The Adventure Zone - The Adventure Zone: Ethersea - Episode 28

Episode Date: February 17, 2022

Cambria's Call: Part Seven The crew of the Coriolis search for every advantage they can get their hands on before challenging the entity at the bottom of the sea. A relic from a long lost empire is unearthed.Additional music in this episode: ““Little Yellow Room” by ROZKOL https://rozkol.bandcamp.com/; “Montmartre" and “kp” by Jahzzar http://www.betterwithmusic.com/; and ”Denouement” by Kai Engel http://www.kai-engel.com/. Happy MaxFunDrive! Right now is the best time to start a membership to support your favorite shows. Learn more and join at https://maximumfun.org/jointaz

Previously, on the Adventure Zone, Ethersea. I have been waiting for you, Phineas call. I'm not going to stay. I've got things to do. So I'm afraid I must insist. And you are unconscious. You are in a room that is solely lit by faint lights inside of dozens of similar cylinders, like the one that you just broke out of. Okay, I am forming a hypothesis, but I believe the bodies that we found out there,

those are failed experiments. They're working towards something. We should go. I don't know. You're not a clover. Well, I didn't come out of a tube, says you. Once Phineas is out of sight, I cut off Onas head with the mining laser. Then the door to the bathysphere opens.

Phineas. Uh, Bertrand climbs in. What the hell? You're not my Bertrand, are you? Phineas and Bertrand just continue to take swings at each other, and Phineas loses his footing, and the memory stops. And then you wake up, Zooks. All of them are congregated around where Amperstam Five is seated, and they are all looking in Amper San Five's lap, where the lantern that once held. the spirit of Phineas Call has gone dark.

So the three of you are seated at a foretop in Shretz bar, up on top of the marshlands. Probably a bit exhausted, probably coming down from the sort of voyage that you just went through. And listen, Griffin, I don't want to put words in your mouth, but I have to assume Tiva's probably getting some nasty glares. Oh, yeah, for sure, for sure. In fact, the chef comes up to your table and sets bowls of gumbo down in front of Amber and you, Devo, and he's just like staring daggers at you. And Zook's in front of you. He places a bowl of like pale green soup. And he looks at you and points at the ball and he says, not spicy.

and then he turns and walks back behind the bar. And it's probably just like sweeping up debris from the colossal fight that happened in here. And a few moments later, Shrett comes in with Amper Sand. And Amper San's moving kind of slow. He's just like carrying the lantern. It's unattached from his body, the lantern that once sort of contained the spirit of Phineas Call. He sits at the bar. by himself, and Shrep comes up to your table, and she says,

All right, do y'all get everything you needed then? I believe we... Could you excuse me? Would you... Did you guys feel shred in real quick? I need just a real quick talk to M.Prasand. I'll be right back. Yes, I believe we got everything we need.

The location of the phytoplankton and everything I can. Thank you so much for your help. We would not have been able to do this without you. She kind of squints her eyes at you and she says, You should take a bite of that gumbo. Okay. If you insist. You eat it and the good spicy flavor makes your voice better.

You just don't want me to do it anymore. No, man, the spicy gumbo makes your voice better. Take it. Take the heel, bro. Okay. Take the cure. Just take the heel. Just take the heel, bro.

She says, All right, well, it's been real and it's been fun. I mean, okay, I'll be straight with y'all. I'm pretty interested in what it is y'all got going on now.

So, uh, what's your plan? Ambia? I guess we're going to go talk to Cambria. I don't know. I think. it's the only thing that might be able to fix it. I mean,

it's the best I got. Didn't you say that your ship was sort of in the impound right now? It's going to be a long swim. Yeah. I would say this is negotiable, I mean, I suppose.

Why don't you just let old Shrette take care of that, okay? I'll make sure your fine vessels ready for you once you're ready to push on. I don't need any help from you, Shret. We'll figure it out. I'm just counterpoint. Yes, thank you very much. This would be nice that we wouldn't have to worry about this.

She's looking at you now, Amber, kind of like waiting for your response. She nods and she walks over to another table that a group of folks are sitting at some workers here in the marshlands. And they nod and stand up and walk out. And let's hop over to you. What are you doing, Zooks? Um, it just walks over to Amper Sand, kind of plops down on the stool next to Amper Sand and says, Um, are you, are you doing all right, Mr. Five? Oh, boy. Uh, uh, I guess so. It's, um, things are, things are quieter than they've, um, ever.

ever been. We had a complicated relationship. Oh. But he was sort of like a family member that was attached to me, and he's, but that's gone, I don't know, man. I really don't know. I have a message for you from him. Oh, yeah? Yes. The last time we kind of shared a memory, he said to thank you and the Hermione, the Hermione, Hermione, and to thank you, Hermine. You did your best. I know. Said to thank you and the Hermine for everything. And I wanted you to know that. I don't know if that. that'll help you, or if that makes it worse, but he did say to tell you thanks.

Amperstand kind of like nods his head, and then he looks over at you and he slides the lantern over toward you, and he says, I'll be honest, I don't really want to hang on to this. So do you want it? Oh, it doesn't work. It doesn't like provide illumination or anything like that, but I don't I said you were a fan of his. Yeah, I could keep stuff in it, maybe. Yeah, like jelly beans? Jelly beans? Yeah, I could do that.

Okay. Thank you, Devin. That means a lot to me to give me this completely useless piece of lighting technology. Thank you so much. I gotta get back to my buds. Sure. I just said, go ahead, Trav.

Here in Founders, right, they're actually called Shelley Beans. Oh, I'm so sorry, thank you. I forgot that that's like an important thing we set up in the setup episodes? Shelly beans. That they were called Shelly beans. Okay.

Yeah, got it. Shelly beans. Got it. Thank you for the Shelly beans. Oh, you know what? I'm going to fill it with the Shelly bellies because they are. They're actually Shelly Shelly Shelleys. I got to get back to my friends because it looks like they're making big plans.

And if I'm not there, I won't know what they are because they never tell me anything. Yeah. But listen, you hang in there. Anytime you want to talk. I'm good luck finding me. Thanks. Yeah. All right, you have back to the table.

And Shret. Guys, look, look at this lantern. He gave it to me. He gave me the lantern. You could probably sell this to the curator for quite a bit of luck. No, I know. I'm going to put shelley-shellies in it. I love the sherry-shetties.

