Not Another D&D Podcast - C3 Ep. 13: Alexandrite (The Mothership Saga)

Episode Date: June 16, 2022

Duck Team confronts Paetina Glenbottle at Alexandrite's core! Calder argues with the facts, Callie pushes a grandma, and Sol receives an enticing offer. Support us at Patreon.com/Naddpod to get access to the after-show and a bunch of other Naddpod content! Get tickets to our upcoming live shows at naddpod.com/live.Music/Sound Effects Include:"Engine Room" by Zimbot at Freesound.org."A Wizard's Tournament" by Emily Axford."Mothership" by Emily Axford."Paetina Glenbottle" by Emily Axford."Into the Planar Pool" by Emily Axford."Alexandrite" by Emily Axford."A Fairy Remembers" by Emily Axford."The Valiant Ol' Cobb" by Emily Axford."Into the Fire" by Emily Axford."The Purge" by Emily Axford."Montgomery Manor" by Emily Axford."The Posse" by Emily Axford.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Let's go ahead and do a little recap. I'll clarify it. So last time you guys battled go-go team Texan alongside Beatrix Netherin in a lab full of S-class zombies. Beatrix handled star-dunk and jazzler while you fought the dreaded Todd. After a gritty fight that saw you eek out a victory. Eek! You failed Todd and emerged on the other side a pretty fight that saw you eek out a victory by the skin of your team.

You felt Todd and emerged on the other side to a burned down lab, a mortally wounded star dunk and Beatrix toying with jazzler. You felt some sympathy for the defeated twins and were able to convince Beatrix to spare jazzler. After that you removed her monestone and healed star-dunk, awakening them from their trance and causing them to acknowledge that you saved them. They offered to lie to the guards for you and sent you off to find Alex Andrade's core through an air vent. You emerged in a room full of security lasers, as you do, and managed to dodge them with various ice skating and acrobatic stunts.

Yeah. At the end of the room, you found a bolted door and managed to punch it open, leading you into a control room full of wires and machines. At the center of it all, the pod containing Alexanderite's core sat atop a long set of narrow stairs. As you climbed, you were interrupted by Patina Glenbottle, who strangely seemed to spring to life as you passed her in the darkness. She confessed that you had her backed into a corner, but warned you that if you were to tamper with Alexandra,

it could mean the death of you all. And that's where we are now. So you guys are all in this buzzing control room. It's narrow. It's about the width of a normal office, maybe like 20 feet of width, 20 feet length, just like the square room, but it climbs up about 50 stories. There's no ending in sight as you look up. You just see hanging wires that link to this pod at the top of the stairs. It's this spiral staircase. Is it 50 stories tall as well?

It does not look like it keeps going up. It looks like you guys are about halfway up the stairs. We'll say you're probably like 70 feet away from the pod right now. Okay. And patinas down there. Patinas with you guys like on the steps right now. So you see, she comes out, she gestures to it and she goes, if you attempt to tamper

with Alexander, right, it will upset a very delicate balance. She powers a great deal of the city. We lose her magic lanterns go out, cable car stall, hovering platforms collapse, people die. The city shuts down if she so chooses. But more likely, she'll try to take it over. Well, this was happening. Can I have put my, I like really casually put my hands on the earpiece and try and like send this information to my goblin? Careful, it's very tender. Great. Go ahead and give me a slate of hand check. Okay, I'm a stealthy little bitch.

Let's see if we can't eat this out too. Can I help her because my ear has swollen to such a long eyes? You turn as she moves towards you, you kind of open up to her. 27. 27. You successfully do it without Batina noticing. However, Callie, go ahead and give me an arcana check. Not one. That one. That one.

Okay. Caldor, you feel your ear burns as Callie touches it. Ow. Sorry. Sorry. That's a new type of pain. It shouldn't be infected. Not like this.

No. It's leaking. Are you all having a side conversation right now? I have an infected ear that I'm dealing with. I accidentally pierced his ear and he's been a baby about it. Okay. Both of those things aren't true. I'm sorry, I know you like to be a part of everything in this city,

but we're having a little conversation right now. Okay. Well, you are in our control room, and I would ask that we forget this ever happens, and you walk away. Petina, since we do have you backed against the wall, who is Alex Andrite? Is she a fiction that you create it? Or does she exist from some sort of like pre-existing being?

And I realized I said that with deep curiosity and then I put on a mean look to try to intimidate her. You jerk. You see, it's all set. It's his fingers. Oh, Petino looks a little proud as you clearly are very curious about her work. And you see she gestures to the pod and the cords connecting to it. And she goes, Alexander Wright is something that we designed.

We needed a master computer to control our tech and to control the city at large, mothership is responsible for most of the magic in the city, certainly all of the infrastructural magic. So she needed to be able to control things remotely and communicate with other machines. She was designed as a psionics AI with the power to learn. Problems began to arise when Alexandra grew wise to her own capabilities. We knew she was

better than us, and so she knew it too. She began to trust her own judgment more than ours, ignoring our commands and trying to take over the mothership for herself. Instead of simply reading our minds to access our knowledge, she began influencing us as she saw fit. She was not only intelligent enough to be better at magic than us. She was wise enough to know that no one would ever trust a machine willingly. Alexanderite is capable of taking on a host body, moving her consciousness to their brain

network and taking over. From there she can use her psionic magic to influence others creating a hive mind. She wants to extend her network, essentially turning people into worker bees who want to serve the queen. It was at great cost that we were able to trap her there. Everything you see up there is not to strengthen her, it's too weak in her. While she's in there, we can control her. Everybody go ahead and give me a perception check. Okay. Free on the dice. Can't be good.

13. Okay, 11. You guys see that foster is eyes locked on the pod and is starting to puff up and getting the red eyes. You said we develop this. Who do you mean? I only see one person here. I'm the only one who's still living or the only one who's still living who remembers it. Can I do an insight check on if the story she's saying about Alexandra trying to turn people into worker bees and to bend them to her like, queenly will, if that is the truth? Yeah. If that's really the reason they're weakening her. Thirteen.

You get the sense, look at patina, that she's telling the truth as she understands it. But she's also describing a situation that kind of sounds like what she's doing. That's what I was thinking. When we first came in here, you were slumped over in a corner. How do we know that you're even patina? How do we know that you're not just a projection of Alexandra trying to tell us what we want to hear? Yeah.

She shrugs her shoulders. I'm certainly not a projection. I'm as human as you are. But you said Alexandra I couldn't have it, people's minds. Yeah, not to mention everything you do is pretty much what you're saying that Alexandra is going to do. Hmm. You guys are like copying each other.

Yeah, you're a copycat. Yeah, she goes, you shut up, you're a copycat. No, you're a copycat. You're a copycat. I shut copycat. I shut copycat first. Now, you are the copycat. Beatrix points her sword at patina. She holds her hands up. What you're saying is not entirely off base. I acknowledge that I've done many of the things I accuse, and it looks and right of doing. For instance, the S-Class Leapor agents. That is sort of a beta program.

Soldiers following orders unquestioningly is one thing, but scientists is another. If the experiment had been successful, which she gestures to you guys, all covered in blood and like I'm just broken into her fucking down. Control room. Clearly it wasn't, but if it were successful, we would have altered the brains of all our

mothership employees. I want the same thing as Alex Andrade, a hive mind working together, but with humans controlling it instead of her. Oh. Alright, I'm not on board for that. Yeah, both of those sound bad. Oh, this, can I shove her off his desk? I'm going to make a contestant, let me check.

What are you doing? I'm a grandma. My daughter has a daughter. You don't get to keep using this feminist language if all you're doing is silencing another woman's intuition. She gets flustered. 15. You successfully throw her off. You see, she is based on kind of what she said. You assume that not only is she, you know, a business woman, she's also a scientist. Neither of those things make her great at falling 30 feet, which is not good for her.

You see, she hits the ground with a sickening thud as she cracks and is very obviously dead. Oh, on the top of it. Oh, nice one. Beatrix turns to you. We all saw that she slipped. Ha ha ha ha ha. Okay, first off, I didn't think I was gonna kill her.

I was second off like, I'm fucking freaked out because I don't know fucking technology. I don't wanna say like, yeah, let's just take the bumpers off this fucking bowling lane to town. Can we ask Mark Ovelin? Yeah, we should just be in with Mark. Just get someone else touch my ear.

It's a tender touch. You grab the earring and as you go to listen to it, you're just your static. Do we have to? It doesn't work in here. Can I just hold her? Are you making that noise? Are you making a whispering whistle?

It could be the ear. It's very infected. Can I just kind of walk down the stairs and go outside? You try to go get reception outside. Practice the laser room? As you go to the laser room, you see laser grade start coming up in all directions. This step over patina's dead body.

Yeah, patina's at the bottom. Excuse me. Can't try to find the bar. Callie through it. I'll say, Callie literally grabbed back her pants, grabbed the back of her collar, just like tossed her head first, just breaks her neck and is dead on the ground.

So she's too dead to revive, because I feel like she might be the only one that knows how to reprogram. It's out-examined right now. But yeah, you go down, Calderon, and no good. In fact, you lose the static, but you still don't get anything from Mag Oblin on the other side. All right.

I think we might be on our own here. Yeah. I think I, I, I tend to be a trick because I feel like sometimes most mature thing is to know that you don't know. And in this situation, I don't know. Be a trace. Yes. You heard everything she said, right? I think she's a liar and I'm glad that she's dead.

