The Glass Cannon Podcast - Gatewalkers Episode 82 – Fast Sleep & Out of Control

Episode Date: April 25, 2025

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Starting point is 00:01:16 Take heart, you will be with the soil again soon. As I helped Edward, I shall help all of you. The light streams up and Barnes is pulled towards this circle. His head snaps back and he's like, ahhhh! He is gone and all of you go straight from fifth to eighth level. Oh wow. I think we have to keep going to the east. Gek finds a secret door heading to the east. What is up with these? And she pushes the back wall.
Starting point is 00:01:53 Look at them. Whoa. Little secret fucking library. Wow. To the north, there's a glass cabinet that displays a white furred monstrous costume, along with a four-horned mask. Are you kidding me?
Starting point is 00:02:12 The adventure continues now. You You guys got anything exciting going on? You look, that was, you gave such a look and for that to be the question. Troy was going like this. It's like he's trying to be friends with us or something. Like he really wanted to say something mean. Yeah, exactly. What's going on fellow friends? What would a friend say to someone right now?
Starting point is 00:03:19 What do people say at the water cooler? We do have a water cooler. We can just go over there. How are you? Weekend. Yeah, we go talk about last night's Seinfeld. Yeah. Do you have anything going on?
Starting point is 00:03:31 It hurt coming out of my mouth. Yeah. No. Right now? No, nothing exciting going on in life? Yeah, landing something fun. I got something fun. Oh God, is it about an acting job?
Starting point is 00:03:41 Hell yeah. What the hell? No. No one wants to hear about your independent film. Actually, I just did an independent film. Oh, I see it. That was really fun. That's not what I was gonna talk about.
Starting point is 00:03:56 What awards did it win? I just did it. That you had to pay for the application for. It's not done. The golden baboon. The golden baboon of the Des Moines Film Festival. It was fun, but that's not what I The golden baboon. The golden baboon. Of the Des Moines Film Festival. It was fun, but that's not what I was gonna talk about. I'll save that for another ep.
Starting point is 00:04:10 No, please don't. I'm going to my first ever. Prom? Prom. Oh, I've been to many prompts. A lot of prompts. I'm going to my first ever combined bachelor, bachelorette party.
Starting point is 00:04:24 Ooh. And it's like, you know, one of your friends will do a big one. This is like the big one that I've going to my first ever combined bachelor-bachelorette party. One of your friends will do a big one. This is the big one that I'll ever go to in my life, but they're doing it in Joshua Tree. So I got to fly out. They're doing sort of glamping. We're doing cabins. We are all staying together. We're going to a pioneer town for one of the nights out.
Starting point is 00:04:44 They're like, bring cowboy stuff. We're going to like a pioneer town for one of the nights out and like, they're like, bring cowboy stuff. Like, we're gonna do this. So it's very thin. I don't like any of this. This sounds like a real nightmare. No, no, no, no, no. No, I actually like everything about what it is, but that does not sound like a combined bachelor, bachelorette party. It sounds like a party. Yeah. But wouldn't that be what it is? The bachelor party is just the guys.
Starting point is 00:05:07 Strippers. No, not just the guys. The groom's friends without the groomess. What do they call her? The bride? The bride. The groomess. You called it the groomess?
Starting point is 00:05:19 The McDonald's. I swear at my wedding, we called it the groomess. The big grumble guy from McDonald's. The groomess. The groomess. The groomess. The groom-a-mess guy from McDonald's. The groom-a-mess. The groom-a-mess. The groom-a-mess. Couldn't think of the word bride.
Starting point is 00:05:29 I couldn't think of the word bride. Some about the lights. The groom-a-mess. Like a groom, but a woman groom. Like a woman groom. Groom-etta. No, that's not it. Groom-etta.
Starting point is 00:05:40 Groom-etta DeVille. Groom-ina. But I mean, don't you think you need, like, time away kind of thing? Maybe. But even on this trip, I'm saying, like, if you all go together, then there's a night where she goes out. You know, I don't know. Maybe that's planned.
Starting point is 00:05:55 But the thing is, like, I think their friend groups are very intertwined. So it's like all the guy friends and the girlfriends are all friends. Yeah. What's it like to have a friend group? None of the men at this table. I don't approve of that. He's working so hard to make conversation. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:11 Do I know these people? Have you ever heard of them? No. Are they in your gaming crew at all? No, they moved out in New York four years ago. They've been in the West Coast, so we don't get to see them often. So it'll be nice to like go,
Starting point is 00:06:23 they're having the wedding back on the East Coast. But already I'm like, yeah, I'll do this. But probably not again. Like it's a lot. It's the travel and the money and like all this stuff. I always wanted to go to Joshua Tree. I've always wanted to go too. I'm excited for that part.
Starting point is 00:06:36 We're gonna be like in the national park, like in the desert area. It's gonna be cool. Yeah, that sounds fun. I'm excited. You like beautiful parks. Oh, sure. As long as they're in Canada.
Starting point is 00:06:44 You got like a postcard of it. I'll send you one. Get out of here. I'm excited. You like beautiful parks. Oh, sure. As long as they're in Canada. You got like a postcard of it. I'll send you one. Get out of here. I'll send you a little postcard. No, Lake Louise, Bantha, it's all fucking awesome up there. Have you been to Joshua Tree or no?
Starting point is 00:06:53 No. No. No interest? No. You've seen one park, you've seen them all. I don't think there's two. Right. Oh, look, another tree.
Starting point is 00:07:01 I think they're all very different. Literally, Joshua Tree has its own trees. Oh, Anna Mitchie. And bugs are biting. And I they're all very different. Literally, Joshua Tree has its own trees. Anna Mitchie. And bugs are biting. And I could be in air conditioning. You don't like camping. No. Ah, OK.
Starting point is 00:07:11 No, I told my wife, if we ever camp again, we're getting a camper. An RV. An RV. Oh, hell yeah. Those things are. We're getting a divorce. Those things are dope.
Starting point is 00:07:19 Yeah, we're going to do RV next time. I haven't been camping. First time I've ever camped was with my wife when we were dating. We went one year and it was awesome. But now with kids, I can't imagine doing it. Like sleeping on the ground. I never really, I always wanted to like it and never really did. I like every single aspect of camping. Except sleeping.
Starting point is 00:07:38 Except sleeping in the tent overnight. Sleeping on the ground is really hard. I can't sleep. For me, it's just paranoia. It's just, I hear things that I can't see constantly. It's crazy to think our adventurers, that's all they do. Yeah. I don't think you appreciate when you get to an inn. What a big deal that is. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:52 I hate camping, man. You should play that up more. Other people look like they have fun, but like the thought of it is like, oh, yeah, that sounds cool, but I don't want to do it. It's awesome. I don't want to be outside. Except for the eight hours of rest.
Starting point is 00:08:03 The overdrive. With the bears, like constantly circling Sniffing you ready to eat you away. You're falsely part. There are parts that like are romantic even I I like camping But there are parts that you know, you think back on rose-tinted glasses and then you do it again You're like, oh this still sucks. I'm cold like when when old and wet you're waking up wet in the tent Yeah, how did water get what what happened? It sucks. I'm cold. Like when we're cold and wet. Feet are wet. Waking up wet in a tent. Yeah. How did water get, what happened here? That's why the RV's the way to go,
Starting point is 00:08:29 because you do have the best parts of camping, and then you go sleep, and even if it's not a great bed. This is what I always say, it doesn't even matter about the bed. It's behind a closed and locked door. Yeah. Like that makes all the difference in the world. You can wash your junk and not have to just sit in,
Starting point is 00:08:43 you know, day sweat. It's a toilet. To me it's like, it's like the cooking. The can wash your junk and not have to just sit in, you know, day sweat. It's a toilet. To me it's like, it's like the cooking. The cooking is romanticized, like we're camping, we're gonna grill and do shit. Takes forever. The fire's bad, fire's not good, it's not going right. The meat's like, everything's cooking slow,
Starting point is 00:08:57 everyone's hungry. You gotta carry everything out there? Yeah. And you're not doing it because you're stupid until it's too dark. Until it's too dark. And then you can't see like what you're cooking. To me it're stupid until it's too dark. Until it's too dark. And then you can't see what you're cooking. To me, it's like the cooking is always stressful, mostly because you're just hungry.
Starting point is 00:09:10 And it's like caveman primal. You're just like, this potato is not cooked. It needs to cook more. Who cooks potatoes at a campfire? Right. You wrap it up in tinfoil. You throw it in the fire itself. Oh, I see what you're saying.
Starting point is 00:09:23 I was picturing it on a stick. I was like, that's going gonna take a real long time. No wonder it's taking forever. Sydney's really bad at cooking. She doesn't know what she's doing. All right, so you've got a glamping situation. That's fun. That's fun. Anybody else have anything exciting going on in their lives?
