The Adventure Zone - The Zone of Adventure: Imbalance - Episode 3
Episode Date: November 9, 2023While we prepare an exciting new TAZ adventure, we bring you all three episodes of Imbalance, which is available as a video on our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBHNtx_JbNM&t=2535sO...ur heroes confront the possibility of the past. The Captain encounters an angel. Magnus gets a hand from an old friend. Taako gets his weapon back. Merle gets confused.DM'ed by Aabria Iyengar 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
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Hello and welcome to part three of Taz In Balance.
I'm your game master, Abria Ayangar.
I guess I don't have to really introduce you guys because this is your goddamn show.
How you doing, boys?
I'm breaking all your stuff.
I love it.
I am so stoked.
Take it.
Take it.
I definitely thought you were going to say something else, Griffin.
I was like, oh, no.
It means nothing to us.
Good.
Well, it's time to finish what we began with part three, the future.
and let's jump into it.
So, the past...
Whoa!
Whoa!
The past is not pristine.
The present is at risk, and the future is unknowable.
Merle, Magnus, Taco, and Davenport.
Nicarinox, also known as the Time Drake, Bondbreaker, and the Slow Burn,
one of the untethered fame monsters that exist in a...
different plane touching your world has seen the web of bonds and light that you've created
across your illustrious lifetimes and seeks to empower himself by breaking your bonds, by
reaching into your past, finding a moment of weakness and destroying you all. However, the best
laid plans of mice and monsters off go awry and Davenport in an act of
of cunning, sucked up the time energy that would have driven the four of you into a battle
of Nicarinox's choosing. And instead, in a moment of memory, of thought and of feeling, you are
launched somewhere almost familiar, but almost certainly wrong. A battle fest. Years ago,
most of you remember this Davenport you do not but you were all there to take part in a
what was supposed to be a joyful competition some sport with your friend just the beheader
that took an ugly turn when a god of wanton violence named garigose was set to be released back
into the world. But Merle, Taco, Magnus, the place where you see yourself now is most certainly not
battle fest. It's different. It looks different. It feels different, close, but not quite.
Corrupted. But here you all stand. No sign of the time drake. No sign. No sign.
of your friends.
But you have a moment before whatever is to begin begins.
What do you do?
Mine is not normally the like kind of analytical.
What is going on?
Don't you mean when is going on?
I don't get ready to say that when I thought you were going to say where are we?
And I was going to say, don't you mean when?
When are we?
And then you said,
it didn't work in the moment.
I am sorry.
You want me to do it?
I can do it again.
Yeah, I do it.
Take it right.
The idea.
Okay.
When are we?
No,
fuck.
Sorry.
Let me try.
It's fine.
Kravitz,
why are you here?
You were here.
Were you here?
You actually see a younger Kravitz standing in front of you.
He's in his full, like,
Grim Reaper array and just doesn't seem to notice
how,
how formal he is presenting himself right now
and just, what are you, what are you talking about?
So, okay, wait, to clarify, do I see a younger cravets
and the cravets before?
Or is there a singular one of each other?
There's a singular cravets.
Okay.
Younger and.
Look at you all business, business formal.
What?
Yeah, we're here to do a, I didn't bring a costume.
So I was going to wear this.
Maybe do the old voice.
I don't know, maybe.
The British one?
I've always been curious about that.
I've been to ask you.
You were smoking cockney at first.
It was so weird.
Yeah, it seemed spooky.
Yeah.
You didn't really seem off put by it,
so I kind of just dropped it after a while.
Yeah, that's fair.
I don't know.
Do you like it?
Do you want me to, I'll do it?
I don't.
Maybe later.
Taco.
Taco.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like I said, I'm,
fuzzy, but
Kravitz wasn't here
the first time we did this.
Yeah, we were discussing that at length
just moments ago.
Yeah, but then you seem to get distracted by talking
about the accent.
Yeah, but do you remember the accent?
Yeah, no, it's so weird. I don't, yes,
but. Okay, you know, what else?
Davenport, when this happened, you were
kind of kind of...
A mindless sort of thrall. Yeah, that's a nice way of putting it.
Yeah, I've most certainly had a sort of
of internal glow up since then.
I want to do a perception check to see if I notice any, like,
I've found that if the three of us talk for any extended period of time,
we've probably missed something trying to kill us.
My new thing is a couple of conversations,
and then I'm just going to take a quick swivel.
Just a quick swivel.
I love that.
Please make a perception check with advantage.
That's 17.
plus three. So 20, and then with advantage, it's under my soundboard, so who cares? It's,
that one's a two. So let's be happy for our advantage. All right, with a dirty 20, we'll give you a little
extra for this. Is there anything specifically you're looking for? Other than, like, danger?
I guess either Garrios or the time, Drake. I mean, like, the thing I remember from before and
the thing I remember from five seconds ago. Yeah, 100%. Okay. So, so.
So what you are noticing, especially in this moment, is that this feels like the time period before the actual battle fest began.
Oh, okay.
And yet, and yet there's this, like, pressure and like a very low-level rumbling under the ground that you don't remember the first time.
Is there an audience?
Yeah, that's what I was wondering.
No.
Okay.
It's completely empty here.
I guess the most important question is, is Jeff Angel anywhere to be seen?
The Eryokra John Cena.
This is the most important question to be...
Please make an investigation check for Jeff Angel.
I have a plus 11 investigation.
That's 27 total.
Is Davenport God now?
Davenport might be God now.
Oh, let's just, let's make this extra bad for Davenport.
Davenport, you've been a fan of Jeff Angel.
You were hoping in this moment that you could like meet him.
I like have that.
What's the worst way to find Jeff?
What were you hoping wouldn't be the answer to your inquiry?
That when we teleported here, I somehow arrived like occupying the same space as Jeff Angel.
just sort of just like kind of destroying him.
Yeah.
Or even above him, because I'm an incredibly heavy armor.
Yes.
That would hurt his body quite badly if it landed on him.
Now, I wouldn't make you crush Jeff Angel.
That would be cruel.
But I am going to make you incredibly aware of like the gentle pink mist around you and like a single feather.
Just I've telefragged
Poor Jeff Angel
Oh man
Yes absolutely
To be fair
That's how you always wanted to go
I'm sure
I'm just looking around then horrified
Just going
Tadda do
Tadda to
I
I think you can probably let yourself
Off the hook
10% pain
He's gonna rust
I don't think that this is
what's that word?
Canonical.
Okay.
Oh, well, then that's fine then.
No, it's a joke.
Who likes Jeff Angel?
I'm glad he's dead.
Oh, boy.
As your Davenport gently weeps,
give me,
go ahead,
Magnus.
I need you to give me a,
give me an investigation check.
Okay.
I'm not good at the thinky stuff.
Yeah, it's a six plus nothing.
Is there anything I could intimidate or hit or lift?
Those are the things Magnus is good at.
I love saying yes.