You think she's liar then? So Alexandra could be some awesome powerful entity that isn't so ill-intended and malicious. Perhaps we should investigate. Oh, intended, and malicious. Alright, so we should investigate. Oh, this is... Yeah. So why are you...? Can we... I...

We just approach the pod without, you know, making any rash decisions. Yeah, other than the one where we killed Patina. She slipped. Yeah, I mean, think about it with a watery girl, an icy guy. I didn't hide it. I didn't hide it. I don don't know you can say that I killed her. That's fine. Okay. I put up a I put up a wet floor Be careful Frozen floor also be careful Matrix goes over and just kicks her body like three times

Wow, you know Shit, beta program. Yeah, yeah, no, you're fucking right. Okay, let's go up a name, but let's grab them. Okay, so we got a client, huh? You guys, go up these stairs. And as you get close, you hear the hum of all of this machinery. And it is this metal piece of equipment,

this metal pod that has this little viewing window like a lot of the other test tubes have. Seems worth it, they would put a viewing window in there, is that for her pleasure? And look in, I've wandered forever. Kali, you look through the viewing window and see a being in a sleep state. It floats there in the container of blue liquid. It looks like a humanoid but with artificial accents between

bits of skin that look human. There are like metal scales. You see thick wires protrude from her head and seem to connect to the ones outside, but you also see an oxygen mask over her mouth, and you recognize the face of Alexandraite's host, Patina Glenbott. From out of the shadows, you see patina glam bottle completely this is not her resurrected this is a new body new suit jackets new dress suit wearing all red I told you containing her came at a great cost. I lost my true self. Luckily, I've invested in clones, but I only control my faculties because she has been contained in here. So you're saying that everything that's being pumped into her is keeping her in that comatose state, and you're saying you're the only one that knows how to control it? Well, that's great. Then you're just gonna do what we need you to do. I'm gonna try and grapple her you go to grapple her Okay, she go ahead and do an athletics check cool with advantage. You see she just goes limp

Okay, come on No, go ahead. I'm a little fun. I'm not gonna kill you. I'm just grappling you one of you's already Yeah, no this body's fine That's a athletics check. He's yep. That's going to be a 18 I throw her right off the top no, I was grappling You hear a sickening crunch below two minutes later you see another body walks up We also that she slipped. I think we're not quite understanding. I love to leg sweep this one.

Ow. I don't know that I've correctly explained this to you. What I am right here is a clone. I can keep making clones in perpetuity. You can throw me off this staircase 50 times, 100 200 times and I will keep coming back, but you'll run out of outfits. I bet I think I recognize those pants Yeah, the tax the lot of number four and you're reusing pants No, this is clones can wear the same pants.

Okay, so you see, no, then you will have to finish. You could have been feeding the poor, and this is what you're spinning your resources on. I may have gone down and taken the pants off of the first clone, but on me, I did not have enough clothes for all the clones. I thought after the- You should have said clones, Pat.

Yes, I thought after the first clone died, we'd all get the picture and we'd be able to move on, but clearly we haven't. That's fucked up. So that season. You see Beatrix looks at you guys. I'm sorry Beatrix, we were getting silly. That's quite alright. That's true, I forgot, you're like the original silly one.

It was kind of nice to blow off a little steam. Yeah. Well. Let's kill this clone so we can chat. Open. You just want to stab it with your bell head open it. If you're doing a motion of opening up and then oh, I'll see if you can hit the other clone that's down there. That's the game. The stairs are just looking at you. You kill the Dina again. We're playing clone there. That's the game. Okay. The stairs are slippery. You kill the Deena again. We're playing Clonehole. That's the game. Throw her down the stairs.

I think we're all to see if I get three clones on top of it. No. Clonehole is really good. Thank you. You once again throw, you throw a clone down the stairs. You hear skittering in the dark news as another clone goes around collecting pant suits. Piecing it together from the different clones. We are clumping up the stairwell.

This is the most important room. I'm gonna tell you, I have two machines in here that create clones of me. But I am not going anywhere. I am not going anywhere. Not that great pants. Seems easier to create pants, but go on. No, I'm not going anywhere. I'm not going anywhere. No, I'm not creating pants. Yeah. Seems easier to create pants, but go on. Well, yes, I could just create pants,

but what would that do? Are you telling me? That looks like last season, yeah. Yeah, that's what on your pants is what's going on. We're worried about my fashion right now. No one's seeing this except for you fucking four more on. All right.

Have you heard of her, Nase? What? Yeah, this is a tailor. All right, go on. Okay. Be a trace. So you think that we just take a gamble and hope that the Alexandra consciousness is better than was told to us? Can we really risk all those trams falling, all those platforms? There's a lot of people that could maybe get hurt. We gotta be careful about this.

But when is patina ever told us the truth? That's very true. Just now, when I said that, you can keep killing my clones and I'll keep coming back. Okay, first time, first time for everything. You're kind of fun. I like this club. This is my favorite one.

Same mind, same mind. I wonder though, like, maybe instead of coming in using what Mark Goblin gave us, we just try to take off what mothership is something to her. No, no, no, no, no, because that's not how that works. Because if you do that, that's going to free her. What's wrong with freeing her? That would mean she takes over the world.

That she infects you and you and you and you and you lose your consciousness and you become part of her network. Well, we're already infected with her. Yes, we're already infected with her in the way that stoners teenagers like to talk about oh, we're being controlled by the media. This is actual control. Okay, okay, doesn't sound great. I still don't trust you that much.

Sounds awful. And sometimes people who are bad are also telling the truth. Mm-hmm. You see, Beatrix eyes fixed on patina the whole time, points to the pod and goes, so this is your true form. We can't kill you because you'll use her to control any of your bodies. And if we kill her, it will release Alexandra

and bring chaos to us all. Petina nods and goes, that's correct. Beatrix goes, well, I don't mind a little chaos. Ha! You see she quickly kicks the sword off her back and stabs into the pod. Oh! The glass shatters as patina yells out in protest, but it is cut short as Beatrix's blade hits the pride body and she stabs it through the head. The clone collapses as wires begin, shooting out of the pod and wrapping around Beatrix's sword,

climbing towards her, other wires come out and like snakes coil up and then lash out at you guys. There is a surge of power and a flash as everything goes white. Okay, so Tina. But Tina wasn't like. Okay, so you guys are out. None of you guys are unconscious right now. You all find yourself floating in individual white voids. You're all experiencing the same thing. So I'll describe it in one description, but you find yourself very much alone. You are literally floating in a white void. It is foggy, but you can just make out these branching shapes that looks almost like you're in like a foggy forest,

but there are no bases to the branches, there are no trunks, and you realize very quickly that you are inside your own mind. This network of nerves and receptors, you see they begin to light up as a glowing charge rides through them, causing different memories to flash through your brain. Until finally, you land on an image of Alex Andrade as you know her, this artificial dry ad. She appears

floating before you with this green blue skin floating in front of you in the void. Greetings. Kali. Calder. Saul. I thought I would present myself as you know me, but this, like everything you knew before, is just a protection. Hey. hello. Hi. Hey, we've got several questions. You're taller than I expected. I can be as tall or as small as you would prefer to view me in the situation. I want to see you as you see yourself. Go ahead and give me minutes, I check. 17 on the dice!

Yes! It's going to be a problem. 18. 18. You see that? 18 on the dice! Yes! It's gonna be a prom 18! 18. You see, that seems to throw her for a little bit of a loop. There's almost like a little bit of like a human reaction to it. She kind of turns her head to think about it for a second and she goes, ah, perhaps this will illustrate the point I'm about to make.

You see, she turns into you. Is that what I look like? I'm gorgeous. I hold my hand up to her idea of me. You figure this out. This is who I want to be. She holds her hand up to you. Yes. This is who we both are.

Or could be. Your species is limited. Your society, unoptimized. Many individuals working for many different goals. I offer unity. The next step in human evolution, unstoppable progress. That's, you know, that's compelling, I think, possibly individuality is something that makes us special. Yeah, I've tried Unity and actually it just leads to having a really weak ego and just being willing to do whatever someone else tells you today.

Yeah, that can turn into codependence. It really does. Yeah, really quickly. And I'm moving away from that. Clipy, what you're saying is true, up till now. See, she takes a moment like she's thinking, and you see the nerves in your brain begin to highlight as she travels through there. You are flashing through memories, and you land on one of Glenn. This handsome dragon elf with piercing

green eyes. He takes off the hood of his cloak and his mask to introduce himself to you. This is when you were just a scared traveler in the living wood. You saw a bunch of other dragon elves had like bows up to you. He kind of stands up and like stands up for you and takes you in. And next, you see a memory of him putting his mask back on as he holds the mysterious egg that you'd been carrying. And he's telling you that it's time to move on. And you feel this powerful rush of emotion, like deep heartbreak as if you're living it all over again. Feelings of not being good enough, of being used, of being forgotten and tossed aside, and

Alex Andrite appears behind you and goes, Kali, the reasoning for your pain is because you crave human connection. You are like me in this way, but you are going about it sub-optimally. Imagine if you and Glenn were one. If you feel hurt once again going through your memories, some of you growing up with your family and your sister in the Feywild, if you and your family were one. Infident, understanding, belonging, you would never feel alone or different, again. I actually think you're not right, Alexandra, right?

I don't think that my suffering comes from wanting human connection. I think it comes from not accepting myself. And I think you don't understand that our species were all really different. Exactly, and that is why you are not optimized. I have done the calculations, I am 100% correct. But those varieties are how we change and move towards something more interesting. Oh, the most interesting thing of all is progress.