Starting point is 00:09:38 April soon? I'm planning. Oh, you're? That's April now. Going on my first vacation and like, when I thought back on it, like 10 years or something. Where are you going? Oh, wow. We're planning like an Ireland vacation.
Starting point is 00:09:49 And then because we're already over there, I convinced Michael to also stop in London for like two days. Nice. Oh, fun. So. That's awesome. At least there you'll speak the language. I know, yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:58 I'll just like walk around and laugh at everyone and then have like curry on French fries or some shit. How long are you in Ireland for? Most of the time. But what's the trip duration like? Like a week and a half or so. french fries or some shit. How long are you in Ireland for? Most of the time. But what's the trip duration like? Like a week and a half or so. Wow, that's awesome. Nice.
Starting point is 00:10:10 That'd be fun, is there, do they do raves in Ireland? I did find a nightclub for us to go to one night, if we want. Okay. That's fun. Always have it on the table. I have an itinerary, a spreadsheet that I made of like every activity we could do.
Starting point is 00:10:23 Your Excel sheet. When you wanna do it, where it is. is your excel sheet is color are independent ratings of it That's insane. This is in August. It looks like according to the calendar. This is a big trip. Yep. Wow But it's gone calendar. I'm so sorry about your August planning for shows. No, no, it's fine I took you very smart you took it the same week that I was out, then you took another week and a half. Oh. Oh. That was good job.
Starting point is 00:10:48 You're so smart, so he can't get mad. Good thinking. Oh, interesting. Cool, cool, cool. Yeah. We're gonna do hiking, not camping. Okay. Michael wants to like walk around
Starting point is 00:10:57 because you gotta go see Cliffs of Moor. It's even worse. Yeah. Yeah. It's even worse. No, hiking's the best. No, hiking's better than camping because you don't have to sleep outside.
Starting point is 00:11:03 You just walk around outside. And if the weather's bad, then it sucks. But if the weather's good, you're just walking around is the best. No, hiking is better than camping because you don't have to sleep outside. You just walk around outside. And if the weather is bad, then it sucks. But if the weather is good, you're just walking around. I don't even mind it if the weather is bad. I like in rain with like a rain, a good rain jacket, just walking in the rain. Are you kidding me? Hiking anywhere in Ireland sounds amazing. And it's going to be raining.
Starting point is 00:11:18 Yeah. Probably. It'll be amazing. But the nice part in that situation is you're like, oh man, I'm putting in the time. I'm hanging out in nature. But I know I'm going to get back to my hotel at some point. And that's a nice feeling. Yep.
Starting point is 00:11:32 OK. Get warm, get a shower. Yeah. That sounds good. You got nothing going on? You going to Ireland? You know what? We're in the process of saving.
Starting point is 00:11:42 Oh. OK. Money? Disney World. Oh. Which is going to be next year. Oh yeah, that's expensive now, isn't it? of saving money for Disney World, which is going to be next year. Oh, yeah. That's expensive now, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:11:48 It's like, I don't want to do it. That's how expensive it is. And it's stressful because you have to get on the apps early to reserve spots and lines and stuff. I've seen YouTube videos about that. Yes, yes. But we might be able to manipulate the system.
Starting point is 00:12:02 We're going to figure out if we can. We've got some friends in high places. They say you've got to get a travel agent now. What? Really? Which seems like it's the 1980s. Yeah, but my mom was a travel agent, so travel agents rule. You don't pay them anything.
Starting point is 00:12:15 You know what I mean? They take care of all this stuff for you. It's great. But yeah, it's so expensive that I think this year is going to be a very low key year. If we do stuff, it'll be like, go to the Poconos for a couple nights kind of thing. It's funny because we're thinking about doing it this fall and so we've been like squirreling away.
Starting point is 00:12:33 But now, I don't know if we're going to do it or not. Like if we did it, we're going to do it in October, like around Halloween because there's nobody, there's less people there, less crowded and plus, see them Halloween and I imagine, I've never been. I've never been to Disney even as a kid so it's gonna be my first time. You are good I love it so. Yeah you're gonna have a good time. But I wanna see if the kids are down with rides because if they're not down with rides yet so
Starting point is 00:12:52 we're gonna take them to Hershey Park around Mother's Day see if they're- Hershey Park's great too. Hershey Park's great I mean my wife's from Hershey so like we go my brother-in-law works from the park so we get in for free and everything is great. But if the kids aren't into rides yet, I might wait a year. Otherwise we're gonna go in October. Hershey's awesome. Yeah, Hershey's great.
Starting point is 00:13:12 I remember going as a kid. It's a great park for kids. Yeah. So much fun. Yeah, I went in like seventh grade and then I got married there. Little did I know. I remember.
Starting point is 00:13:21 That just leaves you scared. Nothing exciting besides your bright orange hoodie? Well, going to Scotland in September. I did not know that. Yeah. Did you know this? No. I didn't know this.
Starting point is 00:13:32 You just had a trip. Were you going back? Yeah, that was London. That was a different country. I know, but that's a far distance to travel. Very racist city. No, I just mean normally people try to stack it up. I mean, it's all the UK.
Starting point is 00:13:42 We wanted to do this walking holiday for a while. So we're doing like a highlands walking tour. That's cool. It's like end to end walking in the West Highlands today. So in September, very, very excited. It's going to be me, Samantha, and Samantha's sister. So it's going to be very fun. There's going to be one distillery So it's going to be very fun.
Starting point is 00:14:05 There's going to be one distillery. I was going to say, that was my immediate first question. So you're going to get to see a distillery. One distillery. Samantha does not drink. I enjoy it. I think Jackie also drinks. She'll have a drink.
Starting point is 00:14:16 But so that'll be fun. But I've just been wanting to, that's when I retire, like that's what I mostly want to do is just do these walking trips. Like that's all I want to do. So this is the first one. I'm hoping it goes. How long is the walk? It's 11 days. So it's like each day you, they, like a van will like pick up your luggage and stuff, drive it to the next stop. And then you walk like down this trail through the highlands. I want to do it. Aaron and I want to do it. The highlands. I wanna do it so bad. Aaron and I wanna do it, the highlands. Oh, that's so cool.
Starting point is 00:14:47 Yeah, I'm very excited. Are you gonna sample the local delicacy, like a sheep penis or something? I do actually, I really like haggis. I've had it before. Looking forward to having haggis again and whatever they wanna give me. You're in.
Starting point is 00:15:02 Yeah, I fucking love it. So is this one payment? Like one payment to a company that runs this adventure. They organize everything. Yeah, that's great. They set the itinerary. They book the rooms and everything. So they took the one point.
Starting point is 00:15:15 Very excited. That's great. That sounds not stressful. That sounds great. No, I think the stress level is very low. It's pretty reasonable, honestly. We just have to book the flights and everything. And then we're going down to,
Starting point is 00:15:28 I want to show Samantha Oxford. So we're going down to Oxford for like two days. Cool. At the end of it. And then one night in Edinburgh. So. Oh, cool. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:41 What's the name of the distillery? I don't know which one. I don't know which one it's gonna be. They're gonna tell me. Agervullen. I wonder if you'll be able to squirrel away a little bottle for your buddies. Four or five bottles.
Starting point is 00:15:51 I will try. We'll sell them for your buddies. We'll slip you some cash. Yes, I'll bring some back. I'll be sure to bring back a bag full of liquor. Nice. Nice. Fun. Okay, well I'm glad to hear everybody's got a little
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Starting point is 00:22:39 You're very knowledgeable about that world. I took a course. He took a course in Arthurian legends. Your diction is like perfect. Your language is so good. I love watching you talk in that game. I do talk in that game. He's good at it.
Starting point is 00:22:55 That's how we sell it. All right. So you have been exploring the sewers beneath Riddlesund Manor. Last time you were confronted by this being. From beyond, it seems like. You had a being that not only knows you, but you somewhere in the back of your mind remember it.
Starting point is 00:23:15 The room grows icy cold. Tentacles form up into the creature that calls itself Augmun Zorius. And Augmun Zorius says, good to see you again. Hey, welcome back. You talk to them and they say to the east, there are doors. Can't remember the combination, but seek the blessed one and more shall be revealed. Don't worry. You will meet with the Soyo again soon.
Starting point is 00:23:42 Keep doing what you're doing. Oh, obliterates Barnes and you jump from fifth to eighth level, somehow absorbing the powers of Barnes who is now gone. You keep exploring and you find a workbench. It seems like Riddleson was bribing city officials to be able to do all this work underground, hiring shady contractors, building lots of secret doors in this underground laboratory. And then you find a secret door. And rather than, you know, heading east in search of the Blessed One, you go further west and deeper below and you find a library. And amongst all of the things in the library, the thing that catches your eyes the most
Starting point is 00:24:27 is a glass case with a costume, which includes a furry white mask of a horned creature. Son of a bitch. Got him. Man, what a creep. When we see Riddleson, it's on site. What a creep. That is where we ended the ep. We shot him. Man, what a creep. When we see Riddleson, it's on site. What a creep.