So would you like to intimidate a violent God?
Yeah, I'm going to say at this point, what was the name?
Garragos appears.
Garragis appears.
And Magnus is going to turn and just be like, listen, my dude, we have been through,
some shit.
Way past you.
Right?
We're level 17 now.
What the fuck does that mean?
Oh, it means this.
And Magnus is going to grapple him and pin him to the grounds.
He's pretty big.
Yeah, you can try.
I'm going to roll.
So to grapple, I need to grab him, right?
And that's a string.
Yeah, so that's going to be an athletics check against my strength.
And you have to beat a 26.
Oh, no.
But I am going to use indomitable again.
Oh, there we go.
Now 20.
31.
Okay.
Because it wasn't two before, to be clear.
Yeah.
So I think in that very like Simba and Nala,
Lai and King way, like you go to pin Garigos,
and then he pins you like Nala and winks at you very weirdly,
and then you pin him to the ground.
go off, continue.
I have advantage on attack rolls,
and I'm going to say, like, listen, at this point,
if I hit you, I'm going to kill you.
I'm a god.
So am I.
Make an intimidation check.
Who's Davenport?
Oh, it's only a 14.
I'll give you advantage because you're literally grappling him.
Okay, thank you.
Okay, there we go.
That's a 14 plus.
822.
And bless.
I don't know.
Bless is done.
I know.
I took a shot.
No respect.
That got a lot of utility,
much to my chagrin.
And Garrigos pinned under you.
It was just,
I,
okay.
Say, I yield.
Say it.
I'm a god of violence.
Say it.
I yield.
Okay, now get the fuck out.
We got to find a dragon.
Okay, what the fuck?
Like, this is my...
This whole thing is my thing.
I know.
We're fucking busy.
Get out.
Where am I supposed to go?
Anywhere else?
Go anywhere else.
The green room.
Yeah.
Go to the green room.
Have some eminence.
We got crafty back there.
Yeah, fucking chill out.
Have some orange slices.
I need some orange slices.
I'm going because I want to and not because any of you said it.
Okay.
Go.
Do you want me to...
I could help.
Like, I'm...
No.
I don't trust you.
Why don't...
Why don't you show?
Magnus gives him a little kick to the butt.
Fucking.
Get out.
And he scoots out.
And as you kick him,
just roll a D20 for me.
Okay.
Oh, shit.
Oh, my God, you kick his butt off.
You kicked his butt right off.
I kicked it right off.
That's a 16.
Oh, that's good enough.
You hear a little, like,
there's something in his pants.
That's a stupid way to put that.
but you feel like
No, tell me about what he's got in them jeans
Hey,
what you got in their jeans?
He's got some
He's got something you would absolutely love
in them jeans
Give me what's in them jeans
Give me what's in them jeans
To relax with it
There's a lot to get so
And he can't be about this anymore
It just just
Okay, no hold on
Abrea would not have brought up
What was in this guy's jeans
If I didn't want it
So hey
Give me what's a dim jeans
And then go to the green room
Have some appie slices
Well, now I don't want it because like...
Hey, don't make me give me nuggies.
I am...
And you see him reach into the back of his pants
and he like fishes down and around.
It is surprisingly roomy back there.
And he just spikes a scabbard onto the ground.
And this is a younger and therefore not decayed version
of the flaming, poisoning, raging sword of doom.
Hell yeah.
You have... I was going to kill you with this, but fuck you.
and he just walks away.
Okay.
And he goes back in eating multiple sizes.
Enjoy those happy slices.
We can hang out later, okay, champ.
Perfect.
And I walk over and I pick it up.
Nope.
Hey, nope.
What?
It's mine.
And I don't use magic anymore.
I need a more.
I'm kind of a sort of a hybrid now.
Kind of a hybrid class.
Can we arm us all for it?
Oh, that's the balance.
Let's, it's just important for me.
me to, what is it? Safe for me to have this?
He makes sense. He makes a lot of sense.
Yeah, but we're not. I think Taco tries to
try to lift it up in like a cool position and falls back over
from the weight, from the sheer weight.
It's mine. I don't, it's not a debate.
It's mine. You gave it to me.
I gave a version of it to you, but not.
So then a version of it's yours.
This is mine. This is probably before I gave it to you.
So it's mine.
And I really need it because I don't do magic anymore.
Okay.
Can I ask you that, would you carry it for me?
Okay, yes.
I'll hold it for you.
That's why just let me know when you need it.
Appreciate it, for sure.
Can I use it if I need it?
Need is so subjective, isn't it?
I mean, just as long as it's ready for me, but if I need it also, then I take precedence.
But yeah, you can, you know what?
what? I'm uncomfortable. I'm saying it now.
I would be uncomfortable with that. I prefer you to do it.
Just let me use it once.
You have other weapons and like the last time let you borrow it, you turn it to dust.
After like 15 years.
E! 15 years. A lot of things last. The Simpsons have gone twice that long.
No signs of wear and tear there. Fantasy Simpsons.
Can I investigate my freaking time vacuum that it might, now that I've, I'm Blinks the Time Sweeper.
Can I take a look at the time sweeper? Can I take a look at the,
this magic vacuum backpack that I've got to see if I can figure out what the fuck's going on?
Yes, please do.
Investigation check.
Oh,
Okay.
I did Arcana, but I can do investigate.
It's the same modifier.
It's plus 11.
So it's 25 either way.
Sweet.
Perfect.
I was going to say you can have advantage, but 25 is fine for that.
Yeah.
So you realize that, like, as you sort of took in this time magic, because the, like, nature of it is something very different.
then like, Arcana is magic that's sort of wielded by humanoids and formed by their will
and their desire to like change reality around them.
This is a creature that is magical.
So like the source of this energy that you're interacting with is a little fucky with your instruments.
So what you have actually done here is moved into the past, but a disjointed version of it.
like you are moving through possibility, not through an actuality.
And do I get the opinion, or the impression that this, uh, time Drake followed us when we
travel?
You know very well, like, especially now that you kind of have a sense of like the vibration
that like your vacuum is running at, that yes, the time Drake is here prowling around
somewhere.
Um, okay.
that's all I got
okay
Merle go ahead and make
yeah give me a perception check
that would be
a net one
plus four
which is a five
no we're gonna I don't care about the bonuses
it's just net one for your girl
so
wait wait wait wait
do I have the thing where I can roll again
the inspiration?
I'm pretty sure you've already used it.
I haven't used an inspiration.
Just take your lumps.
Just take the lumps.
Brea's obviously very excited about this.
You can absolutely use your inspiration if you want to.
I choose not to.
I will say that.
How very big of you, Clint.
Then have another one, Clint.
My question then becomes,
as you look around and you're kind of also grappling
with this idea that like you are somewhere that you remember and have mixed feelings about
because yeah, this is where everybody saw your butt and you lost a bit, you took a big hit
to yourself confidence. But this isn't quite the location where that happened. You know that
there's like a disconnect here. As you look around, you remember something else, something that was
amiss about the original memory. What was it?