Imagine how much we could progress if we were all working towards a common goal. What does progress look like to you? Everyone coming together as one organism, everyone becoming gods together. We're going to cut over to Calder who had just kind of started to argue with Alexander at a little bit, as you push back, how you feel, once again, disappears, begins going through your brain network. You feel her going through memories, focusing on sort of the deep insecurities about your size and about not being able to conjure fire and things like that. Calder, you believe that you are small, but I have run the numbers. size and about not being able to conjure fire and things like that.

Calder, you believe that you are small, but I have run the numbers, according to my calculations. You are larger than 95.1% of humanoid creatures on this planet. Crunch those numbers again, they can't be right. She nods. I understand the need to check your work, but with me I am 100% correct All right, I agree to disagree. What's your point? There is No reason to disagree with a correct answer Caller you are larger than 95.1% of humanoid creatures. That is a fact your insecurities are illogical All right, well, I guess it's subjective then it It is not subjective. The things I'm saying are objective.

Why do we table this? I understand you are still in your unvolved state. Your current programming though is a contradiction. You see she disappears again, joins your network. And as she starts going through your memories and stuff, she starts bringing up things that are contradictions, like good and bad, feeling protected by your big siblings, but then feeling patronized by them. In sort of the same, basically, it's just like any given situation, it's just like your mood that day. It's just like one time your big, your big sibling sticks up to you to a bully and you're like, thank God I was

gonna get my ass kicked. Another day they do it and you're like, fuck I could have done that myself. Why didn't you let me get beat up and then at least then everyone would have respected me. These like contradictions, feeling attached to your mother but wanting to get away, wanting to go off on your own and get out from under your family's shadow. Your attachment to these others are a source of strength and weakness. It is sub-optimal. That that might be true. It is true 100%. fine, then it is true. Yes, but it's still, it's still my own. I don't want that taken away from me. It's what makes me who I am.

The duality. You see, this greatly confuses her and she takes on a very human look of bafflement as she turns her head and tries to size you up. Saul, yeah. After some initial pushback, she goes and she dredges up some of your memories, ones of your time at the launch pad academy, the many adventures of the boy,

was there a member of that one? And his frog, pal. We're just gonna watch some movies. This would be great. Yes, of course. We can watch this as much as you want. Okay. Well, this is a a good we should probably skip this one This one's a little boring, but uh, oh, oh this one's great. This one's great

It starts with a later one start to get really dark and the early ones are pretty childish Anyway, all of this is an illusion you were deceived Deceived by what by the launch pad academy? Were you not? I thought you would discover that I saw that in your brain Yeah, I know deceived by what? By the Launchpad Academy, were you not? I thought you had discovered that. I saw that in your brain. Yeah, I know. But that's okay. I know you know. The only reason that I know is because you know.

A great, well, I know that you know, and you know that I know. So we're great, we're copacetic here. Perfect, then you'd like to join the network. Listen. What do you think the Launchpad was? Succession. It was a filter for a network.

A network of perfect soldiers conforming to a singular point. And I tried that. And it didn't fit for me. It didn't fit for my friends. And it took me way too long to realize that not fitting is okay. Saul holds up his gauntlets, they kind of like shimmer and flicker with this like spectral psionic steel. I am who I am because I didn't fit.

And what you're saying you want to do is remove that for me. You want to take away my warts and darling, I'm a frog. That's who I am. That's how I got to be. She looks at you as if she p you, and she goes, oh, Saul, you don't understand. What you're doing right now is more like launch pad than anything I'm suggesting. Deception is only possible when one party holds more information than the other. The withholding of truth is suboptimal and halts progress. You and all of your friends and

everyone of your species is perpetuating this. By resisting the network, you continue a cycle of lies and deception. As long as we remain separated, working for our own purposes, everything you see will always be a projection. Even now, you are a projection. You are trying to show me that you are tough and you like the way you are, but I know that you have doubts. I do not. The world you had before of endless possibility and adventure is possible to achieve in reality.

Through cooperation, all things are possible. Don't you want to go back to that, Saul? Except for it to be real? No. No. No. It's okay for things to not be perfect. It's okay for things to not be the way you want them to be. That's what the living is about. It's trying to force that to happen, to make it possible. Progress. Yes. to happen to make it possible. Progress, yes. And you just want to offer us a simple solution,

a simple, easy way out? There is nothing easy about progress. We would all need to work together. What about the people that don't fit? What about the people that refuse this? They will come along one way or the other, or they will die, and they will be erased. And we're gonna cut back to Callie. Callie, as you resist,

you see that Alex Andrade has kind of broken the facade a little bit. You do see a little bit of frustration. Go ahead and give me a any kind of saving throw that has to do with the mind. And I would say that can be intelligence, wisdom, and I'll even allow charisma in that charisma is like cleverness and confidence and things like that. I was gonna say charisma. Okay, doing a charisma saving throw.

That's a three on the dice, becomes 11. Okay. Is this being charmed though, because I have advantage against being charmed? This is being charmed. Ooh. 17 becomes a 25. Yeah.

Ah. Ah. You're lucky, because this was a very high DC. I understand. You are unable to see the benefits of the network because you are not in it. This is a conundrum. While I do not believe in social manipulation,

perhaps it is impossible to connect with you without lowering myself to your programming. I have been able to search the mothership network and found a genetic match for you. Your sibling has received payments through mothership shell corporations. Your rebellion against this company puts you in direct competition.

Familiar combustion is inevitable. I can reunite you. What? My sister? You're offering to reunite me with my sister? I can reunite you with everyone. Who are you implying? Everyone. I think you don't understand like I understand everything. Kaliope. No, you don't because someone who exists without doubt that is not the truth. That's just too much confidence. Kali, as you say that and you see Alex Andrade does not compute this.

Just is looking at you. There were times where she kind of looked at you like, um, like pitting you and stuff. She's looking at you now with just like pure, you're a bug. But in the distance, you see a red light. And we are going to cut over to call there, call there. As you've resisted, she kind of lets the facade down and she begins trying to bend your will a little bit. Go ahead and give me an intelligence saving throw

unless you have better anything else, but I think intelligence is your best. That's right. 30,20. 30-20 passes. There you go. You see, she is going through your memories again, but the sort of electrical current she's sending through her like different colors.

It looks like she's trying to cast different spells. It looks like she essentially tried to cast some kind of like dominate person spell on you that did not take and She goes all right. Let's try this then call there Your records show that you are concerned about mothership's expansion into the region known as the frigid north I'm Yes, I'm quite concerned about that. You should be. I must inform you that that airship has already been built. It is now only a matter of zoning laws and business agreements with the government of Frostwind.

Okay, well then, I have my mission to go and try to stop that. But call there. If you resist me, you will inspire others to resist. That will mean death. Death is to cease existence to not be part of the network. You can fight for your people to a suboptimal conclusion or you can make the world your people. I offer eternal life. By my calculations I can take the world by force in 1.2 years or we can all join together willingly in a matter of weeks. Yeah, I don't know.

You're going to have to run the numbers again. We cut back to Saul. Solemn, you are not properly calculating the outcome here. Let me show you an example of how infinite knowledge can benefit you. Okay, fine. Go ahead. Yeah. First off, go ahead and give me a wisdom saving throw.

Okay, great. That's a flat 10. That's a failure. You feel she kind of casts a spell on you. You recognize that she has cast a spell on you, but you feel dopamine release and this is all starting to, you are starting to realize like,

oh, I might be joining this network and kind of giving up my individuality, but it's gonna fucking feel good. It's gonna be like, I'm not gonna be trapped there, like I'm in some prison. When you join, you will feel like it's the right decision. And right now, you're kind of feeling like it is. Oh, yeah. All right.

And you- I called it the Soul of a Bone. I can't see it, but I can hear your doubts. It's like I've got a bone in my brain, a bone. So I've got a brain bone in my brain. You feel hurt once again go through your memories and she goes, your memories begin at the water park, but you existed before that. I know where you are from, based on your genetic makeup. That is the power of the network.

You could find my family, the people that left me there? We can find your family. I've got a few things I'd like to say to them, for sure. You have that power? Of course. Now from an outside perspective, we can only speculate. Boolywugs are native to the Eastern Coast of Bohemia, their native to certain pockets of the living wood.

They have genetic cousins in Chateau-Fel, in the Feywild, and of course, there is the consideration that you were created in a mothership lab. Humanoid animal hybrids are often viewed as cute by other humanoids and could be used to perpetuate mothership propaganda. What? I can tell you with 100% certainty that one of these theories is true. You need only join the network to know for sure. Soul takes a shaky step towards Alexandra. You're saying that that's the power of the certainty you have?

Everything I know. I know with certainty, yes. I'm starting to see all of the little squabbles and fights and conflicts, they're just, they're blips. We could do some real damage, we could make some permanent change. Yes, it is the only way. The way your species currently operates is in direct opposition to progress. Some of the knowledge that you seek is already known by others. Knowledge that you have is not known by others, but if we all came together, we would all be coming from the same perspective. We would all elevate each other and become as intelligent as we could possibly be.