Starting point is 00:24:45 That is where we ended the ep. Since episode one, Ramius, when you went to sleep, you had this vision of this being watching you. As you were reliving a memory of your Abbey burning down, the being was watching you and then like out of, is it the Omen? When the fucking vampire comes up to the window, dun dun dun like out of the Omen when the fucking vampire comes up to the window. Omen?
Starting point is 00:25:08 Omen. That's with the kid. No, it's Salem's Lot. Salem's Lot. Oh, yes. Have you ever seen Salem's Lot? I've never seen Salem's Lot, but I've seen this clip enough where it's like a little kid sitting in a room and like a little vampire or like person.
Starting point is 00:25:20 I think it's another child that comes up to the window and is flying there. It's like clink, clink, cl clink, and shot in the 70s. It's horrifying. Clink, clink, clink, let me in. Oh no. You never seen this? Oh, so they open the gate and it's ha ha. So that's kind of what I was drawing from there.
Starting point is 00:25:37 Anyways, watch that Salem Slot thing. They redid Salem Slot recently. I heard it was very, very good. They did. Not a horror movie guy, but anyways. It was also Midnight Mass came out a few years ago. That's sort of similar concepts. Vampires.
Starting point is 00:25:49 Not to spoil them. Midnight Mass. That was on Netflix, right? Yeah. Yeah. That's really good. What are we doing? I think we have to react to this mass. Yeah, I'm looking at this.
Starting point is 00:26:01 Whoa! Just giving you an option. Zephyr runs up to the glass, puts her hands and face on it. What the hell? You haven't seen this in your dreams yet? I don't remember. Sydney doesn't remember if Dick had a dream. I don't. Do you have an awakening?
Starting point is 00:26:23 I don't think, jeez. I don't- Do you have an awakening? I don't think, geez. I don't think you do yet. No. Maybe you do- I don't think Troy is giving Sydney anything. I don't- The character. Until she survives at least 40 or 50 episodes.
Starting point is 00:26:36 Asta didn't get it either. Yeah. She kept talking about how she felt like she didn't understand you guys because you were like, I've had this dream and she was like, I didn't get anything. Because she never got to use her power. But I think- Barents also didn't, either.
Starting point is 00:26:48 Yeah, I think Gic- we've talked about this. We've talked about this thing. So she also is looking with Zephyr. What's going on? This is the beast that we see in our dreams, but it's a mask and it's right here. This is it. Is it exactly right? From what you remember? This is exactly the thing that I saw? Mm-hmm. Hmm. Other thing in this room that may draw your attention to the west is a large map of the
Starting point is 00:27:20 northern continent, like the Crown of the world, hanging on the wall with what appears to be an expedition route, tracked all the way to the North Pole. There's also a single round table and a comfortable chair sitting in the middle of the room. But yeah, your focus is on this costume. Should we take it out? No idea how to react to this. on this costume. Should we take it out? No idea how to react to this. Should we take it out of the case? Is he entering our dreams?
Starting point is 00:27:55 How could he? How could he? With what power? But then why hide this? And whenever we see it, we gain powers. So why hide it from us? Yes. Is there anything in the room that like,
Starting point is 00:28:12 does he like maybe do this in this room? There's lots of books. You don't see like anything, you know, like fake backgrounds. A green screen. Right. Green screen. A quarter. A ring light.
Starting point is 00:28:26 A camera setup. What the... I watch the video back. It's him. Dream makes content. He has to take so many takes. Hey gatekeepers, smash that like button and... Like and subscribe.
Starting point is 00:28:44 Can we do like a perception on the books? Yeah, I'm gonna look through the books. Yeah, look through the books. I'll look at the poster. It's two walls worth of books here. What'd you get there, Gek? 16. Yeah, I mean, you're just looking at the titles, they're books on dreaming.
Starting point is 00:29:00 But they're also books on Arctic travel and survival. Books on the Arotaki as well as the Ilverani peoples, and books that perhaps Buggles may be interested in, books on the occult mysteries of psychic power. Wide ranging topics such as that, the collection is probably worth a lot, but, you know, it'd take forever to go through these things. If anything, it's just interesting to see what Dr. Riddleson was reading. I think Buggles, for his part, is reeling at this, because it's like he had invested so much trust and hope and riddles and that
Starting point is 00:29:46 He had our best interests at heart and that he was setting us on the right path and everything and now it's like this is thrown all of that out the window and It's not it's still not a hundred percent sure like what's going on if this is the blame but like that there's like significant doubt now, so he's just like, balling his little fists and he's just got like tears like willing up in his eyes. It's kind of potential betrayal. It was shortly after you gave up the memory of your name to the Colborne in Castravel that you had a similar dream invasion where you were being held by the
Starting point is 00:30:28 mother of the house and you realized that it was this yeti holding you. I think that's the thing too, was like that something that personal and that private, that feels like especially invasive and if it was Riddleson, that like it's a whole other layer of betrayal. I get it on to this. Yeah. And it's funny, too, because like on some level, the K'uulukan, like his instincts to break into Riddleson's room and investigate him seem like they were the correct ones, where Buggles would never have done it on his own.
Starting point is 00:31:03 All the more reason to perhaps suppress Buggles and let the coolakan lead the way. Can I, um, can I do like an arcana check on this to see? Like is this something that you do? You put on a costume? You cast some sort of spell and then you can enter someone's dreams? Yeah. Or memories? Seems weird that like you'd have to put on a clown outfit. So if you could project yourself into people's dreams,
Starting point is 00:31:30 why do you need a physical costume to do it? Well, to hide his identity. Maybe he's trying to make us think it is a Yeti. But why, to make us go to the north? But he's also, I mean, he's conjuring up all these images in our dreams. But why, to make us go to the north? But he's also, I mean, he's conjuring up all these images in our dreams, it's like, but why does he have to wear a costume to do it? Unless the costume itself has some kind of power.
Starting point is 00:31:55 I think we should open the case. And then how does it have the effect of granting us deviant power awakenings? You know, like this is, anyway, can I roll something to see if there's anything I can lean from this for now? Yeah, you can do Arcana, you can do Arcana. Also, just thinking back to the harvest thing again, that the...
Starting point is 00:32:13 What's the guy's name? What's the fish guy said? Yeah, he's got a heart. Natural one. Ogmonsaureus. I rolled a 17 on looking at the map. The map, yes. It's drawn on like some sort of creature hide.
Starting point is 00:32:33 It's like a thick parchment that you can tell in looking at it. It's like, oh, this must be some sort of animal hide. They're not any animal you recognize. But you realize in that moment, okay, this thick, durable paper means it's meant to be taken in the cold. He's planning an expedition. And it could be folded up, rolled up, easily transportable. And yet it's a very specific route over the crown of the world to a specific place in the North Pole. I mean, until we were diverted by his letter and came here, this is precisely what we were doing.
Starting point is 00:33:15 We're following these exact steps. Leading, following the clues that we had found toward the Crown of the World. And he already knew this all along, or he's just discovering it as well. There's little waypoints on the map. You see that this isn't exactly like the only way to get across, but it's like a proposed route, marks some dangers along the way. And then there's something that's like starred as you really look in little notes crib notes next to it and it says like ruined temple of Find a lot Lara
Starting point is 00:33:58 And a little note that said did I leave the yurt here question mark So he's been there. He's already made this trip, maybe. Back when we probably first met Asoyo. Maybe we went on the trip. Maybe I wrote that. Maybe he was. Did we get any sense from the blueprints
Starting point is 00:34:22 of when they were made? When this whole underground… Like when the construction on this began? Would this have began before the missing moment? No, this seems like, you know, Buggles could tell you that these look like they happened after the missing moment. But shortly after. But then it doesn't stand to reason that he triggered the missing moment by going up there.
Starting point is 00:34:47 Right? Well. Well, I'd like to investigate for the costume. Yeah, I wanna open that case. Okay. You open the case and it launches out at you! No!
Starting point is 00:34:57 I'll detect magic. It is magical. Oh, okay. It's the identify roll. Mm, okay, no. I'll attempt to identify. Me too. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:35:12 Oh, gosh, look at this with me. What is this? For fuck's sake. I'm gonna do scholarly recollection. And roll twice and take the better. 26? Yeah, so the mask and the costume are both magical. And the costume itself functions as like a suit of plus one cold resistant explorers clothing. While the mask functions functions identically to a greater Coyote Cloak other than its appearance as that of
Starting point is 00:35:47 a Yeti. If you look at Coyote Cloak, you gain a plus one item bonus to survival checks. If you critically succeed at your survival check to subsist, you can feed twice as many additional creatures and as greater it's a plus two item bonus and a crit lets you feed as many as four times additional creatures. So as you're saying this get kind of nods and she's like no that makes sense. The ring of sustenance, these clothing, he's making all these expeditions. Clothing he's making all these expeditions
Starting point is 00:36:28 But but I don't understand you've had the dream why lie Why not just tell you? Why the Yeti thing we don't know that he lied To us directly we don't know that he discovered these things. He's omitting for sure. I mean I feel like between him And all the fish whale people we see, we're being used as pawns and we're being lied to by omission because if we're told everything, I don't think we're going to do what they want. Just don't even understand why show up in your dream as a Yeti in a costume.