Because we're going to start populating this place now.
Well, I remember that something that's a miss that I notice is that there are cameras set up all over the place and it's being streamed and not going to have an audience.
Amazing.
So as you look around, you actually see, yeah, even though all of these stadiums are like all these stadium seating is set up, there's no one here and no one.
coming. And then, like, with a little, like, heat shimmer, you see these, like, cameras popping up with
shadowy, undifferentiated, like, humanoid figures, standing behind them, and you see the camera
swivel and turn and begin to film you, as if your memory is bringing it into the world.
Hi, everybody.
And you all notice that.
Did Kujo make the jump through the shimmer with Kulio tab?
Cooleo, sorry.
Did you want Kulio to make the jump?
I've grown quite fond of Kouboh.
Kuo.
Kuo.
Cool, I'm just going to make the most noise I can make right now.
Yeah, it's, uh...
It's hellish over here.
No, Dad's also got his landline telephone, I believe, going.
right now.
Daddy, you have a call
on your telephone
from 1998.
Excuse me one moment.
Oh, he's answering it.
Oh, too, yeah.
It's got to be important.
Is this the exterminator?
The only person who would possibly call
on a landline?
What's that?
You have a great investment opportunity for me.
You've been trying to reach me
about my car warranty?
I want a million dollars!
Oh, no.
Mom, I want a million dollars!
That's the Justin
employee. Sorry about that.
That's like not enough money to get me
to answer a landline, though.
Is that wrong?
Am I different?
Well, I'm going to go right from here
to get in my fliver and then
go down and
dance at the USO.
I got one of those references.
Just ride on it. Yeah, just coast.
Oh, good one, down.
And as you think
of Kuo, you
feel a little tap on your shoulder and they are standing beside you going, what, where are we?
What is this?
It's really tough to say.
I think it's some kind of rasslin.
It's a rassland thing.
And we're in a ring here.
There's a ring here.
And I just wanted to make sure you were okay.
I was, you know, I wanted to make sure you were here to, you know, you know.
you know, protect me.
I think I, okay, there's a difference here.
I was okay when I was back where it was no longer.
I'm less safe now that it doesn't matter.
I'm happy you're safe and I'm here to serve.
Oh, good, good, good, good.
So are you going to deal with that?
And they point into the center of the ring.
As Kuyo points into the center of the ring,
all the cameras sort of track and follow.
As you see a figure climbing into the center,
Dwarven with long brown hair, big bushy brown beard.
It's just the beheader.
And as she like spreads the like, I don't know what those are called, I don't know things in a wrestling ring.
The little bands.
The ropes.
Roads.
Roads.
I don't know fucking words.
As Jess goes and spreads the ropes, you see a second set of arms goes and does it along with her.
And she moves into the center of the ring and begins to grow.
stature. That's the dragon.
Everybody. Everybody.
Jess is the dragon.
Because the extra arms, you see how she's getting big?
Oh, okay. Just as the dragon.
What dragon?
The dragon from before that we were fighting.
Oh.
Yeah, Jess is the dragon, guys.
Gotcha.
Jess.
Jess. Are you the dragon?
And she gives you a big grin with far too many teeth.
Yeah.
draw on hinges and she goes
yes and a bunch of embers
pour out of her mouth.
I told you.
And begin to burn up like
the environment around you.
So yeah, fine. Roll initiative
since you're so smart.
You said they have extra arms.
Yeah. I put two and two
and two together. That's fair.
Hey, you should, hey, Abria,
sidebar? You should fucking kill
Magnus. That would be
so wild. People would be like,
She didn't.
Did you hear about what happened on that video test?
They were like, what?
You were like, Magnus fucking died.
Yes.
He's going to rush into fucking heaven.
To heaven.
Did you hear that Macroo brothers are making another balance
that's actually pay-per-view
and it's like really expensive and profitable?
Because they said that Magnus died,
they had to fix it, so he didn't die.
It's like a reboot or something.
They say, get up saying it's very lucre.
They just kept repeating that.
Magnus.
I had a 16.
Davenport.
14.
Taco.
Two plus three, five.
Sir.
Is there anything you want to do?
No, it's fine. It's fine.
That's a good number to have.
It's a good Christian number.
And Merle.
15.
Beautiful.
And my sweet Mcaranox got an 18 and it's going to go first.
Uh-oh.
Oof.
I know who I'd target
If I was that dragon
It would be all smart Alex to the front
Wise guys
Get blasted first
And that is precisely what happens
As Jess
Points one of her arms
At you, Magnus
And kind of does a little finger gun
And I need you to make a strength saving throw
As you are pulled bodily
Into melee with her
That's the 12 plus 11
23.
Yeah.
Um,
I know what level you are.
I built a mean enough thing.
That's not high enough.
Whoa.
No.
You get pulled into melee.
Wait, hold on.
Oh, you doing something about it?
I'm doing something about it.
Okay.
Um, I have a thing.
I definitely have a thing.
Yeah.
Y'all went unscathed last episode.
You think you're fucking cute.
I'm here to kill you all.
No, I don't have a thing.
Okay.
Go on.
So you get pulled into melee with my girl and you take 21 points of bludgeoning damage as you get pulled in and all four arms crush around you and begin to squeeze.
And Magnus, as you're there locked in her grip, it's grip.
She grows larger than you and begins to like crush down on you with that increased mass.
And you are now effectively grappled.
Okay.
Okay.
But you're up.
I'm going to attempt to break that grapple, I guess.
I guess.
You can also attack while grappled for what it's worth.
Oh, I can?
Yeah, then I'm going to attack with the litter whilst grappled.
Do it.
Natural 20.
Oh, my God.
So rude.
Yeah.
And if it helps to determine what that is going to do,
I'm also going to then use a new maneuver, grappling strike.
Immediately after you hit a creature with a melee attack on your turn,
you can expand one superiority die to try to grapple a target as a bonus action,
and you add your superiority dice to your athletics check.
Amazing.
That's what I'm going to do with that.
So if that influences the outcome of my Nat 20, please let me know.
You're good. Your natural 20 absolutely breaks the grapple.
No, it's the hit. So now you have to make a grapple check.
Correct. And then you're going to add your superior already died to that.
I roll a 21.
22. And then plus my superior.
You don't have to add. I'm still rude.
It's only a one anyway. So 23 total.
Okay. All right. You have effectively.
I should also say I also get to do the damage of Rail Switter.
Do it.
Yeah, so 6, 11 total.
Okay.
Good to know.
So describe for me then, Travis, what this like reversal of events looks like.
So I'm going to say that what Magnus does, he sees being held, you know, like, what is that, full Nelson, up under the arms around the back of the head.
And he does the move that and you just drop out of that, that carry Fang Battleton.
which is raise arms straight up, drop down.