Oh, the ones that taste. like weird things like snot and you know I love those Amber how are you doing bad I just want to be out of here I feel like

I'm done with I don't like being indebted to Shret and I would like to go and I'm kind of being you know what's hard to communicate in an audio podcast what's that? Sullen

yeah that's like a hard It translates as silent. Yeah, it translates is checking your email. Yeah. I mean, I'm just... Oh, wait, wait. You don't really...

Like, it's never... One thing I don't think I've ever heard on has is, like, being kind of quiet, what's going on? You know, like, Amber, you seem sullen? Am I reading this correctly? Is something wrong? Yeah. Shred's the worst. And, you know, it's not like a sort of road.

You know, anti-hero, whatever. Like, Shred's a bad person. Shred's done bad things, and we, if this weren't sort of a sea-wide calamity, I wouldn't take on debt to Shred, but I don't feel like I've got a lot of options. No, let's, I mean, don't you think we were even? Don't you think the books are even?

Why do you feel like we still owe? shred? Well, if Shrette's getting our ship out of M-pound, I don't know. And it helped us with the grotto. I don't know. I mean, what did we do for Shred? Well, we're doing something for

everybody. We're trying to save everybody. You don't understand how this works. Not with her. I mean, she doesn't have an altruistic bone in her body. She's working in an angle. Always. And even if,

it doesn't come do now, it will. I think it will not surprise you to know that I like making deals and I like negotiating with people, but I just want you to know that I respect a lot that you did this thing and put your pride aside for a moment so that you could do what needed to be done. and this is a very good example, and it means a lot. I appreciate that, but you should know it's not my pride I'm putting away. What I'm burying is the overwhelming urge to bury a knife in her throat. Oh.

So the sooner we could go, that would be grand. Yes, then let us do, as they say, a walk and talk. Huh? Could it just be a walk? Okay, but I do want to say something, and it's very hard for me to be quiet. I just want silence. Okay, we're five. Please, I need a moment.

Okay. Are those footsteps? Yeah, footsteps. Okay, can I talk yet? Has there been a moment? Hold on, keep up. What's wrong with your fucking feet? All right, what is it?

It seems to me like we could go. You know, the three of us in the choreolas. but I think, you know, we all saw this memory. It was pretty fucked out down there. Maybe, and I'm just saying maybe, we should talk to the boyar and to the other balusters and, you know, maybe get some backup from the biggest baby and from whatever other ships are available and maybe not go down there just the three of us versus a godworm. And God knows that's a fucking choice point

And I'm kind of mad at myself For being so murdery That I didn't think about it We are not doing this What were we thinking? What were we thinking? I was about to go get in our ship And go fight the fucking sea more

Like what are we thinking? Yes God knows how many clones they are now We are one step above Like returning people's Overdo VHS takes Like we can't We're not gonna go fucking

talk of God out of their plan. We are at best junior repo men. This is, we are not superheroes or powerful military units. Yeah, let's go talk to the, let's go talk to the boy are. The. Okay.

Okay, cool. As you all head out of Shretz bar, you walk, you know, a ways down the dock and she pops out of her bar And shouts, hey, Devo! Devo! Uh, yes? When y'all are done out there, saving the city,

you're going to get your ass back here and you're going to help me clean up my bar, okay? Oh, okay, definitely, yes. I told you. I mean, she always has a price. Yeah, but I did. In this case, it's basic custodial services. Demonic and mundane. How long were we under in this?

this drug dream. So it was actually not that long. The time that sort of passed in the dream was much longer than the time that passed in real life. So you... I mean, we had a boat chase and all this stuff and she... And Shrette still hasn't cleaned up the bar. It's been like two hours. Yeah, it's been a couple hours.

It has not been long at all. And she was in the boat chase. Right. Oh, that's right. Okay. Okay. You all head down the Crystal Assessing. one level to the ballast.

And I think things are still so buck wild and hectic. Like there is no envoy of guards sort of patrolling the halls to like catch you guys and ask you what it is that you are doing there. And so you are able to sort of cruise right into the balusters chambers. When you get in there, you see the high baluster Hermine. and she is standing over a table looking at like a bunch of different charts and stuff. And Ballister Kodira is also here, the Ballister of Defense, essentially, for the city. And Hermene looks up at the three of you and shakes her head and says,

And what are you all doing here? Can I help you? Zuchs. Um, yes. Uh, oh, mighty baluster. Uh, oh, a, oh, wonderful baluster? No, just say, just say the thing. Okay.

And he holds the lantern up and says, Uh, by the power invested in me by this wonderful lantern, I pass along to you a message from Phineas call from the great beyond. Thanks. well he didn't really elaborate he just said to thank you and ampersand 5 for everything from whence our souls did

what the fuck happened Zooks tell her about what the phytoplankton in Cambrian of that shit we shared memories with Phineas call and I don't know

why I'm talking in such a presentational manner. It's a small breath. And start again. Take another pass. There is an underground city under bubbles and the solution to all of our problems to how to cure the sallow

and how to make things right for a disastrous role that I can't remember which one of us had. The role we played in this, he means. The role we played in this. And by doing so, we shared memories with Phineas Call, who was in this lantern. Where is he now? Not in the lantern.

Heaven. He's in heaven. He went up. You can talk to Devo about it later because he's like the spiritual one. But we shared the memories of Phineas Call, and it was revealed to us what happened. to the bathosphere, this whole kingdom. There's this race of clones living on the bottom of the ocean. And you know, anytime you boil a plot down, it sounds really dumb.

You know? Wow. Fucking drag him. Yeah, get him, dad. Got it. No, I just mean it's, it isn't. Loud. Ten forga, buddy.

Loud and clear. Bunch of clones. I'm just saying, you know, the city underwater under bubbles. Yeah, it's fucking stupid. Yeah, no, it's a dumb. Great big worm. No, I didn't say it was stupid. Just forget the whole thing.

It's just a stupid idea. Okay, then a dragon comes out and he has a crystal. It saves it. No, it was a big worm. It wasn't a dragon, which sometimes W-Y-R-M people use to refer to dragons. So it still holds up. And I wish the first time somebody was like, behold this worm, somebody was like, that's not a worm.

What's wrong with you? It's a dragon, man. This is idiot? There's a thing called a worm. No, I'm in a, we are. It's a weird. Her disposition toward you all was already pretty frosty, considering that you hauled the sallow back into the city in the first place.

