a cost. At a cost? As a door, what did you roll?

It was, I'm so sorry, it was engaged combat, right? Yes, role plus violence. That's what I wanted to know, which one. What? Oh, you lucky mofo. I'm at a negative, so I'm at a lot of. But I still like get some more. You both both inflict damage but add a cost to each other So you is a, is a door, is a door.

You, assessing the situation, realizing that all of these threats are coming at you at once. And the safest way is to re-retreat and to reassess and then come back with a solution. But sometimes, retreating requires sacrifice. And you will see Cecil there, and you take the opportunity to pull the knife on him and go to knife him And Cecil as you are trying to push those people away trying to find a lease an exit where you guys can both escape together Thinking that you guys are doing together you get that tingling in the back of your mind that something's not right and as you turn around Is a door goes and cuts across you and does inflict harm to you,

so you will take another harm. But in the process of that, since you're so holding the gun and are just reacting, you immediately shoot them in straight into their shoulder, just point blank without hesitation. So Isadore, you also take a thing of harm. All the while these beings now are slowly starting to reach out to you and grab onto you and pull you all together as now you've in the wasting time, wasting time in attacking each other has left little room for you guys to leave this situation

as the the living dead start to creep closer and closer to you. You've done this all you fool. closer to you. You've done this all you fool. Is it or you got that last that additional role? What would you what would you like to do that while you're in the situation? You hold your shoulder, woonly, and blood all over your nice outfit. Who said I wanted to leave? And I'm going to go ahead. I'm going to go ahead. Because what you did.

I'm going to go ahead and shoot. I will. I'm going to go ahead and let the demons behind me, are they really pulling at me? Well, they're grabbing on you. It's the corpses. Oh, we're good. I'm gonna go ahead for Cecil again. You're gonna stab Cecil again. Oh my God.

I'm going for it again. Yep. There's a reason. Okay, roll that engage in combat. You're birthday roll. I have to say there's something poetic about stabbing Sergio with a bone knife. There's something there. Do I have to? Oh, shit. Let's see how this goes first and then I'll give you a roll because you're still here. I got a 16 Pretty good for the bone knife is driving 40 miles per hour, so there's a week's time

Because because she rolled a 5th a 16 she avoids counterattacks So you're not even you can fire your gun, but it's not gonna do anything to them Um, I don't know if I want a counter attack. I would like to try to avoid harm, but I realize that's going to be tough. I think I'm going to do it anyway. I've got nothing left. All right. Yeah. So I'm going to avoid harm. First take another another bout of harm because Isadora does plunge her nice into you as you were fighting off the the rest of them. She does it again just for good measure. I got shot. Is that because I, is that that was like two points correct because it's like,

Is that that was like two points correct because it's like Because I just slashed him compared to getting pop no because you both will you both rolled in the 10 to 14 So you guys wouldn't you guys aren't dealing with much damage as you might have so you're injured your shoulders been shot through Yeah, but it's not enough to kill each other Well, I guess what I'd be avoiding harm or what I'd be enduring injury, because it sounds like I'm taking the damage no matter what. Um, yes, you'll have to... Oh, yeah, sorry. The void harm is just for you to get out of the situation, but first, endure that injury

just to see how... Okay. Okay, that's... 14. That's 15. 15. Nice. Okay, that's 14 that's 15

15 nice you write out the pain and keep going okay, so yeah, you've been stabbed twice, but it's It's it's okay I mean what I want to do is like Use their momentum and like throw them into the crowd of zombies. I guess I'm kind of engaging in combat. Yeah, it would be actually pressure. It would be actually pressure. I'll take that. Okay, actually pressure.

Is it or what are you trying to do? Because, you know, these other beings are still grabbing on to you, even though you hold a lot of access to them. Is it anything you want to try to do? Is a door is kind of like... She's not looking at you with any kind of warmth or anything like that. It's just, she's like the biggest thing. She's like, can't, we have to prove I'm worthy. That's where she's just going, she's obsessing, she's gonna be worth,

she's looking at the big ass creature with a lot of awe and she wants to be proven worthy. So she's gonna be like she's seeing at you like as a piece of meat to like as a sacrifice just as a that's what she's doing. She wants to keep going for him. Okay so you're you're still trying to I don't know that's. I'm getting asked. That's it. It's your intentions to keep both you and him here in this situation.