And as he comes down, he comes around, and he is going to grapple Jess's bottom to arms
in a holding both wrists foot on the small, the back kind of way.
Amazing.
Sweet.
You do effectively have Jess grappled, but you watch as her chin, like, juts up,
and then you hear in a natural crack as it comes all the way,
around and you see upside down
Jess' face staring at you
and then Jess blinks
two distinct sets of eyes.
I've seen some pretty fucked up shit
at this point. This is
real messed up. Don't get me wrong.
But I was a mannequin
for a while and
like there's some weird
shit in our past and
it's fine. That's fair.
Okay. Is there anything else
you want to do to absolutely
wreck my life before I move on?
That's a great question.
I think I'm good for now.
Davenport, you're up.
I am?
Yeah.
No, Merle's up. I'm sorry.
All right, I have a question first.
Is it safe to say that since we're traveling through time and everything else that we got a rest in there, a nice long rest?
No, sir.
No, sir.
You used a nice long rest.
Ninth level smells lots and make it rain.
Yeah, you made water real hard.
You have to live with those.
Keronically.
And wiped out nine bad guys.
Yeah, no, yeah.
But choices remained, and there are
consequences to our choices, Dad.
Yeah.
That's fair.
All right, then I am going to
cast spiritual weapon.
Love it.
Level seven.
Okay.
Go off.
And, um,
it is
it's taking
the form of a metal
folding chair
yes
that's good
perfect
you got to make
an attack roll
for me
all right
attack roll
that is a
14
probably not gonna do it
14 does not hit
well then here's where I'm going to use
my thing where I re-roll
your inspiration
yes
use your inspiration
okay
it is a nice
19 plus 10, a 29.
Yeah, that's going to hit.
That is 25.
Amazing.
25. Did you hear that, boys?
25.
We're very proud of you.
It's very good.
Chance favored you in your twilight years.
We're all very impressed.
So this massive, ephemeral, spiritual metal folding chair
cracks across Jess's front, even though her face is like facing the wrong way, sort of staring down Magnus horrifically.
And it scatters a bunch of those embers that she spewed out of her mouth and they get sent into the air.
And now I need everyone to make a constitution saving throw.
Khan, that's not my strength.
24.
I got 13 plus 2, 15.
8 plus 9.
17.
12 plus 3, 15.
Everyone but Davenport fails
the save.
And you're all going to take
11 points
of fire damage.
As you inhale these embers
and you feel something in your
lungs begin to smolder
and burn.
I take a bonus action.
What?
I can take a bonus second, right?
Yeah.
Well, yeah, you're still on your turn.
And technically,
spiritual weapon was your bonus action.
So what's your action action?
Oh, I was going to use telekinetic shove,
the amended Jess.
Oh, wait, go for it.
Well, wait, isn't Magnus grappling, chess?
Well, decisions have been made.
It says 18 strengths.
Do I have to roll an 18?
No, I roll against it.
Okay.
I absolutely make it.
So your Maytan comes out.
What does your Maytan look like, Burrell?
It's a towel.
It shoots out of my hand.
It's a great big towel and it like snaps.
You know, like you snap somebody with a towel in a locker room.
So it snaps.
It snaps forward and you see Jess like swivels her head back in the normal orientation
and bites the like spectral towel and like shatters the spell.
Whoa.
Yikes.
That's impressive.
Discipes into nothing.
Okay.
Anything else you want to do?
ask anything of Kuo.
Kuo acts on your turn now.
Okay.
Kuo, can you, I mean, do you have, like, fighting?
Do you, do you have fight?
Can you, you know, pook, p, p, p, p, p, p,
what kind of stuff can you do?
I'm an ancient, fay creature,
both completely agnostic to good and evil,
and incredibly violent.
What would you like?
Could you throw a suplex on,
Jess and try to pry her off of
Magnus is grappling Jess
Yeah other way around
So you would like me to disrupt the thing?
Yeah, of course I can see if you can
Help pull a couple of arms off of
off of Magnus no off of Jess
Off of Magnus yeah nobody is holding Magnus
Magnus is in control of the situation
Let me pay the picture
There's a bad person
Magnus has them restrained
Okay.
So that you don't, that's going good.
That's going good.
Okay.
I think Clint is giving me a present, which is getting my baguery.
I will believe it if Merle was doing something else.
And he's like, oh my God.
I misunderstood.
I misunderstood.
I'm sorry.
Can you go grab, Jess.
Can you grab Jess and like wrap your arms around Jess's head so that Jess can't see?
Sure. Can I do that from here? Because it feels weird to be close.
I guess I don't know what, you know, your abilities are exactly. But if you could-
And Kuo is just looking you in the eyes, blinks with these beautiful opalescent sort of
pupilous eyes and points a finger in Jess. Jess Monster's direction is going to cast blindness.
I just can't say no to those opal eyes.
Yeah. And you're just locked in it. And you hear like,
a like strangled snarl from Jess.
That might suggest that the spell worked.
Okay.
Now Davenport's up.
I can read numbers.
Is Jess getting larger, you suggested?
Okay.
Like larger than Magnus at this point?
At this point, Jess is a large creature.
Yes.
Okay.
Then Davenport holds out his hand
and like a tiny little, like, ray gun looking thing just pops into his hand.
And he looks at it.
He's like, nope, hold on.
And he puts it back in.
And then does that again.
He's like, ah, this is it.
And he points it at Magnus and fires.
And these sort of pink squares come out.
And when they hit Magnus, Magnus becomes a large creature as he is enlarged.
His size doubles in all dimensions and his weight is multiplied by eight.
He has advantage on strength checks and strength saving throws,
and his weapons also grow to match his new size and deal 1D4 extra damage.
A nightmare.
Hate you for that.
Love it.
Okay.
That's your action.
Anything for your bonus?
Movement?
I mean, I'm going to get close to this battle of the Titans that I've just sort of facilitated
to just kind of make myself available in my sturdy bod.
Because you're also in this fairly big suit of armor.
So it's like another big thing entering this ring.
And you notice the sort of like spatial dilation Davenport as you move into the ring.
The ring seems to get a little bigger.
The stadium seems to get a little darker.
The seating gets darker and farther away.
You are deeply unaware of like the cameras now in the sense that other people are here perceiving this event.
It feels way more isolated.
All of the light is on.
this central, like, fighting space.
There you are.
Cool.
Taco.
You're up.
Yes.
You know, Jess.
If you've been up against Taco, you might have had a chance.
But unfortunately, you find yourself pitted against
Jocosta Knight Strider.
It's my new thing.
It's Jocosta Knight Strider.
Don't wear Taco.
It's in the past.
I'm a ranger now, and I shoot with a crossbow.
Oh, God.
Okay, there's got to be something here.
19.
Oh, nine.
Oh, my God.
Taco is a very effective ranger.
No, he's, taco is not.
Tocco is a knight strider.
Right.
Is an effective ranger.
Here's the thing.