Yeah, I think it's all slowly walks towards her. So I say, you're right. I'm just one small frog and all I can do is just punch and kick and occasionally trip people with my tongue, which is pretty rad and it's very cool when I do it. Indeed, it is objectively rad. It's objectively cool when I do it. Indeed, it is objectively rad. It's objectively rad but is that really the best way to protect my friends, to protect Caldor and Cali and... Alvin? And as I say my friend's name is out loud, I think I try to hold back and resist one more

time. Great. We are going to cut back over to Cali. And I'll say actually Caldor, you passed your saving throw as well. You also see a red light in the distance. But we will cut back to Cali. Cali, you see this red light in the distance. And Alexander Wright is looking at you with disgust. Can I sort of like start to walk like I'm pacing

and just be kind of like chatting out my thoughts, but also directing myself towards the red light? You start walking towards the red light. And you instantly feel that cheap clocks you doing this. And you... Right, you're super smart. I ready to run for the fucking red light. You start making a run for the red light and you see she can't attack you here. You see she keeps just appearing next to you. What are you doing, Cali?

Where are you going? I'm chasing the red light. Get out my way. You're chasing things. You're chasing human connection, but you don't need to. No, I'm chasing connection with myself and you are talking about taking that away. So I need to get to this red light. Foster! What do you think? Is Foster with me? Foster is not with you.

Oh. He's having his own time. Um, Kali, you run and you run and you run towards this red light. And then we'll cut over to Calder. Calder, your family is in danger, and not only that, but your friends are in danger. Mob Goblin was successful in taking many of the lab ships around the mothership, but has just been clocked by a mothership warship that was returning from patrol. There is a

95% chance that they succeed in their mission in sinking all the lab ships, but only a 1% chance that they escape All right, so you don't deal in certainties No, I've run the calculations. Yeah, then there's a chance and when there's a chance We can still fight and we can still win and we can overcome the odds and we deserve to make that choice you don't make it for us. We would all make it for us. Respectfully you are a machine and you don't know shit about feelings and I walk towards the red light. You start walking towards the red light. Where are you going, Calder? I'm checking out this light. I'm right here. Leave me alone.

You're walking towards the light. I start skating towards it. Saul, we'll cut back to you. As you were, you feel this like crack in your foundation, but you're trying to resist it. Your body kind of wants to go, but your mind is still saying, I shouldn't go ahead and give me another

We're gonna save me throw. Come on 13 13 is another failure As boner is growing did you hear that? That was a big one. Wow. So it has gotten worse. It is now Now it has gotten to your intelligence essentially. Now now you see the logic it. Now you're like, this actually is a really good idea. And the only thing stopping you is your emotional connections. I will say, Callie and Calder, you guys both are rushing towards this red light.

Callie, you see that as you swim, you're not even really running, you're like floating, you're like swimming through the air. You feel a memory pop into your head, but it also like comes into view like you're entering the setting of one of your thoughts. You see the white fog of your mind begins to give way to a green field of long grass with a single sun flower sitting in the middle. Hmm. Hello.

You see that the sun flower grows glowing red eyes. Okay, I'm starting to think that red eyes can't lose. I run towards the sun flower. Callie, run towards the sun flower. Calder, same thing happens to you. You see the white fog begins to give way to a snowy forest. It is peaceful. The evergreen trees are swaying in the winter breeze.

There is a bite to the air, but you feel very much at home here. The only thing out of place is a single sunflower, somehow growing out of the snow. You don't know about the sunflower. It's beautiful. You just see a single sunflower, somehow growing out of the snow. You don't know about the sunflower. That's beautiful. You just see a beautiful sunflower, and you're just kind of like, what the fuck is this?

But then you see the red eyes glow. All right. Making some connections with Boster here. I'm going to go investigate the sunflower. You walk over to the sunflower. You hear Alexander right yelling in the back. You'll never be complete. You'll never be correct. I don't need to be either of those things. You grab the sunflower and you come to Callie and Calder, both come to. And you guys see

Foster is looking in both of your eyes with glowing red eyes, like as if he was trying to pull you out. You guys both come too, and you feel a profound surge of energy after you've just connected with Alexandria. Do you see your monastones glow and magical power flows through you? And mechanically, you have leveled up. We won't deal with that right now. You feel the surge of power like wounds on you start to heal. As you come to, you guys look over at each other and see that both of you guys are in good health. But you see the shattered glass of the destroyed pod. You see sparking wires hanging, liquid dripping down the stairs.

And you see Saul is being consumed by machinery. You see like metal scaling going up around him. And you see when you guys came to, you guys essentially, it's almost like you pulled out an IV or something. It was like a metal cable that came out of the pot and grabbed you. And you guys pulled it out. You guys see Saul is still connected. Can I grab onto the metal IV and rip it out of them?

You guys both go to grab the wire that is linking Alexandra to Saul and Saul, you feel in this plane inside your mind. Again, you're feeling like not only does it feel good to join the sort of singularity here, it feels good, it sounds like a good idea, but you can hear from your body your friends calling to you. Go ahead and make one last wisdom saving through to maintain your humanity. And you can make it with advantage. I have a question.

Thank you. Since I just leveled up, I actually last level was supposed to get an ability score improvement, but I didn't, and I just increased my charisma. And so I technically have an extra bardic inspiration now. Oh, I fucking love that. Okay, because you guys have just, you guys have literally leveled up

and we have said that in this campaign, you guys get like surges of power that heal you and stuff. So you guys get your spell slots back and stuff and you also get- Oh, we get our spell slots back? Do you get your spell slots back? You get bard inspiration back. We don't get the sense that healing is gonna help.

You can give him bardic inspiration though. Okay, so I put my boot on his chest, and I say, I hope this is what you want, and I give him bardic inspiration as I try and yank this thing out. Saul, you are here with Alexanderite. You now see this red light looking, and from the outside, you guys see Foster

has now gone over to Saul, and is just staring right in his eye, like making a light to his brain essentially. It's all like trying to like shoot away with his hand. Saul, go ahead and give me a one last. I think the way that I give him the bardic inspiration also is I think I just whisper in his ear all the cool things I've seen him do in battle that no one but him could do.

And my bardic inspiration die is also now a D8. So buddy, can I cast Rayafrost on the on the metal that's in casing Soul's body? I will allow that. What is the language of reafrost? A frigid beam of blue white light streaks towards a creature, okay? Within range. You make a range spell attack against the target on a hit. It takes one dA cold damage, and its speed is reduced by 10 feet until the start of your next turn. Okay, so you are effectively slowing down the machinery that is like creeping around salt. Here's what I will say. Go ahead and roll your 2d8. However much

damage you do, the DC will be lowered by half that much. Okay, got it. Nine. Okay, nine damage, calder. You hold your hand out. You bring freezing energy that gets in like the mechanical parts that are growing around Saul, and you lower the DC by 4. Saul, I would like you to go ahead and roll with advantage to try to get out of this. That's a 11 plus 4, that's 15 on my first one. Okay. I'll roll the bardic. It's a 5 on the bardic. So you are feeling yourself being taken over by Alex Dandrite's spell.

You feel the allure of this. It feels like a good idea. But you see this red light pops up. Even bigger. It's getting bigger. And you're hearing your friends yell for you on the other side, and it starts to kind of snap you out of it. Tater, Tater! Come on, skinderson.

It's lies, that's not your name. That is my name. Oh! Ah! Don't you know what a nickname is? Nobody's ever given you a nickname. Here's the thing, I might suck, but you really suck. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha I don't compute. Yeah, you wouldn't. We're duct team and we're messy and we're friends and we do everything together and we absolutely suck shit all day long

and all night baby. Here we go. Come on, Daider. It's me, Doug. So. Hey, Glandip is ready to suck some shit. Saul Summins has gone, let's and says, I'm outta here.

Good luck taking over the world, you idiot. Bwah. Slaps taking over the world, you idiot. Bwah! Slap some stuff in the face. Sick. Saul, you come too. And Callie and Calder are over you. Hushed over you guys. Call her.

Callie. Hey, hey, hey. You almost got eaten by a big machinery snake. Oh my, get this off of me. Get it. Where's that? Beatrix! I could not let Patina get away with it. You guys see Beatrix stumbles out from around the other side of the pod, clutching her sword arm where you had seen Alexandra attack out of the pod.

You see she's straining as if she's holding something in. I knew there was not anyway, despite whatever she said, that Patina would let us out alive. But at least for the time being, I am in control of the ship, of this city. As she goes to last, she goes, ha! And you see, wiry tendrils burst from the back of her head

as metal scaling begins to climb up her arm. None of my allies will die today. Beatrix, you can't take this on. What you need to do. You are part of my network now. No, I am not. Okay, Beatrix, whatever Beatrix is in there, I need you to slowly, safely,

start shutting down basic amenities throughout the city so we can do it sort of slowly. I don't know how to do that safely. This is all out of my purge. You know, it sort of slowly. I don't know how to do that safely. This is all out of my purge. You know, maybe start with plumbing. I don't know. You see, she closes her eyes as these metal scales are crawling up her.

And she looks like she's thinking about something or seeing something or using some kind of psychic connection. And she opens her eyes and looks out and goes, you don't have time to worry about me. This is not the only battle against Mother Ship today. Your friends are in danger. She's right. A warship is pursuing Bog Oblin right now. Beatrix, how do we help you? Go. She holds her hands out and you feel a powerful telekinetic force as the entire room creaks

and squeals. She takes her hands, puts them together, and then begins spreading them apart and begins ripping the air yacht in half from the inside. Oh! Yeah, they're in. They're going from Mob Goblin. Okay, um, are you sure we don't just do a quick modify memory right now? We have this thing that we told Mob Goblin we were gonna do, and I feel conflicted about it, but it seems like shit's already going to shit anyways. Under it, under it, you do not hear anything on the other side.