When she sees you walk in here with this lantern, you get the impression that she kind of stopped listening as soon as she realized that Phineas call was not in there. I want you to make a persuasion check, Zooks, as you are trying to sort of convince her of the, like, imminence of this solution that you have. stumbled upon. Okay. That would be a 10. She, like, while you are still talking,

just walks up to you and snatches the lantern out of your hand. And, like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. She just starts looking at it. And when you, like, say that, she looks back at you with, fuck you face. Zooks, may I take a pass as this? Oh, I would. Yeah, I didn't want to pass in the first place.

No, I think you did great. Balasya, I'm going to attempt some things that I do not usually do, which is I am going to attempt restraint because I do respect your authority and your position, but I want you to know that today a lot has been sacrificed so that we can save just about everyone living here in Founders' wake. Basically, Phineas Cole gave his life, and Zooks risk losing himself with inner memory, and Amber had to make deals that she is wildly uncomfortable with, so that we can save the life of everyone that you are sworn to protect, both of you here. And we, we come here with the information of where to get more phytoplankton and the origin of the sallow

and you can either help us on this mission or you can live knowing that you did not do everything you could to protect this city uh roll a persuasion check i love that your modifier for persuasion is a full ten points higher than zooses yeah That would be a 22 total. She looks up at you. She finally breaks eye contact with the lantern and looks at you. And she sighs and sets the lantern down on the table that her and Kodira were kind of going over these charts on. And she looks up at you all and she says, you know, we're spread pretty thin.

Um, Coderre, is this, it's up to you. You're the one sort of with the direct line to the biggest baby. So, um, is this within your jurisdiction, do you think? And Codira takes a breath to start speaking. And then a red light kind of appears right above her forehead. Uh, and you all, you saw this before Amber at the, uh, auction. And when the chaperones there sort of got in a tussle with you, that red light kind of kicked on and seemed to be like their way of reporting back to the big man, by which I mean the ship that they cruise around. Yeah, biggest baby. And the light is on there for a while, and Kodira is not speaking while it is on. And when it shuts off, she looks at the three of you and she says, I'm sorry, y'all. Like, we can't. We can't, we can't, we can't, we can't spare the, the, the resources. Cota, Cota said no.

And we can't really go against Cota's wishes. Excuse me? You can't, you can't spare the resources to save the city. It's not up to me, Devo. Okay. Okay, where is Coda? Let me talk to this code. I can be very persuasive.

Yeah, that's not going to happen. Okay. What if there was a trade? I don't know that you have anything that... I pull out the codite. Wait, why do you have... Oh, you've had that the whole time. Yes, I have.

Huh, okay. She looks at you very concerned. She says, where did you get that? Seems like you need something from me When you start playing hardball like this You see Hermine get very very nervous all of a sudden And that red light shines in front of Kodira's face again And when it goes away she starts walking towards you

And she says you are not supposed to have that Seems like we have this And the information of where to save the city Two things you very much need she starts walking towards you in a fairly aggressive way and that red light comes on right in front of her her face and she is almost on top of you and she looks ready to just attack you. I put myself between the two of them and bust out a couple spare arms. Okay. Make an intimidation check for me, Amber. Okay. Four. So basically it's minus one.

So technically that's a three. So like I pull out my arms and one of them makes like a bunny shadow puppet. It's like, well, what do you think about this? She is going to, what's your AC? What's the other business? It's 15. She is going to just try to sort of backhand you out of the way. And it's an unarmed strike.

She hits you for. for four points of bludgeoning damage. Thick! And with that, Hermine shouts, that's enough! And Kodira stops, and the red light is gone, and she looks at what she just did, and she looks kind of horrified. And she reaches an arm down to help you up,

and she says, Amber, oh, my God, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Are you okay? Yeah, I'm fine. Uh Hermine says Kodirate You're gonna take your ship And you're gonna follow them

I'll make sure that your ship is taken out of impound Okay And I'm really proud of you For the restraint that you've shown For not trying to do something stupid And get it out of impound yourself Yes This would be stupid

Yes Was that an option? I'm gonna use sending real quick Okay My new spell What's it do? It lets it. send a message to someone I know of 25 words or last to a creature with which you are familiar.

They hear the message in their mind, recognize you as the sender if they know you, and can answer in a like manner immediately. How far is this? You can send the message across any distance and even to other planes of existence. Okay, cool. That's a good, that's a good, instant message there. Yeah. Okay, then.

It is a third level smell. Let me be clear. This is a very big deal. We cut down then to the gills where just three kind of wise guys are standing next to your ship that has this big glowing dome on it. And there's two of the guys have crowbars and hammers sort of pride under it looking at the third guy who's standing on the dock. And he keeps going, and with each sneeze, they're trying to hammer the crowbars deeper and deeper into it. And then the guy who's sneezing, like, looks up and feels something in the ether. And the voice says,

This is divo. Abort. Abort plan. They will be down there soon to let it out. Skiddle. Okay. I think that was 18 words. I was trying to count very quickly.

And the sneezing guy says, Abort, abort, skedaddle, skedaddle. And the two guys, like, panic and jump down into the water. He's like, no, no, God, no, we can walk. And Kodira says, It doesn't work like that Hermie. We can't just tell him what to do. He's not really a baby.

It sounds like he is. And Hermine just waves her off and says, get ready, do whatever you need to get ready. The biggest baby's at your disposal. And Cody are storms out of the room. Before Code D.R. leaves. Diva says, a deal is a deal. And hands over the code.

Okay. She grabs it out of your hand without even like, stopping her stride and marches out of the room. And Hermine says, they are not going to let you aboard that ship. Oh, this is fine? Yes, I don't want to. It sounds like it's a ship that has a personality, and that's weird.

I don't want to be inside this. So you all are the pilot fish. You show them where to go, and then once you get down there, what? You're going to have them just nuke the city from orbit? But first we will get the phytoplankton and then they will nuke it from orbit. Yeah, all right. Yeah, I mean, it's the best plan we got so far.

So you have my blessing. She makes like a genuflect, like, hand gesture, like not sure what she's even doing. And she walks back to her charts. One more question, not to push. And this is completely negotiable. But we do need to stock up on some supply. to make this work? Is there any way you could extend us a line of credit?

No. No, come on. Oh, okay. I saw you might be a little bit invested in submission, but... All the money that we have right now is going towards, you know, providing food and shelter and medical treatment for the many people. Yeah, okay. This is, yes.