That was so effective.
I need you to make, and it's got to be used.
telling me, is this
deception, or
is Taco also convinced
that he is now Jacosta
and make that a persuasion
check?
It is not a, it is
a marketing opportunity.
It's just like a different line of merch.
It's a different brand. It's a parallel
brand to the Taco brand.
When they sell like the Batman toys
but he's got like armor on and
shit. Exactly that. Exactly that.
That's exactly that. Okay, then give me a persuasion.
check.
Okay.
I will...
Who am I attempting to persuade?
You're attempting to persuade Nicaranox, who is...
Okay.
I'll explain in a second.
Okay, it's a five.
Not particularly convincing.
But, you know, I did have inspiration from the great description of Jacostas Hood.
So I will go ahead and roll...
I'll use that and I'll roll that persuasion again.
And this time it is a...
10, which is twice as good as last time.
Can I, uh, I use my reaction, uh, and use my flash of genius, uh, to add a plus five to this ability check.
Shut.
Something I can do to my buddies who are within 30 feet of me.
Amazing.
So, so 15 maybe?
No, 15 does it.
I rolled a 13 for that insight check.
And, uh, sorry, I got to call you to Costa now.
At Dacosta, you level your crossbow, and you like give that little like speech so like swavely and smoothly that it gives Nicaranok's pause and something stills inside the Jess monster because they came here to destroy very specific people and one of them may be gone now.
And you all feel as the world around you, this weird time energy paradox gets a little unsettled.
As Nicarinox, this incredibly powerful being is confused.
This incredibly powerful yet not insightful being.
Not at all.
It would not have happened, but you decided to drag success out of a terrible role.
and you actually see like seams in the world begin to split and come open around you.
And a bright light, a light that reminds you of that pure white energy of the bonds that you called on in the day of story and song seem to be coming forth that this is the energy that is the source of the bond breaker's power.
And what was your damage off of that hit other than the psychic damage to my bad guy?
It was...
By then.
Eight.
That's so upsetting.
You really hurt his feelings more than anything else, but we respect it.
I'd like to think that a lot of the confusion is like, but if that was Taco, he juice magic, right?
Taco doesn't use cost us. He must be Jo Costa Knight's writer.
I have rolled three times to follow that track
and this dumb dumb monster is so deeply confused by Taco
who refuses to do magic or be Taco at all
and just fires a crossbow.
So this was sort of the like,
Nicarinox has no idea what's happening
and moves on with its day.
Yeah, is there anything else you want to do?
Bonus action?
I don't think, no, I don't really have any.
Cast a fucking spell?
No.
No?
No, gross.
I'm gonna make you do it.
I think I'm good.
I think I'm good.
I search around for Susan.
Yeah, don't see her because she didn't come through.
Did it go through?
The whatever thing, you know, the rip.
So, no, there's no one to capture the moment.
Yeah, it's just for you.
We are back up at the top of the round, which means a brand new round of con saves.
I need everyone to make a con save.
Your DC to beat is 21.
It's gotten a little higher.
No way.
Well, I do that.
18 plus 9, 27.
That'll do it.
16.
Okay.
12.
And Merle.
12.
So everyone that failed it, you're going to take 19 points of fire damage.
Those lungs.
You cracked into my real hit points.
Broke through my temp, my temp, HP.
Finally, I've put a dent in you've got-d-dainting.
Monsters. Well, I wouldn't say you've put a dent in this incredibly
challenge.
Oh, no.
Because it's my turn now.
Magnus, I just want you to describe for me. Well, let's just confirm.
You've got two of Jess's arms and you're doing a knee in the center of the back situation.
Yeah. Pulling the two lower arms back.
Yeah. You're definitely like, it's a, it's a tension pull, correct?
Correct. Yeah.
All right. So how would you,
feel if I just let you have them.
And her arms singed at the edges, like her tendons and bones come away and you pull two arms
free.
Here's the thing ofria.
I'm going to tell you, pulling arms off of a thing, not that off putting for my eyes.
Magnus is actually very comfortable with that.
It's his love language.
Yeah.
He actually does that and like just like, stands a little taller, feels a little bit like,
oh, it's been so long since I've pulled the arms off of itself.
I think this feels great.
Look, I'm just trying to give you moments that you like.
I appreciate that, thank you.
Yeah.
As she goes one size larger, she is now technically a huge creature and is going to turn around to you.
And the two new arms that she sprouts out of those sockets are not like humanoid, dwarven, tan arms of your friend, Jess, the beheader.
this is Nicarinox finally like coming through.
And you see these like large like black and red reptilian arms with like long sort of black talons at the end.
Peek out.
And Nicarinox is going to look at you, Magnus.
And look at Davenport who has just entered the ring.
And we're going to try a new target as my sweet bad boy is going to rush here.
you.
Rush me?
No, no, it's going to rush Davenport.
Does a 27 hit you?
Just barely.
I hate your build.
I hate it.
Okay.
So you're going to take 17 points of piercing damage
as one of those bottom claws
is going to actually make its way into one of the joints
up under your shoulder
and kind of is,
trying to rip one of your arms off, you know, turnabout is fair play. And I need you to make
a strength saving throw as you attempts to grapple you with the two top arms. Okay. I rolled
badly. I bet you I did worse. Oh. See, my strength comes from the power of my incredible armor
and not the sweet, delectable underbelly, the flea. The flea. The flea.
within. That's a five.
Oh, no.
Well, consider yourself grappled.
Yeah, Nicarinox is going to take you along his right side and kind of tucks you in with two sets of arms.
And it's actually going to begin, like, trying to move out of the ring and is going to attempt to, like, get out and climb upward into the rafters.
That's going to allow for an attack of opportunity from Magnus.
Oh, great. Okay.
So I'm going to draw the large flaming, raging, poisoning sort of doom.
That's almost what it's called, but we'll let it go.
No, I can't say it in the other way.
It's been far too long now.
We can't possibly fix this.
I told you, go with Kelly.
Go with Kelly.
I'm going to be the one that gets yelled at on the internet about it, so I have to correct you.
The flaming, poisoning.
You can say whatever the hell you want.
The sword.
The sword?
The sword.
Magnus draws the sword, and it ignites, and he attacks, advance.
Wait, you hear a voice.
That, forsooth, isn't that, Tacos?
The Great Wizard?
We don't belong to Taco, the Great Wizard.
What?
I only got a 15 total, so I'm going to use one of...
His fate!
Fate just turned a cruel eye.
towards you.
I'm going to use one of my superiority dice.
To do a precision attack.
Oh, only a four.
So it's a 20 total?
20 doesn't.
Thine treachery has been duly rewarded.
And even though Niccaranox is kind of looking over his shoulder down at Jacosta, like, what is happening?
There's no attack more effective than whatever the fuck.
tacos doing right now.
Yeah, that's fair.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You, uh,
manages to evade your, the swing of your sword and bounds out of the ring and begins
climbing up the, to the rafters.