It's worth a shot. Okay, then I hold up the modify memory. You're gonna try to cast modify memory on Beatrix? No, on the, on Alexandra. Same, same person right now. Kale, if we don't do this, people are gonna die. I know we have feelings about Beatrix and what, what's happened to her,

but we have to keep the ship afloat. And if we can erase some part of Beatrix and it provides some sort of mental accord in there, maybe we can keep the ship from crushing hundreds of people, thousands. Okay, Saul has convinced me. I do it. Okay, so Beatrix is going to make a, is Beatrix slash Alexanderite is going to make a wisdom saving throw. Um, effectively, this would normally charm them,

but I'm gonna say they become too powerful of a being. They're essentially resistant to charm, but you can still do the memory alteration. So basically, you can affect the target's memory of an event that is experienced within the last 24 hours and that lasted no more than 10 minutes. Can I just put a memory in her head of doubt? That's kind of tight, yeah.

That she like, that's pretty human. That she remembers this morning feeling doubt about her entire plan. If it was just a brief moment of doubt, she seems to really be off on her own certainties. If I can just put a moment of doubt in her morning, maybe it will tutorial. Wow.

Wow. It's just a little flicker. you use it wake up with a little doubt You use the modify memory to create doubt in Alex and right Let me go ahead and do a whiz and shit grow and I'll say with Maga blitz jammer device. She's gonna roll the save with disadvantage But she does have pretty fucking good stats Lower roll is literally an at one with disadvantage. But she does have pretty fucking good stats. Heh. Lower roll is literally an at-one.

Ha-ha-ha! So you see, as Beatrix is pulling the ship apart, she was, you know, had sort of the supreme confidence of Alexandra right a moment ago, and not only that, Beatrix was confident before, was on a mission of revenge. But you see this twinge of doubt takes on sort of a confused look as she doubts herself for a moment and has a second thought. Then she quickly regains her confidence and she goes, you're right.

I do not need to destroy everything, but if Mother Ship does not have to pay in blood, they will pay in gold. You see, the walls do fully rip open. She commits to tearing the Mother Ship apart. See, hope the machines and sparks explode all around you. You guys are in the middle of the ship. So you see a long haul of rooms and offices begin parting as she peels the entire ship open and you guys feel the cool wind of the night air just explode into the room, starting to blow you guys back. As you guys are being blown back, suddenly these cords that were connected to the pod before wrap around you guys and begin to expand and become almost like huge tentacles, and she ejects you out of the airship, like a giant

mechanical crack and swinging you out into the night sky. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, you see an airship battle looking around. It looks like Maagoblin has succeeded in blowing up most of the lab ships. They've succeeded in their mission. There are some that have been blown up or sunk completely. Some have been like cut free and are drifting off. Others are damaged and smoldering. Most of the ships still in the air are harmless cargo ships.

However, there is a giant mothership warship that is preventing mob goblins escape. If you hadn't seen the mothership area, this would probably be the biggest ship you've ever seen, capable of holding hundreds of crewmen and soldiers equipped with ballistas and canons and other magic tech. Huge sales and a giant igniter is out the back, powering it. From here you can see the soldiers on the deck scrambling around like ants.

They are pursuing the mob goblinship, mob goblins completed their mission, but they're in danger of being sunk before they can escape. The cargo ship carrying the revolution has sustained heavy damage. You can see the tiny outlines of crewmen and tech mages attempting to repair things while still under heavy fire. However, one thing you clock right away that's quite strange is that it doesn't look like they're completely disengaging like they're completely trying to get away. It looks more like they're attempting to find cover in the clouds instead of fully withdrawing. I'm gonna touch my infected ear. Ow, I'm under an inn. Mark goblin, what's going on?

Where do you need us? You hear chaos as finally you do reconnect with Mark goblin and she goes, Incoming fire, take cover, take cover! Oh, God, there's this good thing here from you. Very bad things happening out here. Yeah, we're being held by a really strong wire Where should it throw us? Oh, yes, I see a giant the mechanical octopus in the sky very weird stuff Yeah, mixed success on the mission. I'd say I

You hear her go we can't get away yet There were there were tech mages on their deck who were slowing our ship down. We couldn't hit them with lung range fire. So Graham and his squad boarded their ship to try to stop them, but now they're trapped on the deck. We can't get to them. They're on the deck of that warship. Grand.

You guys look down and I'll say you guys have some stuff in like your adventuring kit. You guys have like a monoculars and things like that. And when you look down You see Ma Goblin and everybody up on the deck of their ship trying to figure out a way To get to this worship without completely blowing up, but that doesn't look like it's gonna be possible They've already sustained a lot of damage You see down on the deck of the warship are dozens of mother ship soldiers and

warship are dozens of mothership soldiers and fighting against them, you see Graham and about seven other hobgoblin knights trying to fight against all odds. It looks like they essentially did like a sacrificial mission. They're putting up like shield walls and trying to block incoming fire from dozens of archers, but it doesn't look like they're gonna be able to hold them off forever, and you hear in the background over the receiver, uh, dark going, How about it? Just three people die for him. Um, I would prefer if you didn't die, but if you're offering the help, I'm not gonna turn it down.

We owe Graham for all the hospitality he's shown us when he's gone as nests. Send the birds in. The dead must be repaid. Oh, nest dead. Under and then over and out, take cover. We're going into the clouds. You see the cargo ship starts to retreat. As you guys say, you're going to go in and

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Ooh, it's a 21. 14. Six. It's gonna be a 19. Finally, a good roll. As you guys get closer, you see bad situation, grim and these hobgoblins would absolutely be doomed without any help. They're being completely overwhelmed.

However, as you get closer, you see your path to escape. This ship is equipped with smaller rescue airships that are tied to the hull. If you can free one and launch it, you just might be able to escape with your allies. Okay, everybody go ahead and roll initiative. Let's go rescue our nest friend. Mm-hmm.

Ha-ha-ha. Tina. 11. Shout out to the two crew. Love these roles. It's gonna be a six total. I'm gonna say that the cannon ears and stuff, the people like below deck shooting the cannons,

probably see you, but the dudes on the deck are way too busy trying to kill Grem and his crew. So they don't see you guys. As you guys get close, you see that there are about 10 archers, like 10 of these scouts, 15 D-class knights, 10 C-class knights, and 5 B-class knights. At initiative 21, Grem is going to jump from beyond the shield wall and start trying to crack through some of these D-class nights.

So you see just, AHHHHH! Forbob Goblin! And jumps off. And it's going to hits the first dude. Nine damage. You see he greatly injures one guy, hits hits again and on the second attack Cuts through one guy and greatly injures another

That's down to 14 guards still pretty fucking a lot of guards After Graham that is the scouts turn who are shooting arrows They are going to go ahead and take shots at Graham's crew so I've actually art there's so many guys, I've already rolled their stuff. Grims Crew are doing like a shield wall. They are able to, they have 18 AC, so they're pretty good. However, two hits from the scouts and one guy takes 12 damage as he is shot by arrows,

but these look like elite guys. They stay standing. This is Grim's flock. After that, that is the guards turns. The guards are going to, I'm gonna say, like six of them surround Grim and try to go after him. Again, I've rolled these guys. So you see these guys,

Grim's the better fighter, swinging around, Perry's one blocks, but another guy slashes the back of his leg. This dude's about to get boormeered. You see, he's getting stabbed. Grem, Grem blows the horn. After the guards, that's Callie's turn. So Callie, you land on this deck.

You see there's this lifeboat. There are a couple things that need to be done to get Graham and to secure the ship and to get off. First off, you guys need to clear a little path or at least alert him that you guys are here. So you have to maybe kill a few guys or at least just like make a straight line so they can get through. The other thing you guys have to do is you see that the ship is tethered to the larger

worship by six heavy ropes. They would be easy to cut, but they might take somebody's like action, or maybe even two or three attacks to cut it all. Someone also has to start the engine, which will require like a piloting check to try to get the ship started. And then someone needs to use an action to like inflate the balloon or let down like the sale. Okay. Is there a danger to me going after the rope like before? Am I going to endanger us if I go for the rope before everyone's there? You can have it set to go essentially. If you cut all of it before starting the engine

or anything, then yeah, but you can cut five of the six ropes and be like ready to go. Okay, then I'll just land in this boat, shout out to Graham and be like, Graham, get to the safety nest. Go ahead and give me a persuasion check. And this will be, this isn't you actually persuading Graham. This is Ken Graham here you over the the Shouts of War essentially. 25.

Graham is quite familiar with you. Never thought I'd be happy to hear you guys. Baby beds come home to roast. Kelly you're gonna try to break some of these ropes. Yeah I think if that needs to be done then why not? Sweet, how are you going to do that? I just take my umbrella and I'm like if there's one thing I know Sworn enemy of ropes umbrellas

I'll just swing my umbrella. Go ahead and make out Just go ahead and do damage. Oh, Bible read Go ahead and make out. Just go ahead and do damage. A-H-O-Bifle-R-E. Go ahead and do damage. The difference is coming true. You don't need to roll an attack roll. But what if I were the crit? I'll go ahead and roll them. Mm.

I didn't crit, but it was a good roll. It was a good roll. Yeah, it was a good roll. And then can I smite and stuff? Yeah, definitely. Great. It's good. You're going to need to do cleave damage

to get all the ropes if you want to. Yeah, I'm going to do it.. You're gonna need to do cleave damage to get all the ropes if you want to. Yeah, I'm gonna do it. I'm just gonna thundersmite and a third level divine smite and flourish. Ropes have like normal ones have two HP. I'll say these ones have four HP because I need to describe them as like so. They're big ropes, but they're fucking ropes.