That's all I want to keep him here as long as possible. I don't want him to leave. That's I don't want anyone to leave. I'm probably going to get killed really soon, because I'm already like injured. I mean, I've already rolled an act under pressure. I'm getting a little confused as to what roles are affecting what. Hold on. Both of you are rolling an act under pressure as you're trying to escape the situation, Cecil. Meanwhile, Isadora is trying to keep you here in this situation.

If, yeah, depending on all this goes out depends on how much more this situation continues as these living dead are going. You are you were able to skate off the initial stabbing. You've been stabbed, but like it's not affecting your ability to keep moving forward. But Isadora seems preoccupied with keeping you presently here. So let's roll those actinor pressures to see how we move forward. Come on, Serge. One good roll. One good roll this whole game. Come on. So actinor pressures with coolness. I have a plus two to my coolness Yes, that's a 13 and I'm gonna use my final edge to make it 15

Beautiful is a door What is it? I don't want to say it now What is that I mean if you ask me it's a six Wow I know it I swear to God I don't even want to leave I believe you know I know I want to Got Oh, I want to lose.

God damn it. You stabbed him too much. You both do. There are three things. Both do what you intended. So I will say that... I will say that... in your guys' weird pursuit and follow us, is it or it keeps...

Like, you were trying to escape. Isador keeps swinging at you. But you still are trying to get out of it. So you both managed to get out of the living dead area. But now it's just both of you by yourselves. Now, the biggest threat is no longer the mob of the living dead around you but each other. As you guys are now out of it and you're heading towards the stairwell, bleeding upstairs

to the top second floor of the gallery. But as a door has got that knife on you Cecil, as you are trying to get away. Let's go somewhere else for a second. Cole and Q, what are you doing? You are actively engaging with this creature. Huge, delivered, an insane amount of damage. And it seems that this being is holding on despite everything that's going on, but it has cool high above them in their arms. Cool. First, you, what would you like to try to do? Am I at like eye level with it, or am I above I level?

You're slightly above I level with it. You were at one point, but as soon as you slammed into it, it raised you up above it because it was keeping you out of the way. I would like to use inner power and I wanna like to use inner power and I want to like almost supernova my fists into just like watercolor yellow into its eyes. Okay, we'll back. Okay. 10.

9. This is the first time I've tried to like actively use it, so I think Cole doesn't entirely grasp how to push the feeling out of them, I guess. Yeah. So it's not as strong as they're like, they're imagining like some kind of like superhero supernova bullshit. And it's like, it's not that.

I would say that you are, you managed to get out of its grip and you end up falling down onto its backside. And you kind of like clamor to like grab on to it. And still more concern with the mortal wounds and the engagement by Hugh as it's arms, it's eye arm with all that weight is just, you know, still holding on to them. You try to use your inner power and yeah, you expected that bombing explosion that you did in the hallway. But it ends up being more of like when you put watercolor onto paper as it starts to absorb

into the skin, as the skin starts to be continted with and saturated by watercolor. It's doing something, but it's not enough to like really affect it, but you're seeing how it you know what paper starts to get weak when it gets saturated like that. So it's doing something, but not enough to stop it and it's track, it's not enough to really do anything or that make him look a little bit prettier than when he has been. You, with that, what are you trying to do? Cole has fallen onto his back.

You're not even aware of the fray in which is happening with everybody else as those living corpses are now moving and slowly targeting in. And you can notice that they're starting to close in below this creature and towards you guys. But you have enough time to act still, given how well you've rolled previously. So originally, Hugh was really worried about getting to coal and releasing them from the grip of this thing. But now seeing that they cleared, I think Hugh just goes back into the mode of making sure this thing has no ability to stop the rest of them.