Okay.
Okay.
So the thrall, the, the, the, the, the grapple is broken.
Is that accurate?
Is this where we're at right now?
I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm being grappled.
Davenport's grappled and it's about to get snout.
snacked upon very soon.
Magnus, you're up.
I'm going to attempt to pull the dragon down
from the rafters with strength.
Okay.
And would it be possible to also basically pick pocket Davenport?
That's deeply and little, but he's very little.
Which, you're huge now, which is even better reason why you couldn't pickpocket me.
No, no, no, no.
I mean, take you from all.
Okay, you're the intransitive verb.
It's not, yeah, you're the direct object of the big pocketing.
But I'm pickpocketing you from the drag.
Okay, I will say that that is a mathematical possibility, but incredibly difficult to do it.
Okay, great, great.
You have also rolled 400 natural 20.
Right.
That's true.
So this would be an athletics check, right, to see if I could pull it down.
So, yeah, let's take this in order.
The first one is the athletics check to pull down Nicarinox from the high rafters,
and then assuming that success will do a sleight of hand.
Your threshold is a 23.
Yeah, I didn't get it.
That's a 17.
I didn't get that.
I'm happy if you want to, like, hold on and try to, like, reach up.
and grab Davenport, I'm fine with that too.
We can let that be part of the sort of called shot you had.
Yeah, then I'm going to say I'm holding the dragon,
but not like, strong enough to pull it down and attempt to, like,
free Davenport from his grasp.
Perfect.
This is weird.
Let's call it a sleight of hand.
Yeah, I thought that might be the case.
Oh, that's not going to do it.
Either all, all my rolls have left me.
It's an eight.
Jokes on you.
I rolled a seven.
So, go ahead.
And so I just reach up and kind of poke Davenport just with one finger.
Pote Davenport back through underneath the dragon's arm through he pops out the bottom and I catch him.
I hate that.
Much like when Mickey the Giant's Sleigh or goes up against the giant's giant's slug.
Yeah.
What a specific cut.
Yeah.
Okay.
So Davenport, you are freed and the Karinaz looks down.
Are you still holding on to its change?
Yeah, I'm going to try to keep that house.
So did you just drop Davenport?
No, I'll be fine.
Yeah, I dropped them.
All right, let's do some fall damage then.
Damn, whatever.
13 points of bludging damage.
Whatever.
Whatever.
Did my suit break at all, or did Nicaranox just kind of get up in it a little bit?
Yeah, just got kind of up in it.
I'm not going to go through shit.
Okay.
Just wiggle the pinky in there.
Real nasty.
Nine in the back.
Like you do.
Ew.
Yeah.
You nasty.
Okay.
Anything else you want to do, Magnus?
That was a pretty cool round, but let's keep the party going.
You know what?
If I'm holding him, I'm going to action search.
I'm going to attack three times with the flaming, raging poisoning sword.
Let's go.
20 plus precision strike.
You're going to want to use the precision straight.
Yeah, I thought I might.
I remembered.
Uh, 24.
Hits.
And a, uh, 23.
Hits.
24.
Okay, 18 plus 6.
Okay.
Hits.
All three hit.
Okay.
So that is a D10 plus 20 each time.
Uh, 73 total.
Oh, my God.
That is a, uh, that weapon hurts my feel.
feelings.
Yeah.
There's a lot more than that.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The nature of it.
I can't do any spells.
This is the thing he does every time.
Good sword.
Every time.
I'm just reminding everyone,
world can hold down angels.
Yeah.
And Taco can create dinosaurs.
Taco shoots a crossbow.
Well, not,
Joe, Taco,
no, Joe Coch on the ice strider.
He's a crossbow.
Taco didn't come this time.
Taco couldn't make it.
Okay.
He sent his emissary.
All right.
You wail into Nkara Knox.
And let's be honest, he's not looking great anymore.
He was doing amazing, and that round absolutely wrecked his shit.
But he is still holding on to the rafters, and you're still holding on to him.
Merle, you're up.
Is he still trying to get away, is he?
It's really hard to say now, because some shit changed.
in a literal second.
Yeah.
Listen, Magnus is big.
Tacos Jocasta.
Zavenport popped out of his hands like an oily bean.
And Zendaya is me too.
And Zendaya's is a lot going on.
Hmm.
Okay.
Travis was a spoiler and ruined what I was going to do.
Okay.
What do you do?
Sorry, I chopped his butt too good.
no that's all right
no no I'll wait
I can come up with something else
if you want to think about it I'm happy to do a layer
action and make it much worse in this room
for you oh I don't want it to be worse
no we'll do that you keep thinking
so the seams in the world
begin to split even wider
and that white hot
bond energy flickers
and you see that that energy
sort of like hits
some of the big gashes inside Nicarinox, beginning the healing process, but not doing a substantive
amount of healing.
But in that, that draw of energy from a finite source unless Nicaranox can kill you all
and replenish his stores, time is getting a little weirder and a little looser.
And we'll let Travis do it.
Travis.
Uh-huh.
We slide from a not quite past to a future that might be.
Describe something from an encounter in the future that we haven't seen yet,
that begins to seep into this world.
Okay, it's Merle's annual beach party that he throws every year full.
It's a weird mix of like,
Lou-Wow and like Kegger.
There's like Togas involved.
The theme is it's not very, you know, it's not very linear.
And it was invaded by the goblins seeking revenge for what we did to their,
to their friends in the very beginning of our adventures together.
Yes.
Sweet.
So you actually see that the, like, the scans become populated with these little, like,
gurblands that like
look like they are
about to ignite with flame
and they all, like all of their eyes are like
burning points of light.
So Merle, in this new
context as the world begins to
shift a little bit, what would you like to do?
How's everybody's hit points?
Great.
Honestly, fine.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, he summons Guardian of Faith.
Ooh, love that.
I think what this Guardian of Faith
Could I summon the form of Jeff Angel?
Yes, you could.
Yes, you can.
Yeah, I'm going to summon the guardian of faith,
and it's in the form of Jeff Angel.
What does it look like as you summon your guardian forth?
I turn to Cuyo and say,
could you hold this for me?
I have to use both hands.
and I hand Kuyo the Extreme Team Bible, flip it open to a page.
They hold it for me.
And I reach into the bucket and take that, you know, that talk, that white powder.
Yeah.
And I smack my hands together and send the cloud into the air.
And from the cloud of talk powder comes Jeff Angel.
Oh, I'm so sorry, Jeff.
Jeff, I'm so sorry.
It's fine.
I don't think I exist.
I don't remember what Jeff's voice is.
I don't think I...
You sound like John Sina.
Yeah, I can do that voice.
What?
No!
I got nothing.
It's sad.
I mean, hell.
It's fine.
It's an ulcer dimension.
Yeah, Jeff, Angel, it sounds like whatever you are.
Thanks.