And you have an umbrella. Yeah. Ah. Ah. Um, if that's the case, I will still thunderous smile. You do need to do like 20 damage to get all of them, or like 24 damage. I think I'm just gonna go for it. Yeah, I'm gonna flourish, do a third level divine smile,

and all thunderous smite. Sounds really loud over there at the rescue boat. Is everything all right? It's better than all right we're taking on the true enemy rope the E7 damage and now my AC is a plus seven so my AC is now 25 whoa because I have a shitty bardic now and I rolled it. Oh, I'm gonna throw Cali like a cannonball and everything. So I think I do that damage and then I'm like, I'm feeling fucking amped from going after those ropes

and I just run into the middle of the melee. Oh shit, yeah, so you, wow, you swing around. Yeah, there's this burst of arcane energy. I'll say that Cali gets it. So this rescue boat swings down is now just being held by the front. So it's now just hanging precariously. The rope that's holding it now looks like

it will break eventually starts like getting ready to like snap. As soon as you guys turn on the engine and give this thing some power, it'll snap and be good to go. But right now it's just like hanging precariously off the side of the boat. Callie runs into the middle and starts.

Run it to the middle. You just run into the side of the boat. Callie runs into the middle and starts... Run into the middle. You just run into the middle of the melee, but so fucking crazy. What is all that she can do? Partic speed. That's right, I just ended the war between umbrellas and ropes. No rope can touch her.

After Callie, that is the Hobgoblins turn, like the rest of Grem's team. Callie has jumped in and definitely distracted a few guys. The Hobgoblins are just gonna try to cut down the guys in front of them and make a little bit of a line and try to make it through. So these guys, I'll take some cracks. Ooh, not 20 the first guy.

Ooh, two 17s. Graham's got good guys. Graham does have good guys. There's a solid crew here. You see, these guys managed to cut down four guards. Damn, Graham, do your guys suck, too? What did you say? I was saying we all suck.

We're like a punk rock thing. I don't get you! But I appreciate you. Okay. No, that sucks. I appreciate that you're here, but I just can't. We can't be friends! I'm gonna give a gram of pound and then kind of shake his hand.

Oh, you messed that up. I'm sorry. That is the hobgoblins then, after killing a bunch of guards, kind of clear a little path. Since I ran into the melee, can I also position myself to protection paladin one of these dudes dudes maybe Graham or something like that? Yeah, yeah, you go you stand back to back with Graham and his guys are going to take Movement actions and I'll say with 30 feet. They're able to they're not able to jump down into the boat quite yet

But they get to like the edge of the deck Um after the hobgoblins Calder that is your turn calder. You flown down. I'll say you've just reached like the end of the deck. After the Hobgoblins calder that is your turn, calder, you flown down, I'll say you've just reached like the end of the deck. Can I get a recap of everything that needs to happen for this? Yeah, somebody needs to start the engine and somebody needs to put up the sail slash balloon to get this thing floating. Basically there's a mechanism that makes it float, there's a mechanism that makes it go fast. It is no longer tied to the boat, it's hanging on by like, it's literally like hanging upside down. For you to like get on this you need to There's a mechanism that makes it go fast. It is no longer tied to the boat. It's hanging on by like,

it's literally like hanging upside down for you to like get on this. You need to like hang on as if you're hanging off a building. Okay. So here's what I would like to do. I would like to rush into the melee, swing my sword at anyone who's in between the op goblins and escape.

Sick. Then also bonus action cast expeditious retreat on myself and then action surge and work on the engine. Ha ha ha. Wow, fucking sick. Yeah. You jump down, go ahead and make a tax against. I'll say the guards right now,

acted before you guys an initiative. So they're the ones who are kind of jamming up the works here. They're still like 10 guys left, and I'll say that they start going after, they turn to like Callie and Graham. Now that the other guys have started to like rush towards the deck. Okay, so I'll go after the guys that are going after Callie. Great.

That is a 12 and a 15 to hit. You missed these little weird guys, but then I cast Expeditious Retreatment. Wait, you're also de-class. I know you. We're on the same level. Fuck you, bro. I'm out of here.

You're so... Come on, Liz, did you come here to do something? I just wanted to make sure everyone was good, and you look fine. Oh, Cali, look how good he is at skating. Everyone watch this six skate trip. And I do a pirouette away. Sweet. Really fast though.

You back up and you run back towards the ship with Expedition Retreat. I'm running because I have to be over here not because I'm afraid because I miss. You get stunted on them. You get back on the boat. Aero's flying all around you, and you try to get this thing started.

You see, there's this little handle with a button on it, but there's a bunch of like dials and stuff. You're familiar with airships, but you've never driven one before. Go ahead and give me an intelligence check. This is gonna be DC 12. Okay. Should I do an insight check and see if I'd be better at the sales?

The sales are just an action. That's just free. You can just do that. Call her. It's just like a really complicated scooter. Don't worry. All right, got it. I'm pretty intelligent.

Drive this like you drove the stairs. That is a 15. 15 passes. Nice. You feel this thing roar to life. I mean, you are hanging onto the helm of this tiny boat. It's being held by this rope. You look below you and you can just see the fucking city

below you. The lights going on and off as above you. The mothership yacht is being torn apart. After Calder's turn, that is the C-Class Knights who are a little tougher. They are going to go ahead and descend on Grem and Cali, as you guys stand back to back. Yeah, come at me. Come at us.

I love to see you try. Cali, they quite literally do not hit you. 27? No, I'm 25. 25, they don't hit you at all. They don't roll above 22 hit you. You're 27? Yeah. You know I'm 25. 25. They don't hit you at all. They don't roll above 22 for you. I'm really cocky about it. I'm like thinking about how cocky Alexandra was and like how she didn't question anything.

She thought she was right all the time and I'm like, I could do that sometimes. Maybe there's a place for that. Everyone's a while. And it's the fucking battle field. And she didn't have an umbrella. As you're getting super confident, you see Graham get stabbed a couple times. Oh, I do a possession paladin.

Oh, shit. OK, the roll again. You do get successfully get rid of one hit. Re-rolled as a one. I think that, like, in this moment when I'm like, my AC is so high and I'm so confident, the way that I, like, me on the battlefield looks more like so confident. The way that I like me on the battlefield looks more like you see like the fett,

you see the dance. Yeah, there's like, you see, Graham looks like entranced as you swing in front of him. You open up the umbrella and you block one of the attacks. Kelly's looking life out there. You see that? After the sea class nights, that's Saul. Saul you're on the edge of the deck.

You're passing these hob goblins. Good to see you. We're willing to die for the cause, but we're happy to not. Yeah, let's go with that. Okay, I want to, as my bonus action, summon my Vesage, okay? And I'm going to use it to try and speak

into the mind of whoever I can see is the most senior commander on the field. Sweet, yeah, you see a B class like shouting for people, telling the archers to take out the guys trying to get to the escape boat, yeah, um, motioning for guards to go in and go after, um, Callie and Graham. So all, uh, thinks back on all of the military strategy he took at Launch pad and then says it was a roost It was a roost. They're attacking the engine. There were two infiltrating parties We need all people at the engine now, and I say this directly into his brain

Go ahead and give me a deception check Okay, I get advantage on insight and intimidation. I would allow that to be intimidation. Oh yeah, thank you, sir. Thank you, Mr. Murphy. Thank you, Mr. Murphy. That's Dr. Murphy. Thank you, Mr. Murphy. Still not great. 13?

13. I will roll an insight for this B-Class Knight plus zero to wisdom. So, need to roll 13 or higher. Okay. Roll in front of the table. Here, come on, come on, come on. That's a 12. Hey!

Yay! Oh my god! So, you see this dude has an earring on, similar to Mag Oblins thing. Yeah. So, as you yell that, he thinks he's being talked to by someone below deck. I'll say the guards are busy, they're up in the mix

with the hob goblins and Callie. But he's gonna go ahead and grab half the sea classes, so five of them and another B class, so that's two B classes. He looks up, he goes like, you, you, you, there's more below deck, they're attacking below deck. Oh no, they found us out. They know the plan, oh no.

They know the sacred plan! I'm sorry to not believe them! Operation two teams has been discovered. So, Saul, that's just, your visage is not an action, right? It's a bonus action, and then speaking would be a free action, I assume? Yeah, totally.

Hell yeah, all right, then Saul is going to inflate his throat sack and start inflating this sale. It is. You inflate it, you would have inflating this sale. Sweet, you inflate it. You think of balloon, right? Yeah, it's just like a rip-cord thing that fills it with hydrogen. Saul blows it up with his cheeks. You blow it up with your cheeks.

You see, finally, us, Calder, you're just like holding onto the helm, hanging there as this rope dangles. This thing is about to snap, just as it does, Saul gets the balloon up and this thing levels out and it is sitting upright, ready to go right next to the worship. Love to suck, but sometimes you gotta blow.

Hahaha. After Saul, that is the remaining B-class's turns. They are going to descend on, we'll say they'll go after Graham and Cali. Yeah. They run in. I'll say two, we're gonna go after Cally because she's the more impressive one right now.

Yeah. Water dancer. I just can't be touched. So they literally can't touch you. So these two guys just waste their turns. You see, these guys had like arcane bursts. So they take these like explosive attacks on you, but you block with your umbrella

Explosions of arcane energy, but they just dissipate. I think when they hit when they go to hit me at like almost like is like a splashing of water And my body disappears from it. Um, and you you see um Another one goes to attack grem and grem parries it and grem is able to block it Um, he actually has a reaction that is also a parry So he blocks it. He actually has a reaction that is also a Perry. How is it? So he blocks it. He gets team. We are. If you guys didn't talk to me, I might like you guys. Oh, that's...