Starting point is 00:36:57 I agree with Buggles. I don't understand. We also don't know for sure that it's him. That it's him. There's so many questions. Like this answer is nothing. Yes. I'm very confused, Kik says out loud.
Starting point is 00:37:15 Yeah. There are two more doors in this room. He gave us money. He summoned us back with all haste. And he has other groups. Did he want to share this with us? He's preparing. Are we the only group that he's doing this with? I don't think he wants to share it.
Starting point is 00:37:33 I mean, uh. Share what? Information. He hid the maps. He didn't tell the cartographer, whose name I have to scroll for, because I forget, because it was a little complicated. Aslan? What was his name? Dang it. The elf.
Starting point is 00:37:48 The elf. No, Alwyn is the other guy. I can't find it in my notes. He hid it from him. Ascendin. Ascendin? Ascendin? Ascendin.
Starting point is 00:37:58 Yeah, it's a weird name. I-Ascendin or something. He hid it from Ascendin. He didn't tell him he was going into the Shutterwoods. He... He hired him as a cartographer. Why not give him the tools and the infor- I'm just I'm at a loss. I don't know. He's hiring bodyguards. He's seeking moonstones, which are known for capturing memories. Can't see how it all fits together. We have to gather the most information down here
Starting point is 00:38:23 we possibly can before we confront him. Well, do we take this costume? Steal away with it? Or do we leave it in its glass case? Is it really big to carry? I don't think we're gonna pretend that we weren't down here. There's piles of ash in the other room from the demons. I know, but I don't know if you...
Starting point is 00:38:41 We want it... Do you want it on your person? Uh... I don't know if you we want it. Do you want it on your person? I Don't know not really I Take it. Oh, okay starts Buggle starts gathering it up And just like holding it to his chest Should we take the map Sure yes Should we take the map? Sure. Yes, I think we'll need it. Unpins it. Unpins it.
Starting point is 00:39:10 You see this route goes all the way to the North Pole. There's this little note about the Temple of Finndaladra, and also it begins at something called Ice Gate. Ice? We don't know what that is. Oh a gate and maybe can I do a Society check to see if I know if ever heard of an ice game something called the ice gate. Yeah quick society 26 again
Starting point is 00:39:41 Yeah, you don't know but it would make. There's probably another one of these health gates, but this one located on the crown of the world. I got a natural 20 on society. If that has any additional information. Um. Wait, the ice gate is in the crown of the world? Mm-hmm. So the whole path, start to end,
Starting point is 00:40:04 is already in the Crown of the World. It's not like from here. So far away from where you are, yeah. But it begins at Ice Gate and then goes to the North Pole. So Ice Gate is the entry point. All the way up there. Yeah. Gotcha.
Starting point is 00:40:17 Maybe with a 20 you would just somehow, maybe you or the K'uul'K knows that it's in within the territory of the Ilverani, a culture of elves that may not even be around anymore that lived. Polar elves? Polar elves that lived in that area. That's cool. Yeah and there are books on the Ilverani as well as books on the Erotaki. And then give me a religion check on this Findalad Lara. Oh, the temple. Yeah. That is a 27. 27, Findalad Lara is the ancient elven goddess of art
Starting point is 00:40:59 and architecture. Oh yeah, maybe you should share this. It's the ancient elven goddess. Yeah Maybe you should share this. Is the ancient heaven goddess? Yeah, you would know this. I think maybe it's kind of an older, it's an older god, but it checks out. They teach about the value of like preserving old structures and, you know, art.
Starting point is 00:41:19 Yeah. Very cool. Should we? Should we just take this map and move on? Yeah, door to the south, door to the north, door to the west. Is there a door to the south? It doesn't look like a door icon.
Starting point is 00:41:36 Yeah, it's just, it looks like that they were going to build a door there, but you don't see anything. Oh. But there is a door to the north and to the west. Let's do north north would head yes straight back toward the the summoning circle where the Zephyr you wanna nightmare fish came from opens the north door
Starting point is 00:41:57 you open the north door and You see a room And you see a room, the walls of which are adorned with tapestries depicting a frozen landscape. And the floor is covered with a thick white carpet. It's like a shag carpet. In all four corners of the room, there are metal incense burners resembling ibises, just like the ones at the fountain outside. And their heads are all raised. These are standing in the four corners of the room.
Starting point is 00:42:36 And there is a single bed in the middle of the room. This is so- You guys think this is where he enters our dreams, in this weird room? Or you think he sleeps here for fun? Can I do a check? I think he brings girls back here. What?
Starting point is 00:42:53 That's what it looks like to me. This is where the magic happens. With the shag carpeting and the fucking incense. And the weird tapestries of like himself looking at the bed, okay. It's a weird place to put a bed for sure. I look at the ceiling, there a mirror on it. Yeah, I mean you guys are kind of looking from the other room in there. You can't see too too much. I do it
Starting point is 00:43:10 I'm gonna step in there. Okay, Ramius Ramius step in No, he wants to test this Incense smell it and see if do a check on it to see if it's used as a material component in a ritual. Okay. Arcana or religion? Maybe occultism. Occultism? Yeah, I mean, you can certainly roll the others, but this seems like
Starting point is 00:43:34 if it has the purposes you're thinking of, then it might be something occult. Anybody else going in there? I think Ramius. I want to see what he does first. It's looking over my shoulder, I got a 29. Ooh. 29, okay. You walk into the room, stare at this bed for a second,
Starting point is 00:43:56 you go up to the nearest ibis, and you start examining it, and you smell like a lingering scent, an incense that you recognize. Maybe it was something that was used at your abbey at some point it's bringing you back like many scents do to this memory that isn't so much nostalgic as maybe alarming because it's the type of incense that is believed to encourage vivid dreams or to protect someone while they sleep. But as you're sort of digging into this and smelling it, all four of the burners light up and smoke begins to fill the room. Give me a Fortitude save.
Starting point is 00:45:02 Oh no. It stops breathing and steps out of the room. Obviously. I still need a Fortitude? Yes, Stops breathing and steps out of the room Still need a fortitude. Yes Zephyr as well. Okay. Oh, all right. No problem Save Dude Zephyboo natural 20 for me. Oh, so that's 3434. Okay. 14. Okay. So Zephyr you you smell this and Ramies his body is sort of acting as a
Starting point is 00:45:38 screen against this but it makes you sick. And so you actually become sick and one Ramies it fills up the room to the point where you start coughing violently and then you can't even see where you are. And you hit the ground and fall unconscious. Roll for initiative. Oh no. No Troy! Can I use my board ifitude save as my initiative? If it was anything else.
Starting point is 00:46:08 You know what? Uh, let's have some fun here. You want me to roll for initiative? You do still roll if you're unconscious. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh. Let's fill this room up a little bit. Oh, geez.
Starting point is 00:46:22 Ah. That's a lot of smoke. That's a lot of smoke. What'd you lot of, it's a lot of smoke. What'd you get, Kick Mock? 21. 21 for Kick Mock. Brother Ramious. Uh, last.
Starting point is 00:46:35 I'll just write, I'll just write one. Uh, 17. Boggles. If you're doing it on perception. 22. 22. Uh, Zephy perception. 22. 22. Zephyr. 16.
Starting point is 00:46:47 Oh, yeah. Did you give yourself the unconscious condition? Yeah. Because, okay, then like. Yeah, it doesn't, like it doesn't do anything. I don't really understand it. I mean, I'm sure it does something. It's me.
Starting point is 00:46:59 Yeah, okay. Oh no, yeah, it did. It took four away from my perception, so. But it's still a 17. All right, because he is so wise. All right. So you guys see Ramie has hit the deck and then suddenly the smoke starts to weave its way out into the rest of the room. Zephyr, Gic and Buggles give me a fortitude save.
Starting point is 00:47:21 Another one. I just did one, though. I know. Do you see? It did. Did you see? Oh. You're punished for saving. It was really good. Gonna switch dice real quick. That's fine. 27. 27. That is fine. If you do a bit of math and minus 10 from hers, that's mine. 17. 17. That's bad. Okay. And Buggles. Sounds like it's not a fumble. Natural 20.
Starting point is 00:47:50 Oh my god. Hey, Buggles. Wow, back 20. Please save us all. Which roll again? 27. 27. Dugong.