No, I just pretend I'm doing a good John Sina impression.
That's what we all do.
We'll get it in post.
Slash and filters on there
It's just ADR actual
John Tiena.
We'll get John
We can get him
He's so gettable
As I call him
Yeah I'll get Jack
And he just kind of looks down
At you Davenport
It's like
I don't think I actually exist
In this time
It's fine
We're good
You need a hand up little buddy
And he reaches down
To grab you
You're good
Yeah
And he like lifts you up
And he's actually
Going to give you
Five Temporary
HP.
I mean, that's cute.
That's cute.
It's just a little cute moment.
And he kind of patts off your armor and goes, okay, I'm going to fuck this guy up if he comes close.
That's what I do.
And he turns and squares off against the Karanox.
All right.
Merle, that was your action.
As a reminder, you do have your spiritual weapon up.
Well, that's right.
Can I balk it with it again?
Please do.
That would be a 29.
Whoa.
Yeah, that hits my guy.
And it does 3D4.
And that equals 3, 3, 2, 4.
That's 12.
Nice.
Do you want to move anywhere special?
Or demand Kuo to do anything?
No, Kuo's doing a great job holding the book for me.
I love that.
So, you know what?
I'm going to be nice and say,
Kuo, why don't you get behind me?
Kuo,
Kuo, why don't you get behind me, you know,
just to protect you?
Because, you know, you're always protecting me.
Why don't you get behind me?
Keep holding my book for me.
You're always protecting me for the last 20 minutes I've known here.
Bonds forged in fire.
Right.
And Kuo absolutely lines up behind you.
And you all see as these like little like burning goblins
begin to like rile up
and look like they're about to attack.
But it is now Davenport's turn.
Is my backpack still weird and time-timey?
Do I still get the impression that there's some sort of shit happening there?
It's a little funky in there, but it's still good.
You could dust it off. I'm sure it's fine.
Oh, I had other plans for it.
Oh, then yes.
Whatever the fun answer is.
The backpack detaches from my armor.
And I put it in my hand and just sort of continuing like the, I have no idea what I'm doing with this thing, but let's have some fun with it.
I take it in my hand.
And in my hand, you all see my hand sort of go back up my arm like it's cocking back like a crossbow thing, which is weird.
And I cast catapult launching the backpack right into Nicarinox's face.
That's going to be a level, a fourth level spell.
Amazing.
need Nicarinox to make a
dexterity saving throw.
Oh shit.
Does a 14 make it?
A 14 does not make it.
Uh, my backpack
slams into Nicaranox's
face, uh, for
27 points of bludgeoning damage.
Of backpack damage.
Of backpack damage. And then also,
I'm hoping some other weird,
bad stuff will happen to it, uh, with me feeding a
taste of its own medicine.
Uh,
Let's let the dice decide.
The difficulty for this role is a 14.
Please make a roll for me,
Griffin, with Davenport's spell, like spell attack modifier.
Uh, okay, that's plus 13.
So I guess don't get a want.
It would be fine.
That's an 18 plus 13.
Okay.
I couldn't possibly do the math on that.
Good Lord.
Who could count that high?
DM to DM.
Yeah.
This is an incredible moment we've curated.
Why don't you tell me in this moment what happens?
Oh, no, you know what happens?
It doesn't just hit Nicarinox.
Nicarinox is like seeing this glowing backpack flying at them.
His mouth was open, like, and it went right in there.
And it released this time energy inside of his.
inside of his body.
And so in his, in his flesh, you, like, you can see, like, his body as a baby body,
and then, like, a long-decade skeleton, and then a pubescent dragon, whatever that looks like.
Amazing.
And it seems to just become very unstable.
And, yeah, as all of this hits, it looks like a cool explosion in space as this, like,
pulse of time energy shoots out in every direction.
Let's get one more.
I want this to be a save.
Let's call it, yeah, let's call it a con save
because that's been what we've been doing.
Let me get a con save from everyone
as you are thrown into a new location.
25.
Okay, I guess everyone just roll exceptionally well,
so it's not a problem.
Con save for what I'm good.
I'm good at those.
I can't go out.
Hold on, Briah.
I'll hook you up.
Hold on.
Thank you.
Thank you so much, Justin.
And I haven't gone yet either.
Yeah.
Jocasta gets A12.
Thank you.
Take inspiration for hooking a girl up,
trying to feel successful in this moment
where I think I did 11 points of damage
to all of you across this campaign.
I just want to go back in time to when Abria was like,
yeah, make level 17 characters.
And we're like, are you sure?
We can get pretty silly.
It gets real frisky.
So this is a con save?
Yeah, a con save.
There we go.
Welcome back.
It's a nat one.
Yeah.
You can also have inspiration.
Merle's just full dead.
But not from this.
He chokes on a chicken bone.
He's been chewing on the whole time.
You got to not let him get those chicken bones.
He can't have people food.
He can't have people.
He thinks he's people.
everyone take
well actually just my sweet boys
Jacosta and
Merle take 11 points
of psychic damage
as you're
as you're all thrown
into that space where yes
you see Nicaranox
vacillating between
a long dead skeleton
a pupa
and I don't know like a teenager
is that what we're saying just you know
the circle of dragon life
and you all exist in this place that is all of time and outside it.
And all of you that have experienced so much across lots of different races and species
like lifetimes of events, all of it hits you, it all weighs on you,
and it all is liberated from you on and off, tessellating through everything that you've experienced.
And at Davenport, I have a specific question for you.
What does Davenport regret most across, like, the entire arc?
Is it naming his ship Wave Humber?
That could be it.
I think, and he would never, he's never admitted this, I think, to anybody.
But during the very end of their century abroad, they were deciding, you know, what to do with this incredible power that they had discovered.
And there were, you know, two dissenting opinions.
Most folks wanted to make these grand relics and hide them.
And Lucretia wanted to, you know, put this shield up over the world.
even after everything that happened, once he was sort of cogent again, I think Davenport regretted not giving Lucretia's suggestion the weight that it deserved and truly considering it.
Because if he had, you know, he doesn't know if things could have turned out very, very, very differently.
So there is no regret even close to that in his life.
And a single one last little like burning ember of light lands on the chest of your armor, Davenport, and you're able to pick it up and kind of hold it.
It doesn't consume you, but it does burn hot.
And you hold it as this little ember of time and a chance.
And in your own time, whenever it feels right for Davenport to explore that alternate.
reality. He can. He can consume the moat and see what may have happened if those other choices
hadn't come to be. But that's for him in another time and for his closure. And we move.
And I have one too because Magnus's biggest regret is not doing the second-up,
Trabb.
Tell me more about the steak. They're not saying he could have eaten the steak. And he always
regretted not even trying it. You know what I mean? It was back on his in his home.
complain before they left.
And so, like, he missed his chance, but he know he could have done it.
Oh, he knows he could have eaten that steak.
Well, this isn't quite the question.