Yep. Cool. Complete sense, yes. Zooks grabs his lantern back and gives the herme means such a look Oh yeah Oh scathing What?

Sure Maybe one one crayfish crawls out and shakes a little like Little claw at her She says What the fuck are you doing? This was a gift This belongs to me

She sighs And she says He's really gone Yeah Yeah He's really gone but he went thanking you saying thanks for all the stuff you did for him. Now, we're trying to continue his mission.

And I really want this lantern. She shakes her head and you can see tears welling in her eyes and she says, it's just a fucking lantern. Go ahead. and she turns and walks through a rear door out of the room. I think all things considered this went very well. I mean, yeah. Honestly.

Yeah, I. Well played, everybody. I'm sorry about when I kind of did a bit of a good. No, but I really appreciated you stepping in there. I thought I was about to get. I guess it's a thought that gets me. Yeah, I thought I was about to get knocks the fuck out. I almost shot her for slapping.

What? It would have been a hell of a hell with this. This was very sneaky. None of us saw you do anything. And Zooks puts the crossbow back in the hole. Oh, wow. Zooks for future reference, man. I can take a hit, all right.

That's not the first time I've been smacked this week. Like, I'm fine. I know. I just, I hate it. We do need. Well, thanks for holding back again. We do need to work on your public speaking, Zooks. I guess, yeah.

Well, we got you. You don't. Yes, but I'm kind of, and I'm realizing now, a bit of a piece of shit. And people seem to like you a lot. So I would rather save me being a piece. We can do like a good, a good, what is that? What do they call, Griffin, the cops here, they're called.

Oh, the chaperons? Good cod and bad chaperone? We can do like a good chaperone, bad chaperon thing. I have a better idea. Oh, okay. Cool, cool, no, sorry, go on. You could be C. Renaud de Bergeret.

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Thanks, Viz. So are you. Each week we'll be here to remind you that you're doing a good job. You can find us on maximum fun.org. Hong Kong. Toot-toot. I listen to Bullseye because Jesse always has really good questions. What did John Malkvitch wear when he was 20?

I don't know how to describe it. There's always that moment where Jesse asks a question that the person he's interviewing has not thought of before. I don't think anyone's ever said that to me or acknowledged that to me and that is so real. Bullseye. Interviews with creators you love and creators you need to know from maximum fun.org and NPR. All right, you all have time to prepare now. You are sitting on a like pretty considerable chunk of change. You had 30, I believe, Lux at the end of the auction job that Devo, I believe you spent seven of on your own sort of kit at Normals Hall.

Normal's pile, excuse me, Normals Pile. Normals Pile. As a brand ambassador, it's very important to me. It's super, super important. I got you. So, yeah, I mean, anything you all want to do to prepare for this mission, you know, let's take a little bit of time. do that if you want. Well, I think, can we talk out of character for a moment?

Sure. Just to speed it up. Now that we know where we're going, I think this is probably the most informed we have ever been going into it. I think if we have the biggest baby backing us up, we focus on infiltration and extraction. Yeah, I was thinking that we'd want to go and arm up, but I don't think that that's advisable. Like, I don't know.

Whatever threat we could muster, even if we spend all of our cash on it, I don't think it would be very impressive. Yeah. But do we already have a salvage claw? You do not. Yeah, no, I mean, there's lots of things that are not weapons and armor. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I know. Okay. So it seems to me, like, that and maybe a blink bay. So, like, that way we can do, like, a teleport in, teleport out without ever having having to land the ship. and like the salvage claw, anything that lets us, I think, operate at a distance is going to be incredibly beneficial.

Cool. You all find your ship waiting for you down at the Gills, and it's just a sort of short skip underneath the city up into sort of the little, lowercase G-grotto, where Felix does his stuff at the Phantom Sea Coast go. And as you all sort of, of arrive and pop out, he looks at you all and he says,

It's been a while I was starting to think you found a different old sales ship sales guy to go to. This got the way from you, huh? It really did, like instantly. Anyway, how can I help you today? Well, first, can you pass on my, uh, my. respect to your better half. You're talking about my butt face.

Normal. The face on my butt. Your butter half. And you hear a, you hear a voice come out of a pipe that says, You're my butt face. No, I've been representing the brand to everyone. Yes, the sales have been going wild.

I forget what Normal sounds like. I'll get it. I think it's a transient voice, honestly. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Okay.

It's like Robin Williams. They're just always doing a fun of different voice. Just have a fun, getting silly. No one's ever heard his true voice. If you heard the true voice of Robin Williams, it would make you insane. That's why he is as the Metatron. Right. Okay.

Oh, actually, hey, Devo. From the moment you all entered, Felix has just been looking at you expectantly. Because if you will look at the worksheet, you will see that you are seven luck in debt. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes. All right. So what are y'all, what are y'all doing? I do. Can I pay the interest on my loan? And I promise you I will take care of this. This is very, I promise you I will. That's the Amber and Zerkes.

Yeah. How much will we have left outside of that? 21. 21. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, also, I got you guys these shuttle phones, and I got some personalized cases for them. Shelfare.

They each have a thing. Yours Amber says vibe check on the case. Oh, that's cool. I love that. Yours, Zook says there's a hole for that. I thought you would appreciate it. Yes. So funny.

Yes. And mine says whip it. No, no, it does not say this. So Zooks looks at his and says, oh, I have four sandbars on this. That's so good. That's really good. Really good. All right.

I will deduct that from the interest and the lux. And as you offer up those two lux for the interest, Felix just kind of nods and says, I mean, it's you're just bleeding money. The longer you let this debt go unpaid, but I appreciate this. this show of good faith. Yes, but also I want you to know, we are stocking up so we can go, you know, try to save the city,

which I think was probably important to you, because that is like... That has no bearing on my bottom line. You don't need customers? I'll find another place to sell my words. You are cold-blooded, my cat's friend. No kidding, my man. Okay.

So, Amber, what are you thinking? You are a bit of a tactical expert. Yeah, I think a blink bay. Oh, fuck, yes. Yeah, we can teleport in 100 feet. That might help us to get in without a lot of calamity. And I don't have to swim, which I like. Love that.