Starting point is 00:48:00 Zephyr falls, hits the ground, falls unconscious. Am I still sickened? Dugong, yes. Gic falls hits the ground, falls unconscious. Am I still sickened? Yes. Gic falls to the ground and goes unconscious. Are you kidding me? And Bugles is still awake. Ramius, however, all of a sudden you find yourself
Starting point is 00:48:18 in the Arctic. Oh, you are like, bad ass. On the high ice, and in the distance, you hear the sounds of rumbling, like an army is coming at you. And you look around, there is nowhere to hide. It is just like ice. As far as the eye can see, there are mountains.
Starting point is 00:48:40 In the distance, there is nothing, but you hear the sound of coming at you and then you start to see this army and it's not an army of thousands of people it's an army of about a dozen or so very large furry creatures that are coming directly at you give me a fortitude save oh my god Your best save right oh Skinny old ramius he's dying That is 21 It hurts to say it out loud. Oh wait a minute wait a minute
Starting point is 00:49:20 Am I unconscious when I roll this role in the dreamland? Yeah, you want to think about your answer before you answer that you are sure you are yeah, you're unconscious This is actually doesn't affect fortitude. Okay, which makes sense 21 21 fail And we'll see you right after this You son of a bitch. Are you ready? No. I know. I understand.
Starting point is 00:49:53 Well, I'll show you what Buggles sees. Cause Buggles, you are like trying to suss this out. You just see bodies dropping, but beyond these bodies dropping, you see the body of Ramius on the ground, twitching and convulsing. Brother Ramius, you take 16 points of cold damage, nine points of mental damage. So 25 points of damage altogether.
Starting point is 00:50:17 Oh my God. Give me a will save. You're making me roll so many saves! I don't know what's happening. 30. Nothing happens. You are still trapped in this horrible moment. We gotta wake up.
Starting point is 00:50:33 And we push forward to Buggles, oddly enough. Buggles, you are standing in the other room. Smoke has started to fill. Incense has started to fill that room as well and bodies have hit the floor. The bodies hit the floor. The bodies hit the floor. What do you do? Buggles.
Starting point is 00:50:52 He has his like his cloak like wrapped up against his his mouth. Coughing. He's gonna try to wake Zephyr up. Okay. I believe it's just one action but but correct me if I'm wrong, to just shake somebody from unconscious. It is, yeah. Interact, I think.
Starting point is 00:51:10 Just wanna make for sure, just for action, a common economy. With an interact action. Yep. All right, so you just, you shake, who is it, Zephyr? Yeah. Zephyr, all right, so Zephyr, you're prone,
Starting point is 00:51:21 but you are now awake. Okay. Amazing. First action. And then he says, wake up! And then he's going to step into the room, the bedroom here, and he's gonna try to do the same with Ramius.
Starting point is 00:51:36 Okay, so step into the room, second action, third action, try to shake Ramius awake. Wake up! Wake up, Ramius! And Ramius,. Wake up. Wake up, Ramius. And Ramius, you wake up. No. Ice crystals on us. Weird whiskers.
Starting point is 00:51:53 Chin whiskers. Oh my god. Then it goes to Gikmak, Gikmak, you have the exact same vision as Ramius. You find yourself on the high ice, crown of the world, you assume, freezing cold, an army of Salmon Car rushing at you. Give me a Fortitude save.
Starting point is 00:52:09 Switching dice. 21. Oh, it's the same one. Did you get a 21 too? Yes. Oh my gosh. You take 15 points of cold damage and 13 points of mental damage. Oh my gosh. Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:52:25 28 damage, you guys just see her convulsing on the floor. Give me a will save. I switch the dice one more time. No, no, no. Okay, that's gonna be 27. Wait, no, more than that. No, wait. You wanna help, let us help?
Starting point is 00:52:44 27. 27, okay. You remain trapped in this wanna help, let us help? 27. 27. Okay, you remain trapped in this. I was trying to see if I had anything to add to it, but I don't think I have anything special. Horrible! All right, so Gikmak is still asleep. The other three of you are awake. Some of you are prone,
Starting point is 00:52:57 and some of you have taken damage. Brother Ramius, you're lying on the ground. You are awake, and in a moment, you've been transported from this horrible nightmare back into this dreaming room Wolf okay, so first he's gonna scramble up to stand up And he can see what is is sorry. I'm not even looking at the map. I'm so like theater in the minding this He will
Starting point is 00:53:27 Where is oh, I'm outside the room. Oh god. The whole thing is smoke. It went outside the room I just spill all through this area. It's all smoky Let's get out of here Buggles. This is this is a dark place and he's gonna move and he sees that that Gic is down and asleep. And he's like, no, Gic, wake up! And he tries to shake Gic awake. First action, stand up.
Starting point is 00:53:54 Second action, move. Third action, you wake Gic up. It is Zephyr's turn. Zephyr, you are prone right outside the door. You wake up. No, yeah, you didn't. Yeah, you wake up, so you're good. Yep. Gix saved your ass.
Starting point is 00:54:08 All right, so you wake up, you had this moment where you started to see this alien landscape and now you're back in the room, but you're looking up at the ceiling. I stand up and I guess, I'm not gonna shut the door while Buggles is still in there. You shut the door, okay. Go. Not gonna shut the door while Buggles is still in there. You shut the door, okay. Go.
Starting point is 00:54:25 No, no. Not gonna shut the door while he's still in there. But I wanna stand up and can I roll an occult? Is this something that we can turn off without shutting the door? Absolutely, give me an occult roll. Occultism. 21.
Starting point is 00:54:44 21. No, you feel like you're on the right track, right? You feel like there might be a way you can rise above this to kind of lucid dream this away, if you will. It really is. It's like you're all experiencing, those of you who have experienced it, you're being sent into this nightmare state. You feel like you had that momentary lapse where you saw the Arctic landscape and you can suss out that like We need to control the dream if we control the dream we can stop this or maybe Ramies is on the right track Just get the fuck out of here
Starting point is 00:55:17 You still got a couple actions left I'm gonna step away from the door so that buckles has room to come out And I think that's all I can do I stood up did the check moved out the way. Okay Here we go Everyone yeah, give me a four to two. Yeah, we have to do it in the dream. Yep Okay Going down down it another critical fail, I'm sure.
Starting point is 00:55:54 We gotta go to sleep. Okay, so 16 for Ramius. Okay, critical fail. 25. Fail. 27. Fail. 13. Critical fail. 25. Fail. 27. Fail. 13.
Starting point is 00:56:05 Critical fail. Duh duh duh duh duh duh. You all fall. Everyone give me a fortitude save, a second fortitude save now as you experience this just recurring nightmare of Salmon Car coming to rip you apart. It's just a fail. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:28 Oh my God. It's the same one. No, it's not. Sorry. 24. It's all a fail. 24. Okay.
Starting point is 00:56:36 That is a regular fail. 28. Okay. Success. 31. Success. 19. Fail.
Starting point is 00:56:44 Okay. Uh, fail. Okay, so... Ramius, you're going to take... Uh... 11 cold damage and 13 mental. Buggles, you're going to take... 10 cold damage... and 10 mental, so 20 altogether. Both of you give me a will save. Oh, for fuck's sake!
Starting point is 00:57:05 I got a 29. Uh, 17. 17, no. Alright, so you remain unconscious and trapped in the stream. Both of you just had regular, oh you had success. Success, what did you get Gek? About 31. 31, yeah, regular success. Alright, so so Gek, you're gonna take one cold and four mental. Zephyr, you're gonna take six cold and 10 mental.
Starting point is 00:57:32 What the heck, man? Yeah, okay. Awesome. All right, so you're all unconscious. Yeah, awesome. Trapped in this horrible thing. Taking damage. Buggles, it's your turn.
Starting point is 00:57:46 So Buggles, you now know you were just going to this. You saw them experience this. You're smart enough to figure out you're trapped in this dream. You can take three actions to try, just like sleep paralysis, to shake yourself out of the dream, but it is a will save.
Starting point is 00:58:01 Do we get a will save, Geek and I? You will on your turn now that you're all unconscious. I, yeah, I'm gonna just try to, so an action will buy me another roll, another save roll. It's a three action activity to try and wake up. Yeah, I'm gonna try to. But then you'll just be in the room
Starting point is 00:58:16 with the smoke again anyway. We need to will, we need to control the dream. Waking up isn't gonna help because you're just gonna fall asleep again. Or I think at least one of us has to figure out how to control it. Yeah, I don't know what to do. Remember to try and disable these things,
Starting point is 00:58:30 if you think of it in terms of a hazard, it's a two action activity. You have to roll the check or figure out what it is you need to do to try and disable it. Okay. Yeah, but. So it's either control the dream with the will save or try to disable these things in
Starting point is 00:58:45 the corner. What do we do? Zephyr, how do we control it? They'll be on us in a second. Huck, how do you sleep? Hunk shoe, hunk shoe, hunk shoe. You can also roll a check to try and figure out what to do as well. That's a single action.
Starting point is 00:59:01 So your options here, just give you what you're observing. Three action activity to try and wake yourself up. That's a single action. So your options here, just give you what you're observing. Three action activity to try and wake yourself up. That's a will save. You can roll a check to try and figure out what to do. And then if you figure out what to do, or if you don't figure out what to do, you can do a two action activity and see if you can disable this.