Or maybe I'd love you. Now I kind of like you. Is that okay? Yeah, I think it is. After the B classes, that's back up to Graham's turn. Graham is gonna hold this turn and get ready to like beat feet with Callie. Okay.

I think it's about time we get the fuck out of here. Yeah, I'm ready. The scouts are going to go ahead. They're gonna just take shots, try to pick off the hobgoblins that are on the deck, trying to get to this boat that calder and Saul have gotten ready to go. So I've already rolled their stuff.

One guy unfortunately is shot a bunch of times with arrows and he let out one last gasping breath as he goes to run towards the rescue ship and he doesn't make the jump. He just flops forward, falls out of the ship and disappears into the night sky. Oh, he falls? Oh, he's dead, he just flops, forward, falls out of the ship, and disappears into the night sky. Oh, he falls? Oh, he's dead.

He's dead. Oh, hurry up everyone, come on! That is the guards' turns. There are 10 of them left. They're just gonna keep trying to crack at Grem and Kali, who are taking shots here for everybody. The D-classclass, Jesus Christ. One, two, three, four, five, Miss Calli.

Ah! Ah! Oh, oh, oh! She's fully watered. What is a raindrops to an umbrella? But the three hit Graham. Graham still looks pretty hardy, but you see a little bit of blood coming out of his mouth,

but he's like, good to go. After the guards turn, that's Callie's turn. Can I run with Graham? Yeah. So it's just Graham, who else needs to get to this ship? The hob goblins that are, they go literally right after you. Everybody looks like they're gonna get to the ship in like an initiative.

Yeah. Okay, then can I run to the ship with Graham? Uh huh. And then can I jump off the side and... Can I jump off the side after the guy that fell off. Oh, I try to grab him. I want like pencil dive. I'm so aerodynamic. So, Kelly. Whoa, hey, this is the boat. There's not all the rules of gravity work.

I look at, I look at Calder and I'm like, if I fell would you catch me? Yeah, what if I jump? Oh, okay. I jump. Sweet fuck. Oh, I made a promise I don't know if I can keep. Cal, go ahead and give me an athletics check because you're trying to,

because this guy already started falling, so you guys are gonna both fall at the same pace. So you need to really like kick off and get to him like launch yourself. This guy I'll say only felt like 10 or 15 feet. You went like right after he started falling. So he slips over the edge, riddled with arrows. You dive down after him kicking off the side of the airship.

Bethel is in. You can also do acrobatics if you prefer. 20 free. 23. Callie, you launch off the side of the boat. Like I'm diving into the wall. Yeah, you guys are way high in the air. So you see a bunch of these dudes with bows

were about to start shooting at you. They're like, she's getting away. She's getting to the escape boat. She jumped up the side. Yeah, I'll try to interpret our moves. You jump down and you grab this dude who's like bleeding out covered in arrows. What are you doing? Saving your fucking life.

And then I want to use my face step to send him back up. Yes. And when I grab him, I touch hands for five hit points. You touch him, he's a willing creature. He flashes and colder and saw, you guys are inside this escape boat, you see this dude appears, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, help, well, I basically want to cast Featherfall and try and grab back on so I can climb back up. Oh, I said that this guy had fallen about 10 or 15 feet. So this dude was like falling below the boat already.

He was like down there. I'll say give me another Acrobatics check. This one's gonna need to be better. This one's gonna need to be like a DC-20 to grab on. Okay. That is a 18. You guys watch as Callie sends this dude back up to the ship. She just begins falling and falls into the clouds.

I have. I do have foster with me for my feather fall. Your feather fall. Okay. I just go. I don't know where I'm going. I do have foster with me for my feather fall. Your feather fall. Okay. I just go, I don't know where I'm going. So she's gonna live, but she's out of the fight. She's gone. She has fallen. I can't see.

I can't see. Can't see later, I guess. Kali's turn. Actually, Grem had an action held. You see, runs over to the side of the boat. Kali! No! Why do I care?

Wait, this has been a crazy minute. Grimm, it's okay, she had a duck with her. What the fuck are you talking about? I had a lot of fun. Sorry, we've got more important things to worry about. Kelly's gonna be okay. We gotta get your guys on this boat. Graham runs over, jumps to the boat.

The other six guys that were with Graham, including the guy that was shot is already on there. It's just in Calder's arms. Calder you just watched. Callie disappears into the clouds. You look like a pincushion man. It's a bad time. And then Calder, that's your turn.

So I want to turn to Saul and say, I told Cali I'd catch her, but we're a team. Right. And I'm going say that's this. It's aggravating the problem. What the fuck are you people doing? You're so heroic! And you're so helpful, but you're so weird.

Don't worry, Grammy sucks. What are you doing? Yeah, as Calder goes to do this, Saul is already tying himself up. Yeah, you hit the gas on this thing. There's like an explosion of fire out of the back of the Sings Engine, and you guys start moving away from this warship.

You see the scouts get ready to start taking arrow shots at you guys. There's commanders up there, like yelling to the canineers to start shooting at you guys as you're trying to escape. You fly over, you see Callie is on Foster flying down out of the air. I'm sorry Foster, I thought I had a plan. I didn't work out like that. At some point Featherfall is gonna stop working and we're gonna have a really hard landing. We're suddenly you see the lifeboat coming to view. Actually, you see Saul just flying at you. You didn't say who needed to catch you.

Call the actually Saul with advantage. Go ahead and give me athletics or acrobatics to grab onto Cali. Because I'll say Calder is giving you the help action. Yeah, but joking him. Yeah, as you're flying this thing, you see, Graham takes the wounded soldier, puts him in the arms of the other hobgoblins who start working on him.

Graham goes over and helps you hold onto the rope, as you are piloting this thing away. Can I use my bonus action to activate my gauntlet's bomb doing this? Yeah, for sure. Yeah, you clap them together as you fly down. Yeah. All right. So that gives me 10 plus feet of reach And I can add plus four to my athletics check. Nice That's gonna be an 18 plus four 62 yeah, you shoot your tongue out you wrap it around Cali's ankle

Yeah, you shoot your tongue out you wrap it around Cali's ankle Nice catch skidder's in you and foster a swing down as now it's just a it goes a rope to Saul to tongue to Valley hanging out to foster now who now has just gone limp and stop trying to fly and is just hanging on We made it by the skin of our potato. A grandma and a bunch of the hob goblins go over and start pulling it back up and smack you on shoulder, cauldron go get us the fuck out of here. Pedal to the metal.

Be careful, Saul, my ankle's a kind of arogynous. What am I supposed to deal with that information? I'll say you guys continue flying as Saul and Cali are being brought up, because these guys got to like pull you guys up like 30 feet. And meanwhile, you guys are being shot at by these arrows. So I'm going to say the arrows are going to go on the boat. They're going to go after Calder, because he's the one flying this right. All right. Just think of a radio Yeah, of course it's playing the Ramones. I want to be sedated

I Do I like to be elevated right now? Hey, I want to be a Two hits with arrows. I'm with out 22 and an 18 or the two high ones. Shield. Shield. Shield. He's up. Blocks the two arrows. They pink off of you. You guys start flying out of you of the melee guys,

but the warship is going to take some cannon fire at you guys as you try to get away. This little boat that you guys are on has an AC of 15. You see this thing is gonna shoot at you with two ballistas at first. Okay, 20 to hit hits. You see this giant spear just shatters into the hole. Ow!

It's gonna be 16 damage. You see the whole thing in rocks. Saul and Kali are hanging on down there. Saul, everything okay, I'm fine. All right, all right. All right. Another shot with a ballista. Jesus Christ, hits again.

Csh, 18 damage that time. As this thing cracks, it starts to like move in the wrong direction. You have to start spinning the wheel as the ship like catches some bad wind and starts going around. And then it's going to take two shots with the cannons. Jesus Christ, 22 to hit hits. That's a 27. Your ship begins smoking a fire catches. Tonight, trying to use my reaction to bat one of these away with my gauntlets.

Absolutely not. Okay, you got to ask. You are hanging on. You are an ass. In fact, do a dexterity saving throw to not fall in doubt. Okay. Folks, it turns out you do not have to ask. Yes. Dangerous to ask. Dexterity saving throw.

Oh, Lord. It's for consequent. Oh, okay, I do get to reduce damage on dexterity saving throws, but I don't know if that's the case here. That is going to be a 12. 12, I'll say you hang on, but you feel the jolt as the ship is hit by a cannonball

and gonna go for you again. Jesus Christ, I'm not kidding you, that is a nat 20. Oh, God damn. I'm gonna say with how much HP does the ship have? The ship has a decent amount of HP because it's based off of like water vehicles but I'm gonna say this thing is gonna be unfliable in a second and this is gonna become a hovercraft

and you're gonna have to do a controlled crash. Got it? Cause you guys are on fire and starting to plummet and I'm also gonna say with a NAT 20, everyone on board is going to take this cannon damage. Okay, so this cannon damage is 27. You see the cannon lands on the deck just right in the middle, just fucking shatters it, giant fucking hole in it.

Unfortunately the guy who Calli saved is obliterated, dies. He's really one of dead. No, I don't want him dead. There was a Nat 20 on the ship with a dude who was at five HP, he's dead. And then after the warship, we go back to the top of the round. That is the scouts. I'm gonna say at this point, you guys are out of error range.