Yeah, I think that a blink bay, seven looks. I think it's a good day. Yeah, and listen, this will be useful, assuming that we are able to save the city and then get back to work, useful in the future as well. Of course. Sure. Just give me one second. And a shipworm pops out of the water holding a, like a long scroll looking thing. And another one pops out and puts a tiny little pair of glasses on Felix's eyes. And Felix says, by purchasing this piece of equipment and signing this release, you are agreeing that Phantom C Coast Co. Limited is not responsible for any teleportation-based whoopsies, including

teleporting into a wall and turning into gush, teleporting halfway through a wall and half of your body turning into gush. Teleporting into another person and both your body is looking in a really gushy, terrible way. Teleporting into an animal and then all of a sudden, you've gooshed with the animal. Is there a box? We can check.

You got to let him finish it out. Part of your body teleporting one way and the other part of your body teleporting another way. What is the odds? Teleporting into another person who's teleporting at the same time. I'm opening up a wormhole. Agreed.

Agree. Got it. Agreed. Accidentally teleporting into a hell. Okay. That's it. Sign here, here, here, and here, and initial here. Okay.

You didn't point to anything. I used my whiskers. Oh, very subtle. Yes. All of the whiskers. Okay. All right. That is seven lux, and I will add the blink bay to the sheet.

If we are... This is a facility. by the way. So this is taking up one of the spots for rooms, right? This isn't just like some tool. You need to dedicate quite a bit of space to get like teleportation. More room for decoration, baby. Yeah, I guess so.

Cool. Okay, well then some shipworms start like hauling down like metallic like sheets, almost like drywall to start framing out this room and you see some. Also start dragging like big pieces

of technology. down into the water. And you see some sparks underneath the water as they start to install this in the Coriolis. And Griffin, I'm right in thinking the great-out stuff is stuff that we do not have access to yet, right? That is correct. That is correct.

As you continue to do work for various factions that will unlock various things for you. He says, anything else? I hear the jingle jangle of those sweet cubes in your pocket. What should we do if we are talking about, you know, getting in, getting out a salvage claw, perhaps? Ooh. Yeah, that would be a lot of fun. Get that. Yes. This is good. We do the salvage claw.

Hmm. Hmm. What about? Rims? Rims. Yes. Hey, you got rims? This is a good question. Do you have rims? Rims? Some things that spins. Spinners? Yes. What would it... Do you have a whistle? Give us that woo-woo? Oh, yes. This would be good. I would also like an aquarium inside the ship. ship so I can look outside and see fish, but also inside and see fish. Fuck, that's funny.

Can you imagine how annoying can you imagine how annoying it'd be for a fish to be living in an aquarium and you can like see ocean like, fuck. We put it close to the windshield. I can't remember what this is called. And so they can look out and see the fish. But then we run into a fish and they're like,

hmm, glad I'm in here. Twisted. I've never thought about it, but I bet we run into a lot of fish. Let's go. Let's listen, let's focus up. We got a world safe. Can I have a knife? Everybody's got a knife.

I've been asking for a knife. And you were supposed to get me one. Yes, but not to be fair. One of the rules. You were asking for a sword, I thought. Well, yeah, but I thought you can go up to 24 inches with a knife before. Based on what, hey, dad, don't you quote those stats back to me? If I saw someone carrying a two-foot knife, that's a sword, baby.

Yeah, but like, then you get into like, okay, what about sting? Oh, fuck. Right? Is that, like, it's all in perspective, right? That's a sword to a hobbit, a dagger to a man. And a singer to beloved millions. Yeah. Oh, my God.

Can we please go save the world? Well, we do still have money to spend. That's fine. Save it. You know, this is your problem, Travis. This is what I've been telling you. It's my problem in life as well. Don't blow it.

I know. Stop blowing it on fucking Doge. And let's go save the world. All right. I am at... I need a knife. I am adding... You have a knife.

You don't have a sword. Okay. I want a sword. I mean, you'd need to talk to my butter half for that. No, but can you shed down the sword? I mean, can you help? What kind of sword, you hear from the pipes above? Um, something that, do you have a sword, like from a swordfish?

You know, like a long pointy, or like a swordfish skull? with the nose or anything along, I feel really weird talking down a giant toilet. You have anything like that? Weirdly, yes. Really? Yeah, definitely. I have a swordfish petrified swordfish sword.

Okay. Yeah. That's going to be, let's see. How about four locks for that? Does that sound fair? Wait, hold on. Oh. You're telling me.

That the swordfish sword costs the same as a launch bay. Listen, man, I don't set his prices. He doesn't set mine, okay? This is fair. How much will you give me for this lantern? No. Hey, uh, Zooks offered to wear a hat that says Norma's pile. Norma loves this shit.

Can I, I tell you what, I'll wear a pile hat. Oh, you want to be a... If you give it to me... Well, wait a second. Do you look? dope? Oh, yes. Oh, you ought to see the fan art. Tell me what you look like. And it's if your body looks cool and like somebody I would want wearing my hat.

It's really cool and I'm made out of coral and the fans love me. Yeah, very unique. Oh, maybe brands a sword. Make a branded sword. Yeah, no, that's going to be four looks, I think. Oh, okay. Ah, forget it. I'll just find a skull laying on the bottom of the. the ocean. Let's buy something else. Four luck's. This place sucks.

I'm gonna throw in a minute. This place, no, no, no, no, no, I'm gonna, this place takes ass. My place, I'm gonna wear a hat that points over at a divo's shirt and says, don't go there. I want to, I think we need to spend off campaign about dad looking for one other story. Because as far as we know, there is not one. Okay, if I've been following the math correctly, yeah, you guys who spend 11 luck. So you have 10 luck.

If I might suggest, there are also consumables. Like, if you don't take rations, you're going to take a minus on your... So we don't need anything to navigate to where we're going, right? So like the sexton, we don't need... If you look at your... So the sexton is just like a permanent readiness. Right.

If you do not take rations, then you will take a negative. you will take a negative to readiness. Anything stealth related? I was looking for that. I think all the stealth things that are there we don't have access to yet because like a losery haul and stuff like that we just don't have yet.

The license for that, right? So would the sensors give us any kind of advantage in battle? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I mean any of the things in parts, sensors are like your modifier for like two hit when you attack with a weapon. And right now we just have basic sensors, right?

Right now you have affordable sensors, I believe. Oh, okay. Oh, even worse. Yes, so let us... Generic. Affordable sensors are like the worst. And we have how much left? Ten? Okay. I thought we had 14. He didn't get the sword.