And so he's going to move forward. So rather than being a few paces behind Cole, he wants to be the main focus of this thing. And I mean, he's going to take main focus of this thing. And I mean, he's gonna take another swing at this thing. Swing. He's gonna do so with that inner power though. Beautiful. Okay, and I have a 15, which left, do you know if a 15 is in the highest caliber I'm not looking at? It is.

I can. That's the advantage. Okay, cool. So then it takes two more harm. It takes two more harm. As I think he leaps onto this thing, the best he can, like going towards midsection and trying to run his big eye and straight into the abdomen where he had hit it before, he's trying to get inside of this thing.

Before we do that mint, you have been on that dance for and that performance you did kind of kept the living corpses from really getting to you. But they're starting to really now know that you don't belong to this and they're starting to close in. Is there anything you're trying to do outside like, they weren't able to answer it? What was the question again? I'm sorry. It was basically how to get out, but it was a specific phrasing.

I mean, you just asked the monster, really? Yeah, but it's through your snake charm, right? Yes. Um okay I would say I don't think I believe I answered the question because I don't think they'll be able to actually verbally give you a response but I'll give you something that you you can utilize to get out of here. Um you do notice that while while this creature was creating and building the sigil, it did not, it's not completed, which means that whatever was attempting to do is not finished yet. Therefore, there's not a power here for them. There's not a continuous source. Whatever's coming, whatever source of their power is coming from their own self as well as the right behind them, you notice the eight paintings and the tripped it.

Okay, right. remember that there was a tap, there was power that was attached to the half-made canvases and stuff as if that queen put power into these things. So you know that maybe the way out is through its source. I don't think they're interrupting it. I don't think men stop stancing. I think they still have the lighter that the doctor gave to them earlier. And they have taken to using the doll as a torch, igniting it and just dancing along the walls, and almost like painting with this like flaming doll, and just starts hitting just wall flowering the rest of the gallery. And it's dancing until they get too close, then it's sprinting, and then it's back to dancing. But they're mindful of the undead.

You know what my favorite thing about this situation is? Is the question that Eli just answered for us? We planned before we came in this fucking room. And the console frazzled that we completely forgot everything we were doing in here. As soon as he lies like the paintings done that so I'm like oh shit we knew that. I start dancing. I'm so full of an active pressure to see how well you can navigate past this living dead without them getting involved and how far

you get to burning these paintings. Okay. Act under pressure you said. Yes. Very, very cool. I have no modifiers for cool. That's a 10. That's not a very cool.

It's not cool. It's not a fail though. A little warm. It's not. It's not cool. It's not a fail though. A little warm. It's not cool. Cool. It's tepid. Yeah. Cool. It's for you like is we more stressed than you Sergio. Like they just, oh my. Oh, a math. You do that dance. You get through it fast enough, but once you get towards the other side and the moment you ignite the doll is when those living being start to actually react to it.

And they grab, start to reach and grab onto you, which as you're desperately stretching out to try to burn these paintings, you're now being grabbed on by the living corpses and they're trying to grapple you and subdue you. But you are able to get one of them as it starts to kind of you see pieces of it starting to, it's not enough to ignite it all the way, but it's enough to start burning the edges. And you're seeing that the canvas has now a protruding hole that's been developed from what you've been able to burn before. You are pulled down to where all the rest of these living corpses are as they're starting to surround you. Meanwhile, as that's happening, You go again to release that inner power and it's starting to spread after that first

go and you releasing it, it's gone past, it's on your chest, it's starting to spread to your other arms. It's just now like the more you aggravated the more you lean on it, the more it just wants to consume you. So it's spreading, but you are you are able to release again and this time it's enough to kind of get over where the saturated parts of where coal kind of is leaking their watercolor all over them. That's enough to kind of rip through it. As it kind of severs their entire chest from the upper part of it and the lower part in a like a nice almost clean cut as if you were to tear paper apart. And it causes

this being to collapse and to fall. And as that happens and as the painting behind where mint is is starting to slow burn across, there's just this odd ripple and rumble of disruption as as a pulsation of power seems to kind of admit out. And now like you is a Dora and Cecil, who have been fighting each other, is like, I think at this point, maybe is a Dora's gotten again to a point where she's close to stabbing you and leaning in on you, Cecil,