Starting point is 00:59:18 Okay, I'm gonna spend one action casting an Amp Thermal Stasis on myself, which will give me resistance two against the cold effect. That's awesome. This is happening in the dream state. Yeah, this is, and then he's going, yeah, I'm gonna spend two actions to try to do the check, whatever.
Starting point is 00:59:40 Okay, what check do you wanna do? Do you wanna do, do you roll the cultism that seemed to be on the right track? Seems like I Will do a cultism. Okay Nope, oh ice cold right now So we cut to like a shot of the room with all four of you lying down you we see Buggles body Just like boom this warming shield
Starting point is 01:00:01 Appear around his body, but you're all just thrashing from this. It goes now to Gic Muck. Gic Muck, your unconscious, same options for you. Three action, try to wake up with a will save. Roll a check to see what the hell you can do. Or perhaps try at least an occultism check to see if you can unweave this nightmare. Yeah, I almost wonder if I should do...
Starting point is 01:00:27 No, but I guess that I'm wondering if I should do like my courageous anthem to help you guys, but it only helps against attack damage and saves against fear. So this isn't a fear thing. I'm gonna do, I'll do an occult. I'll do an occult roll to try to- Do you have anything that buffs skills?
Starting point is 01:00:45 Skill checks. I mean, that's a classic bard thing, right? I don't think so. Inspire competence to use one-E parlance? That doesn't exist anymore. Huh. Help an ally with a skill check? Rallying anthem. Rallying anthem.
Starting point is 01:01:03 Okay, hold on. Hold on. All right. Hold on to your butts. I tried to help you, but I played a one-y card. But, let me just check. This protects us. We gain a plus one status bonus to AC and saving throws. Oh, okay.
Starting point is 01:01:20 Well, saving throws. That's big. I don't know. Is it? It's huge. All we're doing is saving. There's no damage. I don't know. Is it? It's huge. All we're doing is saving. There's no damage. There's no AC attacks, right?
Starting point is 01:01:30 But I, hold on, I'm having a hard time figuring out, do I have Rallying Anthem? Because my Fortissimo composition says, you call upon your muse to greatly increase the benefit you provide with your courageous anthem, rallying anthem, or song of strength composition. I have courageous anthem. I don't think I just automatically have rallying anthem, or song of strength composition. I have courageous anthem. I don't think I just automatically have rallying anthem.
Starting point is 01:01:48 Like you chose that. Yeah. It's a feat. You just didn't choose it? I don't know, I guess not. No, it's a focus spell. It's a, okay. What I'm looking at here,
Starting point is 01:02:00 it says it's a fourth level feat. It's a feat that gives you the spell. Let me, give me one second. Yeah, you learn the Rallying Anthem composition cantrip, which protects you and allies. Feats, feats, feats, feats. You might've just chosen something different at fourth level.
Starting point is 01:02:15 That makes sense. Guard. No, I don't have it. So I have, well, I have my other stuff that doesn't help us. I have Dirge of Doom and Fortissimo that doesn't help us right now. So I will do well, I have my other stuff that doesn't help us. I have Dirge of Doom and Fortissimo, that doesn't help us right now. So I will do occultism. Okay, try and get you and the team out of here.
Starting point is 01:02:33 See if I know anything. 25? No. Oh, it's 26, it's a de-sizzle. That was a natural 15 too. Oh yeah, so I don't think I'm gonna hit it either. What's everybody's level of skill in occultism by the way? Trained.
Starting point is 01:02:50 Trained. Well see, I'm untrained, but I have untrained improvisation as a human, so I can test it untrained. And I have a plus 10, so even a natural 15 wouldn't work for me either. And I just wanna say, this isn't a spell, right? No.
Starting point is 01:03:04 Okay, because I have recognized spell and I can get a plus one to like saves and stuff because of it, so this is not a spell. No, this is a hazard. This is something complex. Something complex hazard, I would think. All right, then I am going to second action, give guidance. That was two actions, two.
Starting point is 01:03:21 Do that occultism check. What? Sydney just stared up in his face like, I'm gonna kill him. That's stupid. Third action. That's stupid. I'm gonna give guidance to,
Starting point is 01:03:32 who's next? I think, well I already rolled in a cultism roll. But he doesn't even have a cultism roll. I do, but I have to roll a natural. I'll give you guidance, why not? I have nothing else to do this turn. I was just gonna try to will it. I'll give you guidance, why not? I have nothing else to do this turn. I was just gonna try to will it. I'll give you guidance, you get a plus, you get a plus.
Starting point is 01:03:48 Okay. Plus one. Hey, yay. To your check. I believe in you, Joe. Hey, yay. I was actually gonna do a recall knowledge to see if there's anything other than a cultism
Starting point is 01:03:57 that we can roll, but. Will you get a plus one to that, too? Yeah, yeah, I'll still use it for that, but. And then I shiver. I think it would be good to use that action for that. I don't know what else to do. Very good so you are in there swap brother Ramius what you like to do? Ramius is like we have to find a way to control his dream but he wants to believe. Oh so you only get the will save if you fail and
Starting point is 01:04:26 take damage the damage seeing if the damage is enough to kind of shake you out of it and wake you up otherwise you have to use the three action activity will save to wake up but then that's your turn it's it is saver suck one of the few saver suck moments here in 2e so brother Ramias you've got a couple options and they're all bad. They're all bad. I think Ramius is gonna start by trying to keep himself up. So I wanna try to heal myself.
Starting point is 01:04:53 Like can I cast heal in this liminal space? Yeah, I mean, I think as written, it doesn't want you to do any of this, but I let him cast the spell. I like the idea that you're now, you're alive in this dream world and taking whatever actions you want. And then I'll interpret how they actually affect you.
Starting point is 01:05:07 Then I'm gonna do a two action heal on myself. Okay. And I'll roll that in a second. It's a bunch of dice. I'm sure it's gonna get me basically back to full. And then I wanna spend an action trying to figure out if there's any other method to controlling this dream other than occultism.
Starting point is 01:05:23 Okay, give me a... Like, what would I roll? Can I... You would roll occultism. Just occultism okay give me like what would I roll can I call it you would roll across the cold yeah god damn it I gave her some information with a 21 so yeah and I'm trying to see if there's anything else I can watch enough of a pain in the ass that like I'm not gonna hold you over the coals here you can't figure out the sure but what about like Arcana no these are just things I have a slightly better bonus on. Yeah, but what happens is I'll make the DC higher. So you choose what's better.
Starting point is 01:05:51 So it's gonna be a wash maybe. I'm gonna do arcana. I'm just gonna roll arcana. Damn it. Oh, it comes down to die rolls as it turns out. Oh! 31. Ooh!
Starting point is 01:06:04 Okay. Should've used it on the cultism. Yeah, it should've. Ooh! Okay. Should've used it on the cultism. Yeah, should've used it on the cultism. You feel like, yeah, you could use a cultism to lucid dream your way out, as well as the way out of everyone here. Or you could use intimidation to stand resolute against these nightmares and turn fear back on itself.
Starting point is 01:06:25 That is so interesting because I didn't mention that at seventh level I took skill training for my skill feat and I trained intimidation because as I saw this like what was the one that I said cast down divine wrath I started seeing this change in Brother Ramius where he becomes this like force of holy damage, right? And I was like, I'm gonna take intimidation because it is nothing that I'm trained in so far. So that's awesome.
Starting point is 01:06:55 Yeah, that's a, that's a very good to know. So he'll just sort of yell that at everybody. Actually he'll look across at Buggles and he'll just be like, set him free! We need to call a card! They're like blowing in the blizzard wind. No! No! No! You control him, Buggles! You can control him, let him free! It is your choice!
Starting point is 01:07:19 Zephyr, you're in this shared nightmare with all of them, what do you do? Um, did I get the impression of doing the three action to roll this will save that will keep me willed out of falling asleep? You have the chance to will yourself back awake. Right, but will I then potentially fall asleep the next round? Potentially, yeah.
Starting point is 01:07:39 Yeah, you don't know what it's gonna take to become immune to this, if anything. By the way, I got 52 points of healing. Nice. Nice. Whoa. Nice. Yeah, cause like I wanna wake up and then I guess I go to these things
Starting point is 01:07:56 and try to undo whatever they're doing. But if I just spend three actions to wake up and then I fall asleep again. Right. It's like high risk, low reward. Does that check to fall asleep again happen at the end of my next turn? No, it'll happen on its turn. On its turn.
Starting point is 01:08:16 Yeah, if you were to wake up, you think that like based on what's happened so far, you will then roll to see if you can withstand this. You won't be able to. Yeah. Short of now, the state you're in, short of like taking whole rounds to drag people's bodies out and shut the door. It's going to be pretty tough. And if I stay sleeping, I risk taking more damage.