I didn't get the sword. No, no. No, you all had 21. You spent seven. You spent seven on the blink bay and you spent four on the salvage claw. Right. Okay. I say we get Z, experimental sensors. Or the salt glass thing.

One of these two. We are not planning on going into battle, right? We're going to sneak, sneak. I mean, you never, you know. Well, I'm just saying if we're going to sneak. Make a plan and Todd laughs. Yeah. Todd is such an asshole. Do you know, my friend, Todd?

I do. He tried to do a plan around him. He's like, let's just fucking go for it. And he tends to shove everywhere, man. Like, he would come into the church sometimes and do this. And it was a plan for you. You'd be like, what do you want for lunch? And he'd be like, ha, ha, ha, ha.

Yeah, like, no plans allowed. All right, listen. I think, yeah, like, let's get these sensors and get moving. Get the experimental sensors. Yeah. Okay, one thing to point out about the experimental sensors. They are experimental in that they are powerful. To warn me.

They have a higher attack modifier, but their repair DC is considerably higher, which means that they are going to be stronger, but if something goes wrong with them, they will be more difficult to fix. They have a DC of eight. On a flat D. Flat D. Orchon. That. Urchin can fix it. No.

Urchin does not fix things for you guys. You fix things, but urchin provides a modifier. Sure. Yeah, I would say you know. All right. Experimental sensors then are six, leaving you all with four. Let's save. Yeah, we save that.

Okay, I will say... We may see something along the way that we won't. Wait, wait, wait, wait. I'll say once again for the third time, if you go out without any sort of rations, you will take a negative... All right, let's get rations. I thought we found a whole bunch of rations.

That was last adventure. Okay, let's take some... All right, get rations. Maybe generous rations. Oh, my. This is as valetized names. Yes, this is like... Generous rations.

Yes, this is bars, but they have little chocolate chip. Zin Zun. All right. Generous Trations. How much is that? Two.

Two Lux. Okay. So you guys have two Lux left. Perfect. This will be good for the tolls. All right.

Let me just see a second. The ocean tolls. Shh. Okay, yeah. Go ahead and heal up and do whatever. Get your spell slots back. Well, not the one

that I used to abort the crime. But other than that. Yeah, sure. All right. You all get all your stuff set up. As you are about to head out of the Phantom Sea Coast Co, you see a shape moving in the water, and it's like a glowing yellow shape. And it looks like it's moving with like a considerable amount of

effort. And finally, you see a long sort of glowing yellow tindral reach up and pull this shape up onto the dock here inside of the store. And a few seconds later, there's more tindrills pulling it up. And you see the glowing yellow smiley face character from the auction. And it pulls up the AI core that this character bought at the auction. And then the yellow glowing hard light disappears. And you see it's just like a bunch of shipworms that all just kind of like disperse and slide back into the water leaving the AI core.

on the land. And Felix says, oh, cool. I'm going to sell this for a lot of money, I think. And he picks it up and puts it up on a shelf. Ah, one mystery solved. He says, we're closed now. Now we're closed. We were done anyway.

Fine, I'm done too. Okay, fine. We are leaving. But I closed before you said that. No, we were on walking out. So see you later? Yeah. See you later.

Okay. Bye, buddy. You all hop back into the Coriolis, just as the last few shipworms are sort of pulling out from their installations. And you hear Amper San 5 say, Hey, I'm here, don't get scared. What? I came in through a hole when they were installing some stuff.

And, hey, I'm here. So don't be scared of me. Okay. What are you doing here? I was wondering if I might be able to come with you all. Because I, frankly, I would like to just kind of see how this turns out. I feel like I owe that to Phineas. I won't get in the way, I promise.

Oh, no, we expect you to help? Yeah, yeah, definitely. Yeah, for sure. Okay, yeah. I mean, sure, you are welcome. And don't kill our urchin. Yes. You will want to.

But he... But we ask you to resist. Ironically, urchin grows on you. So, um... You hear a voice from the wall saying, I just snap that little dude like a twig. Don't even say stuff like that. It's a baby.

Erchen. I love how Rule 3, he's never where you want him to be, and yet he's everywhere when you don't want to. Yeah. There's no secrets from auction. All right. You all are shoving off then with ampersad five in tow. You know from the memories that you saw where to go.

And you know that sort of the first waypoint is the abyss where this auction took place, where you sort of scraped the ground and picked up the sallow in the first place. And as you get down into unfamiliar territory, you are going to roll your readiness rating on the random roll table. As you can see, we got the usual modifiers here. I've given you a plus five for the intel that you picked up during your memory dive. So how about somebody who's not dad? Okay. Who has not rolled it yet?

Oh, that's chilly. That's really. I think everybody's rolled one at this point. I do. what I would say. Yeah. And you guys hear me out. What are the odds?

Well, I know the odds. They're one in 100. One of the odds that dad would get two bad rolls in a row. I think he'd use a chance to redeem you. I think you're right. Hey, Dad. This one's on you, bud. You got this, bud.

I believe in you. All right. Okay. That's a D-100. D-100. D-100. It looks like two die. It's a fourth one.

It's to each other. You guys are sure. Yeah, bud. Yeah, man. This is that redemption arc. Do it, Boramier. All right. Oh, man.

Here I go. Ho day. Bad way to start. 74. That's pretty good. Yes. 70 fucking 4. Wait, let's calm down.

There's at least 26 numbers higher than that. It's a 74 plus 9, so an 83 total. Oh, a solid B. 80 fucking 3. All right. Yeah, I was born. It's a solid B. Oh, shit.

Okay. All right. As you sink down into this abyss, a shadow appears overhead. And looking up, you can see that you all are underneath the monolithic black battleship called the biggest baby. and it flashes some signal lights at you as you begin to descend, as if to alert you, that they are providing Overwatch as you submerge deeper toward the city. Something catches your eye after, you know, an hour or so of traveling through this ravine that was definitely not there in the memory. It is dark. Down here, there's not much life.

It's well below sort of the hallow klein, and there's just nothing growing down here. But the lights on the Coriolis flash off of something gold. You see it clear as day through the viewport on the bridge. and as you approach you can see that it is a ship a golden ship and you have never seen a ship of this design before it is it is long it's a very long very sort of slender design if this thing tried to park in in the the docks in the gills like it would not fit because it is just sort of of an abnormal shape.