is you're trying to fight her off as you guys have not been able to capitalize on your intentions here. But then there's just a complete burst as the being of was once Alonno's body, this creature, seems to just fall and tear and break apart. And after that pulse goes out, it kind of just goes completely implosion as everything kind of starts to suck in itself and as all these living dead seem to kind of be dragged away from all of you as it kind of just all comes together disperses out and now you guys are all in an empty

room of this gallery. The patrons that were once there, who were their bodies, soon on the floor, starting to dissipate and deteriorate, as this was all, as if it was kind of all a part of a dream. Okay, right, everyone go. Are we dead? Did we do it? I look outside. Oh, no, you said there's a rotunda, right?

That we can see the moon before I look up. Are we just like in total black, though? Total darkness? You're not in complete darkness. Okay. You meant you start to like look up to the retunda because that's the only visible window you see or know of in this moment. And as you kind of look up,

you just notice that like everything that kind of grew and changed in this gallery, like outside of what has already dissipated in front of you, it seems like the building itself is just leaking and just like, it's all the illusion is starting to just melt away. As that like moon starts to kind of, stop, like crack open and it changes to more

of a natural illuminated glow. And everything just seems to return to somewhat of a normal state. what of a normal state. Okay, we all see that. Does the doctor keep advancing on me? No. That would have stopped when we get the supernova destruction. Under different circumstances, maybe if I hadn't talked to you, I'd shoot you right between the

eyes, but instead I'm just going to sue you for stabbing me. That's gross. And I just start to get up. I start to get up. When you guys think the dust is settled, of a sudden through the main gallery doors is just like Boots to the door as it seems that like a bunch of what seems to be FBI or swat seem to swarm in and Just seem to just immediately take over the situation as if they were prepared for To take action against something that

had happened the moment the illusion was severed here. And as those who are awakened you kind of recognize that while this seems coincidental you know you tend to not really believe totally in coincidences. You're immediately swept up by these officers who kind of put you guys into temporary like swacars and holdings, roughly interrogating you about everything that has happened. As you guys tried to explain, as they tried to explain to you that there was a terrorist attack that had occurred. A nerve agent was released into this building and it caused strange and unusual circumstances

and hallucinations and stuff like that, killing several people. But you seem to be some of the remaining survivors of this. And they're trying to get stories straight of whether or not you guys had any tensions or involvement directly by it. Right. I try to bypass many questions saying, I'm believing to death death can you take me to the hospital? Also you What's with the eyeball situation with the FBI? Yeah That's why I was like your arms fine

It was the guys eyes on his face and that's where I'm like I would say he was like Yeah, that's what I'm like I would say he had more. Yeah, that's what I would say you had enough. You're not being arrested per se. They just swept you guys off into like into squat cars. I'd say he might have had enough time to discover himself up if he's choosing not to show this. To them. That's a lot. I think that Q is in such a state that he's right now having trouble breathing in both lungs and it's climbed completely of his chest. I don't think he can physically move much of his body, he's fighting for breath. So I think he's just allowing them to find him however they find him. Sure, if there's a way, if I could find him,

I will ask him to fight. If he wants me to put him out of his misery. I would say that they would have put you in an ambulance, Hugh, in the meantime during their interrogation. They seem to be treating you as if you're hurt and not that you were covered in eyeballs, both the EMS staff, as well as those who are interrogating you. They're treating it like they're a part, it's a part of the, that you are just a normal

average man and they're just going through their routine questions, not even acknowledging the truth that you were in. And after that is a door I can kind of show up there eventually if she wants. It's kind of the reactions like that's suspicious so that's where I'm like So that's where I'm like, uh... So all part of the game, I'm just gonna be... So we're gonna be obvious to us. If it's a matter of distraction, this is just attention. Mint is here for it.