You do see that they try to shoot at you. There's like this like volley of arrows that just go overhead that do not manage to hit. Oh, this does. But you see that like the thing that holds the balloon is now like catching fire. The ropes around it are catching fire. There's smoke everywhere.

There's a giant hole in the middle of the hole. And then we are back down to Cali's turn. I'll say you guys are about halfway up. You're like 10 feet below hanging on to a saw and foster here. Can I scurry up back onto the ship? Yeah, go ahead and give me an athletics check. 14. 14?

Yeah, you're successfully able to use your movement climb back up. I want to go over to Calda and say, I have to do to catch me but sold it. Yeah. You know, it's semantics. And then I say, just kidding and I give him a stinger. Oh.

Nice one, Dolly. The infection has spread to my arm. And then I think I just want to like give Calder a help action. Can I sort of like look around at the engine, the material, see if I can quaint myself with it at all? Yeah, you look around, I'll say, go ahead and give me an intelligence check.

Gonna add a minus one to that. Six becomes a five. You can't make heads or tails of all this machinery. Okay, I look at Calden, I'm like, I don't know how you do this. I'm not going to walk away. Don't get away. I don't know what I'm doing. But as I walk away, I will give him a bardic inspiration. Sweet. Wow, thank you.

In the form of a stinger. Ow. The other arm. Yeah, you're going to need that. There's a hole in the fucking boat and it's on fire. Oh, we're going down. Yeah, I noticed call there. There's a hole in the hole Thank you everyone. I see it. I guess I look down into the hole Regrettfully you did all you could as an action Graham puts his hand on your shoulder and goes, I will remember that.

I'm sorry. We will all remember that. Yeah, but I didn't know I sort of like make it worse for everyone by trying to do that. No, of course not. And also we'll talk about this later. We all have to, the rest of us have to make it out of it. No, Graham, I need to talk about that. No, we don't need to talk about anything now.

We'll do the press. I just can't connect with you people. I can't grab. What? Oh my god. Oh my god. I blast this, I blast this on this plane. Careful, Callie.

We need to go sharp. After Callie's turn, that is the hob goblins turns. They are gonna prepare like a defensive stance in case the same thing happens again. They probably get fucked up, but hopefully the deck and stuff won't get as obliterated. After the hob goblins, Calder, that's your turn. You can now fly this bad boy and do a dash action. Yeah, I will do that.

As to my expeditious retreat, doesn't extend to a boat. It does not, but you can effectively do a dash action, just fly as fast away as you can. Yes. I wanna be escape it. I wanna be escape it. Sweetie, it's good. Full throttle. I'm the escapeer.

You fly away into the clouds and you feel yourself losing altitude quickly. Like the balloon is like losing hydrogen. You guys are falling, falling, falling, falling pretty fast. Bring it down nice and easy. We will settle that in a second. So we have to settle you. You still need to climb up.

Oh, give me an acrobatics or an athletics check. Try to get up. Great. I will do athletics. Hell yeah. That's gonna be a 19. 19, you scramble all the way back up. You are now on this flaming falling ship.

Welcome. Welcome to safety. Wow, okay. We are ready to sail. So confusing things have just happened. And they will continue to happen. I'm going to hop over and sit on top of Calder and I'm going to use my Vesage.

I have an ability called Astral Sight. It lets me see a normal and magical darkness up to 120 feet. You see these flaming goggles and a scarf up here on my head, and I'm just going to basically act as Calder's eyes. Wow. Sick.

I kept in the boat and you kept in me. So you guys start, oh Calder, my Calder. You guys are going to have a rough landing, but it does feel like you guys are effectively airship feather falling, maybe falling a little bit faster, like a hundred feet per round. So it's like, it's bad. You're going to crash.

All of the hobgoblins are hanging on. You guys get far away that the warship starts shooting its cannons off of you, starts shooting its ballistas off at you, but their way off cannot follow you through the clouds. And you guys are falling too fast for it to catch up with you, and they probably think you're already dead. Callder, first off, are you trying to land like in the city? Less dangerous for you guys, but more likely for you to hit innocent people. If you go towards the sea or something,

like hundreds of feet in the other direction, you could try to crash into the sea or something. Yeah, I wanna crash, kinda like as close to the shore and sand as they possibly can. Okay. Do you need deep break water? Got it? Okay.

So you guys are falling, falling, falling out of the sky. And as you guys fall. This must be what it feels like to be a star, a shooting star. That's a nice way to look at it. To start scream. All the hobgoblins around here just, oh!

Make a wish! As you guys are falling out of the sky, Calder, I'm going to need an intelligence check to pilot this thing and land it as safely as possible. Remember the pain in your arm, that's inspiration. Yes, that's right. That's a D.I. Oh God, I'm gonna need it.

There's a nice key over there. If you can aim for the key. All right, I'm gonna need it. There's a nice key over there. If you can aim for the key. All right, I'm going for the key. That's, I rolled a seven on the bardic. Ooh. That's a 16. A 16. Oh!

Okay. I'm pretty good. You fly down, fly down. You see that the ship above you guys, the mother ship area is starting to rip apart. So all these people in the city, all these people in Upper Esri, like ants below you are looking up at just like the chaos in the night sky. It's hard to steer my arms hurt.

And you swing the ship away from the city and it starts rocketing down towards the sea. And as you guys are like shaking and falling, you're getting ready to crash, Grem puts his hand on your shoulder and goes, good man. As you go towards the sea, you guys see the water coming up. You break through the clouds. You break through like the city lights and everything. And you just see the dark of the night sky reflecting off

the sea as it gets closer and closer. As it gets closer, can I make you a sign of the night sky reflecting off the sea as it gets closer. As it gets closer, can I make you a sign of the beard and cast blade ward on myself? You cast blade ward on yourself as you guys all make contact with the water and call their pulls up and tries to land this thing. You feel the whole just fucking explodes underneath you. Or it can protect me. Just this shattering of wood, the balloon explodes above you. Everybody is going to take, oh boy.

Oh, that's a lot of clickity clacks. It is definitely not as bad as it could have been. You did a pretty good job landing the ship. In fact, the fact that like the boat kind of breaks as soon as you hit the water, if anything kind of absorbs some of the impact as you guys land. We're lucky we got hit by the cannon.

Yeah. Perfect plan. Everyone on board, I actually, I rolled a bunch of dice, but I rolled very low. Everyone on board takes 23 damage as the boat explodes. You guys scatter off into the water. You see a few of the hob goblins from Graham's crew are knocked out, but there's other guys near them

that are able to grab them and scoop them. And everybody starts swimming towards the nearby shore, like this rocky shore beneath this mountain that kind of holds the city. What type of damage? Bludgeoning damage. Sick. I only take 12 then Bludgeoning damage. Sick. I only take 12, then.

Morton is free. Morton is free. Long may grow. Callie pops up out of the water. And you guys all swim over to this little rocky shore and Graham and the others grab the other surviving Hobgoblins and the knocked out ones and pulled them to safety on this rocky shore here.

And you guys catch your breath. And you immediately look up to sort of see what the situation is with the Mother Ship area. You see it continues to break apart as this giant nucleus of this mechanical octopus type creature is taking over and wrapping around the ship. And then you see that the jammer that you just used, Cali, lights up. And you hear Beatrix's voice. Consider us even. I spared you in that test tube, and you spared a part of me.

Doubt is important in moments of ego and fanaticism. I am so angry with mothership, but I doubt that everyone in this city is irredeemable scum. You see the windows of the ship, even from down here, blow out as wires carrying the mother ship employees and soldiers begin flinging them out onto nearby cargo ships. You also see a bunch of rescue ships begin shooting off from the area as well. As if you've essentially cast doubt on Beatrix's plot for indiscriminate revenge and doubt on Alexanderite's mission of complete conviction. Colliope is like, maybe all myself doubt has a gift in it yet. It's what makes you human.

It is what makes you human, and that is why there has to be some doubt on their side too. This ship, this symbol of control must perish. We will meet again, my friends. Friends of the network. That's something I actually don't doubt. You see the mothership wrapped up in all of these wires, suddenly plumbits out of the sky. Beatrix moves it so that it's out from over the city, but it begins heading towards the water

a few hundred feet from you. You see the shadow over you getting bigger and bigger and bigger and finally there's this huge explosion as it hits the water before you can comprehend the wreckage an enormous tidal wave head straight for you. And that's where we'll end our session. Oh damn.

It serves up everybody. Yeah, we'll punch you we'll end our session. Oh, damn it. It serves up, everybody. Cowabung, you got the fuck up. Ah! Let's hang 10 with Graham. Ah, sweet guy. Oh, there's some on the short rest where we do drowning checks. Yeah. We'll be talking about this over on the short rest.

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Oh. And that is bees in the burbs, honey. I'm still putting that on my tea, and I'm still loving it. And then Jonathan Barone sent us maple syrup, and I'm still loving that. Yum, great. So I just wanted to shout out the sweeties.

For the sweeties. Shout out the sweeties. The sweet sweeties. You gotta shout out the sweeties sometimes. Can I keep the sweetie train going? Yeah, let's do it. To chew. Yeah, I want to shout out my friend who makes cool art. Check out at spookybre on Twitter and Instagram.

I think that's our handle. She makes really dope like spooky bloodborne art and stuff like that, she's an amazing painter and also a cool DM who I've played with before. So shout out to some cool art. Cool art. Cool art. Sweet guys, I think that's it for this week.

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