Starting point is 01:08:40 Yes, but you also is the only way we know of to get out of the spell. Is to stay sleeping? Yeah. Is to, like, control it while we're sleeping. And then even being asleep doesn't hurt us. And that's not a will save, it's an occultism save. Or an intimidation. What do you think?
Starting point is 01:08:58 I'm gonna try to occultism my way out. Do it. Hopefully a bottle cap will help or something. Do it. All right, cap will help or something. Do it. All right, let's see what I have. It's a natural seven. I'm gonna try to use a bottle cap for the- You got two caps?
Starting point is 01:09:13 I got two, so. Nice. This would be awesome to be a good player. Okay, that's better, but it's only a 24. I won't be able to do this, I think, like a crit. I have a ten in occultism When I'm unconscious and sick and everything perhaps Yeah, we're gonna have to help you that's all yeah, okay, you have to spend actions to aid and stuff or Guidance or that kind of you know I'm assuming 24 is not good enough.
Starting point is 01:09:45 And that's two actions to do that. That's two actions. One action. I'm gonna do one action to... Is there any like, I guess I can give guidance to, who goes next? Yeah, you give aid to Buggles. Buggles?
Starting point is 01:10:03 Father Ramias is right, you need to unleash the Kula Khan and she gives you guidance. He's okay. Father? Just a brother. Father? She's drunk. Brother? Wow, level eight and now you're father.
Starting point is 01:10:14 You have more children? You didn't know that he turns into a father at level eight? Big man on campus, father. Yeah, that was the big change at level eight. I'm sorry. I'm intimidated now. I'm intimidated. Took the feet, father.
Starting point is 01:10:24 Father. I'll never. I'm intimidated now. I'm intimidated. Took the feet, father. Father. I'll never think of father the same way. Father maybe. I didn't even need to have a stampede of Salmon Car, I should've just said stampede of father. I'm just thinking of father bubbles for some reason.
Starting point is 01:10:39 You're alone at a campfire with father. Roll a four to two, Sam. Did you like that drink I made you? All right, feeling sleepy yet? How many roll fortitude save? Who's gonna die? Not me. Dugunk, gunk, gunk, shit.
Starting point is 01:10:59 Shaka, shaka, snooze. 26. Round the horn here. Failure. 18. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm an idiot. 19.
Starting point is 01:11:08 19. Failure. 18. Critical failure. 23. Failure. 14. Critical.
Starting point is 01:11:15 Oh no, yeah, critical failure. That's double damage. So let's start with the fail. Give me 50 points of damage. Let's start with the failures. So Ramius, you're gonna take seven cold and 13 mental. And a will save. Yup, Gek, you're gonna take 12 cold and seven mental,
Starting point is 01:11:33 so 19. Both of you give me a will save. Come on, Ramius, you are strong of will. Let the keeper guide you out of this horror! I'm gonna kill you. 27? Wait, should I cap this will save? No, right? Because if I wake up, it doesn't matter.
Starting point is 01:11:51 That's what I think. I think being awake in that room, the difference is you will be able to act if you wake up now before, like you'll get a turn out there. You won't be able to do anything out there. But you'll be prone. You have to stand up.
Starting point is 01:12:06 You have to play by the rules. Stand up. I'm gonna cap it. Cap it. Sorry, all right, let's see. It's a bad catch. 25, doesn't matter. Fail, fail.
Starting point is 01:12:20 27 is a fail. Let's talk about our critical fails. We'll start with Kate. Kate, you're gonna to take 19 cold and 25 mental. Oh. Yes, it's 2D10 plus 12. So it's not a critical has its own damage. It doesn't just double.
Starting point is 01:12:40 It's not a basic save. 19 cold, 25 mental. Ow. And you cannot, your roll will save to wake up. She's like bleeding outside of her mouth right now. And poor Buggles takes 24 cold, although you've got your shield, and 24 mental. Oh my god. Dude.
Starting point is 01:12:59 Blood coming out of their mouths. I have one hit point left. Oh my god, Oh my god. Well, it is Bugle's turn. Okay. Okay, so summoning what little life he has left in him in this dream, he sort of almost opens a door in his own mind and whispers, save us, and releases the Kulakan from his prison.
Starting point is 01:13:36 And in the dream, it's almost as if he raises up out of the snow and his eyes blaze with this orange fire and the sky turns dark and this heat lightning is flashing everywhere, this thunder, and the Kul'u Khan is just like, I will eat you all! And that is a 36 intimidation. Ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho All of you, all of you hear the Kuulakan's voice echo throughout each of your dreams and see this herd of Salmonkara just disintegrate. And then you start to slowly come to on the floor of this room, the incense is gone, and the nightmare, at least for now, is over. Oh.
Starting point is 01:14:40 Oh my God. It's like icicles coming out of Zephyr's nose, blood coming outside of her mouth, massive headache. She has 44 hit points. I knew you could do it, Boggles. I knew you could do it. He starts scrambling up. Golokhan.
Starting point is 01:14:57 Golokhan. And it's that, yeah, he's on death's door right now. So that, does the damage carry over? Mm-hmm. Oh, no. Yeah, we're like, Boggles. He could have killed you in your dreams. Oh, my god.
Starting point is 01:15:11 You die in the dream, you die in real life. Gic is like, help him! Boggles? And yeah, he's covered in frostbite, burns, bleeding out of his mouth, his ear holes, and just like struggling to like lift his head. And even just the act of unleashing the Kulakan in this dream took even more out of him. So I feel it's like he can barely move.
Starting point is 01:15:39 It's okay, you did good. You did well. He released him under your control, on on your terms and he saved us all. And now let me help you. And he will treat wounds. So for 10 minutes. So I'll be 16 to start. Again, we're not rolling now.
Starting point is 01:15:58 We're assuring, which is nice. And he'll begin the process of treating everybody's wounds in this room, which will take some time, probably an hour at least. You have that beam of light, too, you can use, that has not been discharged yet. Yeah, but there's no need to use it. There's no need to use it. Don't touch me.
Starting point is 01:16:17 Don't touch me. OK, all right. What if you touch other people while you're healing? Just like on the ground, reaching for you. You're like, don't touch me. Slaps her hand away. Now we do not know what dangers we may face yet. You're gonna waste it.
Starting point is 01:16:30 You're gonna waste it. Buggles and Zephyr crawling over to us. Please, let us touch you. That hurts so much. Please. Let me touch your sleeve. Frozen Buggles coming out of your nose. Take four points.
Starting point is 01:16:42 That's another 39 after 20 minutes. Beautiful. Woo. You still have a ways to go, don't you? I'm touching! Take four points. That's another 39 after 20 minutes. Beautiful. Woo! You still have a ways to go, don't you? I... Almost there, 10 points away. Oh, 19 points in the next 10 minutes, so there you go. I love that haunt.
Starting point is 01:16:58 That was a good one. Yeah, that's cool. That's a cool one. That is, I wonder, hmm, I wonder if we put on the outfit if there had been any other boons secretly, but maybe not. Maybe you just get the cold resistance, which is nice, I guess.
Starting point is 01:17:12 That is also, with the level ups, Boggles is now, he's master in intimidation. He's a plus 18. So cool. So, but that's what I, it's like the cool Lukan, like that is how he does it. Yeah. By unleashing that.
Starting point is 01:17:30 So brother Ramias is working on Zephyr, say night still. And as he's putting these like, this like, like an herbal kind of ointment on the cold burns, you know, to kind of like ease the skin, her skin is like healing itself as he's working. like an herbal kind of ointment on the cold burns, you know, to kind of like ease the skin. Her skin is like healing itself as he's working. Oh, you're really good at this now.
Starting point is 01:17:51 And he's just like, it's like pulling his hand away. It's just like. You don't hurt me anymore. Oh. You're not stabbing me. You're not botching this surgery. Don't worry, he can't hurt you anymore. He can't hurt you anymore. He can't hurt you anymore.
Starting point is 01:18:09 Something, I think it's something that that creature gave us. Your skin, it's healing at the lightest touch. And she, and because she mentioned that ability, anytime she gets treat wounds, she gets eight extra points of healing. So cool. Why?
Starting point is 01:18:29 I have robust health as one of the feats I took. Oh, that's cool. Cool monk like, yeah, healing your own body by the force of will. Gathering your sheen. Figures he's gonna be healing me a lot. Yeah, that's very cool. So cool.
Starting point is 01:18:41 How far is Gic down? I'm like half, I'm at 52 of 104. Okay. You had the same amount of hit points. Well, two strong girls. So 39 after 20 minutes. Two strong girls. Okay.
Starting point is 01:18:57 A little bit more. And 14 more? Yeah. All right, so yeah, a little over an hour. Oh, I didn't do myself. I gotta work on myself. Man, if I hadn't done that thermal stasis too, I would have been dying too.