She's not gonna say shit. About what actually happened, but if it's a matter of making the law enforcement feel like they're getting more information, if they'll pay more attention to her, then that's exactly what's happening. And if it's like, you need a distraction, then she's like, oh my god, they came in and it was crazy. The clouds of the nerve gas, it was pink and however long it needs to be. Yeah. I mean, you tell your side of the story to everybody tells their side to the story to

the officers who are involved and eventually after a couple of hours of doing all of that routines that they eventually kind of let you go. Cecil, you can go to the hospital via ambulance if that's where you feel like you need to as long as well as you, Hugh, if that's what you feel inclined to do is go all the way through that. And meant you probably after the interrogation probably found the

most nearest like camera. And just start to like, you know, answer questions wanting to get all of that attention. Everything is referenced within the amount of time after her performance. So 30 minutes after my performance is when X happened. 45 minutes after my performance. Cole, is there anything specific you're doing once you've been released from the police? Cole hasn't said much to the police, either about their mother's involvement or anything else. And I think they're gonna go find Hugh.

Okay. Wherever he is. Hugh's at the ambulance. They're about to roll out, so you have just a couple seconds to say something to him. Why are you trying to protect me? What do you mean?

You made Cecil promise you, you know. Why? I think a lot of things are gonna come out about your family in a couple of days, and your inheritance is gonna be in some trouble. So I thought you might like some money in your life. And I didn't think I'd have to live long enough to explain what I was doing. Listen.

Listen for you. We grow up and we have these questions about life and we think that they all need to be answered and we think it's human to look for those answers. We think it's human to want to solve everything that happens to us. You unfortunately have that affliction about you. I did too.

But if I can give you any piece of advice, a piece of advice, I wish I could give to your mother. While it is human to be curious, and it is human to keep pushing and to want to know, it's also human to find an ending to things. One of the most human things we can do is let things end. I just want you to have that option to read that book and to understand why I would tell that to anyone to begin with. Yeah. I'm done with Colts.

I've got too too many. So, um, thank you. Too too many, so... Thank you. Can I email you still? Of course. Sure, I don't know that you're ever going to get an answer, but that wasn't any different when I was alive. It might just be nice. And I'll just kind of, the coal looks like they're going to say something sentimental and nonsensical

and then realize as who's they're talking to and just kind of like path his leg and get side of the ambulance. You drop out of the ambulance and the EMS immediately closes the door and it eventually rolls out. And for everybody else, whether you go home via private car or to the hospital or to wherever you think you need to go. As you kind of sit there for the first moment in the last several hours of enduring and understanding the power and the madness behind

those artwork, you get that bit of sensation on the back of your neck that inducing fear, that lingering death that seems to have touched and brushed up against you. And though you stop this from happening, you haven't ended their presence here amongst you. And you'll carry that on as you end. And I think that's a great place for us to end our run-through of the Atrassi exhibition.

Wow. How the hell we survived that shit? Truly. Oh my goodness. Look at us, mostly. How the hell we survive that shit truly Yeah, I love that I love that, mostly Just makes you want to keep telling the story Nobody does, we gotta go to the We gotta die

Hey, I fuck you Yeah, he makes it more than a couple days after that Yeah, he's just a pile of eyeballs at this point. That's why I was like, do you want me to just slit your throat and put you out of your misery? Like a... Yeah, well, yeah. There's a little note in my jacket pocket for Dr. D.

That's what I was trying to do. I knew it. I knew it, Timmy. Timmy. I will say that you guys would know that the exhibition pieces are intact and are okay and back in their school, the news will talk about that this was an act of terrorism. The sky is to affect both the art center itself as well as the affluent members who were supposed to be in attendance.

And that's about it as it's left of that. The paintings, once again, returned to wherever collectors they said they were going, including Nassar Rahim, who also managed to survive this, as well as William Reeves, who also made it out. Was there anything weird or while that we missed? Yes. Weird, I mean there was a lot of stuff that we didn't get in. Oh, the boat, yeah. I would say Mary did survive, but deeply impacted by the situation. I think it causes initial rifts for you, Cecil, as this was Mary's awakening.

As now she is aware of what's beyond this illusion. But who knows how that will pan out for you. But yeah, but that's about it. This was a written module from Helmgatz, who are the creators of cult divinity laws. If you like what you saw here, want to see how far the inferno and elizium goes, please go to coltsrpg.com where you will be able to get access to the core books

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