But its hull is like gilded and it is just sitting on the bottom of the ocean. You can tell that its tail has like cracked off and flooded the ship. There is no like there are no lights or any sort of like power that you can see inside the ship. But that that is what you all can see from where you. you are at. I would be so on to say it. I know we are on a mission to save an entire city, but gold ship. I mean, hard to pass up, am I right?

I know. Oh, that looks so cool. It's so cool, right? What do you say, Amber? Come on. Yeah, fun. Really? Yeah.

All right. All right. You all stop the choreolus. over this golden ship and what what you sort of do to investigate it is is up to yell um how about if i swim down take a looky look no need what no need to swim your swimming days are over blink it down blink it baby all right blink it don't drink it get in there Don't think, just blink. Don't think just blink.

Okay. All right. Don't sink, just blink. I love that you're breaking this room in by teleporting him. You're probably like 20 feet over the ship. This is a good time to try it out. All right, yeah, that's a fair point. Okay.

Do we really want to practice in the moment when we really need a tour? Thank you. Thank you. All right. Then, Zooks, you go stand on this pad in the blink day. I really wish I'd listen to all those for me. It'll be fine. It'll be fine.

We have a clear line of sight. Okay. This will be fine. Are you trying to teleport into the ship? Because the rules of the blink bay are you have to be able to see where you're going. You can try without it. Oh, my God, Griffin. It's going to be fine.

Okay, just where are you teleported? We'll put him down right next to the Broganoff section so we can see the ground. The rules of the blink bay. that you don't talk about the blink thing. You can teleport into an Emmy ship if they can see their landing. Okay. Like, what would that mean in the context of underwater vessels? We can see, open up a screen, open up a screen door.

Well, or if you look through like a window. They got windows in there. Yeah, maybe. Yeah. Well, is this one having viewports? Sure, yeah. Okay, fine. Like, okay then.

Come on, all right. Why are you slowed us down? Technically, they're portholes. Yeah, this is a V-Cort in the front. You stand on the pad then, and it's not like a Star Trek, like, beautiful, glowing, diffusing light. It's like, there's actually a loud pop that happens when Zooks disappears in the blink of an eye. I assume with the name and technology, it's based off of blink sharks, right? Roll an Arcana check.

If you want to know how this thing works Diva Oh no, five plus five It's a 10, baby, I don't know I mean they're named the same thing Yeah, that's a good point All right, you reappear In the Water, Zooks

And you are inside of this ship And it is pitch black It is like, it is very dark in here There's no light being provided By the ship itself or the water outside I don't know if you have dark vision Or anything like that I have fairy fire.

I don't know what that. Go see a doctor. Fairy fire. Each object in a 20-foot cube within range is outlined in blue, green, or violet light. Your choice. Okay. That's cool. Yeah, that's a first level spell slot.

So go ahead. Yeah, go ahead and mark that off a spell slot. And what swarm? What, like, how does this look in your swarm? The swarm that is used is the, all those creatures that, you know, live in the deep, deep, deep, deep dark like the Mariana's Trench who generate their own light. Bioluminescence. So a whole bunch of these little bioluminescence.

I like the little ones that have like a lure hanging off. Anglerfish. Anglerfish. So a whole bunch of teeny little anglerfish. Okay. Cool. Then they come out and all of a sudden everything in this chamber, you have more or less hopped into the bridge is illuminated. Why don't you just make an investigation check for me?

That would be a Nat 20. You are kidding me. That's due, Griffin. Don't be like that. No, that's a huge. Okay, sorry, that's just, that's, that's huge. With a Nat 20, you, it's like Sherlock Holmes, like all of the things in this room, you start to file away in your mind palace, and then you instantly, like, calculate what is of value in this chamber that you can see.

I like this new foot. focused zooks. Yeah. The first thing that you see is a body, and it is the only body that you can see in here. The rest have been maybe hauled away by various hungry sea creatures. But there's one just kind of like floating up in a corner that is like fully skeletal. But they are wearing a, what looks like a kind of padded jacket with golden epaulettes on it. And the rest of their clothes are sort of like rags and tatters.

But this one jacket has held up to, you know, undersea scrutiny, like very, very, very well. The other stuff that you see in this room, you see a few things. One, there is a large table at the center of the room. And it is sort of flat and circular. And you can tell just by looking at it that it was some. sort of display, like some sort of screen. Maybe it's sort of like flickering a little bit, like the only sort of source of light or, you know, power that is in this room. And at the very center of it, you see a small black sphere that is just kind of like underneath a layer of cracked glass that is sort of

holding it into the table. So you get the sense that that sphere is something of value, but it is sort of fastened to the table somehow. Two more things with your fucking wild Nat 20 is a seat on this bridge. There's a joystick on it and like a bunch of different switches and you can tell that this is where the sort of gunner of the ship sat.

And everything here has like more or less rusted away but there is a lever attached to a tube and you see that and just you know that that is a flare launcher. that is in fairly good shape. It is not as sort of rusted away as some other parts of the ship are. And then you can also tell that there is another station here that is in control of a blink bay. And that station is definitely much more sort of like,

it's not like you could rip that one out of this ship and just like slot it down into your ship. Like it would take some time to uninstall that. but if you wanted to get a second blink bay on your ship, that is also something that you can salvage. The last thing is not like something so much that you can take back and have for yourself as much as it is. This ship is wild. It's not just that it is of sort of a different make and model as the ships that you see in Founders Wake. it is really, really ornate in here. Like there's a lot of wood in here,

a lot of carved wood that, you know, hasn't fared so well from being under the water for however long this ship has been down here. And you also see a lot of, make a history role for me. I don't know how dope your history would be. It would have to be like secondhand entirely since you're like, you know, two years old or whatever. It ain't good.

That's a five. You see sigils on the wall that you do not recognize. One of them has held up a little bit better than the others. It's just like a wooden plaque with some sort of sigil on it that you don't recognize. Do the shell phones have video capability? No, but if you want to describe those things to your friends back at the ship, you can do that over the cell phones. They'll say they're tone wheels. They would walk underwater.

So he gets on the shell phone. And rather than go through all that Unless nobody was I was listening to I got to tell you folks There's some really cool stuff There's a jacket you would die for Down here

Yeah it's gold Appalettes It's got Appalettes I know how you dig the Appalettes I do like the Appalettes There's a big table with a gigantic Black Orb in the middle of it

I think the only way we could get this back on the ship would be with your claw, Amber, because I think it's, I mean, we're going to have to extract this. We'd have to get the whole table. You know, I don't know if that's something you want to do. But there's a bunch of stuff. There's a flare thing down here that we could take. So let's spend some time and strip it for pods.