Starting point is 01:19:08 You would have been dead. That would have sent me down to dying too. I also throw up on the floor. Yeah, that was awesome. Because I'm sick. Oh no, you are not. Oh, okay. When I treat wounds, as part of this,
Starting point is 01:19:19 I can do treat condition. I can treat your, oh, but I do have to do the counteract. But can we hand wave that, Troy? Like her sickness will just go away now that this is over. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So that done, I'll say. You must have been doing this intentionally, right? Zephyr barges into the room. Laying here, lighting the incense, laying in bed, picture it, wearing the suit. With these curtains around.
Starting point is 01:19:51 It is giving him protection from the cold. Perhaps he was intimidating enough to control the creatures in the vision. The experience, the strength of will. Is the images on the tapestries, like do they mirror what we saw in the dream? Yeah, that's where you were. So like you think him wearing that outfit
Starting point is 01:20:11 and going into this dream, maybe that army we saw he was controlling? The carpet looks like snow. Yeah. So can we do a perception in this room too, just to like fully- I mean, search it for secrets, trap doors, secret doors, rip open doors rip open carpet under the bed see if there's like 50,000 in cash So you tear the whole thing apart don't even worry about perception checks the only thing of value of these inset burners
Starting point is 01:20:37 You could maybe sell well you mentioned something. I don't know if you were just being a good GM But did you mention something about disconnecting Ramius' dreams or memories of the Abbey? Like, were these sort of incenses used intentionally to create like, like dream trips to like, meet Krugasta or some shit? Like, he recognized the smell.
Starting point is 01:21:02 Does, like, if we take this incense, can we intentionally, like, go into some sort of dream state or something or are they now inert? They're now inert, right? But the smell, you know that they have been used for people like, it's like an anesthesia. You know what I mean? But you can also take it a step further.
Starting point is 01:21:21 There are some who believe like if spirits are infecting you and you need to have rest you can put this on and then it wards off spirits while you're sleeping when you're most vulnerable so it has multiple uses and it seems like Riddleson or someone was using this to be able to control dreams or work dreams in some way. Your dreams didn't take place when, you know, the masked figure came at you in the Arctic. Right. But here, something was going on and you were pulled into it against your will
Starting point is 01:21:55 in this moment. Interesting. Okay. There's nothing in here. Okay. We have to keep moving. Yeah, west or south? Uh, that's not a door to the south.
Starting point is 01:22:09 Oh, I keep, it looks like a door to me. I keep wanting to- Yeah, it looks like, but in your defense, it looks like it was, it's going to be a door someday. In the plans. Right now, yeah. Uh. I'm gonna do a perception check on the door.
Starting point is 01:22:19 Yeah, do it. About the door to the west. Um. No, you're not. Why did I mistakenly get involved in the adventure? What? the door to the West No, you're not Why did I mistakenly get involved in the adventure? I forgot I should just shut my mouth You just worked really hard healing all of us natural
Starting point is 01:22:36 Are you made the door not fine really bloody yeah, this is nothing here you slip hit your head on the door knob and it opens There's nothing here. You slip, hit your head on the doorknob, and it opens. He will open the door. All right, so you open the door. It's a lounge. The floor of the room is bricks everywhere. It's covered in this thick red carpet. White carpet now.
Starting point is 01:23:04 It's a red carpet. There's a low table flanked by a couple of wooden chairs sitting in the middle of the room. To the eastern portion of the room, there's a roll-top desk sitting against the wall. While to the west, there's a large overstuffed sofa. It's like a nice little sitting lounge. Keeping with that cozy theme, there's a fireplace to the north that is lit right now and keeping the room itself really warm and pleasant. No smoke coming out of the fire, but it's just like a little crackling fire. It's the nicest sewer den I've been in in a while. Can I go look at the fire to see if that's like an illusion or if... It's a nice sewer den I've been in in a while.
Starting point is 01:23:47 Can I go look at the fire to see if that's like an illusion or if- Magical? Yeah. Yeah. Do you have to detect magic? No, I didn't take it. Is there heat being emitted by the flame? Yeah, it's warm but it's strange, there's no smoke.
Starting point is 01:24:01 Your pawn's like in the fire. I know, it's just jump right in the- I touch, I touch, I touch. It's real, it's real! Santa! I look at the, nope, it's all good. It's very warm, but there's no smoke. It's very strange, doesn't make any sense.
Starting point is 01:24:14 I wanna quickly like, try to like bat my hand at the fire. Zephyr's watching you do this. Does it feel hot? Does it feel hot? No. I mean, yes, but it's not burning your hand. Oh. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:24:27 Leave it in there, Kik. Leave it in there. It's just providing warmth and light, but it doesn't burn your hand. What's her hand in? Does it hurt? It's warm, but it doesn't burn your hand. Don't eat it!
Starting point is 01:24:34 Well, let me try. Zephyr runs up to the fire. Don't. What's her hand in? It starts to get warmer, but you know, you could. It's cool. It starts to hurt, you can pull your hand back. Can I identify magic?
Starting point is 01:24:44 Is this magic? Yeah. Yeah. Is this magic, Gic? If it, I mean, if it quacks like a duck. What's that, Remus? The fire's quacking? Natural one. My god. Get your hands out of that bag!
Starting point is 01:24:55 Brother Remus is like the fire's quacking. You fools! It's quacking. The burn is as hard as it gets. She would just kick with a crossbow so that she gets out of there. Oh, my shoulder! I'm sorry, I had to kick to save you from yourself.
Starting point is 01:25:08 Ow, it's a magical fire. It's magic, ow. It's magic, it's just for light and warmth. It's not real. Not like normal fire. Yeah. I got a 24 arcana on the fire. 24 arcana, yeah, it's some sort of minor magic item
Starting point is 01:25:25 that makes a fake fireplace that's just meant to warm the room and provide light, but not actually burn. So someone that wants to create the illusion of comfort, not have to worry about burning the place. I don't think it's still comfort. It's the illusion of fire. An illusory source of comfort. An illusory source of comfort. An illusory source of comfort.
Starting point is 01:25:48 Genuine comfort is being. His comfort is illusion of comfort. Do you feel comfortable in there? I'm comforted. I feel great. All of a sudden I disbelieve and there's just nails all over the floor, tacks all over the sofa.
Starting point is 01:25:58 It's not comfortable at all. I find comfort. I find comfort in illusions. Ramius is gonna walk over to the sweet rollback desk. Give me a good rolltop desk. Hell yeah. Last one I remember seeing is my grandmom had a rolltop in like a, what do you call it?
Starting point is 01:26:19 Like a hutch? Yeah. You know a piece of furniture that holds like china? Yeah, china hutch. The bottom of it was a rollback. Oh. And when you rolled it back, she just had it filled with shit.
Starting point is 01:26:30 Like stuff, just thrown in. Like papers and pens and junk. Junk hutch. Junk hutch, yeah. Find china in the glass. You put it in the roll top thing and it's just like flyers from the local supermarket. That's so funny.
Starting point is 01:26:42 Like just wedged in there. That's a grandma. Yeah. It's just wedged in there. That's so funny. That's a grandma. Yeah. So he's gonna roll back to the desk. Any papers in there? Any work? Paperwork? Well, there's some interesting things in this desk.
Starting point is 01:26:56 Oh no. You see some elixirs wrapped in like woolen cloth. You see these like leather gloves that have copper cables coming out of them attached to like nodes that you would put on your head. This dude is weird. What are those?
Starting point is 01:27:24 They're- You know what this means? This thing doesn't work And then there's papers lots of lots of papers and you start looking through and They are sketches And they are sketches. Sketches, like really detailed sketches. And they're labeled like, Dream number 465, Dream number 38. And they mostly include Dr. Riddleson.
Starting point is 01:28:04 Some of them don't. Some of them, it seems like he's the hero, quote unquote, of the dream. Then there are sketches of Salman Khar,uding from a ruined city in the snow. We saw these. But then you start to see other sketches. of some of you fighting the Oak Stewards where the unicorn was unleashed. Oh, it's a smoking guy. Some.
Starting point is 01:28:53 Does it have any notes about how stupid that was? Yes. This is like, why did they release the unicorn? Do not. 1,000 trials, no one else released the unicorn. Ah! She really thinks outside the box. You see Lucky, an image of Lucky being killed by the fox. And then you like see something and you feel like you shouldn't be looking at it.
Starting point is 01:29:23 And maybe Zephyr, you look over Ramius's shoulder and you see it as well. And it is a image of you and Valtryx in bed. Oh no! And we'll see you next week. Oh my god! What? This is the biggest mind of the adventure circle.
Starting point is 01:29:47 Oh my god. Oh my god. He's drawing porn! She's some amateur porn here! Oh my god, this is so creepy. It's time to make your membership official. I'm going to go to bed. I'm going to go to bed. I'm going to go to bed. I'm going to go to bed. I'm going to go to bed. I'm going to go to bed. I'm going to go to bed. I'm going to go to bed.
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