But we do know that as another little moat flies by and, like, zags out of your radius
because that's not your gift.
Yours is, what does Magnus truly fear the most across his life?
He fears not being there.
when someone needs him, not being there when he could have made a difference.
And a little moat lands on your shoulder and you hold it and it burns the very edges of your fingertips,
but it doesn't consume you and it is not consumed.
And that's also a little extra chance.
A skip in time when a mistake is made that you can go back and make sure that you're there,
that no one that you love or care about can be left behind.
And that's your little gift of vestige of Nicaranox's power.
Merle, what do you love most in your life and in this world?
His kids, Moukiy and Mavis.
Absolutely.
No doubt.
Nothing.
I mean, he loves the other members of the Quatro horny boys,
but he, it's Mavis and Mookiee.
By the way, we dub Davonport officially horny.
I thought it was, I figured it was Jocasta.
Oh, no.
It's fine.
Jocasta hasn't proven to be thorny yet.
Yeah.
That is true.
Decidedly on Horny Ranger.
And Merle, you see a little ember float past you,
and it breaks in half into two little pieces.
And even though they,
They are nothing near the shape of them.
You understand that one of those clearly is Muki and one of them is clearly Mavis.
And they land exactly in the palm of your hands, warm but not painful.
And you know that this is one more chance, one more moment that you may have missed when the world calls for you.
And you can't be there for the people that you love most, that you get a redo.
that you get to have it all, that you deserve that little bit of peace for your service to reality.
And finally, Taco, Jakosta, what do you want most in this world, in your life?
I want a new sense of purpose.
I saved the world, saved all the worlds when I was young for an elf.
And nothing I've found since then.
You know, the magazines and the show and the school, none of it stacks up.
So I succeed and I win, but I lack meaning.
And I want to find something I care about that much.
And you see a swirl of embers kind of dancing around you as if caught in a breeze.
And it's very hard for whatever this is, this sentient bit of power, this universe trying to shine a little kindly on you to give you what you ask for because it's intrinsic to you.
So it doesn't give you a moment.
But all of those embers, those little sparks and motes of light and fire and power move around you and a light on you.
and a light on you and you begin to burn.
Not with the heat of it,
but with that understanding that like a fire,
it takes stoking from within.
But when you burn Taco,
it illuminates the universe.
And if the gift was only just the world showing you what you look like to it,
It hopes that you see that the light you cast wherever you put your attention and your dedication is glorious.
And a single little moat is kind of just like on the lapel of your like hooded cloak situation for you to pick off or leave.
It will stay and burn and not consume.
But Nicarinox is gone.
And this liminal space between times begins to dissipate and vibrate and move away.
And there's just one question left.
Do you all want to go back to where you were or go somewhere else?
Do you want to return to tacos at cottage and a dinner party?
Or try somewhere new?
Speaking personally for Vangis, he likes where he's at.
He likes the road and where he's come to, and he is happy with a slightly quieter life.
He likes jumping through windows and swinging big flaming swords, but that seems like a young man's game.
Magnus disappears from the dark space.
I don't think Merle is a big believer in regrets.
I think he makes his choices, takes his lumps, learns from his.
learns from his experiences, tries to do better.
In the meantime,
Anna was a pretty cool party, so I think he goes back to tacos.
Morel disappears from the space.
Davenport takes the feather that was left over from Jeff Angels' violent death
and uses magical tinkering to whisper a six-second long recorded message into it.
and hands it to Taco and says,
can you give this to Lucretia for me?
Yeah, of course.
Okay.
And he takes a step back and says,
I'll see you soon.
And he uses that moat to travel back to
that decision that he makes,
He made at the end of stolen century.
And vanishes.
Davenport disappears from the dark space.
And Taco, you are alone.
Where was Kravitz?
Kravitz wasn't here in this part.
This was for main characters only.
Got it.
All right.
I didn't have me to talk to.
Yeah, I know.
By myself.
All right.
Just me.
Okay.
Can I call Kravitz on the phone or something?
Yeah, for sure.
Pull out your adventures.
I pull all my adventures in.
It gets great serving.
It does.
Kraus just picks up like immediately.
You have it?
Hey, it's me.
It's Jokosta.
Oh, listen.
I kind of like that.
I know, right?
I think I'm going to try something new for a while.
You know, I've been really
worshipping at the altar of taco for quite some time.
And I think I'm going to try.
try adventuring again?
I think I'm going to be a ranger.
I'm going, but listen.
You got one crossbow and now you think you're a ranger?
But you got to start somewhere.
Okay.
Listen, I love you, but I have been called by the spirit of fortune and the spirit of adventure
to wander the world, helping those in need.
And I don't know when I will see you again.
But I know that it will be by 10.
o'clock
because
Mass Singer is on tonight
and I do not
have another place to sleep
so I love you very much
I'll be home like 10 inch
yeah no that's great
if you want to fudge that
I love you
could do oh put the
wait
put the tie in the fridge
okay
oh yeah
no it's already in there
okay thank you thank you
thank you thank you thank you
okay love you have fun
bye don't die
oh oh my
hangs up
so
Jacosta
it's a new adventure
a new beginning for you
you.
You step back into the darkness and that little moat of light kind of leaves your hood and
flows into the spaces you disappear into darkness and a new beginning.
And that's where we will leave off our little, our little adventure.
Woo!
Taz and that.
Oh, man.
Oh, boy.
Good.
Yeah.
You're very hard to do a hit to.
Oh, shit.
That was fun now.
It's because we're afraid of pain.
Our tolerance for pain is very low, and so if we can cheat our way out of it.
Even imaginary.
It was great.
Yeah.
I feel everything in Magnus field.
Thank you so much for coming and doing this.
It's so pretty stressful.
It's amazing.
Before you wrap up, tell everybody every one of your single projects that they need to check out.
Yeah.
We don't have that fucking much time.
We're good.
Hey, if you like my shit, follow me on.
Twitter.
I just
do that.
It's all there.
It's all good.
Google my name.
It's fine.
It's fine.
We're fine.
I do want to say
that I was mentioning
this a little bit when we
weren't recording.
But I just want to thank you all
so much for making one of
like the first games that like got me really
into this like storytelling form.
So.
Really?
This is.
Oh my God.
Yeah.
It's so nice.
Yeah.
So good at it.
Oh.
Hey, I learned it from you.
That's not.
Not possible.
Thank you for saying.
I don't know how to say Goblin right.
The hardest part of this entire campaign was not accidentally letting
Mbim Bam and like Taz references slip that are just in my vernacular like a fucking monster.
Yeah, we cross those streams enough time.
You're allowed to.
You made the jokes.
It's weird when I do it.
We made our own dad canonical.
Well, thanks for watching.
Yeah, thanks for joining us.
Goodbye.
Goodbye forever.
Goodbye.
Forever.
Oh, wait.
No, no.
No.
Who knows what the teacher holds?
The stakes are high for this.
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