I'm in favor. Okay, so each of these things would take a different amount of sort of time to secure. I will say the jacket, you is... That's six hours. That's nothing. Like, you could just grab this. You're grabbing it off a skeleton. So the jacket, if you want it, is a freebie.

Oh, I'll take it that guy's jacket. I mean, Zook's is, Zooks is call since Zooks is the one who is actually down there. Yeah, I'll grab the jacket for you. Yeah, the skeleton just comes. Can I get the flare thing without any trouble? No, because it is sort of, you know, attached to the wall. That one you figure would maybe take you maybe like 20 minutes of just kind of like, you know, using some tools to uninstall that. That's fair.

The table would take a while to get out, maybe a couple of hours of sort of making a whole big enough for this thing to be ripped out of. all of these things, by the way, are like best case scenario. You will have to roll to try and like uninstall these things. The Blink Bay similarly would take a while if you wanted to try and salvage that. Yeah, we got one. Did he also describe the sigils and stuff? And there are these sigils. Let me describe them to you in great detail.

Okay. Devo and Amber, if you want to roll a history roll. As exactly what I was about to do. I got a 19 plus 5, a 24. Dang, I got a 11. It is appropriate, Diva, that you are the one who ruled the 24 on this. This is like old, like, orthodox benevolence stuff. Like, the schism that happened where the benevolent parish kind of left and joined the shoreside community,

which would then, you know, become the de facto religious organization in Founders' Wake, obviously, like, uses different sort of symbology. But this is even like, this is almost like ancient times benevolence symbology. Like nobody uses this shit anymore. Not before the followers of benevolence left and joined the founders' wake team. Okay. So knowing that, does that inform anything for people of what the black sphere might be? No.

The black sphere is some sort of like, you can roll an Arcana check, A very high Arcana check because, like, you know. Oh, that's a three plus five and eight. How high? Yeah, no fucking idea. But you have deduced that, like, wherever this ship came from is a place that, like, for whatever reason, has a vested interest in the old ways. So it's almost certainly hominine. Or?

That would be one assumption of the way that you could go with it. You can't think of any reason anybody from Founders Wake or any. of the sort of like small like you know settlements the people who have have branched off of Founders Wake would would use this shit and these are written these are written on like a plaque or something yes right yeah how much how much time we'd take to take the plaque not much you would just have to pry it off the wall i would give you that one for free also okay okay i'll pull the plaque off the wall okay and uh and grab the jacket can do you guys want to take the time to get anything else

Listen. Can we leave a marker or something that shows us how to get back here? I say we take the flare and, oh boy, I might turn to buy that black sphere thing. Are all these things made of gold? Say yes. What do you think, Amber? I think we should get moving on. Honestly, guys, we've lost the plot a little bit here.

I love free stuff as much as the next person, but we got some work. We got to get done. Okay. How about Zooks? You get the flare thing and when that's done. what if we just shoot the salvage cloth through the viewport and just try to grab the table? Huh?

Quick and dirty? I'm waiting to hear from the DM. I mean, you can do whatever the fuck you want to do, man. Yeah, sure. It's free stuff, guys. Like, we, I... Yeah, but time is money. Time is money.

That's my concern. I feel like we just need to get... Well, okay, but at 20 minutes. Grimm's at 20 minutes for the flares. Like, I think when you spend 20 minutes... All right, let's get the flet. Let's get the flares and get gone. Yeah, I will say, because I don't want you to think that I'm poo-pooing the idea.

If you want to try to do like a quick and dirty salvage jaw with the claw. Yeah, the worst thing that happens is it doesn't work and we don't get it. Well, that's not the worst thing that could happen. Okay, well. All right. Is there GPS on the shelf? So which of us has the best aim, would you say? Is it going to be like a dexterity to fire the salvage claw?

What are we looking at here? I mean, it's probably going to be another flat D20 unrepair roll if you are, well, wait, you do sort of, yeah, I think it's going to be a range attack roll. And what are we using the cloth for? We're basically going to shoot through the front of the ship and grab the table and just like yank it out. How big is the black orb? The black orb is like bowling ball sized. But it's in a covered thing, right? Right.

It's covered by like a thick layer of glass. Which could be broken. presumably. Okay. My ranger attack hit DCS plus four. Let's not everything. A Devo fires the salvage clock. Okay.

In through the front windshield of the ship, trying to grab. Okay. Make a... Let's use the ship stats, actually, because now you guys have this plus sensor, right? Whenever you make a range attack with the ship, you use the sensor roll. So roll a D20 plus six.

Okay. An 11 plus 6. 17. Okay. You fire the... the claw through, I think with a 17, you definitely hit the table and you grab onto it. And you can see, I mean, first of all, there's an explosion of sort of like gold and, you actually see it's like gold leaf that is like flaking off of the hull.

Like this is not a solid gold ship. They just really wanted it to look like it. And knowing what diva does of like the, especially the old benevolence church, not surprise. Yeah. You get it around the table with that black orb on it and it prides up from the floor, but it doesn't come like completely loose. There are some, you see some like very thick cables that are stronger than this salvage claw. As you start to try to like retract the salvage claw, it actually pulls the coriolis closer to this gold chip. So if you are going to get this thing, somebody is going to have to go and sort of loosen, like free up those cables.

Zooks takes out the knife. Everybody says he has and cuts those cables. Okay, make a flat D20 roll. Shit. Three. Okay. They are a lot thicker than you anticipated. And there are a lot more of them than you anticipated.

But you start sort of carving away on them. Amber, make a perception check. Well, that's a natural 20. There's a lot happening on the Coriolis right now, enough to be like pretty distracting. You hear the winch for the salvage claw kind of whining in protest as Devo keeps trying to, you know, pull it up from the ship and ampersand is their kind of,

watching curiously. You hear the sounds of effort over the shell phone from Zooks who is sawing away at the wires back down in the golden ship. But that's not enough

to cloak what happens next. You feel the hairs on your neck stand up and feel this like very slight wave of nausea only your brain puts it together instantly because after the last time you happened,

you swore that you would not be caught unaware again. Somewhere very nearby outside, something is watching this attempted salvage job. And it is waiting for the moment to strike. you are in the presence of another blink shark Maximumfund.org Comedy and culture. Artist-owned, audience-supported.